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Business Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery Act

Bill: 112-hr-2759
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2011-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business ethics
Business records
Corporate finance and management
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Foreign and international corporations
Government information and archives
Human rights
Human trafficking
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: 
Business Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) forced labor, slavery, human trafficking and the worst forms of child labor are among the most egregious forms of abuse in the name of commercial profit; (2) the legislative and regulatory framework to prevent goods produced through forced labor, slavery, human trafficking, and the worst forms of child labor from passing into the stream of commerce is gravely inadequate; and (3) legislation is necessary to provide the information that the public demands, recognizing that businesses can provide information and respond to consumer and investor demands for business reasons, rather than solely reacting to governmental prescriptions on how to conduct their business.
 
Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to direct the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to promulgate regulations requiring mandatory annual reports to disclose measures taken during the year to identify and address conditions of forced labor, slavery, human trafficking, and the worst forms of child labor within the supply chains of the business entity.
 
Requires any business entity filing such disclosures to make them available on its Internet website. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1466-1467)
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Presidential Dollar Coin Efficiency Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2760
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2011-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Currency
Federal-Indian relations
Government information and archives
Presidential administrations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: 
Presidential Dollar Coin Efficiency Act of 2011 - Repeals the requirement that the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Secretary of the Treasury take steps to ensure that designated institutions are able to obtain, during an introductory period, unmixed supplies of newly-issued design of $1 coins.
 
Limits the number of presidential $1 coins produced in a year to the aggregate number of such coins produced for the previous year. Authorizes the Secretary, however, to waive such limitation upon a determination that demand for a particular design during the year will exceed the amount of coins able to be produced under such limitation.
 
Changes from mandatory to discretionary the authority of the Director of the U.S. Mint to work closely with designated entities to ensure adequate publicity regarding inauguration of the presidential $1 Coin Program.
 
Requires the Secretary to reduce the number of $1 coins minted and issued honoring each of the Presidents of the United States and Native Americans until excess stockpiles of $1 coins have been eliminated.
 
Directs the Secretary and the Board to include in their annual joint report to Congress the steps taken to reduce excess stockpiles of $1 coins.
 
Amends the Coin Modernization, Oversight, and Continuity Act of 2010 with respect to testimony before certain congressional committees on required reports on coin production costs and content.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1476)
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 520 of the Housing Act of 1949 to provide flexibility to the definition of rural areas.

Bill: 112-hr-2761
Sponsor: Rep. Manzullo, Donald A. [R-IL-16]
Introduced: 2011-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: 
Amends the Housing Act of 1949, with respect to financial assistance to farm owners through the Farmers Home Administration, to permit the Secretary of Agriculture to consider as rural or a rural area for farm housing purposes a place, town, village, or city with a population of 35,000 or less that demonstrates that it is experiencing economic distress from which such financial assistance would be of significant value in helping it recover.
 
 Cites as evidence of economic distress: (1) an unemployment rate higher than the national average, or (2) an average wage or home sale price lower than the national wage.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Overseas Private Investment Corporation Reauthorization Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2762
Sponsor: Rep. Manzullo, Donald A. [R-IL-16]
Introduced: 2011-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Financial services and investments
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government lending and loan guarantees
Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: 
Overseas Private Investment Corporation Reauthorization Act of 2011 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to extend Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) authority to make loans and issue investment insurance and investment guarantees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 402(a)(2)(M) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to extend by two years the special rule relating to eligibility for benefits under the supplemental security income program for certain aliens and victims of trafficking.

Bill: 112-hr-2763
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2011-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Crime victims
Human trafficking
Poverty and welfare assistance
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: 
Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to extend through FY2013 the special rule relating to eligibility for benefits under title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act for certain aliens and victims of trafficking.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1468)
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Sunshine on Conflicts Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2765
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Gary G. [R-CA-42]
Introduced: 2011-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Licensing and registrations
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: 
Sunshine on Conflicts Act of 2011 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a rule within 60 days to prohibit any member of a board or body that approves permit applications for the discharge of pollutants from seeking to influence the approval of any permit in which that member has a financial interest.
 
