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WE CARE Act

Bill: 112-hr-2565
Sponsor: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2]
Introduced: 2011-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Community life and organization
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Family relationships
Public-private cooperation
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: 
Working to Encourage Community Action and Responsibility in Education Act or WE CARE Act - Amends title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require states and local educational agencies (LEAs) to assess the nonacademic factors affecting student academic performance and work with other public, private, nonprofit, and community-based entities to address those factors. 
 
Requires the annual report cards issued by states and LEAs to include additional performance data, including information on their efforts to increase community and parental involvement in students' education.
 
Establishes a new program requiring the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to LEAs for the development and implementation of community involvement policies that leverage the resources, services, and opportunities available from public, private, nonprofit, and community-based partners to address students' academic and nonacademic needs and thereby support their attainment of state academic performance standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Introduced in House
No Free Inspections for Oil Companies Act

Bill: 112-hr-2566
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2011-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Oil and gas
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: 
No Free Inspections for Oil Companies Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish and collect inspection fees from operators of Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) facilities.
 
Establishes in the Treasury the Ocean Energy Enforcement Fund as depository for such fees.
 
Requires amounts collected by the Secretary to be credited as offsetting collections and to be made available for expenditure only for implementing inspections of OCS facilities (including mobile offshore drilling units) and for administration of the inspection program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Introduced in House
Federal First Offender Improvement Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2567
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Pierluisi, Pedro R. [D-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: 
Federal First Offender Improvement Act of 2011 - Amends the federal criminal code to extend the pre-judgment probation and expungement procedures for simple possession of a controlled substance under the Controlled Substances Act to individuals who are convicted under such Act of drug trafficking or of attempting or conspiring to commit a drug offense. 
 
Sets forth requirements for granting pre-judgment probation for drug trafficking or of attempting or conspiring to commit a drug offense, including that: (1) the offender did not use violence or credible threats of violence or possess a firearm or other dangerous weapon (or induce another participant to do so) while committing the offense; (2) the offense did not result in death or serious injury to any person; (3) the offender was not an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of others in the offense and was not engaged in a continuing criminal enterprise; and (4) the offender has not been previously convicted of a crime of violence or other offense punishable by a prison term of more than one year. Provides for a period of such probation of up to two years. Revises the requirement for pre-judgment probation for simple possession to having not been previously convicted of a crime of violence or other offense punishable by a term of imprisonment for more than one year.
 
Eliminates the requirement that an offender seeking expungement of a record of a disposition be less than 21 years old at the time of the offense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Introduced in House
To prevent the Secretary of the Treasury from expanding United States bank reporting requirements with respect to interest on deposits paid to nonresident aliens.

Bill: 112-hr-2568
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2011-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business records
Department of the Treasury
Government information and archives
Interest, dividends, interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from requiring a payor of interest to file an information return on interest that is not effectively connected with a trade or business within the United States and that is paid to a nonresident alien on a deposit maintained at an office within the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Introduced in House
Free File Program Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2569
Sponsor: Rep. Roskam, Peter J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2011-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: 
Free File Program Act of 2011 - Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Treasury to continue to implement and operate the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Free File program (free online individual income tax preparation and electronic filing services provided by the private sector technology industry to lower income taxpayers).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the permanent and expanded authority for Army industrial facilities to enter into certain cooperative arrangements with non-Army entities.

Bill: 112-hr-2570
Sponsor: Rep. Schilling, Robert T. [R-IL-17]
Introduced: 2011-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military facilities and property
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: 
Repeals the limit (eight) on the number of cooperative arrangements that may be entered into by Army industrial facilities with non-Army entities. Makes such authority permanent (under current law, terminates at the end of FY2014). Revises a report requirement under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 to include an assessment of the effectiveness of the use of such authority and recommendations to improve the ability of each facility to compete for such contracts.
 
Requires each military industrial facility of the military departments and defense agencies (other than facilities approved for closure or major realignment under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990) to be designated as a Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence in the recognized core competencies of the designee. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Introduced in House
Transparency and Accountability in Government Act

Bill: 112-hr-2571
Sponsor: Rep. Schock, Aaron [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2011-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Congressional agencies
Government information and archives
Library of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: 
 Transparency and Accountability in Government Act - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to authorize the Director of the Congressional Research Service (CRS), in response to a request made by a Member of Congress, to secure such information, data, estimates, and statistics directly from the various departments, agencies, and establishments of the executive branch and the regulatory agencies and commissions as the Director determines (with the approval of the Member making the request) to be necessary to carry out the request.
 
 Requires all such departments, agencies, establishments, and regulatory agencies and commissions to furnish the Director with all such available material (other than material the disclosure of which would be a violation of law).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-15
text: Introduced in House
Rural Health Care Capital Access Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2573
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2011-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Housing finance and home ownership
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: 
Rural Health Care Capital Access Act of 2011 - Amends the National Housing Act to extend from July 31, 2011 to July 31, 2016, the exemption for critical access hospitals from the limit on patient days customarily assignable to specified categories of care under the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (Federal Housing Administration [FHA]) hospital mortgage insurance program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Jobs Now Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2574
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Frederica S. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2011-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Employment and training programs
Foreign aid and international relief
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Oceania
Palau
State and local government operations
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: 
Jobs Now Act of 2011 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to direct the Secretary of Labor to carry out a two-year pilot program to award competitive grants to general local government units or community-based organizations to retain, employ, or train employees who provide them a public service.
 
