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San Joaquin Valley USDA Rural Definition Inclusion Act

Bill: 112-hr-760
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: California
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
San Joaquin Valley USDA Rural Definition Inclusion Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to designate any part of the areas within the Counties of Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tulare, California, as a rural area if any such part is determined not to be urban in character (other than any area included within the municipal boundaries of Bakersfield, Fresno, Modesto, Stockton, or Visalia).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
San Joaquin Valley Transportation Enhancement Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-761
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: California
Railroads
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
San Joaquin Valley Transportation Enhancement Act of 2011 - Allows stimulus funds made available to California for highspeed rail service development under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) to be used for any project to improve or maintain California State Route 99 between the cities of Sacramento and Bakersfield.


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
Safe and Efficient Transportation Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-763
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Government trust funds
Infrastructure development
Motor carriers
Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Safe and Efficient Transportation Act of 2011 - Allows a state to authorize a vehicle with a maximum gross weight (including enforcement tolerances) exceeding certain federal weight limitations to operate on Interstate Highway System (IHS) routes in the state if: (1) the vehicle is equipped with at least six axles, (2) the weight of any single axle does not exceed 20,000 pounds, (3) the weight of any tandem axle does not exceed 34,000 pounds, (4) the weight of any group of 3 or more axles does not exceed 51,000 pounds, and (5) the gross weight of the vehicle does not exceed 97,000 pounds.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a safe and efficient vehicle bridge infrastructure improvement program. Requires the Secretary to apportion amounts from the Safe and Efficient Vehicle Trust Fund to states for eligible bridge replacement or rehabilitation projects.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) impose a tax on any vehicles that exceed federal weight limitations operating on the IHS, and (2) establish the Safe and Efficient Vehicle Trust Fund.


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 Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 Transportation and Infrastructure, 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
Fair Treatment of Existing Levees Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-764
Sponsor: Rep. Alexander, Rodney [R-LA-5]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Dams and canals
Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Fair Treatment of Existing Levees Act of 2011 - Prohibits the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from using the assumption that an existing levee or flood control structure does not exist to designate an area as having new flood hazards pursuant to issuance of, or any process to implement changes in, flood insurance maps used under the national flood insurance program under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, except in cases where no affected community objects to the Administrator's hazard modeling processes within 90 days of this Act's enactment and provided that prior to implementation of this provision the affected community notifies affected residents that the level of protection provided by such levee or flood control structure is under review.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Mowa Band of Choctaw Indians Recognition Act

Bill: 112-hr-766
Sponsor: Rep. Bonner, Jo [R-AL-1]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alabama
Federal-Indian relations
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Mowa Band of Choctaw Indians Recognition Act - Extends federal recognition and associated services and benefits to the Mowa Band of Choctaw Indians of Alabama. Restores federal rights and privileges abrogated by earlier statutes. 
 
Approves and ratifies the cession to the United States of all historical tribal lands of the Band. 
 
Extinguishes all claims against the United States, a state or local government, or any other person or entity, by the Band arising subsequent to such cession, and based upon any interest in or right involving the land. 
 
Prohibits the Band from using its federal recognition to assert any historical land claim. 
 
Transfers all interests in lands held by the Band upon enactment of this Act to the United States, to be held in trust for the benefit of the Band. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
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
Personal Responsibility in Health Care Insurance Act

Bill: 112-hr-767
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Disability and health-based discrimination
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Personal Responsibility in Health Care Insurance Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an individual to avoid the requirements to maintain minimum essential coverage by signing an affidavit of personal responsibility with respect to the individual or any dependents. Requires such an affidavit to include an acknowledgment that the individual is waiving: (1) eligibility to enroll in a qualified health plan through a health insurance exchange, (2) the applicability of provisions prohibiting preexisting condition exclusions, and (3) the ability to discharge health care debts in a bankruptcy.
 
Makes an exemption effective for three years and renewable.
 
Sets forth eligibility requirements, including that such individual is not eligible for any other exemption from the requirement to maintain minimum essential coverage and is not enrolled in any minimum essential coverage.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
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 Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, 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 Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, 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 Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, 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
Soldiers Targeted by Offensive Profiteering Act of 2011 (STOP Act)

Bill: 112-hr-768
Sponsor: Rep. Boren, Dan [D-OK-2]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Business ethics
Marketing and advertising
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Soldiers Targeted by Offensive Profiteering Act of 2011 (STOP Act) - Prohibits any person, except with permission, from using the name or image of a protected individual in connection with any merchandise, retail product, impersonation, solicitation, or commercial activity in a manner calculated to connect the protected individual with that individual's service in the Armed Forces. Defines as a &quot;protected individual&quot; any person who: (1) is a member of the Armed Forces; or (2) was a member at any time after April 5, 1917, and, if not living, has a surviving spouse, child, parent, grandparent, or sibling.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to bring actions to enjoin violations of this Act.


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
Fair Access to Credit Scores Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-769
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Business records
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Fair Access to Credit Scores Act of 2011 - Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require consumer reporting agencies to disclose any information in the consumer's file concerning credit scores or other related risk scores or predictors when the consumer requests a free annual disclosure (credit report).
 
