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Small Distillery Excise Tax Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-777
Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Food industry and services
Sales and excise taxes
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Small Distillery Excise Tax Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow small distilled spirits producers a credit against the excise tax on distilled spirits equal to 80% of the otherwise applicable tax on the first 65,000 of proof gallons of distilled spirits produced in or imported into the United States. Defines &quot;small distilled spirits producer&quot; as any person who produces not more than 100,000 proof gallons of distilled spirits during the calendar year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Graduation Promise Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-778
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Graduation Promise Act of 2011 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for differentiated high school improvement systems targeting support to schools with low student achievement and graduation rates after such schools fail for two consecutive years to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) pursuant to state academic performance standards. Allots grant funds to states pursuant to a formula that favors states with low graduation rates and a high percentage of students attending low-income LEAs.
 
Requires state grantees to establish comprehensive school performance indicators and minimum annual improvement benchmarks for use, in addition to current AYP measures, in analyzing school performance and determining the improvement category into which a school is placed.
 
 Directs LEA subgrantees to: (1) categorize each of their schools that fail to make AYP for two consecutive years as needing targeted intervention, whole school reforms, or replacement; (2) convene a local school improvement team for each of such schools that will use performance indicators, AYP measures, and other relevant data to conduct a school needs assessment and develop a multiyear school improvement plan tailored to the school's need categorization; and (3) support the successful implementation of such plans and district-wide high school improvement strategies. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award competitive grants to LEAs, nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education to develop and implement, or replicate, effective secondary school models for struggling students and dropouts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Spending Control Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-779
Sponsor: Rep. Kinzinger, Adam [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Spending Control Act of 2011- Establishes the Grace Commission II to conduct a review of cost control in the federal government every two years with respect to improving management and reducing costs. Directs the Commission to conduct in-depth studies to evaluate potential improvements in the operations of executive agencies and to develop recommendations regarding: (1) opportunities for increased efficiency and reduced costs that can be realized by executive action or legislation, (2) areas where managerial accountability can be enhanced and administrative control can be improved, (3) opportunities for managerial improvements over the short and long terms, (4) specific areas where further study can be justified by potential savings, and (5) ways to reduce governmental expenditures and indebtedness and improve personnel management.
 
Requires the Commission to submit final reports within 18 months after enactment of this Act and every two years thereafter until it submits its third final report. Requires such reports to contain the Commission's findings, conclusions, and recommendations for legislative and administrative actions and proposed legislation to carry out those recommendations. Sets forth congressional procedures for considering such legislation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management     .
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Responsible End to the War in Afghanistan Act

Bill: 112-hr-780
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Appropriations
Asia
Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Military operations and strategy

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Responsible End to the War in Afghanistan Act - States that it is the policy of the United States to ensure that funds made available for operations of the Armed Forces in Afghanistan are to be used only for providing for the safe and orderly withdrawal of all U.S. military personnel and Department of Defense (DOD) contractor personnel in Afghanistan.
 
Allows such funds to be obligated and expended only for such purpose.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Employment Transition Support Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-781
Sponsor: Rep. McCotter, Thaddeus G. [R-MI-11]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Employee hiring
Income tax credits
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Veterans' Employment Transition Support Act of 2011or the VETS Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a general business tax credit for hiring certain veterans certified by designated local agencies as having served on active duty (other than for training) in the Armed Forces for a period of more than 180 days or having been discharged or released from active duty for a service-connected disability. Sets the amount of such credit at 40% of the first-year wages of such veterans and increases the percentage of such credit for disabled veterans based upon their disability ratings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
State Health Care Flexibility Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-782
Sponsor: Rep. McCotter, Thaddeus G. [R-MI-11]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
State Health Care Flexibility Act of 2011 - Authorizes a state to opt out of the application of certain provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) with respect to health insurance coverage within the state by: (1) enacting a law that expresses the intent of the state to opt out of any or all of such provisions, lists such provisions, and expresses the intent of the state to continue to administer health care coverage-related laws as in effect in the state on March 22, 2010, or provides for the implementation of related state laws enacted after such date; and (2) notifying the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Secretary of the Treasury that such a state law was enacted.
 
 Includes among PPACA provisions that may be made inapplicable within a state provisions related to health coverage, essential health benefits, health insurance exchanges, alternative health plans established by states, individual and employer health coverage requirements, interoperable protocols for enrollment in federal and state health and human service programs, and expansion of Medicaid coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-783
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Gambling
Indian lands and resources rights
Indian social and development programs
Jurisdiction and venue
Land transfers
Property rights
State and local government operations
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2011 - Extends federal recognition to the following Indian tribes of Virginia and establishes their relationship with the federal government as described below: (1) the Chickahominy Tribe, (2) the Chickahominy Indian Tribe--Eastern Division, (3) the Upper Mattaponi Tribe, (4) the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., (5) the Monacan Indian Nation, and (6) the Nansemond Indian Tribe.
 
Makes the tribes and their members eligible for all services and benefits provided by the federal government to federally recognized Indian tribes. Establishes the service area of each tribe and requirements for each tribe regarding its membership roll, governing documents, and governing body.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior, on request of any of the tribes, to take specified lands into trust for the benefit of that tribe, to be considered part of that tribe's reservation.
 