Prescribes program requirements, including that: (1) each unit or organization grantee give priority to the retention, employment, and training of veterans, individuals with disabilities, individuals who receive unemployment benefits, or dislocated workers; and (2) the Secretary give priority to the award of grants to units and organizations with high unemployment, foreclosure, and poverty rates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Drive to Stay Alive Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2575
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Frederica S. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2011-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Intergovernmental relations
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Telephone and wireless communication
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: 
Drive to Stay Alive Act of 2011 - Requires the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to withhold 5% of a state's apportionment of certain federal-aid highway funds for FY2012, and each succeeding fiscal year, if the state has not enacted and implemented a law that: (1) prohibits a driver from using a personal wireless communications device (cell phone, but excluding a global navigation satellite system receiver used for positioning, emergency notification, or navigation [GPS]) to call or text while driving when there is a minor in the vehicle, (2) makes violation of the law a primary offense, and (3) establishes certain minimum fines and increased civil and criminal penalties.
 
Permits laws meeting the requirements of this Act to provide exceptions for driver: (1) use of a hands-free device (other than a driver who is a minor), (2) use of a cell phone in emergency situations, and (3) use of a cell phone by a commercial motor vehicle driver or school bus driver.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Introduced in House
SAFE Data Act

Bill: 112-hr-2577
Sponsor: Rep. Bono Mack, Mary [R-CA-45]
Introduced: 2011-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Federal preemption
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government studies and investigations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Right of privacy
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: 
Secure and Fortify Electronic Data Act or the SAFE Data Act - Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to promulgate regulations requiring any person engaged in interstate commerce that owns or possesses data containing personal information to establish and implement reasonable security policies and procedures to treat and protect such information.
 
Requires such regulations to include specified policies and procedures, including: (1) a process for identifying and assessing vulnerabilities in the system, and (2) a process for taking preventive and corrective action to mitigate such vulnerabilities.
 
Requires a person covered by this Act to establish a plan and procedures for minimizing the amount of personal information maintained. 
 
Exempts services providers from such requirements for any electronic communication by a third party that is transmitted, routed, or stored in intermediate or transient storage by the provider.
 
Establishes notification procedures in the event of a breach of security of any system that contains personal information. Allows an exemption from notification requirements if a person subject to this Act determines that there is no reasonable risk of identity theft, fraud, or other unlawful conduct. Creates a presumption that no reasonable risk of such conduct exists following a breach of security if the data containing personal information is unusable, unreadable, or indecipherable to an unauthorized person by encryption or other security technology that is generally accepted by experts in the information security field.
 
Directs a person subject to this Act to provide a credit report and credit monitoring if certain identifying information is breached.
 
Sets forth provisions regarding enforcement of this Act by the FTC and by state attorneys general. Establishes civil penalties for violations. 
 
Exempts from the requirements of this Act any person subject to the information security requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) or the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Introduced in House
To require the Corps of Engineers to take into account all available hydrologic data in conducting Missouri River basin operations.

Bill: 112-hr-2579
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, Lynn [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2011-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Hydrology and hydrography
Missouri River

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: 
Requires the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to take into account all available hydrologic data in conducting Missouri River basin operations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Father Mychal Judge, O.F.M., Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 112-hr-2580
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2011-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Crime victims
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
New York City
Religion
State and local government operations
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: 
Father Mychal Judge, O.F.M., Congressional Gold Medal Act - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal to the next of kin or personal representative of Father Mychal Judge, O.F.M., in recognition of his example to the nation of selfless dedication to duty and compassion for one's fellow citizens.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology.
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Check Guarantee Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2581
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2011-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Government trust funds
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: 
Social Security Check Guarantee Act of 2011 - Declares that the public debt limitation shall not be construed to preclude or limit timely payment in full of Social Security benefits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Homeowners' Defense Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2582
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Frederica S. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2011-07-19 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disaster relief and insurance
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Housing finance and home ownership
Intergovernmental relations
Land use and conservation
Life, casualty, property insurance
Natural disasters
State and local finance
State and local government operations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-19
text: 
 Homeowners' Defense Act of 2011 - Establishes the National Catastrophe Risk Consortium as a nonprofit, nonfederal entity to: (1) maintain an inventory of catastrophe risk obligations held by state reinsurance funds, state residual insurance market entities, and state-sponsored providers of natural catastrophe insurance; (2) issue, on a conduit basis, securities and other financial instruments linked to catastrophe risks insured or reinsured through Consortium members; (3) coordinate reinsurance contracts; (4) act as a centralized repository of state risk information accessible by certain private-market participants; and (5) establish a database to perform research and analysis that encourages standardization of the risk-linked securities market.
 
 Shields the federal government and the Consortium from liability for Consortium actions.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to guarantee holders of debt against loss of principal or interest, or both, on debt issued by certain eligible state programs 
 
Provides separate limits on the total principal amount of such obligations for programs that cover earthquake peril and those that cover all other perils.
 
Subjects the catastrophic debt guarantee to specified requirements.
 
Directs the Secretary to make contracts for reinsurance coverage available for purchases only by eligible state programs. Sets pricing guidelines and limits aggregate potential federal liability.
 
 Establishes a Federal Natural Catastrophe Reinsurance Fund. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to establish a grants program for eligible entities to develop, enhance, or maintain programs to prevent and mitigate losses from natural catastrophes.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study: (1) risk-based insurance rate pricing; and (2) rates for state insurance, reinsurance, or residual market programs that fail to cover the expected value of all future associated costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-07-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-07-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-19
text: Introduced in House
Instituting Responsible Spending Act

Bill: 112-hr-2585
Sponsor: Rep. Olson, Pete [R-TX-22]
Introduced: 2011-07-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-19
text: 
Instituting Responsible Spending Act or IRS Act - Requires any fees for services provided by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to be deposited in the Treasury as general receipts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-07-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-19
text: Introduced in House