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To prohibit the use of funds to support Operation Odyssey Dawn.

Bill: 112-hr-1708
Sponsor: Rep. Rigell, E. Scott [R-VA-2]
Introduced: 2011-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Africa
Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Congressional-executive branch relations
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Libya
Middle East
Military operations and strategy

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: 
Prohibits any funds available to the Department of Defense (DOD) or any other federal department or agency from being used to support Operation Odyssey Dawn (the U.S. portion of a United Nations-sponsored military operation in Libya).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Force Protection and Readiness Act

Bill: 112-hr-1709
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2011-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Crime victims
Crimes against women
Criminal justice information and records
Government information and archives
Lawyers and legal services
Military personnel and dependents
Right of privacy
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: 
Force Protection and Readiness Act - Grants, in cases arising under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) for communications made between an alleged victim of sexual assault and a Sexual Assault Victim Advocate of the Department of Defense (DOD), to an individual who consulted with such an Advocate, a victim service organization, or a health care professional the privilege of refusing to disclose a confidential communication made by the individual if such communication was made for the purpose of securing advice, counseling, treatment, or assistance in connection with a sexual assault or other sexual misconduct. Allows the privilege to be claimed by the individual's guardian or conservator. Provides exceptions.
 
Requires the Secretary of the military department concerned to provide for the expedited consideration of a request for a permanent change of military station or unit transfer submitted by a member of the Armed Forces serving on active duty who was a victim of sexual assault or other sexual offense.
 
Codifies under federal law a required information database on sexual assault incidents involving members of the Armed Forces. Repeals a superseded requirement under the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009.
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a universal hotline to facilitate the reporting of sexual assault involving members of the Armed Forces.
 
Requires: (1) at least one full-time Sexual Assault Victim Advocate to be assigned to each battalion or equivalent military unit, and (2) appropriate training and certification of such advocates.
 
Requires a copy of the record of proceedings of a court-martial involving a sexual assault or other sexual offense to be given to the victim if the victim testified during the proceedings.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide a training module for judge advocates who serve as trial counsel to improve their ability to investigate and prosecute cases involving a sexual assault or other sexual offense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E827-828)
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Nuclear Used Fuel Prize Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1710
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2011-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Nuclear power
Radioactive wastes and releases
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: 
Nuclear Used Fuel Prize Act of 2011 - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to implement a program to award cash prizes competitively for research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of nuclear used fuel storage.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to enter into an agreement with a private, nonprofit entity to administer the prize competition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2011-05-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Child Care Criminal Background Check Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1711
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Andre [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2011-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Child care and development
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Crime prevention
Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Domestic violence and child abuse
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: 
Child Care Criminal Background Check Act of 2011 - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to require a state child care services plan to certify that the state will require child care providers that are licensed by the state or that receive funds under the Child Care and Development Block Grant Program to obtain a comprehensive criminal background check of each employee who provides child care services, each applicant for employment, and each family child care provider who provides or applies to provide such services and to refuse to employ, or continue to employ, an individual to provide such services: (1) if such individual was convicted of a crime of violence or a crime against children; (2) to an eligible child without the supervision of an employee whose criminal background check satisfies requirements, pending receipt of such individual's background check; and (3) to an eligible child for a period exceeding 90 days with the supervision of an employee whose criminal background check satisfies requirements, pending receipt of such individual's background check. Requires a state child care services plan to also certify that the state will carry out a comprehensive criminal background check of an employee or applicant of such a child care provider as soon as practicable after the provider's request and make the results available to such provider, employee, and applicant.
 
Requires the state to certify that: (1) each eligible child care provider (with an exception related to child care provided by a relative) that is licensed by the state will be inspected at least at 3-month intervals; and (2) each such provider that receives funds under the Program will receive not less than 40 hours of initial training and 24 hours of training annually that includes CPR, first aid, recognizing child abuse, basic safety and health, and child behavior and development.
 
Reduces by 10% allotments to states that fail to comply with the requirements of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Job Creation and Energy Security Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1712
Sponsor: Rep. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2011-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Motor fuels
Motor vehicles
Oil and gas
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: 
Job Creation and Energy Security Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt sales of natural gas, or any product derived from natural gas, for use in motor vehicles from the $5 million retail sales limitation applicable to independent producers of petroleum products for purposes of the oil and gas depreciation allowance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Multilingual Services Accounting Act

Bill: 112-hr-1715
Sponsor: Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2011-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: 
Multilingual Services Accounting Act - Requires federal agency Chief Financial Officers to include multilingual services accounting information in their mandatory annual reports to the agency head and to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). 
 
Defines multilingual services to include: (1) services provided by interpreters hired by an agency; (2) services resulting in additional expenses which an agency provides to assist its employees or contractors to learn a non-English language; (3) agency preparation, translation, printing, or recordation of materials in a language other than English; and (4) services provided or performed for the federal government by agency employees or contractors that require speaking a non-English language that result in wage differentials or benefits provided by the agency.
 
Requires the OMB Director's annual financial management status report to certain congressional committees to contain a Multilingual Services Expenses Report that includes: (1) a summary and analysis of the multilingual services accounting information prepared by each agency Chief Financial Officer, and (2) a description of any changes to the existing financial management structure of the federal government needed to establish an integrated individual agency accounting of all multilingual services conducted by each agency.
 
