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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow rollovers from other retirement plans into simple retirement accounts.

Bill: 112-hr-661
Sponsor: Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2011-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax-free rollovers from tax-exempt retirement plans, annuities, and deferred compensation plans into a simple individual retirement account.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Chiropractic Membership in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-664
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2011-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Department of Health and Human Services
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: 
Chiropractic Membership in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to make chiropractic personnel eligible for appointment in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Surgeon General to ensure that Doctors of Chiropractic are trained, equipped, and otherwise prepared to fulfill public health and emergency response service responsibilities in the Commissioned Corps. 
 
Requires the President to appoint no fewer than six Doctors of Chiropractic into the commissioned Regular Corps and the Ready Reserve Corps.
 
Directs the Surgeon General to submit a quarterly report to the relevant congressional committees on measures taken by the President, Surgeon General, and the Secretary to carry out this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Birth Certificate Enhancement Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-666
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2011-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Child health
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: 
Birth Certificate Enhancement Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the National Center for Health Statistics, to provide such funds as may be necessary to support states in implementing the most recent versions of the Standard Certificate of Live Birth, the Standard Certificate of Death, and the Standard Report of Fetal Death and purchasing data from these vital records. Requires the Secretary to give priority to collecting statistics on infant mortality.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Put School Counselors Where They're Needed Act

Bill: 112-hr-667
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2011-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: 
Put School Counselors Where They're Needed Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to implement a demonstration project providing competitive, 4-year grants to at least 10 secondary schools that have a 4-year adjusted cohort graduation rate of 60% or lower, for the provision of additional school counselors and counselor resources.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that grantees should provide one additional counselor for every 250 students at risk.
 
Requires the additional school counselors to serve primarily students identified as being at risk of not graduating in four years.
 
Makes grantees that demonstrate progress in improving their graduation rates eligible for subsequent grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Continuous Medicaid Coverage for Children Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-669
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2011-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health care coverage and access
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: 
Ensuring Continuous Medicaid Coverage for Children Act of 2011 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to change from discretionary to mandatory the authority of state Medicaid plans to provide for 12-month continuous coverage of children.
 
Specifies situations wherein a state Medicaid plan's failure to meet this requirement shall not be regarded as a failure to comply with Medicaid requirements generally.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Continuous Coverage under SCHIP Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-671
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2011-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicaid
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: 
Ensuring Continuous Coverage under SCHIP Act of 2011 - Amends title XXI (Children's Health Insurance) (CHIP, formerly known as SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to a state plan that provides child health insurance through a means other than through the state's plan under SSA title XIX (Medicaid).
 
Requires in such a case for the CHIP plan to implement the 12-month continuous eligibility option available under Medicaid for targeted low-income children whose family income is below 200% of the poverty line. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Motorsports Fairness and Permanency Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-673
Sponsor: Rep. Heller, Dean [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2011-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Motor vehicles
Sports and recreation facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: 
Motorsports Fairness and Permanency Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the classification, for depreciation purposes, of any motorsports entertainment complex as seven-year property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-11
text: Ms. Berkley asked unanimous consent to be the first sponsor of H.R. 673, and to have the authority to add co-sponsors. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Strengthening Medicare Anti-Fraud Measures Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-675
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2011-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Health care quality
Medicaid
Medical ethics
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: 
Strengthening Medicare Anti-Fraud Measures Act of 2011 - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to exclude from participation in any federal health care program entities affiliated with a sanctioned entity, as well as any officer or managing employee of an affiliated entity (currently, only individuals with an ownership or control interest in a sanctioned entity), if the affiliated entity was so affiliated at the time of any of the conduct forming the basis for the conviction or exclusion of the sanctioned entity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Budget, 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: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Budget, 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: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Budget, 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: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Lifetime Income Disclosure Act

Bill: 112-hr-677
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2011-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Labor
Employee benefits and pensions
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: 
Lifetime Income Disclosure Act - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require the quarterly pension benefit statement furnished to a participant or beneficiary with the right to direct the investment of assets in his or her account under an individual account plan to include a lifetime income disclosure at least once during any 12-month period.
 
Requires such lifetime income disclosure to set forth the lifetime income stream equivalent of the participant's or beneficiary's total benefits accrued. Defines a lifetime income stream equivalent of the total benefits accrued as the monthly annuity payment the participant or beneficiary would receive if those total accrued benefits were used to provide lifetime income streams to a qualified joint and survivor annuitant.
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to: (1) issue a model lifetime income disclosure, written in a manner which can be understood by the average plan participant; and (2) prescribe assumptions that plan administrators may use in converting total accrued benefits into lifetime income stream equivalents.
 
Declares that no plan fiduciary, plan sponsor, or other person shall have any liability under ERISA solely by reason of the provision of lifetime income stream equivalents derived in accordance with such assumptions and related rules and including explanations contained in the model lifetime income disclosure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Repaying the American Taxpayer Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-678
Sponsor: Rep. Kissell, Larry [D-NC-8]
Introduced: 2011-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Budget deficits and national debt
Financial crises and stabilization
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: 
Repaying the American Taxpayer Act of 2011 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to require payment into the Treasury for reduction of the public debt of dividends on any share of preferred stock in a financial institution obtained and held by the Secretary of the Treasury in conjunction with financial assistance provided to the institution under EESA.
 
