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Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act

Bill: 112-hr-3359
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2011-11-03 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Crimes against animals and natural resources
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: 
Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act - Amends the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit an exhibitor from allowing for the participation of an exotic or wild animal (including a non-human primate) in an animal act if, during the 15-day period preceding such participation, such animal was traveling in a mobile housing facility, unless the use of such animal is: (1) in an exhibition at a non-mobile, permanent institution or facility; (2) a part of an outreach program for educational or conservation purposes by an accredited zoo or aquarium and such animal is not kept in a mobile housing facility for more than 12 hours a day; (3) by a university, college, laboratory, or other research facility registered with the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA); (4) in film, television, or advertising if such use does not involve a live public exhibition; or (5) in a rodeo.
 
Subjects a traveling circus or exhibitor that fails to comply with this Act to specified penalties. 
 
 
 

 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: Introduced in House
Creating Homeownership Opportunity Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3360
Sponsor: Rep. Renacci, James B. [R-OH-16]
Introduced: 2011-11-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: 
Creating Homeownership Opportunity Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish tax-exempt housing equity savings accounts to assist individual taxpayers under the age of 55 in paying the costs of acquiring, constructing, or reconstructing a principal residence. Allows: (1) a deduction from gross income for cash contributions to such accounts for the lesser of $10,000 or the compensation includible in the taxpayer's gross income for a taxable year, (2) an exclusion from gross income of amounts distributed from such accounts that are used by an account beneficiary to purchase a principal residence or make payments to such beneficiary's individual retirement account (IRA), and (3) a tax-free rollover into an IRA if an account beneficiary reaches age 55 or has maintained an account for 20 years without purchasing a residence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: Introduced in House
Utilizing DNA Technology to Solve Cold Cases Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3361
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2011-11-03 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against children
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Evidence and witnesses
Family relationships
Genetics
Right of privacy
Sex offenses
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: 
Utilizing DNA Technology to Solve Cold Cases Act of 2011 - Requires the Attorney General to adopt policies and procedures to ensure that: (1) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) may conduct familial searches for DNA samples collected from crime scenes in federal investigations, (2) a CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) state administrator or a state attorney general may request that the FBI conduct such searches in state investigations, and (3) the privacy interests of persons identified in familial searches are protected. Defines "familial search" as a search of the offender index in the National DNA Index System in which a DNA sample from an unknown source collected from a crime scene is compared to such index to determine if a familial match exists between the DNA profile contained in such index and the DNA sample collected from the crime scene.
 
Allows FBI familial searches to be conducted only if: (1) no identical match for a DNA sample collected from a crime scene can be identified in the offender index; and (2) the investigation for which DNA samples are collected involves murder, voluntary manslaughter, kidnapping, a sex offense against a minor, or an offense for which an offender would be required to register as a tier III sex offender.
 
Sets forth requirements for state requests for such searches, including assurances that the requesting state will: (1) take steps to facilitate the investigation of familial matches from other states, and (2) investigate possible familial matches in that state before requesting assistance from other states.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-25
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-11-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: Introduced in House
Amtrak Food and Beverage Service Savings Act

Bill: 112-hr-3362
Sponsor: Rep. Schmidt, Jean [R-OH-2]
Introduced: 2011-11-03 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Food industry and services
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
Public contracts and procurement
Railroads

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: 
Amtrak Food and Beverage Service Savings Act - Revises the authority of Amtrak to provide food and beverage services on its trains.
 
Allows Amtrak to provide food and beverage service on its trains only if the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) selects a qualified bidder whose bid would result in the lowest cost, or the greatest source of revenue, to Amtrak. (Under current law, Amtrak may provide such services on its trains only if revenues from the services each year at least equal the cost of providing them.) Authorizes the FRA to exempt Amtrak from such requirement if no qualified bidder responds to FRA requests for proposals.
 
Requires the FRA to pay directly to the entity providing food and beverage service on Amtrak trains any portion of Amtrak appropriations necessary to cover a net loss, but only to the extent that it was anticipated in the bid selected.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: Introduced in House
MAPLE Act

Bill: 112-hr-3363
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-11-03 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Food industry and services
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Fraud offenses and financial crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: 
Maple Agriculture Protection and Law Enforcement Act of 2011 or the MAPLE Act - Prohibits knowingly and willfully introducing or delivering for introduction into interstate commerce a product that is labeled as maple syrup but that is not maple syrup, unless the product's label includes a clear identification of the product's true nature.
 
Defines &quot;maple syrup&quot; to mean a liquid food: (1) that is derived by concentration and heat treatment of the sap of a species of tree in the genus Acer or by solution in water of maple sugar made from such sap, (2) that is not less than 66% by weight of soluble solids derived solely from such sap, and (3) the concentration of which may be adjusted by adding water.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: Introduced in House
Equity and Access for Podiatric Physicians Under Medicaid Act

Bill: 112-hr-3364
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2011-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Medicaid
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: 
 Equity and Access for Podiatric Physicians Under Medicaid Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to include podiatrists as physicians in order to cover their services under the Medicaid program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act Reauthorization of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3365
Sponsor: Rep. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Land use and conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: 
Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act Reauthorization of 2011 - Amends the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act (FLTFA) to reauthorize, until July 25, 2018, the program for the completion of appraisals and satisfaction of other legal requirements for the sale or exchange of public land identified for disposal under approved land use plans under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. 
 
Makes the FLTFA inapplicable to land eligible for sale under specified public land laws. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-17
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-11-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that bonus depreciation is not a cost allocated to a contract under the percentage of completion method for long-term contracts.

