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To amend the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to repeal the Office of Financial Research.

Bill: 112-hr-3044
Sponsor: Rep. Canseco, Francisco "Quico" [R-TX-23]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Department of the Treasury
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to repeal the establishment of the Office of Financial Research.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Military Spouse Job Continuity Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3046
Sponsor: Rep. Carnahan, Russ [D-MO-3]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Licensing and registrations
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
Military Spouse Job Continuity Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces (military spouse) who moves with such member to another state under a permanent change of station order a tax credit for up to $500 of qualified relicensing costs incurred by such spouse. Defines "qualified relicensing costs" as costs for a state license or certification to engage in the profession that such military spouse engaged in while residing in the former state. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 39, United States Code, to allow the United States Postal Service to provide nonpostal services, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-3047
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
Expands the enumerated powers of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to include the authority to provide nonpostal services.
 
Removes existing conditions that limit nonpostal services to certain services offered as of January 1, 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy     .
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Tax Relief for Victims of Disasters Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3048
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Poverty and welfare assistance
Tax treatment of families
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
Tax Relief for Victims of Disasters Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend disaster-related tax provisions relating to the child tax credit and the earned income tax credit, losses, and the individual tax exemption to a qualified federally declared disaster individual (defined to mean, with respect to a federally declared disaster after December 31, 2010, and before January 1, 2013, any individual whose principal place of abode was located in the disaster area, who was displaced by the disaster, and who was performing employment services in the disaster area).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Transportation Funding Flexibility Act

Bill: 112-hr-3050
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
Transportation Funding Flexibility Act - Revises the surface transportation program to eliminate the requirement that states set-aside a specified amount of their apportionment of surface transportation program funds for transportation enhancement activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3051
Sponsor: Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against children
Crimes against women
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Firearms and explosives
Military law
Organized crime
Pornography
Sex offenses
Subversive activities
Terrorism
Violent crime
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2011 - Repeals death penalty provisions for a wide range of homicide-related offenses under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the federal criminal code, the Controlled Substances Act, and other statutes relating to aircraft hijacking, espionage and treason, and offenses punished under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
 
Prohibits the sentencing to death or execution of any person for any violation of federal law after the enactment of this Act. Commutes death penalties imposed prior to the enactment of this Act to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the exception to the treatment of consolidated groups under the personal holding company rules.

Bill: 112-hr-3052
Sponsor: Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to personal holding company rules, to repeal certain exceptions to the treatment of consolidated groups of corporations under such rules. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1714)
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Securing American Families by Educating and Training Youth (SAFETY) Through Nonviolence Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3054
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Crime prevention
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
Securing American Families by Educating and Training Youth (SAFETY) Through Nonviolence Act of 2011 - Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to state or local governments, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and faith-based entities to prevent or alleviate the effects of community violence by educating, mentoring, and counseling youth regarding the principles and application of nonviolence in conflict resolution. 
 
Gives grant priority to applicants that agree to use the funds in communities experiencing an increase in violence, but lacking the resources to address violence prevention.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
National Parents Corps Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3055
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Crime prevention
Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Family relationships
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
National Parents Corps Act of 2011 - Directs the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, subject to the availability of appropriations, to award a grant to a nonprofit entity (to be known as the NPCP Nonprofit Partner) to establish a National Parents Corps program to promote safety and combat youth violence and substance abuse in public middle or secondary schools.
 
Requires the NPCP Nonprofit Partner to: (1) select for program participation annually schools that agree to host a Parent Leader for a number of years equal to the number of grade levels they offer; and (2) employ, after a background check, a Parent Leader from among the parents of students enrolled in the lowest grade at each participating school to work on a full-time basis with students, other parents, and school officials to treat, prevent, and reduce violence and drug, alcohol, and tobacco addiction among students.
 
Urges participating schools to take the measures necessary to secure funding for the employment of Parent Leaders after federal funding becomes unavailable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Gandhi-King Scholarly Exchange Initiative Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3056
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Area studies and international education
Asia
Conflicts and wars
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Higher education
Historic sites and heritage areas
Human rights
India
International exchange and broadcasting
Political movements and philosophies
Protest and dissent

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
Gandhi-King Scholarly Exchange Initiative Act of 2011 - Authorizes the Secretary of State to carry out, in cooperation with the government of India, the Gandhi-King Scholarly Exchange Initiative comprised of educational, scholarly, and professional exchange programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
FEMA Flexibility Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3058
Sponsor: Rep. Long, Billy [R-MO-7]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief and insurance
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
FEMA Flexibility Act of 2011 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to permit a class deviation to the Federal Acquisition Regulation with respect to the micropurchase threshold in order to support domestic emergency operations. Prohibits such threshold from exceeding $15,000 in any such deviation.
 