Requires the OMB Director to issue guidance that an agency Chief Financial Officer must follow in compiling multilingual services accounting information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management     .
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
JOBS Act

Bill: 112-hr-1716
Sponsor: Rep. Hoyer, Steny H. [D-MD-5]
Introduced: 2011-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Manufacturing
Performance measurement
Unemployment
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: 
Job Opportunities Between our Shores Act or JOBS Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to direct the Secretary of Labor to make grants to or enter into contracts with eligible entities to carry out demonstration and pilot projects that provide education and training programs for jobs in advanced manufacturing.
 
Prescribes requirements for project activities and performance goals and measures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Balancing Trade Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1717
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2011-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: 
Balancing Trade Act of 2011 - Requires the President, if in three consecutive calendar years the United States has a trade deficit with another country of $10 billion or more, to take the necessary steps to create a trading relationship that would eliminate or substantially reduce that trade deficit by entering into an agreement with that country. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
United States Cadet Nurse Corps Equity Act

Bill: 112-hr-1718
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2011-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health personnel
Military medicine
Nursing
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: United States Cadet Nurse Corps Equity Act - Deems service of a person as a member of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps between July 1, 1943, and December 15, 1945 (qualified service), to be active military service for purposes of all laws administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. 
Requires: (1) the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to issue an honorable discharge to each person whose qualified service warrants one, and (2) the discharge to be issued before the end of the one-year period beginning on the enactment of this Act. 
Prohibits benefits from being paid to persons as a result of such enactment for any period before the enactment date.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2011-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2011-05-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Endangered Species Compliance and Transparency Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1719
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2011-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Endangered and threatened species
Public utilities and utility rates
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: 
Endangered Species Compliance and Transparency Act of 2011 - Requires the Administrator of each of the Bonneville Power Administration, the Western Area Power Administration, the Southwestern Power Administration, and the Southeastern Power Administration to: (1) include in monthly billing statements sent to customers estimates of each customer's share of such Administration's direct and indirect costs for compliance with the Endangered Species Act of 1973; and (2) submit an annual report estimating such costs (on a project-by-project basis for the Western Area Power Administration and on a system-wide basis for the other Administrations) to the House Committee on Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
H-2A Improvement Act

Bill: 112-hr-1720
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, William L. [D-NY-23]
Introduced: 2011-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Labor standards
Livestock
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: 
H-2A Improvement Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include within the H-2A nonimmigrant visa category (temporary agricultural workers) an alien coming temporarily to the United States to work as a sheepherder, goat herder, or dairy worker. Exempts an employer filing a petition to employ such a worker from the requirement to show that the position is of a seasonal or temporary nature.
 
 
Provides for a three-year initial period of admission with additional three-year extensions.
 
Authorizes such alien to petition to become a lawful permanent resident after having worked as a sheepherder, goat herder, or dairy worker in the United States for not fewer than 33 of the preceding 36 months.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Strengthening the Teaching of English in Puerto Rico Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1721
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Pierluisi, Pedro R. [D-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Language arts
Puerto Rico
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: 
Strengthening the Teaching of English in Puerto Rico Act of 2011 - Amends part A of title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to increase the maximum federal allotment to Puerto Rico, which is expressed as a percentage of the federal funds allotted to states, to improve the education of limited English proficient children and immigrant youth.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Eat Local Foods Act

Bill: 112-hr-1722
Sponsor: Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2011-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: 
Eat Local Foods Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide grants to states, by the beginning of each school year (starting with the 2012-2013 school year), for use in providing school food authorities with local food credits that represent up to 10% of the total value of the commodity assistance (or cash payments in lieu thereof) that the authority would be eligible to receive for the school year. 
 
Subtracts the value of the food credit from the amount of commodity assistance (or cash payments in lieu thereof) that a school food authority would otherwise receive.
 
Requires school food authorities to use their credits to purchase locally or regionally produced agricultural food products to serve in the school lunch program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Common Sense Economic Recovery Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1723
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2011-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: 
Common Sense Economic Recovery Act of 2011 - Cites circumstances under which, for purposes of determining capital requirements or measuring an insured depository institution's capital, such an institution may treat a non-accrual loan as an accrual loan.
 
(Non-accrual [also known as non-performing or doubtful] loans are those on which interest is overdue and full collection of principal is uncertain, and so interest, if it has not been paid in over 90 days, cannot be credited to the bank's revenue account until it has actually been received.)
 
Conditions treatment as an accrual loan on a non-accrual loan's being current, not more than 30 days delinquent on a monthly payment, and an amortizing loan whose payments are not being funded through an interest reserve account.
 
Applies accrual loan treatment, to the same extent as non-modified mortgage loans, to modified mortgage loans meeting the criteria of this Act, including those that also meet the criteria for troubled debt restructuring.
 
Prohibits the appropriate federal banking agency from imposing any additional accounting requirements upon an insured depository institution with respect to a loan treated as an accrual loan under this Act if the result of the additional requirement would adversely impact measurement of the institution's capital.
 
Directs the Financial Stability Oversight Council to study how best to prevent the issuance of contradictory guidance to such institutions by federal banking agencies with respect to loan classifications and capital requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2011-07-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in House