Requires the statutory limitation on the public debt to be reduced by the aggregate amount of such revenues and proceeds paid into the Treasury.
 
Directs the Special Inspector General to report to certain congressional committees on the disposition of such dividend payments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Berry Amendment Extension Act

Bill: 112-hr-679
Sponsor: Rep. Kissell, Larry [D-NC-8]
Introduced: 2011-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Buy American requirements
Homeland security
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: 
Berry Amendment Extension Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to prohibit the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from procuring specified covered items directly related to national security interests (including clothing, tents, or natural fiber products) that are not grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United States, except to the extent satisfactory quality and sufficient quantity of any such product cannot be procured as and when needed.
 
Makes additional exceptions for: (1) procurements by vessels in foreign waters, (2) emergency procurements, and (3) purchases for amounts not greater than the simplified acquisition threshold described in military procurement provisions. Requires the Secretary to post a notification that an exception has been applied not later than seven days after the award of the contract. 
Directs the Secretary to ensure that: (1) each member of DHS's acquisition workforce who regularly participates in textile acquisition receives training on this Act's requirements, and (2) any such training includes comprehensive information on such requirements. 
Requires this Act to be applied in a manner consistent with U.S. obligations under international agreements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Management.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit United States contributions to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Bill: 112-hr-680
Sponsor: Rep. Luetkemeyer, Blaine [R-MO-9]
Introduced: 2011-02-11 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Foreign aid and international relief
International organizations and cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: 
Prohibits the President from making contributions on behalf of the United States to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to finalize a proposed rule to amend the spill prevention, control, and countermeasure rule to tailor and streamline the requirements for the dairy industry, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-681
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Candice S. [R-MI-10]
Introduced: 2011-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural practices and innovations
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Oil and gas
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: 
Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), within 30 days after this Act's enactment, to finalize the proposed rule entitled &quot;Oil Pollution Prevention; Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Rule Requirements--Amendments&quot; to exempt certain milk containers and associated piping and appurtenance from the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure program. Prohibits the Administrator from taking regulatory action against dairy and dairy product producers, processors, handlers, and distributors related to such exemption until the effective date of the finalized rule.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the contribution limits to dependent care flexible spending accounts and to provide for a carryover of unused dependent care benefits.

Bill: 112-hr-682
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2011-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adult day care
Child care and development
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax deferral

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a maximum annual benefit of $3,750 ($7,500 for married couples filing a joint tax return) for a dependent care flexible spending arrangement; and (2) allow a carryover of unused dependent care benefits in tax-exempt cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements into the next plan year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Urban Jobs Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-683
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2011-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Advisory bodies
Employment and training programs
Language arts
Urban and suburban affairs and development
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: 
Urban Jobs Act of 2011 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to authorize the Secretary of Labor to make grants to the National Urban League to operate, through local affiliates, an Urban Jobs Program to provide job training, education, and support services and activities for eligible young adults to prepare them for entry into the workforce.
 
Defines &quot;eligible young adults&quot; as individuals ages 18 to 24 who: (1) are not enrolled in secondary or post-secondary school, or (2) are or have been subject to the criminal justice process.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a National Jobs Council Advisory Committee.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that National Urban League affiliates should establish local jobs council advisory committees to aid in establishing local community support for local implementation of the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the incentives for the production of biodiesel.

Bill: 112-hr-684
Sponsor: Rep. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2011-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Income tax credits
Motor fuels
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the income and excise tax credits for biodiesel used as fuel to: (1) allow a $1.00 tax credit for each gallon of biodiesel produced; (2) provide for an increased income tax credit for small biodiesel producers; (3) revise the definitions of &quot;biodiesel&quot; and &quot;small biodiesel producer&quot;; (4) treat renewable diesel in the same manner as biodiesel for income tax purposes; and (5) treat biodiesel as a taxable fuel for excise tax purposes. Extends the biodiesel income and excise tax credits through December 31, 2016.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E222)
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Checkpoint Images Protection Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-685
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2011-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Congressional oversight
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government information and archives
Homeland security
Photography and imaging
Right of privacy
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: 
Checkpoint Images Protection Act of 2011 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose a fine and/or prison term of up to one year on any individual who knowingly: (1) photographs or otherwise records an image produced using advanced imaging technology during the screening of an individual at an airport or upon entry into any building owned or operated by the federal government without express authorization pursuant to a federal law or regulation, or (2) distributes such image to any individual who is not authorized pursuant to a federal law or regulation to receive it. 
 
Exempts individuals who, within the scope of their employment, record or distribute an image solely to be used in a criminal investigation or prosecution or in an investigation relating to foreign intelligence or a threat to the national security. 
 
Directs the Assistant Secretary, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to certify that, in order to improve airport security screening processes while ensuring passenger privacy protection, the image retention capabilities of all advanced imaging technology utilized by TSA to screen passengers at checkpoints in our nation's airports have been disabled. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House