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Returning Investment to America Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3448
Sponsor: Rep. Renacci, James B. [R-OH-16]
Introduced: 2011-11-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Corporate finance and management
Employee hiring
Foreign and international corporations
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-16
text: 
Returning Investment to America Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an extension of the election allowed to domestic corporations to deduct dividends received from controlled foreign corporations (election may be made for any taxable year beginning before December 31, 2012). Limits the amount of such deduction in any taxable year to the amount by which the domestic corporation increases its payroll and by the amount of its investment in depreciable business assets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-11-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-16
text: Introduced in House
Defense Supply Chain and Industrial Base Security Act

Bill: 112-hr-3449
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-17]
Introduced: 2011-11-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Industrial policy and productivity
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Military readiness
Strategic materials and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-16
text: 
Defense Supply Chain and Industrial Base Security Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to: (1) develop a defense supply chain and industrial base strategy, and subsequent plan, designed to secure the supply chain and industrial base sectors determined to be critical to U.S. national security; (2) review the strategy and plan on a biennial basis; and (3) report to Congress on the strategy and plan, as well as on the results of each review.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-11-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-16
text: Introduced in House
FINE Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3450
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-11-16 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Government trust funds
Intergovernmental relations
Pollution liability
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-16
text: 
Fairness in Negative Enforcement Act of 2011 or the FINE Act of 2011 - Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make grants to states and local governments for projects and activities to assist communities in complying with environmental requirements under laws administered by EPA. 
 
Establishes in the Treasury the EPA Compliance Trust Fund from which funds shall be available for such grants. Appropriates to the Fund amounts equivalent to the amounts deposited in the general fund of the Treasury that are attributable to penalties collected under laws administered by EPA. 
 
Prohibits any EPA funds for a fiscal year beginning after enactment of this Act from being used for programs or activities that are carried out outside of the United States.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2011-11-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Agriculture, 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: 2011-11-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Agriculture, 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: 2011-11-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Agriculture, 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: 2011-11-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-16
text: Introduced in House
To designate the Federal Building and United States Courthouse located at 1125 Chapline Street in Wheeling, West Virginia, as the "Frederick P. Stamp, Jr. Federal Building and United States Courthouse".

Bill: 112-hr-3451
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2011-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: 
Designates the federal building and U.S. courthouse located at 1125 Chapline Street in Wheeling, West Virginia, as the &quot;Frederick P. Stamp, Jr. Federal Building and United States Courthouse.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2082)
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
Wasatch Range Recreation Access Enhancement Act

Bill: 112-hr-3452
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Rob [R-UT-1]
Introduced: 2011-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Land transfers
Outdoor recreation
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: 
Wasatch Range Recreation Access Enhancement Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to convey, by sale, a specified parcel of National Forest System land within the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Salt Lake County, Utah, to Canyons-SkiLink, LLC, to allow it to construct a ski-lift, gondola, or tramway to serve as a public-access transportation interconnection of the Wasatch Front and the Wasatch Back Mountains. 
 
Requires Canyons-SkiLink to pay to the Secretary an amount that is equal to at least the fair market value of such land. 
 
Requires the fair market value of the National Forest System land to be conveyed under this Act to be determined based on an appraisal that is acceptable to the Secretary. 

action_date: 2012-04-19
text: 
Wasatch Range Recreation Access Enhancement Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to convey, by sale, a specified parcel of National Forest System land within the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Salt Lake County, Utah, to Canyons-SkiLink, LLC, to allow it to construct a ski-lift, gondola, or tramway to serve as a public-access transportation interconnection of the Wasatch Front and the Wasatch Back Mountains. 
 
Requires Canyons-SkiLink to pay to the Secretary an amount that is equal to at least the fair market value of such land. Requires the deposit of any funds received by the Secretary under this Act in the general Treasury fund to reduce the federal deficit. 
 
Requires the fair market value of the National Forest System land to be conveyed under this Act to be determined based on an appraisal that is acceptable to the Secretary. 
 
Instructs the Secretary to complete all actions that may be required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and all other applicable laws in making the conveyance under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-19
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 316.
action_date: 2012-04-19
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 112-452.
action_date: 2012-04-19
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 112-452.
action_date: 2012-02-29
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 20 - 18.
action_date: 2012-02-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2012-02-29
text: Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2011-12-02
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-11-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
State Management of Recovered Wolves Act

Bill: 112-hr-3453
Sponsor: Rep. Benishek, Dan [R-MI-1]
Introduced: 2011-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Endangered and threatened species
Mammals
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: 
State Management of Recovered Wolves Act - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require the Secretary of the Interior to permit any state in which wolves are listed as an endangered or threatened species to conduct lethal and non-lethal control of wolves to protect from wolf depredations if the population of wolves in such state exceeds the goal established by a species recovery plan. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
Preserving Marginal Lands and Protecting Farming Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3454
Sponsor: Rep. Roby, Martha [R-AL-2]
Introduced: 2011-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Farmland

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: 
Preserving Marginal Lands and Protecting Farming Act of 2011 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to set forth the maximum number of acres that may be enrolled at any one time in the conservation reserve program through FY2017.
 
Prohibits the enrollment of land in the conservation reserve that is classified as class I or class II land under the National Soil Survey Handbook's land capability classification system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to include the Chief of the National Guard Bureau as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and to reestablish the position of Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau.

