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A bill to repeal the excise tax on medical device manufacturers.

Bill: 112-s-262
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Scott P. [R-MA]
Introduced: 2011-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health technology, devices, supplies
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: 
Repeals the provision of the Internal Revenue Code, added by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, that imposes an excise tax on medical devices. 
 
Rescinds $39 billion of appropriated but unobligated discretionary funds. Exempts unobligated funds of the Department of Defense (DOD) or the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to determine and identify from which appropriation accounts such recissions shall apply and report to the Secretary of the Treasury and Congress on such recissions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S545-546)
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Champion Hill, Port Gibson, and Raymond Battlefields Addition Act

Bill: 112-s-265
Sponsor: Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS]
Introduced: 2011-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Land transfers
Military history
Mississippi
Parks, recreation areas, trails
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: 
Champion Hill, Port Gibson, and Raymond Battlefields Addition Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire land or interests within the area identified as the modified core battlefield for the Port Gibson, Champion Hill, and Raymond battlefields of the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War for inclusion in the Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 112-214.
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to redesignate the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge as the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge.

Bill: 112-s-266
Sponsor: Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS]
Introduced: 2011-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Department of the Interior
Federal officials
Mississippi
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: 
Redesignates the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge in Mississippi as the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge. 

action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Redesignates the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge in Mississippi as the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge. 

action_date: 2011-07-20
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Redesignates the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge in Mississippi as the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-20
text: Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 56.
action_date: 2011-07-20
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 112-171.
action_date: 2011-07-20
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 112-171.
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs Discharged.
action_date: 2011-04-07
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S924)
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S924)
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S924)
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S924)
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Lifetime Income Disclosure Act

Bill: 112-s-267
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2011-02-03 in the Senate
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: 2011-02-03
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: 2011-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Forest Jobs and Recreation Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-268
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2011-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Lakes and rivers
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Montana
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Roads and highways
Watersheds
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: 
Forest Jobs and Recreation Act of 2011 - Establishes the Montana Forest Jobs and Restoration Pilot Initiative under which the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), through the Chief of the Forest Service, shall implement authorized forest and watershed restoration projects and other land management projects on certain eligible lands within the Beaverhead-Deerlodge and Kootenai National Forests in Montana to achieve the specified purposes of the Initiative and specified performance requirements. 
 
Permits the inclusion of the Seeley Ranger District of the Lolo National Forest within the Initiative. 
 
Requires the identification of one or more collaborative groups or resource advisory committees for each national forest within the Initiative. 
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) annually implement one or more authorized forest and watershed restoration projects on the eligible lands; (2) implement, in one or more certain watershed areas, those projects that provide landscape-scale work in order to minimize watershed entries; and (3) enter into stewardship contracts or agreements to carry out authorized forest and watershed restoration projects. 
 
Designates specified lands administered by the Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Montana as wilderness areas and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS). 
 
Releases: (1) certain BLM wilderness study areas from further study for designation as wilderness, and (2) the Sapphire and West Pioneer Wilderness Study Areas from further study for inclusion as components of the NWPS. 
 
Designates specified federal lands in Montana as special management or recreation management areas. 
 
Requires a specified all-terrain vehicle study and report.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 112-131.
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Big Spring, Texas, as the George H. O'Brien, Jr., Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-s-269
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2011-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Health facilities and institutions
Texas
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: 
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Big Spring, Texas, as the &quot;George H. O'Brien, Jr., Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.&quot; 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
EPA Fair Play Act

Bill: 112-s-272
Sponsor: Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV]
Introduced: 2011-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Licensing and registrations
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Solid waste and recycling
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: 
EPA Fair Play Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to remove the authority of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prohibit the specification of any defined area as a disposal site for discharges of materials into waters of the United States, or to restrict the use of any defined area for specification as a disposal site, once the Secretary of the Army has issued a permit for dredged or fill material.
 
Makes this Act effective as of October 18, 1972.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Drunk Driving Repeat Offender Prevention Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-273
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2011-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: 
Drunk Driving Repeat Offender Prevention Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to withhold specified graduated percentages of a state's apportionment of certain federal-aid highway funds for FY2014-FY2016 if the state has not enacted and is not enforcing a law requiring the installation of an ignition interlock device for a minimum of 180 days on each motor vehicle operated by an individual convicted of driving while intoxicated or driving under the influence (having a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08% or greater).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Medication Therapy Management Empowerment Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-274
Sponsor: Sen. Hagan, Kay R. [D-NC]
Introduced: 2011-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug therapy
Health care quality
Medicaid
Medicare
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: 
Medication Therapy Management Empowerment Act of 2011 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA), as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to increase the number of diseases and conditions for which beneficiaries may be targeted for medication therapy management (MTM) services.
 
Requires a Prescription Drug Plan (PDP) sponsor to establish a process, subject to approval by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), for identifying individuals who are not targeted beneficiaries, are not otherwise offered MTM services, and whom a pharmacist or other qualified provider determines may benefit from MTM services. Requires any such individual to be treated as a targeted beneficiary. 
 
Requires any MTM program to offer both comprehensive and targeted medication reviews to individuals dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid (under SSA title XIX), regardless of whether they are MTM-targeted beneficiaries.
 