Prohibits the tribes from conducting gaming activities.
 
Prohibits this Act from affecting the hunting, fishing, trapping, gathering, or water rights of the tribes and their members.
 
Requires Virginia to exercise jurisdiction over all criminal offenses committed, and all civil actions arising, on lands in Virginia owned by, or held in trust by the United States for, the tribes. Authorizes the Secretary to accept all or any portion of Virginia's jurisdiction over such offenses and actions on verification by the Secretary of a tribe's certification that the tribe possesses the capacity to reassume such jurisdiction.
 
Prohibits the use of eminent domain to acquire lands in fee or in trust for an Indian tribe recognized under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E285)
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum and Educational Center Act

Bill: 112-hr-784
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Social Sciences and History
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Archaeology and anthropology
Department of the Interior
Executive agency funding and structure
Land transfers
Monuments and memorials
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
New York City
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Racial and ethnic relations
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum and Educational Center Act - Establishes the African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum and Educational Center at the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York, New York. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the Director of the National Park Service (NPS), to: (1) acquire for the Museum property that is located adjacent to the National Monument or in any other area of the African Burial Ground National Historic Landmark in the city other than the location adjacent to the Monument, and (2) construct the Museum on the acquired property. 
 
Establishes within the Department of the Interior the African Burial Ground Advisory Council to: (1) make recommendations to the Secretary on the construction of the Museum, and (2) advise and assist the Secretary on all matters relating to the operation and preservation of the Museum.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to clarify that uncertified States and Indian tribes have the authority to use certain payments for certain noncoal reclamation projects.

Bill: 112-hr-785
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Indian lands and resources rights
Land use and conservation
Mining
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
 Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, with respect to the allocation of surface mining reclamation funds to states and Indian tribes, to authorize uncertified states and Indian tribes to use certain unexpended and unappropriated balance amounts for: (1) acid mine drainage abatement and treatment, and (2) noncoal abandoned mine land reclamation. 
 
 Modifies limitations placed upon the allocation of such surface mining reclamation funds to provide for payments for filling voids and sealing tunnels and entryways of noncoal mines as well as coal mines.
 
 (&quot;Uncertified states and Indian tribes&quot; are those which have not certified to the Secretary of the Interior completion of their abandoned coal mine reclamation work.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-17
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income compensation received by employees consisting of qualified distributions of employer stock.

Bill: 112-hr-786
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Securities
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an employee: (1) shares of employer securities received in a qualified employee stock distribution as compensation for services that do not exceed the lowest number of employer securities received by any employee in such distribution; (2) any gain on such securities if held by an employee for not less than 10 years; and (3) in the case of any qualified disposition of an employer security that meets such 10-year holding requirement, any gain on so much stock acquired during the 60-day period beginning on the date of such disposition as does not exceed the fair market value of the employer security so disposed.
 
Allows employers a tax deduction for the fair market value of securities transferred in a stock distribution. Requires an employee to recapture in gross income the amount of employer securities excluded from gross income if such securities are disposed of within five years after receipt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
No Social Security for Illegal Immigrants Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-787
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Foreign labor
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
No Social Security for Illegal Immigrants Act of 2011 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to exclude from creditable wages and self-employment income any wages earned for services by aliens performed in the United States, and self-employment income derived from a trade or business conducted in the United States, while the alien was not authorized to be so employed or to perform a function or service in such a trade or business. 
 

 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Phylicia's Law

Bill: 112-hr-788
Sponsor: Rep. Rothman, Steven R. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency planning and evacuation
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Phylicia's Law - Requires each local educational agency (LEA) that receives funds under the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities program to develop and make publicly available a written school safety policy for off-premises, overnight field trips.
 
Encourages the Secretary of Education to provide guidance to such LEAs by taking the steps necessary, such as hosting a conference of interested parties, to further the development of a model school safety policy for such trips.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 37, United States Code, to provide flexible spending arrangements for members of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-791
Sponsor: Rep. Sanchez, Loretta [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Defense
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax exclusion
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Directs each Secretary of the military department concerned to: (1) establish procedures to implement flexible spending arrangements (FSAs) for military health care and dependent care for active-duty military personnel on a pre-tax basis; and (2) consider life events of members of the Armed Forces that are unique to them, including changes relating to permanent changes of duty station and deployments to overseas contingency operations.
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to submit to Congress recommendations on the advisability of authorizing FSAs for members of the Selected Reserve.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Residential and Commuter Toll Fairness Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-792
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Commuting
Public transit
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Residential and Commuter Toll Fairness Act of 2011 - Grants a public authority the authority to carry out a program that offers discounts in transportation tolls to individuals who are residents of, or regular commuters to, a U.S. locality on an island, peninsula, or other area where transportation access is substantially constrained by geography and subject to a transportation toll to access or depart the locality (captive tollpayers). 
 
Declares that nothing in this Act may be construed to: (1) limit any other authority of a public authority, including the authority to offer discounts in transportation tolls to other tollpayers; or (2) affect, alter, or limit the applicability of state or local law with respect to the authority of a public authority to impose toll discounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House