Bill: 112-hr-3455
Sponsor: Rep. Palazzo, Steven M. [R-MS-4]
Introduced: 2011-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Defense
Military command and structure
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: 
Adds the Chief of the National Guard Bureau (Bureau) to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Reestablishes the position of Vice Chief of the Bureau. Terminates the position of Director of the Joint Staff of the Bureau and transfers existing duties of the Director to the Vice Chief.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
Efficient Use of Educational Resources Act

Bill: 112-hr-3456
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, Nan A. S. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2011-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: 
Efficient Use of Educational Resources Act - Amends part D (Enhancing Education through Technology) of title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to repeal the Ready-to-Learn Television program. (The Ready to Learn Television program supports the development, by public telecommunications entities, of educational television and digital media for preschool and elementary school children and their families.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
Cleaning Product Right to Know Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3457
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2011-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer affairs
Government information and archives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Product safety and quality
Trade secrets and economic espionage

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: 
Cleaning Product Right to Know Act of 2011 - Requires a cleaning product manufactured or offered for sale, distributed in commerce, or imported into the United States to bear a label listing each of its ingredients: (1) by the name assigned by the International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients or, if there is no such name, by the name assigned by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry or, if there is none, by its common chemical name; and (2) in descending order of predominance by weight, except that ingredients that constitute less than 1% of the product can be listed at the end in any order.
 
Allows the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to exempt from such labeling requirement: (1) an ingredient that is present in a product at such low levels that detection is not technologically feasible, or (2) for five-year periods, an ingredient that a manufacturer demonstrates to be a trade secret. Sets forth required disclosures for, and limitations to, a manufacturer's claim that an ingredient is a trade secret. 
 
Requires a product that is not in conformity with the labeling requirements and not exempt to be treated as a misbranded hazardous substance under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act (FHSA). Increases penalties for violations of FHSA.
 
Authorizes any person to petition the CPSC to investigate claims that a product does not satisfy the labeling requirements. 
 
Requires: (1) each cleaning product manufacturer to make available on its website a complete list of ingredients for each product, including any potential adverse health effect of each ingredient; and (2) CPSC to provide on its website aggregated information that allows users to compare products made by different manufacturers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure the eligibility of eligible professionals practicing in rural health clinics for electronic health records and quality improvement incentives under Medicare.

Bill: 112-hr-3458
Sponsor: Rep. Schock, Aaron [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2011-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) extend Medicare electronic health record incentives to eligible professionals practicing in rural health clinics, and (2) extend Medicare quality reporting incentives to such clinics. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-11-17
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: 2011-11-17
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: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
Smithsonian American Latino Museum Act

Bill: 112-hr-3459
Sponsor: Rep. Becerra, Xavier [D-CA-31]
Introduced: 2011-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: District of Columbia
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Racial and ethnic relations
Smithsonian Institution

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: 
 
 Smithsonian American Latino Museum Act - Establishes a museum to be known as the Smithsonian American Latino Museum in the Smithsonian Institution. 
 
 Designates the Arts and Industries Building of the Smithsonian Institution, which is located on the National Mall in Washington, DC, including a new underground annex facility, as the location of the Museum. 
 
 Authorizes the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to plan and construct the Museum and to prepare a plan of action for the Museum. 
 
 Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Board of Regents to enter into an agreement that allows for the construction of the underground annex facility by the Board in a manner that is harmonious with, and protects the open space and visual sight lines of, the National Mall. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Natural Resources, 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: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Natural Resources, 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: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Natural Resources, 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: 2011-11-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2090)
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2060)
American Jobs First Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3460
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2011-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Foreign and international corporations
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Taxation of foreign income
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: 
American Jobs First Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the election to deduct dividends received by a domestic corporation from a controlled foreign corporation. Increases the amount of such deduction by increases in the payroll of the domestic corporation over the previous taxable year. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to provide, by regulations, for a recapture of any portion of the increased tax deduction allowed to a domestic corporation if such corporation's payroll decreases during either of the two taxable years following the taxable year in which the increased deduction was allowed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act

Bill: 112-hr-3461
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2011-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Credit and credit markets
Department of the Treasury
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Reserve System
National Credit Union Administration

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: 
Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act - Amends the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council Act of 1978 to require a federal financial institutions regulatory agency to make a final examination report to a financial institution within 60 days of the later of: (1) the exit interview for an examination of the institution, or (2) the provision of additional information by the institution relating to the examination.
 
Sets a deadline for the exit interview if a financial institution is not subject to a resident examiner program.
 
Sets forth examination standards for financial institutions.
 
Prohibits federal financial institutions regulatory agencies from requiring a well capitalized financial institution to raise additional capital in lieu of an action prohibited by the examination standards.
 
 Establishes in the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council an Office of Examination Ombudsman.
 
Grants a financial institution the right to appeal a material supervisory determination contained in a final report of examination.
 
Requires the Ombudsman to determine the merits of the appeal on the record, after an opportunity for a hearing before an independent administrative law judge.
 
Declares the decision by the Ombudsman on an appeal to: (1) be the final agency action, and (2) bind the agency whose supervisory determination was the subject of the appeal and the financial institution making the appeal.
 
Amends the Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994 to require: (1) the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to establish an independent intra-agency appellate process in connection with the regulatory appeals process; and (2) appropriate safeguards to protect an insured depository institution or insured credit union from retaliation by the CFPB, the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Board, or any other federal banking agency for exercising its rights. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-01
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2012-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House