Provides that the requirement that state national pollutant discharge elimination system programs ensure that any board or body that approves permits excludes as a member any person who receives or has received during the previous two years a significant portion of income from permit holders or applicants shall have no force or effect after the earlier of the date on which such rule is issued or 120 days after this Act's enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Debt Crisis Resolution Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2768
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2011-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: 
Debt Crisis Resolution Act of 2011 - Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to cancel all federal public debt obligations held by the Federal Reserve System.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Cost Contract Extension Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2770
Sponsor: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2011-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: 
Medicare Cost Contract Extension Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend through December 31, 2015, the indefinite extendability or renewability of Medicare reasonable cost reimbursement contracts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2011-08-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend Public Law 89-732 to increase to 5 years the period during which a Cuban national must be physically present in the United States in order to qualify for adjustment of status to that of a permanent resident, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-2771
Sponsor: Rep. Rivera, David [R-FL-25]
Introduced: 2011-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Caribbean area
Cuba
Immigration status and procedures
Latin America
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: 
Increases to five years the period during which a Cuban national must be physically present in the United States in order to adjust to permanent resident status.
 
Makes an alien who returns to Cuba after admission or parole into the United States ineligible for such status adjustment.
 
Rescinds such adjusted status in the case of an alien who returns to Cuba before being granted U.S. citizenship and subjects the alien to all the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act to the same extent as if the status adjustment had not been made.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Saving Fishing Jobs Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2772
Sponsor: Rep. Runyan, Jon [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2011-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Atlantic Ocean
Department of Commerce
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Small business
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: 
Saving Fishing Jobs Act of 2011 - Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, with respect to multispecies fishing permits in the Gulf of Mexico, to remove a provision limiting the eligible signers (a group of fishermen constituting more than 50% of the permit holders, or holding more than 50% of the allocation in the fishery) of a petition to the Secretary of Commerce requesting that the relevant Regional Fishery Management Council or Councils be authorized to initiate the development of a limited access privilege program to only those participants who have substantially fished the species proposed to be included in the program.
 
Sets forth procedures for: (1) certifying a fishery management plan (or amendment) requested by a percentage of eligible fisherman to establish a limited access privilege program to harvest in fisheries under the authority of the New England, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, or Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; (2) terminating such a program established after enactment of this Act for a fishery under the authority of such Councils on the first date the number of eligible fishermen in the fishery in a year is at least 15% less than in the year preceding the program's establishment; and (3) collecting fees, including observer costs, pursuant to modified fee-setting requirements for such programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend titles 10, 32, and 37 of the United States Code to authorize the establishment of units of the National Guard in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Bill: 112-hr-2773
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: National Guard and reserves
Northern Mariana Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: 
Authorizes the establishment of units of the National Guard in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
 
Requires that there be an adjutant general in such Commonwealth.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Army and Secretary of the Air Force, respectively, to detail commissioned officers and enlisted members of the Regular Army and Regular Air Force to such Commonwealth.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the Legal Services Corporation Act.

Bill: 112-hr-2774
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Austin [R-GA-8]
Introduced: 2011-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Executive agency funding and structure
Lawyers and legal services
Legal Services Corporation
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: 
Repeals the Legal Services Corporation Act (established a federally funded nonprofit corporation to provide financial support for legal assistance in noncriminal matters to persons financially unable to afford such assistance).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
To repeal a limitation in the Labor-Management Relations Act regarding requirements for labor organization membership as a condition of employment.

Bill: 112-hr-2775
Sponsor: Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-27]
Introduced: 2011-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Labor-management relations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: 
Amends the National Labor Relations Act to repeal the disclaimer that nothing in the law shall be construed as authorizing the execution or application of agreements requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment in any state or territory in which such execution or application is prohibited by state or territorial law.
 