Bill: 112-hr-3366
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2011-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Contracts and agency
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2012 the tax rule that excludes bonus depreciation allowed for certain depreciable business assets as a cost allocated to a contract under the percentage of completion method for long-term contracts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Public Safety Officers Fairness Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3367
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2011-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Justice
Disability assistance
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Fires
Health personnel
Law enforcement officers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: 
Disabled Public Safety Officers Fairness Act of 2011 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide for payment of disability benefits to public safety officers who became permanently and totally disabled prior to the enactment of such Act. 
 
Allows a public safety officer seeking a benefit on the basis of having been permanently and totally disabled as the direct result of a catastrophic injury sustained in the line of duty before the date of enactment of such Act to file a claim during the same period that would be applicable to an officer disabled after the date of enactment, except that in lieu of such a period beginning on the date of the injury it shall begin on the date of the enactment of this Act.
 
Applies this Act to any public safety officer alive on or after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
Latin America Military Training Review Act

Bill: 112-hr-3368
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2011-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Educational facilities and institutions
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Human rights
Latin America
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Military education and training
Military personnel and dependents
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: 
Latin America Military Training Review Act - Directs the Secretary of the Army to suspend operation of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (Institute). Suspends the authority of the Secretary of Defense to operate such an education and training facility until submission of a report containing the results of an investigation in response to violations of human rights to which training at such Institute contributed. 
 
Establishes: (1) a joint congressional task force to assess appropriate education and training for DOD to provide to military personnel of Latin American nations; and (2) a commission to investigate activities of the United States Army School of the Americas and its successor institution, the Institute.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot program on the provision of traumatic brain injury care in rural areas.

Bill: 112-hr-3369
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2011-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care coverage and access
Neurological disorders
Rural conditions and development
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a five-year pilot program, in five rural states, under which the Secretary trains and then assigns a specific Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) case manager to each veteran diagnosed with traumatic brain injury who is receiving care in a VA facility in that state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Our Rural Post Offices Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3370
Sponsor: Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1]
Introduced: 2011-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Postal service
Rural conditions and development
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: 
Protecting Our Rural Post Offices Act of 2011 - Prohibits the United States Postal Service (USPS) from closing any post office that does not have another post office within eight miles as measured by public roads with regular year-round access.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
Dairy Pricing Deregulation Act

Bill: 112-hr-3372
Sponsor: Rep. Walsh, Joe [R-IL-8]
Introduced: 2011-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Food industry and services
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: 
Dairy Pricing Deregulation Act - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to revise the terms of federal milk marketing orders.
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to: (1) survey and publish data regarding milk handler payments for milk purchased from producers or associations of producers, and (2) publish such data on a national weighted-average basis and on a regional basis with respect to as many multi-state regions as the Secretary determines appropriate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
STEM Education Innovation Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3373
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2011-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Department of Education
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Higher education
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Technology assessment
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: 
STEM Education Innovation Act of 2011 - Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish the Office of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education within the Department of Education to administer STEM education.
 
Directs the Office of STEM Education to conduct an independent evaluation of the Department's STEM Education programs at least once every five years.
 
Establishes an Education Innovation Project within the Department to pursue breakthrough research and development in educational technology, and facilitate the effective use of that technology to improve student achievement.
 
Directs the Office of STEM Education to award competitive matching grants to consortia of state-based STEM stakeholders that enable each of them to establish a state consortium on STEM education. 
 
Require each consortium to: (1) promote STEM education research and best practices; (2) address deficiencies in state STEM education efforts and communicate state needs to the federal government; (3) support the implementation of rigorous common content standards in mathematics and science education, and the development of innovative STEM assessments based on those standards; (4) promote and develop curriculum tools and training for in-service STEM teachers; (5) develop STEM Career Awareness Programs; and (6) develop STEM-related workforce education and training programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2006-2007)
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
Hybrid Truck Incentives Improvement Act

Bill: 112-hr-3374
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2011-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy efficiency and conservation
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Income tax credits
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: 
Hybrid Truck Incentives Improvement Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2015 the tax credit for the purchase of a new qualified hybrid motor vehicle, (2) increase the incremental cost levels for computing credit amounts for such vehicles, (3) allow a 10% credit for comparable vehicles that achieve an increased city fuel economy, and (4) allow a credit for electric vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of not less than 8,500 pounds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
To direct the President to impose duties on merchandise from the People's Republic of China in an amount equivalent to the estimated annual loss of revenue to holders of United States intellectual property rights as a result of violations of such intellectual property rights in China, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-3375
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-5]
Introduced: 2011-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Asia
China
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Intellectual property
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: 
Directs the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to report to Congress annually on the estimated annual loss of revenue to holders of U.S. intellectual property rights as a result of intellectual property rights violations in China.
 
Requires the USTR to: (1) impose duties on merchandise from China in an amount equivalent to the estimated annual loss of revenue to holders of U.S. intellectual property rights as a result of such violations, and (2) distribute the proceeds of such duties to such U.S. intellectual property rights holders on a proportional basis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
Saving Over Spending Act

Bill: 112-hr-3376
Sponsor: Rep. Schilling, Robert T. [R-IL-17]
Introduced: 2011-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: 
Saving Over Spending Act - Allows 50% of any unobligated balance of an appropriated amount available for salaries and expenses that would otherwise expire at the end of a fiscal year to remain available for expenditure for the subsequent fiscal year and allocates the other 50% for deficit reduction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Introduced in House