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Save Our Climate Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3242
Sponsor: Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2011-10-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Consumer affairs
Economic performance and conditions
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Oil and gas
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: 
Save Our Climate Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on the carbon content of any taxable fuel sold by a manufacturer, producer, or importer. Sets the amount of such tax at $10 per ton of the carbon dioxide produced by combustion in such fuel, with annual increases in the amount of such tax until the level of carbon dioxide emissions for a calendar year does not exceed 20% of the level of such emissions for calender year 1990 (target attainment year). Exempts from such tax the sale or in-kind exchange of fuel for deposit in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and certain exports or resales of such fuel.
 
Defines "taxable fuel" as coal (including lignite and peat), petroleum and any petroleum product, natural gas, biomass, municipal solid waste, and any organic material other than coal, petroleum, and natural gas that is sold for the purpose of energy production, which is extracted, manufactured, or produced in the United States or entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing. 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1914)
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Introduced in House
Landowner Protection Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3244
Sponsor: Rep. Hartzler, Vicky [R-MO-4]
Introduced: 2011-10-24 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Dams and canals
Licensing and registrations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Navigation, waterways, harbors

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: 
Landowner Protection Act of 2011 - Amends the Federal Power Act to prohibit the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) from requiring removal or modification of any existing nonconforming structure or encroachment within the project boundary, except one built in bad faith, whenever it issues, denies, approves, or modifies a mandatory shoreline management plan required under a FERC license.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7076-7077)
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Introduced in House
Efficient Service for Veterans Act

Bill: 112-hr-3245
Sponsor: Rep. Denham, Jeff [R-CA-19]
Introduced: 2011-10-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government information and archives
Military personnel and dependents
Personnel records
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: 
Efficient Service for Veterans Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to jointly ensure that certain VA readjustment counseling centers have access to the Defense Personnel Record Image Retrieval and the VA/DOD Identity Repository Systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-16
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2011-10-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2011-10-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Introduced in House
Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones College Fire Prevention Act

Bill: 112-hr-3250
Sponsor: Rep. Fudge, Marcia L. [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2011-10-24 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Fires
Higher education
Minority education

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: 
Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones College Fire Prevention Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to make competitive demonstration grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs), fraternities, and sororities for up to half the cost of installing approved fire suppression systems in student housing and dormitories owned or controlled by such entities.
 
Gives grant priority to applicants that demonstrate the greatest financial need.
 
Reserves the following portions of grant funds made available for each fiscal year: (1) at least 10% for historically Black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, tribally controlled colleges and universities, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions, and IHEs that are eligible for Institutional Aid under the Higher Education Act of 1965; and (2) at least 10% for social fraternities and sororities.
 
Provides that any application for assistance under this Act, any negative determination on the part of the Secretary with respect to such application, or any statement of reasons for the determination, shall not be admissible as evidence in any proceeding of any court, agency, board, or other entity (except a proceeding to enforce an agreement entered into between the Secretary and a grantee under this Act). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Introduced in House
To ensure that Federal assistance provided under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act for the construction of certain emergency levees is not conditioned on the subsequent dismantlement of those levees, except as provided for in a status certificate, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-3251
Sponsor: Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2]
Introduced: 2011-10-24 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Dams and canals
Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: 
Prohibits federal assistance provided under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act for the construction of a covered levee from being conditioned on its dismantlement, except as provided for in a status certificate. Requires the Chief of Engineers to provide a status certificate for each levee constructed with federal assistance provided under that Act.
 
Defines &quot;covered levee&quot; to mean a levee or similar structure constructed: (1) in response to a major disaster or emergency; and (2) in an area in which at least one other such structure was constructed in response to such a disaster or emergency, and subsequently dismantled, during the 10-year period preceding the date on which the President declares the major disaster or emergency.
 
Defines &quot;status certificate&quot; to mean a written determination by the Chief of Engineers that a levee or similar structure: (1) is constructed in a manner that satisfies standards applicable to a permanent levee or similar structure, is not constructed in a manner that satisfies such standards but there is an adequate plan for improvements to ensure that such standards will be satisfied, or is not constructed in a manner that satisfies such standards and there is no adequate plan for improvements; and (2) may safely remain in place subject to specified conditions and for a specified period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Introduced in House
Rabbi Arthur Schneier Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 112-hr-3252
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2011-10-24 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Human rights
Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: 
Rabbi Arthur Schneier Congressional Gold Medal Act - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal to Rabbi Arthur Schneier in recognition of his pioneering role in promoting religious freedom and human rights throughout the world.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology.
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1918)
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Introduced in House
Affordable Communities Employment Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3254
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2011-10-25 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Building construction
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Housing and community development funding
Low- and moderate-income housing
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public contracts and procurement
Public housing
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: 
Affordable Communities Employment Act of 2011 - Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 with respect to housing and community development programs directed toward low- and very low-income persons, particularly recipients of government housing assistance.
 
Establishes, in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), an Office of Economic Opportunities to carry out such programs.
 
Prescribes requirements for training and employment programs, conditioning the use of funds by recipient, contractor, and subcontractor on priority to low- and very low-income persons for training and employment opportunities generated by such funds.
 
Specifies among low- and very low-income persons recipients of federal rental assistance, including public housing residents, residents of other federally assisted subsidized properties, and participants in the Section 8 rental housing assistance program.
 