(Thus preempts contrary state or territorial law to allow the execution or application of agreements requiring union membership.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Geothermal Production Expansion Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2776
Sponsor: Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2]
Introduced: 2011-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alternative and renewable resources
Department of the Interior
Government information and archives
Land use and conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: 
Geothermal Production Expansion Act of 2011 - Amends competitive lease provisions of the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to allow an area of qualified federal land (land that is otherwise available for leasing under that Act) that adjoins other land for which a qualified lessee holds a legal right to develop geothermal resources to be available for a noncompetitive lease to such lessee at fair market value per acre if: (1) the area of qualified federal land consists of not less than one acre and not more than 640 acres and is not already leased or nominated to be leased; (2) the qualified lessee has not previously received a noncompetitive lease in connection with the valid discovery for which data has been submitted; and (3) sufficient technical data prepared by a qualified geothermal professional has been submitted by the qualified lessee to the applicable federal land management agency that would lead individuals who are experienced in the subject matter to believe that there is a valid discovery of geothermal resources on the land and that such thermal feature extends into the adjoining areas.
 
Defines "fair market value per acre" as a dollar amount per acre that shall be: (1) equal to the market value per acre as determined by the Secretary of the Interior within 90 days after the Secretary receives an application for a lease, and (2) not less than the greater of 4 times the median amount paid per acre for all land leased under such Act during the preceding year or $50.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) publish a notice of any request for such a lease; (2) determine fair market value in accordance with procedures established by the Secretary; (3) provide to a qualified lessee and publish, with an opportunity for public comment for a period of 30 days, any proposed determination of the fair market value of the area the qualified lessee seeks to lease; and (4) provide the lessee and any adversely affected party an opportunity to appeal the final determination of fair market value in an administrative proceeding before the applicable federal land management agency. Prohibits the Secretary from accepting any nomination of land for leasing after publication of a notice of request to lease such land unless the request has been denied or withdrawn.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
To authorize and request the President to award the Medal of Honor posthumously to Private First Class William P. Fesken of the United States Army for acts of valor during the Vietnam War.

Bill: 112-hr-2777
Sponsor: Rep. Sires, Albio [D-NJ-13]
Introduced: 2011-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Asia
Conflicts and wars
Congressional tributes
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' organizations and recognition
Vietnam

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: 
Authorizes and requests the President to award the Medal of Honor posthumously to former Private First Class William P. Fesken of the U.S. Army for acts of valor during the Vietnam War, notwithstanding specified time limitations with respect to awarding such medals.
 
Describes such acts of valor as actions of Private First Class Fesken who, while serving with Company A, 3d Battalion, 47th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division, risked his life above and beyond the call of duty on May 2, 1967, while protecting wounded members of his squad during repeated attacks by a Viet Cong force until his death on such date.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Dollars and Sense Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2778
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9]
Introduced: 2011-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Currency
Federal-Indian relations
Presidential administrations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: 
Dollars and Sense Act of 2011 - Repeals the requirement that the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve Board) and the Secretary of the Treasury ensure that, during an introductory period, all institutions that want unmixed supplies of each newly-issued coin design minted under the Presidential $1 Coin and First Spouse Bullion Coin Programs are able to obtain such unmixed supplies.
 
Reduces, from four to two, the number of presidents honored each year. 
 
Postpones the Native American $1 coin series until the termination of the Presidential $1 Coin Program.
 
Limits the aggregate number of presidential coins issued for circulation for any year to the number of $1 coins sold only as numismatic items during the previous calendar year.
 
Limits the availability of the Circulating $1 Coin Direct Ship Program to persons purchasing coins for collection purposes.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Federal Reserve Board should address the backlog of $1 coins in its vaults by making them as publicly accessible as possible for circulation purposes, and (2) the U.S. Mint should continue producing Sacagawea coins for circulation purposes upon completion of the Presidential $1 Coin Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Introduced in House