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Veteran Employment Transition Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-865
Sponsor: Rep. Walz, Timothy J. [D-MN-1]
Introduced: 2011-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Income tax credits
National Guard and reserves
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: 
Veteran Employment Transition Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the definition of "qualified veteran" for purposes of the work opportunity tax credit to mean recently discharged veterans and any veteran receiving specified benefits.
 
Defines "recently discharged veteran" to mean: (1) any individual who has served on active duty (other than active duty for training) in the Armed Forces for more than 180 consecutive days, (2) any individual who has been discharged or released from active duty for a service-connected disability, and (3) any member of the National Guard who has served for more than 180 consecutive days in active duty, full-time National Guard duty, or duty in state status. 
 
Defines "veteran receiving specified benefits" as any veteran who is certified as being a member of a family receiving assistance under a supplemental nutrition assistance program and is entitled to compensation for a service-connected disability.
 
Requires the Department of Defense (DOD) and the National Guard to inform military personnel who are discharged or released from active duty of the work opportunity tax credit and provide them with documentation relating to eligibility for and use of such credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2011-03-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-866
Sponsor: Rep. Whitfield, Ed [R-KY-1]
Introduced: 2011-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal justice information and records
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Licensing and registrations
Prescription drugs
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: 
National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2011 - Amends the National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act of 2005 to include as a purpose of such Act to foster the establishment of state-administered controlled substance monitoring systems in order to ensure that appropriate law enforcement, regulatory, and state professional licensing authorities have access to prescription history information for the purposes of investigating drug diversion and prescribing and dispensing practices of errant prescribers or pharmacists.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise and update the controlled substance monitoring program, including to: (1) allow grants to be used to maintain and operate existing state controlled substance monitoring programs, (2) require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to redistribute any funds that are returned among the remaining grantees, (3) require a state to provide the Secretary with aggregate data and other information to enable the Secretary to evaluate the success of the state's program and to submit a progress report to Congress, and (4) expand the program to include any commonwealth or territory of the United States.
 
Authorizes the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) or a state medicaid program or state health department receiving nonidentifiable information from a controlled substance monitoring database to make such information available to other entities for research purposes. 
 
Requires a state receiving a grant to: (1) facilitate prescriber use of the state's controlled substance monitoring system, and (2) educate prescribers on the benefits of the system both to them and society.
 
Revises preferences for grants related to drug abuse to authorize the Secretary to give preference to eligible states or tribes that put forth a good faith effort to meet minimum requirements under the controlled substance monitoring program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E385)
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Retirement Security for Today's Four-Year-Olds Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-867
Sponsor: Rep. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: 
Retirement Security for Today's Four-Year Olds Act of 2011 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to increase the age for retirement to 70 and the early retirement age to 65 as of January 1, 2069.
 
Revises requirements accordingly for calculation of the first and the second retirement age increase factors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 13, United States Code, to provide for the more accurate and complete enumeration of certain overseas Americans in the decennial census.

Bill: 112-hr-868
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Rob [R-UT-1]
Introduced: 2011-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Personnel records
Political representation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Commerce, beginning with the 2020 decennial census of population, to take measures in tabulating total population by state for purposes of apportionment of Representatives in Congress to ensure that all Americans residing abroad on the census date are fully and accurately counted and properly attributed to their respective states.
 
Requires such measures to include methods: (1) by which administrative records of a nongovernmental organization may be used to enumerate organization members residing overseas as of the census date if such records satisfy the Secretary's criteria, and (2) under which an international &quot;Be Counted&quot; form may be completed at a U.S. embassy by Americans residing overseas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives.
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
To clarify the definition of flood control operations for the purposes of the operation and maintenance of Project No. 2179 on the Lower Merced River.

Bill: 112-hr-869
Sponsor: Rep. Denham, Jeff [R-CA-19]
Introduced: 2011-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Floods and storm protection
Lakes and rivers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: 
Amends federal law designating segments of the Lower Merced River for inclusion in the Wild and Scenic Rivers System and providing that such designation shall not affect the continued operation and maintenance (including flood control operations) of the New Exchequer Project to define &quot;flood control operations&quot; to include occasional short-term increases in the level of Lake McClure not to exceed elevation 877 feet mean sea level for not to exceed 60 days between May 1 and July 31 of above-normal water years, as defined by the San Joaquin Valley 60-20-20 Hydrological Classification Index, developed by the California State Water Resources Control Board, or any successor index applicable to the Merced River watershed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-14
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Work Opportunities and Revitalizing Our Communities Act

Bill: 112-hr-870
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2011-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
Government trust funds
Labor standards
Labor-management relations
Sales and excise taxes
Unemployment
Wages and earnings
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: 
Humphrey-Hawkins 21st Century Full Employment and Training Act or Work Opportunities and Revitalizing Our Communities Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a Full Employment National Trust Fund with two separate accounts for: (1) Employment Opportunity Grants to states, local governments, and Indian tribes for job-creating activities in communities whose economy is not at a level of full employment; and (2) Workforce Investment programs.
 
Directs the Secretary to convene a national employment conference to bring together leaders of small, medium, and large businesses, labor, government, and other parties to discuss employment, with particular attention to structural unemployment and the plight of disadvantaged youth.
 
Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to revise member composition requirements for state and local workforce investment boards to include at least 25% of the chief executive officers of minority-serving, community-based organizations.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on certain covered securities transactions, payable by trading facilities that deal in such transactions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2011-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make the credit for research activities permanent and to provide an increase in such credit for taxpayers whose gross receipts are predominantly from domestic production activities.

Bill: 112-hr-871
Sponsor: Rep. Shuler, Heath [D-NC-11]
Introduced: 2011-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the tax credit for increasing research activities, and (2) increase the amount of such credit for taxpayers who earn more than 50% of their gross receipts from domestic production activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Agricultural Credit Expansion Act

Bill: 112-hr-874
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, William L. [D-NY-23]
Introduced: 2011-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Disaster relief and insurance
Family relationships

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: 
Agricultural Credit Expansion Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to expand eligibility for Farm Service Agency operating loans, farm ownership loans, conservation loans, and emergency loans. 
 
Deems specified embedded entities (an entity owned wholly or in part by another entity) eligible for farm ownership and operating loans. 
 
Deems specified operating-only entities eligible for farm ownership loans.
 
Deems an entity that is an owner-operator or operator to meet the direct ownership loan requirement if it is owned in whole or in part by other entities and each individual that is an owner of the family farm involved has an ownership interest in each of the other entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, and Credit.
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Marriage Protection Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-875
Sponsor: Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2011-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments
Federal appellate courts
Federal district courts
Intergovernmental relations
Jurisdiction and venue
Marriage and family status
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: 
Marriage Protection Act of 2011 - Amends the federal judicial code to deny federal courts jurisdiction to hear or decide any question pertaining to the interpretation, or the validity under the Constitution, of the provision of the Defense of Marriage Act declaring that no state shall be required to give effect to any marriage between persons of the same sex under the laws of any other state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2011-03-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E413)
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-876
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2011-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Hospital care
Medicare
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: 
Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require each Medicare participating hospital to implement a hospital-wide staffing plan for nursing services furnished in the hospital.
 
Requires the plan to require that an appropriate number of registered nurses provide direct patient care in each unit and on each shift of the hospital to ensure staffing levels that: (1) address the unique characteristics of the patients and hospital units; and (2) result in the delivery of safe, quality patient care consistent with specified requirements.
 
Requires each participating hospital to establish a hospital nurse staffing committee which shall implement and oversee such plan.
 
Specifies civil monetary and other penalties for violation of the requirements of this Act.
 
Sets forth whistleblower protections against discrimination and retaliation involving patients or employees of the hospital for their grievances, complaints, or involvement in investigations relating to such plan.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-02
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: 2011-03-02
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: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
To express the sense of Congress that Federal job training programs that target older adults should work with nonprofit organizations that have a record of success in developing and implementing research-based technology curriculum designed specifically for older adults.

Bill: 112-hr-877
Sponsor: Rep. Clay, Wm. Lacy [D-MO-1]
Introduced: 2011-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Aging
Computers and information technology
Employment and training programs
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), and any other federal program that provides job training and placement services for older adults, should: (1) work with nonprofit organizations that have a record of success in developing and implementing research-based technology curriculum designed specifically for older adults; and (2) partner with such organizations to provide training, student materials, and support for a broad range of workforce technology skills, including basic and intermediate computer skills, Internet, email, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and other appropriate key skills for assisting older workers to enter or reenter the workforce.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit to individuals for legal expenses paid with respect to establishing guardianship of a disabled individual.

Bill: 112-hr-878
Sponsor: Rep. Deutch, Theodore E. [D-FL-19]
Introduced: 2011-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Disability and paralysis
Income tax credits
Legal fees and court costs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income-based tax credit, up to $5,000 in a taxable year, for legal expenses paid to establish a legal guardianship of a disabled individual. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Mobile Mammography Promotion Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-879
Sponsor: Rep. Heller, Dean [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2011-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cancer
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Motor fuels
Motor vehicles
Sales and excise taxes
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: 
Mobile Mammography Promotion Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the motor fuel excise tax fuel used in any highway vehicle designed exclusively to provide mobile mammography services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Equity for Our Nation's Self-Employed Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-880
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2011-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment taxes
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Income tax rates
Self-employed

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: 
Equity for Our Nation's Self-Employed Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow self-employed individuals to deduct health insurance costs in computing the tax on self-employment income. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
ADA Notification Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-881
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan D. [R-CA-52]
Introduced: 2011-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Disability and health-based discrimination
Judicial procedure and administration
Jurisdiction and venue

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: 
ADA Notification Act of 2011 - Amends the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to deny jurisdiction to a state or federal court in a civil action a plaintiff commences for remedies for disability discrimination in public accommodations and certain services provided by private entities unless: (1) the plaintiff notified the defendant in writing of the alleged violations prior to filing the complaint, (2) the notice identified the specific facts that constitute the alleged violation, (3) a remedial period of 90 days elapses after the notice, (4) the notice informed the defendant that the civil action could not be commenced for 90 days, and (5) the complaint states that the defendant has not corrected the alleged violation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Introduced in House