Requires a PDP sponsor to offer any willing pharmacy in its network and any other qualified health care provider the opportunity to provide MTM services.
 
Requires the PDP sponsor to reimburse pharmacists and other qualified health care providers furnishing MTM services based on the resources used and the time required to provide such services. 
 
Directs the Secretary of HHS to: (1) establish measures and standards for data collection by PDP sponsors to evaluate performance of pharmacies and other entities in furnishing MTM services; and (2) support the continued development and refinement of performance measures.
 
Provides pharmacies and other entities that furnish MTM services with additional incentive payments based on their performance in meeting quality measures established under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S546-547)
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Pike National Historic Trail Study Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-276
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2011-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Historic sites and heritage areas
Kansas
Louisiana
Missouri
Nebraska
New Mexico
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: 
Pike National Historic Trail Study Act of 2011 - Amends the National Trails System Act to require a study for the designation of Pike's Trail, a series of routes that follow the route taken by Lt. Zebulon Montgomery Pike during the 1806-1807 Pike expedition that began in Fort Bellefontaine, Missouri, and ended in Natchitoches, Louisiana, as a national historic trail. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Caring for Camp Lejeune Veterans Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-277
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2011-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cancer
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Military facilities and property
Military personnel and dependents
North Carolina
Veterans' medical care
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: 
Caring for Camp Lejeune Veterans Act of 2011 - Provides hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care for any illness acquired by veterans and family members who were stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, while the water there was contaminated by volatile organic compounds, including known human carcinogens and probable human carcinogens.

action_date: 2011-08-01
text: 
Caring for Camp Lejeune Veterans Act of 2011 - Provides hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care for any illness acquired by veterans and family members who were stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, while the water there was contaminated by volatile organic compounds, including known human carcinogens and probable human carcinogens. Makes the provision of such care and services for family members dependent on appropriations for such purpose.
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to reimburse the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the cost of such care and services.
 
Requires the DOD Secretary to merge and consolidate all commissary and exchange stores into a single system that, by no later than the end of FY2015, operates on a self-sufficient basis without the need for financial support through appropriated funds. Prohibits any DOD funds from being obligated or expended after FY2015 for commissary and exchange stores.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 123.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Reported by Senator Murray with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 112-42.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Reported by Senator Murray with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 112-42.
action_date: 2011-06-29
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2011-06-08
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 112-116.
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Camp Hale Study Act

Bill: 112-s-279
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Mark [D-CO]
Introduced: 2011-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Government studies and investigations
Military history
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: 
Camp Hale Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the Director of the National Park Service (NPS), to complete a special resource study to determine the suitability and feasibility of designating Camp Hale, in Colorado, as a separate unit of the National Park System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-11
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 112-124.
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S548-549)
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S548)
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
No Child Left Behind Flexibility and Improvements Act

Bill: 112-s-280
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2011-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Language arts
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: 
No Child Left Behind Flexibility and Improvements Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise requirements relating to annual yearly progress (AYP) of students and schools, statewide and local accountability systems, special education, limited English proficiency students, funding levels and academic assessment deferrals, highly qualified teachers, and reading activities.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to modify an AYP timeline.
 
Allows states to use: (1) additional types of statewide models and systems for measuring all students' progress; and (2) alternative assessments, designated by their individualized education program plan teams, for students with disabilities.
 
Gives states an option to include as limited English proficiency students, until they complete secondary school, those formerly in such subgroup who have subsequently acquired English proficiency.
 
Permits use of local assessments in measuring AYP.

Increases the levels of ESEA funding which must be reached before states are not allowed certain deferrals of academic assessments.
 
Revises requirements relating to AYP by group and subgroup.
 
Adds options for deeming teachers of multiple academic subjects as highly qualified, and for general social studies certification.
 
Reauthorizes the Reading First and Early Reading First programs through FY2017.
 
Authorizes use of reading activities subgrants for individual or small-group instruction, as well as for class-wide instruction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S549)
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Save Our States Act

Bill: 112-s-281
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2011-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Comprehensive health care
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Department of Health and Human Services
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Judicial review and appeals
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: 
Save Our States Act - Delays the effective date of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 until the date on which final judgment is entered in all cases challenging the constitutionality of the requirement to maintain minimum essential coverage that are pending before a federal court on the date of enactment of this Act. Prohibits the federal government from promulgating regulations under such Acts or otherwise preparing to implement such Acts until such date.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Orphan Earmarks Act

Bill: 112-s-282
Sponsor: Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK]
Introduced: 2011-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: 
Orphan Earmarks Act - Rescinds any earmark of funds provided for any federal agency with more than 90% of the appropriated amount remaining available for obligation at the end of the 9th fiscal year after it was first made available. Authorizes the agency head to delay any such rescission if an additional obligation of the earmark is likely to occur during the following 12-month period.
 
Requires each agency head to identify and report every project that is an earmark with an unobligated balance at the end of each fiscal year to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), who shall report a listing and accounting for such earmarks to Congress and to the public via the OMB website.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Marco Antonio Sanchez.

Bill: 112-s-283
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2011-02-03 in the Senate
Subjects: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Provides for the relief of Marco Antonio Sanchez.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate