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Champion Hill, Port Gibson, and Raymond Battlefields Addition Act

Bill: 112-hr-2083
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2011-06-01 in the House
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: 2011-06-01
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 and the area identified as Golden West Cemetery for inclusion in the Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-06-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-06-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-01
text: Introduced in House
Universal Right to Vote by Mail Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2084
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2011-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Postal service
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: 
Universal Right to Vote by Mail Act of 2011 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit a state from imposing additional conditions or requirements on the eligibility of an individual to cast a vote in federal elections by mail, except to the extent that it imposes a deadline for requesting the ballot and returning it to the appropriate state or local election official.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Elections.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1018-1019)
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
Military Access to Reproductive Care and Health for Military Women Act

Bill: 112-hr-2085
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2011-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Abortion
Defense spending
Health facilities and institutions
Military facilities and property
Military medicine
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: 
Military Access to Reproductive Care and Health for Military Women Act or the MARCH for Military Women Act - Amends the prohibition on using funds available to the Department of Defense (DOD) to perform abortions by adding an exception for cases where the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. (Current law provides an exception only where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term.)
 
Repeals a statutory restriction on using a medical treatment facility or other facility of the DOD to perform an abortion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1021)
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
Medical Debt Responsibility Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2086
Sponsor: Rep. Shuler, Heath [D-NC-11]
Introduced: 2011-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer credit
Health care costs and insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: 
Medical Debt Responsibility Act of 2011 - Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit a consumer reporting agency from making any report containing information related to a single fully paid or settled medical debt of $2,500 or less that had been characterized as delinquent, charged off, or in collection for credit reporting purposes, which, from the date of payment or settlement, antedates the report by more than 45 calendar days.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-13
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-07-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2011-06-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
Tax Parity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2088
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2011-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Treasury
Employee benefits and pensions
Employment taxes
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Income tax deferral
Income tax exclusion
Self-employed

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: 
Tax Parity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exclude from an employee's gross income employer-provided accident and health plan benefits extended to a domestic partner or non-dependent, non-spouse beneficiary eligible to receive such benefits under an employer plan (i.e., "eligible beneficiary"); (2) exempt such benefits paid to eligible beneficiaries from otherwise applicable employment and unemployment taxes; (3) allow self-employed individuals a tax deduction for the health insurance costs of their eligible beneficiaries; (4) allow tax-exempt voluntary employees' beneficiary associations to provide sick and accident benefits to the domestic partners and non-dependent, non-spouse beneficiaries of their members; (5) allow reimbursement of the medical expenses of an eligible beneficiary from a health savings account (HSA); and (6) extend tax-exempt medical benefits to the eligible beneficiaries of retired employees
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide guidance relating to reimbursements from a flexible spending arrangement and a health reimbursement arrangement attributable to an eligible beneficiary as defined by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1031)
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
Technology Helps Revamp, Evaluate, and Expedite Designs Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2089
Sponsor: Rep. Guinta, Frank C. [R-NH-1]
Introduced: 2011-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Computers and information technology
Government information and archives
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: 
Technology Helps Revamp, Evaluate, and Expedite Designs Act of 2011 or THREE-D Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to identify and encourage the use of advanced technologies, including 3-dimensional modeling and simulation software, during environmental, planning, financial management, design, simulation, and construction processes of federal-aid highway projects. Authorizes the Secretary to develop and implement incentives to accelerate the use of such technologies on such projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
Energy Critical Elements Advancement Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2090
Sponsor: Rep. Hultgren, Randy [R-IL-14]
Introduced: 2011-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Congressional oversight
Energy research
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Metals
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: 
Energy Critical Elements Advancement Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the Secretary of Energy (DOE), acting through the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration, to collaborate to improve assessments of energy critical elements. 
 
Requires the Director of the USGS to designate as a Principal Statistical Agency the entity within USGS that gathers information for such assessments.
 
Directs the DOE Secretary to: (1) establish a research program to advance basic knowledge and enable expanded availability of designated energy critical elements, and (2) develop and update biennially an integrated research plan to guide program activities.
 
Requires the Critical and Strategic Mineral Supply Chain Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council to report to certain congressional committees on the recycling of energy critical elements.
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2011-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2011-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2011-06-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2011-06-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
Freight Rail Infrastructure Capacity Expansion Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2091
Sponsor: Rep. Boswell, Leonard L. [D-IA-3]
Introduced: 2011-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Infrastructure development
Railroads

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: 
Freight Rail Infrastructure Capacity Expansion Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) a tax credit for 25% of the cost of new qualified freight rail infrastructure property and qualified locomotive property, and (2) a taxpayer election to expense the cost of qualified freight rail infrastructure property (i.e., deduct all costs in the current taxable year). Terminates such credit and expensing election after 2016. 
 
Requires compliance with federal wage rate requirements under the Davis-Bacon Act as a condition of eligibility for the tax credit and expensing allowance provided by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on indoor tanning services.

Bill: 112-hr-2092
Sponsor: Rep. Grimm, Michael G. [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2011-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the 10% excise tax on indoor tanning services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Investigative Commission Act

Bill: 112-hr-2093
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2011-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Bankruptcy
Corporate finance and management
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government studies and investigations
Housing finance and home ownership
Securities
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: 
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Investigative Commission Act - Establishes the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Investigative Commission to investigate and make recommendations to Congress regarding certain decisions of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (enterprises) that led to financial instability and federal conservatorship.
 
Requires the Commission to analyze specified topics, including: (1) the role of the enterprises in expanding homeownership and in helping housing market recovery; (2) enterprise involvement in the development of faulty risk standards, accounting practices, and the creation and proliferation of the securitized mortgage instrument, and how such instrument affected the solvency of such enterprises; (3) the role of the respective boards of directors in voting for the policies relating to risk assessments, subprime mortgages, and the international securitization of mortgages; and (4) compensation, stock options, and financial benefits that accrued to executive officers and members of the boards of directors.
 
Requires the enterprises and the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to grant the Commission access to requested records and information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
Impact Aid Timely Repayment Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2094
Sponsor: Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2]
Introduced: 2011-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: 
Impact Aid Timely Repayment Act of 2011 - Amends title VIII (Impact Aid) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to complete Impact Aid payments to eligible local educational agencies (LEAs) within three fiscal years of their appropriation. (The Impact Aid program compensates LEAs for the financial burden of federal activities affecting their school districts.)
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
Energy Conservation Through Trees Act

Bill: 112-hr-2095
Sponsor: Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2011-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Air quality
Energy efficiency and conservation
Forests, forestry, trees
Public utilities and utility rates
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: 
Energy Conservation Through Trees Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to provide financial, technical, and related assistance to retail power providers to assist with the establishment of new, or continued operation of existing, targeted residential tree-planting programs. 
 
Requires the Secretary to create a national public recognition initiative to encourage participation in tree-planting programs by such providers.
 
Limits assistance provided under this Act to programs that utilize targeted, strategic tree-siting guidelines to plant trees in relation to residence location, sunlight, and prevailing wind direction. Sets forth requirements that must be met for tree-planting programs to qualify for assistance.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award grants only to providers that have entered into binding legal agreements with nonprofit tree-planting organizations.
 
Requires providers, in order to qualify for assistance, to establish and consult with a local technical advisory committee, which shall provide advice and consultation to the program, and which may: (1) design and adopt an approved plant list that emphasizes the use of hardy, noninvasive tree species, native or low water-use shade trees, or both; (2) design and adopt planting, installation, and maintenance specifications and create a process for inspection and quality control; (3) ensure that tree recipients are educated to care for and maintain their trees over the long term; (4) help the public become more engaged and educated in the planting and care of shade trees; (5) prioritize which sites receive trees, giving preference to locations with the most potential for energy conservation and secondary preference to areas where the average annual income is below the regional median; and (6) assist with monitoring and collection of data on tree health, tree survival, and energy conservation benefits generated under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
Military Families Affordable Homes Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2097
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, William L. [D-NY-23]
Introduced: 2011-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion
Low- and moderate-income housing
Military personnel and dependents
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: 
Military Families Affordable Homes Act of 2011 - Amends the Housing Assistance Tax Act of 2008 to extend through 2014 the exclusion of the basic military housing allowance from the income test for residential rental projects financed by tax-exempt housing bonds. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend such exclusion to military personnel at any military installation or facility (currently, limited to certain qualified military installations). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
Promise Neighborhoods Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2098
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2011-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Preschool education
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: 
Promise Neighborhoods Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive, matching Promise Neighborhood Partnership grants to nonprofit organizations that partner with a local educational agency (LEA) to implement a comprehensive continuum of supports and services that engage community partners in improving the academic achievement, health and social development, and college and career readiness of children that live in distressed neighborhoods with underperforming schools.
 
Directs the Secretary to award competitive, matching Promise School grants to LEAs that partner with nonprofit organizations, and Indian or charter schools that partner with nonprofit organizations or institutions of higher education, to implement school-centered strategies and integrated student supports that leverage community partnerships to improve student achievement and development in schools with high concentrations of low-income children.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to renew Promise Neighborhood Partnership grants and Promise School grants if the grantees demonstrate significant success in: (1) ensuring children's school readiness; (2) improving their academic outcomes; (3) increasing their college and career readiness; and (4) improving their health, mental health, and social and emotional well-being.
 
Requires this Act's grantees to evaluate their programs continuously and improve them based on data and outcomes.
 
Directs the Secretary to evaluate this Act's grant programs and disseminate research on best practices for improving the academic achievement of children living in our most distressed communities.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award matching planning grants to entities eligible for this Act's other grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2011-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
Natural Disaster Mitigation Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2099
Sponsor: Rep. Rooney, Thomas J. [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2011-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Emergency planning and evacuation
Income tax credits
Natural disasters
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: 
Natural Disaster Mitigation Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a nonrefundable tax credit for 25% of their qualified natural disaster mitigation property expenditures, as defined by this Act, made in connection with the taxpayer's principal residence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
Catastrophe Savings Accounts Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2100
Sponsor: Rep. Rooney, Thomas J. [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2011-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Disaster relief and insurance
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: 
Catastrophe Savings Accounts Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to create tax-exempt catastrophe savings accounts (CSAs). Allows tax-free distributions from CSAs to pay expenses resulting from a presidentially declared major disaster. Limits CSA balances to: (1) $2,000 (for individuals with homeowner insurance deductibles of not more than $1,000); and (2) the lesser of $15,000 or twice a homeowner's insurance deductible (for individuals with deductibles of more than $1,000). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-02
text: Introduced in House