Requires all consumer reporting agencies to maintain information in the consumer's file concerning such scores or predictors for at least one year from the date on which such information is placed in the file.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study bankruptcy risk scores used by consumer reporting agencies, including an analysis of: (1) the factors used to determine such scores; (2) how bankruptcy risk scores impact the ability of consumers to receive loans; and (3) actions that consumers can take to improve such scores.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Border Enforcement Security Task Force Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-770
Sponsor: Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Border security and unlawful immigration
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Homeland Security
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Executive agency funding and structure
Firearms and explosives
Government information and archives
Homeland security
Human trafficking
Intergovernmental relations
International organizations and cooperation
Law enforcement administration and funding
Smuggling and trafficking
State and local government operations
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Border Enforcement Security Task Force Act of 2011 - Establishes in United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) a Border Enforcement Security Task Force (BEST) program to enhance border security by addressing and reducing border security threats and violence by: (1) facilitating collaboration among federal, state, local, tribal, and foreign law enforcement agencies to execute coordinated activities in furtherance of border security and homeland security; and (2) enhancing information-sharing among such agencies.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), acting through the Assistant Secretary for ICE, to establish BEST units after considering: (1) whether the area where the unit would be established is significantly impacted by cross-border threats; (2) the availability of federal, state, local, tribal, and foreign law enforcement resources to participate in the unit; and (3) the extent to which border security threats are having a significant harmful impact in the area and in other jurisdictions. Authorizes the Secretary, in order to provide federal assistance to the area so designated, to: (1) obligate such sums as are appropriated for the BEST program; (2) direct the assignment of federal personnel to that program; and (3) take other actions to assist state, local, tribal, and foreign jurisdictions to participate.
 
Directs the Secretary to report on the effectiveness of the program in enhancing border security and reducing the drug trafficking, arms smuggling, illegal alien trafficking and smuggling, violence, and kidnapping along and across U.S. borders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Extended Tax Relief for All Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-772
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment taxes
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Extended Tax Relief for All Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers the full amount of the making work pay tax credit in 2011, less any amount received from the reduction in the employment and self-employment tax for that 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
Seniors Financial Fraud Prevention Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-773
Sponsor: Rep. Deutch, Theodore E. [D-FL-19]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Aging
Business ethics
Consumer affairs
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Marketing and advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Seniors Financial Fraud Prevention Act of 2011 - Establishes a separate office within the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for the prevention of fraud targeting seniors and requires the office to assist the FTC in monitoring the market for mail, telemarketing, television, and Internet fraud which targets seniors. 
 
Requires the FTC through such office: (1) to disseminate to seniors and their families and caregivers information on mail, telemarketing, television, and Internet fraud targeting seniors, including on ways of referring complaints to appropriate law enforcement agencies; (2) in response to a request about a particular entity or individual, to provide publicly available information on any record of civil or criminal law enforcement action for such fraud; and (3) to maintain a website as a resource for such individuals on those kinds of fraud. 
 
Requires the FTC, through such office, to establish procedures to: (1) log and acknowledge complaints from individuals who certify that they believe they have been victims of mail, telemarketing, television, or Internet fraud; (2) provide certain information on those kinds of fraud; and (3) refer such complaints to appropriate entities, including state consumer protection agencies and entities and appropriate law enforcement agencies, for potential law enforcement action. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Senior Investor Protections Enhancement Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-774
Sponsor: Rep. Deutch, Theodore E. [D-FL-19]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Aging
Civil actions and liability
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Financial services and investments
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Securities
U.S. Sentencing Commission

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Senior Investor Protections Enhancement Act of 2011 - Amends the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Company Act of 1940, and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to authorize the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to impose, in addition to any other civil penalty, a maximum civil penalty of $50,000 for each violation that is directed toward, targets, or is committed against a person who at the time of the violation is age 62 or older.
 
Directs the United States Sentencing Commission to review and amend federal sentencing guidelines and policy statements to ensure that guideline offense levels and enhancements appropriately punish criminal violations of the securities laws against seniors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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 Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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
To amend title 44, United States Code, to require any organization that is established for the purpose of raising funds for creating, maintaining, expanding, or conducting activities at a Presidential archival depository or any facilities relating to a Presidential archival depository to disclose the sources and amounts of any funds raised, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-775
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Libraries and archives
Presidential administrations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Requires any organization that is established to raise funds for a presidential archival depository or depository facilities to submit by each January 31 to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs information about every contributor who made contributions of $200 or more for the previous year for a depository of a President currently serving or for which the Archivist of the United States has not accepted, taken title to, or entered into an agreement to use any land or facility.
 
Requires the Archivist to make information required to be disclosed by this Act available to the public through the Internet or a successor technology.
 
Imposes criminal penalties on contributors or fundraising organizations who knowingly and willfully submit false information or omit material information with respect to organizations raising funds for presidential archival depositories.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Guaranteed 3% COLA for Seniors Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-776
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aging
Inflation and prices
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Guaranteed 3% COLA for Seniors Act of 2011 - Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor to prepare and publish a monthly Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers that indicates changes over time in expenditures for consumption which are typical for individuals in the United States who are age 62 or older.
 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to: (1) require the use of such index to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security benefits; and (2) provide, in the case of individuals who have attained age 62, for an annual cost-of-living increase of at least 3%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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 Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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