Defines &quot;domestic emergency operation&quot; to mean assistance activities carried out in support of: (1) an emergency or major disaster as defined in the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act; (2) any occasion for which the Secretary determines federal assistance is needed to supplement state and local efforts and capabilities to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the United States; or (3) any natural catastrophe or fire, flood, or explosion in the United States that causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant major disaster assistance to supplement the efforts and resources of states, local governments, and disaster relief organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform     .
action_date: 2011-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Creating Hope Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3059
Sponsor: Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Health promotion and preventive care
Infectious and parasitic diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
Creating Hope Act of 2011 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise the priority review voucher program for tropical diseases to: (1) include rare pediatric diseases; (2) allow unlimited transfers of vouchers under the program; and (3) require a sponsor intending to use a voucher to notify the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) at least 90 days (currently, 365 days) before submission of the application.
 
Revises provisions regarding the priority review user fee, including to make it payable upon notification of the Secretary of intent to use the voucher.
 
Authorizes the Secretary, upon request of the manufacturer or sponsor of a new drug, to designate that a new drug is: (1) for a rare pediatric disease, and (2) an eligible treatment.
 
Requires the Secretary to deem a rare pediatric disease product application to be incomplete if it does not contain a description of the sponsor's plan to market the product in the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to refuse to issue a priority review voucher upon the approval of a rare pediatric disease application if the Secretary finds that the sponsor lacks a good faith intention to market the product in the United States. Directs the Secretary to issue a guidance document setting forth the evidentiary support necessary to demonstrate such a good faith intention.
 
Requires sponsors of applications under the priority review voucher program to report to the Secretary within five years after the approval of the application on the demand and distribution of the product within the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Economic Growth and Reducing Unemployment Act

Bill: 112-hr-3060
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Appropriations
Corporation for National and Community Service
Employment and training programs
Employment taxes
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
National and community service

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
Economic Growth and Reducing Unemployment Act - Appropriates additional amounts in FY2012 for the Corporation for National and Community Service for carrying out the National and Community Service Act of 1990. Requires appropriated funds to be used to increase the number of national service positions under such Act to 500,000. 
 
Appropriates additional amounts in FY2012 for the Office of Inspector General for carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the suspension of employment and railroad retirement taxes through December 31, 2012. Limits the aggregate reduction in taxes from such suspension to $5,000 per employee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2011-09-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1713)
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Flexibility and Access in Rebuilding American Fisheries Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3061
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Commerce
Economic performance and conditions
Fishes
Government studies and investigations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
Flexibility and Access in Rebuilding American Fisheries Act of 2011 - Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to require fishery management plans, amendments, or regulations for overfished fisheries to specify a time period for ending overfishing and rebuilding the fishery that is as short as practicable (under current law, as short as possible). Modifies the exceptions to the requirement that such period not exceed 10 years.
 
Requires consideration, in evaluating progress to end overfishing and rebuild overfished stocks, of factors other than commercial and recreational fishing.
 
Requires, when the Secretary of Commerce extends the period under specified provisions, that the maximum rebuilding time not exceed the sum of the initial 10-year period, the expected time to rebuild the stock absent any fishing mortality and under prevailing environmental conditions, and the mean generation time of the stock.
 
Directs Regional Fishery Management Councils to consider data on recreational fishermen when specifying annual catch limits in a fishery management plan. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to suspend application of the annual catch limits to a fishery for any period that: (1) the fishery is neither overfished nor approaching such condition, (2) any stock previously affected by overfishing is rebuilt, and (3) scientific advice of the relevant Council committee is insufficient to ensure consistency with the national standard.
 
Requires the fishery impact statement of a fishery management plan to address the impacts and possible mitigation measures for coastal businesses dependent on recreational and commercial fishing industries.
 
Directs: (1) each Council to submit an annual impact statement to the Secretary describing whether each fishery management plan is projected to have any adverse economic impact (and the estimated dollar amount of any impact) on such recreational and commercial fishermen and coastal businesses, and (2) the Secretary to mitigate any such impacts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Dairy Security Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3062
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Department of Agriculture
Executive agency funding and structure
Licensing and registrations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
Dairy Security Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a dairy producer margin protection program to protect dairy producer income by paying participating producers: (1) basic margin protection payments when actual dairy producer margins are less than the threshold levels for such payments, and (2) supplemental margin protection payments if purchased by a participating producer. 
 
Makes all registering U.S. dairy producers eligible for such program.
 
Authorizes a producer to purchase supplemental margin protection at the time of program registration. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a dairy market stabilization program for all U.S. dairy producers in order to balance the supply of milk with demand when dairy producers are experiencing low or negative operating margins, and (2) a board of directors for the program.
 
 Requires milk handlers to reduce payments to each participating producer from whom the handler receives milk during any month in which stabilization program payment reductions are in effect.
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct the margin protection and stabilization programs from January 1, 2012, through December 31, 2017. 
 
Directs the Secretary to amend each federal milk marketing order as provided for by this Act.
 
Eliminates the: (1) dairy product price support program, (2) the milk income loss contract program, (3) permanent price support authority for milk, and (4) the dairy export incentive program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House