Sets priorities in contracting under such programs for: (1) qualified businesses that are majority owned and controlled by low- and very-low income persons residing in the service area, metropolitan area, or non-metropolitan county where the assistance is being expended; (2) qualified businesses that provide significant training and job opportunities to low- and very low-income persons who reside in such area or county; (3) qualified businesses or to disadvantaged businesses located in distressed communities that provide economic opportunities to low-income residents of such area or county; (4) small and disadvantaged qualified businesses; and (5) other qualified businesses located in such area or county.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: Introduced in House
Protecting the Retirement of Our Troops by Ensuring Compensation is Timely Act

Bill: 112-hr-3255
Sponsor: Rep. Broun, Paul C. [R-GA-10]
Introduced: 2011-10-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Asia
Iraq
Middle East
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: 
PROTECT Act or Protecting the Retirement of Our Troops by Ensuring Compensation is Timely Act - Prohibits the Secretary of the military department concerned from presuming deceased a military retiree missing in Iraq or Afghanistan on or after October 7, 2001, until the earlier of 11 years after the person was declared missing or the date the death is confirmed and a death certificate is delivered to the next of kin. Requires monthly retired pay to be resumed and any retired pay that may have been due following the declaration of the presumption of death to be retroactively paid to the family of the retiree.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: Introduced in House
Deport Convicted Foreign Criminals Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3256
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2011-10-25 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal justice information and records
Immigration status and procedures
Legislative rules and procedure
Sanctions
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: 
Deport Convicted Foreign Criminals Act of 2011 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to report quarterly to Congress regarding each country that has refused or unreasonably delayed repatriation of an alien who is a citizen, subject, national, or resident of such country. Requires a report to include the aliens' detention and criminal status.
 
Prohibits the Secretary of State, upon the passage of specified periods of time, from issuing certain nonimmigrant (including certain diplomatic) visas and immigrant visas to a citizen, subject, national, or resident of a listed country. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to notify the chief law enforcement officer of the state and of the local jurisdiction in which an alien who has been detained by the United States is released. Defines &quot;alien&quot; as an individual who has been detained by the United States and has received a final order of removal but has not been removed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7015-7016)
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Equity Extension Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3258
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2011-10-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: 
Medicare Equity Extension Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to the formulae for determining payments for physician services under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance Benefits for the Aged and Disabled), to extend through calendar 2013: (1) a specified formula element for the employee wage and rent portions of the Medicare practice expense geographic adjustment, and (2) the Medicare work geographic adjustment floor at 1.0 under the Medicare and Medicaid Extenders Act of 2010.
 
Terminates as of December 31, 2011, the 1.00 floor under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA): (1) on the area wage index for hospitals in frontier states (half of whose counties have a population per square mile of less than 6), (2) on the area wage adjustment factor for hospital outpatient department (OPD) services in frontier states, and (3) for the practice expense index for services furnished in frontier states.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: Introduced in House
National Infrastructure Bank Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3259
Sponsor: Rep. Fudge, Marcia L. [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2011-10-25 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Air quality
Aviation and airports
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Economic development
Economic performance and conditions
Energy efficiency and conservation
Executive agency funding and structure
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing and community development funding
Housing supply and affordability
Infrastructure development
Oil and gas
Public housing
Public transit
Railroads
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Unemployment
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: 
National Infrastructure Bank Act of 2011 - Establishes an independent National Infrastructure Bank to: (1) designate qualified transit, public housing, water, highway, bridge, aviation, freight, passenger rail, or road infrastructure projects for loans, loan guarantees, and other financial assistance; and (2) issue general purpose and project-based infrastructure bonds exempt from state and local taxation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-10-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2011-10-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2011-10-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2011-10-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2011-10-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2011-10-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: Introduced in House
Government Results Transparency Act

Bill: 112-hr-3262
Sponsor: Rep. Guinta, Frank C. [R-NH-1]
Introduced: 2011-10-26 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-26
text: 
Government Results Transparency Act - Requires the head of each federal agency to submit to the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (RATB) all information concerning the agency's programs, priority goals, and results for publication online by RATB in its original format. Requires RATB to: (1) publish for each fiscal year the amount spent for each program identified by an agency and performance information for such program; (2) designate, by rule, common data elements (i.e., codes, identifiers, and fields) for information required to be reported by agencies; and (3) designate data reporting standards to govern agency reporting requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: Ordered to be Reported.
action_date: 2011-11-03
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2011-10-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-10-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 to provide clarification regarding the applicability of exemptions relating to the transportation of agricultural commodities and farm supplies, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-3265
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2011-10-26 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
General agriculture matters
Labor standards
Motor carriers
Transportation employees

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-26
text: 
Amends the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 to revise exemptions from federal maximum driving and on-duty time motor carrier regulations for drivers transporting agricultural commodities and farm supplies during planting and harvest periods.
 
Extends the exemptions to drivers transporting agricultural farm supplies: (1) from a wholesale or retail distribution point of the farm supplies to a farm or other location where such supplies are intended to be used within a 100 air-mile radius from the distribution point, or (2) from a wholesale distribution point of the farm supplies to a retail distribution point of the farm supplies within a 100 air-mile radius from the wholesale distribution point.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2011-10-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-10-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-26
text: Introduced in House
Lifespan Respite Care Reauthorization Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3266
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2011-10-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health programs administration and funding
Home and outpatient care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-26
text: 
Lifespan Respite Care Reauthorization Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations to carry out lifespan respite care programs for FY2012-FY2016.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-10-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-10-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-26
text: Introduced in House