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Disaster Recovery Improvement Act

Bill: 112-hr-57
Sponsor: Rep. Scalise, Steve [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief and insurance
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Service animals

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Disaster Recovery Improvement Act - Directs the President to issue and begin to implement regulations required by the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act) regarding the repair, restoration, reconstruction, and replacement of public facilities damaged or destroyed by a major disaster to provide for cost estimation procedures that expedite recovery and to reduce the costs and time for completion of recovery projects through the creation of financial and performance incentives.
 
Amends such Act to require a decision regarding an appeal of any decision regarding eligibility for, or the amount of, federal disaster assistance to be rendered within 60 (currently, 90) days after the designated federal official receives notice of the appeal. Requires: (1) the federal official to provide a written explanation to the applicant of a failure to satisfy that requirement, and (2) the President to transmit quarterly reports on such failures.
 
Directs the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in cooperation with representatives of state and local emergency management agencies, to review, update, and revise through rulemaking the factors considered when evaluating a governor's request for a major disaster declaration to measure the severity, magnitude, and impact of a disaster, in order to provide more objective criteria for evaluating the need for assistance to individuals and to speed such declaration.
 
Authorizes the President, in any emergency, to provide assistance for rescue, care, shelter, and essential needs to individuals with household pets and service animals and to such pets and animals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Firearms Interstate Commerce Reform Act

Bill: 112-hr-58
Sponsor: Rep. Scalise, Steve [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Firearms and explosives
Licensing and registrations
Military personnel and dependents
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Firearms Interstate Commerce Reform Act - Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) allow licensed firearms importers, manufacturers, dealers, or collectors (licensees) to sell or deliver any firearm (currently, rifles or shotguns) to a resident of a state other than the state in which the licensee is located or temporarily located if the licensee meets with the purchaser to complete the sale or delivery and the transaction complies with the laws of the state in which the transfer is conducted and the purchaser's state of residence; and (2) eliminate the requirement that a licensee must conduct business at a gun show only in the state that is specified on the licensee's license. 
 
Provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit the sale or other disposition of a firearm or ammunition: (1) between licensed firearms dealers at any location in any state; or (2) by a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer to an unlicensed person at a temporary location in any state. 
 
Amends definitions for federal firearms provisions to: (1) revise the definition of a &quot;member of the Armed Forces on active duty&quot; to include a resident of the state in which the member maintains legal residence or in which the member maintains a place of abode from which he or she commutes each day to the permanent duty station; and (2) provide that an officer or employee of the United States (other than a member of the Armed Forces) stationed outside the United States for a period exceeding one year is a resident of the state in which the member maintains legal residence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Sunset All Czars Act

Bill: 112-hr-59
Sponsor: Rep. Scalise, Steve [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Congressional-executive branch relations
Executive Office of the President
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Sunset All Czars Act - Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to pay for any salaries or expenses of any task force, council, policy office within the Executive Office of the President, or similar office that is established by or at the direction of the President and is headed by a Czar. Defines &quot;Czar&quot; as the head of any such office who: (1) is appointed to such position (other than on an interim basis) without the advice and consent of the Senate, (2) is excepted from the competitive service, (3) performs or delegates functions which would be performed or delegated by an individual appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate if not for the establishment of such task force or office, and (4) does not have an existing removal date.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management     .
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the expansion of information reporting requirements for payments of $600 or more to corporations, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-60
Sponsor: Rep. Scalise, Steve [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business records
Corporate finance and management
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal a provision (added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) that extends to corporations that are not tax-exempt the requirement to report payments of $600 or more.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Controlling Our Air-travel Costs at Home Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-61
Sponsor: Rep. Scalise, Steve [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Congressional oversight
General Services Administration
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Transportation costs
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Controlling Our Air-travel Costs at Home Act of 2011 or the Coach Act of 2011 - Limits reimbursement of the air travel costs of federal employees to the actual and necessary expenses of such travel within the United States if such travel is coach-class. Allows an exception for travel necessary to accommodate a disability or other special need.
 
Disapproves of and nullifies existing domestic air travel rules submitted by the General Services Administration (GSA). Directs the Administrator of GSA to issue revised regulations in accordance with the requirements of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform     .
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management     .
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
International Tax Competitiveness Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-62
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-25]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Foreign and international corporations
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
International Tax Competitiveness Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) treat foreign corporations that are managed, directly or indirectly, within the United States as domestic corporations for U.S. tax purposes; (2) make certain royalty income and income from intangibles received from a controlled foreign corporation subject to U.S. taxation; and (3) revise the tax treatment of property other than stock (i.e., boot) received in connection with a corporate reorganization to provide that such property shall be treated as a taxable dividend.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Long-Term Care Insurance Reform Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-63
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-25]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Health care costs and insurance
Inflation and prices
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Marketing and advertising
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Long-Term Care Insurance Reform Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to request the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to: (1) conduct reviews every five years of the national and state-specific markets for long-term care (LTC) insurance policies; (2) issue a white paper on disclosure requirements for LTC insurance policies, standardized definitions for LTC services, and issues related to the development of a proposed form for marketing LTC insurance policies; (3) establish a Working Group to develop a model disclosure form for marketing LTC insurance policies; and (4) incorporate such form into the Model Act and regulation.
 
Sets forth requirements related to the use of the proposed model disclosure form for marketing LTC insurance policies, including requiring states to require issuers to use such forms.
 
Amends the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 to require the National Clearinghouse for Long-Term Care Information to establish an Internet directory of information regarding LTC insurance (&quot;to be known as LTC Insurance Compare). 
 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require a state Medicaid plan to provide for the annual submission of data relating to functional criteria for the receipt of nursing facility services under the plan.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to apply Medicaid partnership required model provisions to all tax-qualified LTC insurance contracts. 
 
Outlines a process for secretarial review of model provisions adopted by NAIC with respect to their application to tax-qualified LTC policies and Medicaid partnership policies to determine if updating such provisions would improve consumer protections for insured individuals.
 
Applies 2006 NAIC model regulations to Medicaid partnerships. (Currently, 2000 NAIC model regulations apply). Sets forth additional requirements applicable to such policies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-01-05
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: 2011-01-05
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: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent corporations from exploiting tax treaties to evade taxation of United States income.

Bill: 112-hr-64
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-25]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Corporate finance and management
Department of the Treasury
Employment taxes
Foreign and international corporations
Income tax deductions
International law and treaties
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit a reduction under any treaty of the United States of tax withholding for a tax deductible payment made between persons who are members of the same foreign controlled group of entities unless there would be a similar reduction for payments made directly to the foreign parent corporation of such entities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Candy Tobacco Tax Parity Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-65
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-25]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Candy Tobacco Tax Parity Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on smokeless tobacco products sold as discrete single-use units. Modifies the definition of &quot;smokeless tobacco&quot; for purposes of such tax to include discrete single-use units. Defines &quot;discrete single-use unit&quot; as any product containing tobacco that is intended or expected to be consumed without being combusted and is in the form of a lozenge, tablet, pill, pouch, dissolvable strip, or other discrete single-use or single dose unit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Waste-to-Energy Technology Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-66
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-25]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Business investment and capital
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Income tax credits
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Waste-to-Energy Technology Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a 30% energy tax credit for investment in qualified waste-to-energy property. Defines &quot;qualified waste-to-energy property&quot; as property comprising a system that uses municipal solid waste or sewage sludge as the feedstock for producing solid, liquid, or gas fuel, or for producing energy, and that is certified by the Secretary of the Treasury as eligible for a credit under this Act. Excludes certain landfill facilities from such definition. 
 
Requires the Secretary to establish criteria for awarding certifications for waste-to-energy projects, which shall include: (1) the commercial viability of such projects, (2) whether such projects use the least amount of recyclable materials and will provide the greatest net impact in avoiding or reducing air pollutants or anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases, (3) whether such projects will have the lowest levelized cost of generated or stored energy or of measured reduction in energy consumption or greenhouse gas emission, and (4) whether such projects pose the fewest risks (other than climate risks) to environmental and human health.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
To extend expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 until February 29, 2012.

Bill: 112-hr-67
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike J. [R-MI-8]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Homeland security
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Amends the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 to extend through February 29, 2012, a provision granting roving electronic surveillance authority.
 
Amends the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to extend until February 29, 2012, a provision revising the definition of an &quot;agent of a foreign power&quot; to include any non-U.S. person who engages in international terrorism or preparatory activities (&quot;lone wolf&quot; provision).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit Federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting after fiscal year 2013.

Bill: 112-hr-68
Sponsor: Rep. Lamborn, Doug [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Appropriations
Corporate finance and management
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
News media and reporting

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting after FY2013.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit Federal funding of certain public radio programming, to provide for the transfer of certain public radio funds to reduce the public debt, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-69
Sponsor: Rep. Lamborn, Doug [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
News media and reporting

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Prohibits federal funding to organizations incorporated for specified purposes related to: (1) broadcasting, transmitting, and programming over noncommercial educational radio broadcast stations, networks, and systems; (2) cooperating with foreign broadcasting systems and networks in international radio programming and broadcasting; (3) assisting and supporting such noncommercial educational radio broadcasting pursuant to the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967; or (4) acquiring radio programs from such organizations.
 
Requires the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, for FY2011-FY2012, to transfer to a designated Treasury account for use to reduce the public debt an amount equal to the amount allocated from the Public Broadcasting Fund for specified licensees and permittees of public radio stations, public radio programming, and for acquiring or producing certain national programming. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Disability Benefit Fairness Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-70
Sponsor: Rep. McIntyre, Mike [D-NC-7]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability assistance
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Disability Benefit Fairness Act of 2011 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to eliminate: (1) the five-month waiting period for an individual (including a disabled widow or widower) to be eligible for benefits based on disability; and (2) any intervening reconsideration from the review process governing decisions on benefit entitlement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
FAMS Augmentation Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-71
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Terrorism
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
FAMS Augmentation Act of 2011 - Directs the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to increase the number of federal air marshals by at least an additional 1,750 above the number of such marshals as of January 31, 2010, to ensure increased transportation security for inbound international flights.

Declares the goal of this Act is to increase the number of inbound flights with federal marshals onboard while maintaining federal marshal presence on domestic point-to-point flights at or above December 25, 2009, levels.

Directs the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) to establish a policy requiring newly hired federal air marshals to complete as part of their basic training the criminal investigative training program at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. Requires federal air marshals hired before enactment of this Act who have not completed such program to attend an alternative training program.

Directs the Assistant Secretary to establish in FAMS an Office of the Ombudsman.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House