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Chief Technology Officer Act

Bill: 112-hr-1261
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2011-03-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Computers and information technology
Executive Office of the President
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government information and archives
International organizations and cooperation
Public-private cooperation
Research and development
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: 
Chief Technology Officer Act - Establishes in the Executive Office of the President an Office of the Federal Chief Technology Officer (FCTO). 

Includes among the functions of the FCTO to: (1) analyze and advise the President and agency officials regarding the government's information technology infrastructures, strategy, and use; (2) ensure the security and privacy of the federal information technology infrastructure and networks; (3) promote technological innovation in the federal government; (4) establish public-private sector partnership initiatives; and (5) lead specified interagency efforts, including a planning process to ensure the use of best-in-class technologies, the sharing of best practices, and improvement in the use of technology in support of government requirements.

Requires the Office to serve as a source of analysis and advice for the President and agency heads regarding major government policies, plans, and programs associated with information technology.

Requires the FCTO to: (1) be a member of the Domestic Policy Council; and (2) publish an annual report on programs to promote technological innovations, recommendations for policies to encourage the generation of such innovations, and information on the Office's activities and accomplishments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management.
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 15-year recovery period for qualified leasehold improvement property, qualified restaurant property, and qualified retail improvement property.

Bill: 112-hr-1265
Sponsor: Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6]
Introduced: 2011-03-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Food industry and services
Income tax deductions
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the 15-year recovery period classification for qualified leasehold improvement, restaurant, and retail improvement property, for purposes of the depreciation tax deduction. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
Fraudulent Prescription Prevention Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1266
Sponsor: Rep. Grimm, Michael G. [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2011-03-30 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Criminal justice information and records
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Prescription drugs
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: 
Fraudulent Prescription Prevention Act of 2011 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to prohibit the Attorney General from registering a practitioner to dispense or conduct research with a schedule II or III controlled substance unless the practitioner agrees to comply with this Act's requirements. 
 
Requires a practitioner, at the time of prescribing such substances to submit to the Attorney General by means of a web portal: (1) the patient's name, date of birth, and address; (2) the date and time of the prescription; (3) the name and amount of the substance prescribed; (4) the practitioner's Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration number and contact information; and (5) the prescription pad number. Makes exceptions if the practitioner is prescribing a controlled substance in a medical emergency situation or does not have access to the web portal (in which case the practitioner may make the required submissions within seven days).
 
 Requires a practitioner to submit the same information before dispensing such a controlled substance, as well as whether the dispensing constitutes a refill of a prescription. Requires a practitioner who declines to dispense such a controlled substance to submit information that would have been required to be reported if the substance had been dispensed and any reason to suspect that the individual attempting to purchase the substance was acting pursuant to fraud.
 
Directs the Attorney General to establish and maintain a web portal and database that allows a practitioner to submit such information and that communicates an alert to the practitioner if circumstances exist that indicate the patient or purchaser is attempting to unlawfully divert or misuse a controlled substance. Limits disclosure of database information. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2011-03-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the application of the tonnage tax on certain vessels.

Bill: 112-hr-1267
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2011-03-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax rates
Marine and inland water transportation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the alternative tax on qualifying shipping activities to treat a corporation electing such tax as continuing to use a qualifying vessel in the U.S. foreign trade during any period of use in the U.S. domestic trade, thus eliminating the 30 day limitation on operating in U.S. domestic trade under current law. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
Nuclear Power Licensing Reform Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1268
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2011-03-30 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Emergency planning and evacuation
Licensing and registrations
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Nuclear power
Radioactive wastes and releases
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: 
Nuclear Power Licensing Reform Act of 2011 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require, for a commercial license for an atomic power production or utilization facility, that: (1) the facility does not pose an unreasonable threat to persons or the environment because of safety or security vulnerabilities (including vulnerability to terrorist attacks), and (2) there exist adequate evacuation plans for emergency events which have been approved by the relevant federal agencies and states within 50 miles of the facility.
 
Conditions renewal of any such license on the same criteria and requirements applicable for an original application for initial construction.
 
Instructs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to ensure that any changes in the size or distribution of the surrounding population, or seismic or other scientific data not available at the time of original licensing, have not resulted in the facility's being located at a site at which a new facility would not be allowed to be built.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
National Women's History Museum Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1269
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2011-03-30 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: District of Columbia
Land transfers
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
U.S. history
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: 
National Women's History Museum Act of 2011 - Directs the Administrator of General Services (GSA) to convey, by quitclaim deed, to the National Women's History Museum, Inc. (the Museum) specified property in the District of Columbia, on terms which the Administrator deems appropriate. 
 
Requires the purchase price for the property to be: (1) its market value based on its highest and best use, as determined by an independent appraisal; and (2) paid into the Federal Buildings Fund. 
 
Requires the property to be dedicated for use as a site for a national women's history museum for a 99-year period. 
 
Provides for the reversion of the property to the United States without any obligation for repayment of any amount of the purchase price if: (1) it is not used as a site for a national women's history museum during the 99-year period, and (2) the Museum has not commenced construction of a museum facility on such property in a 5-year period other than for reasons beyond the Museum's control. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E570)
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of State to designate as foreign terrorist organizations certain Mexican drug cartels, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-1270
Sponsor: Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]
Introduced: 2011-03-30 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Latin America
Mexico
Terrorism
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: 
Directs the Secretary of State to designate as a foreign terrorist organization each of the following: (1) the Arellano Feliz Organization, (2) the Los Zetas Cartel, (3) the Beltran Leyva Organization, (4) La Familia Michoacana, (5) the Sinaloa Cartel, and (6) the Gulf Cartel/New Federation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
Agriculture Education Freedom Act

Bill: 112-hr-1271
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2011-03-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural education
Elementary and secondary education
Income tax exclusion
Livestock

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Agriculture Education Freedom Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an individual any gain from the sale of any animal raised and sold by such individual as part of his or her participation in the 4-H program under the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service of the Department of Agriculture, the Future Farmers of America, any tax-exempt similar organization, or any program of a tax-exempt educational organization.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E570-571)
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
Puerto Rico Hospital HITECH Amendments of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1273
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Pierluisi, Pedro R. [D-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-03-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Caribbean area
Computers and information technology
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicare
Puerto Rico
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: 
Puerto Rico Hospital HITECH Amendments of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to apply Medicare HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act) payments to subsection (d) hospitals in Puerto Rico. 
 
(Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system [IPPS] when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.) 
 
Requires specified budget neutrality adjustments for FY2011-FY2012 and subsequent fiscal years so that estimated aggregate incentive payments for adoption and meaningful use of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology are not increased as a result of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
Maple Tapping Access Program Act

Bill: 112-hr-1275
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-03-30 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural education
Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Agricultural research
Food industry and services

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: 
Maple Tapping Access Program Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to make grants to states and tribal governments to promote the domestic maple syrup industry through: (1) promotion of research and education, (2) promotion of natural resource sustainability, (3) market promotion, and (4) encouragement of owners and operators of privately held land to initiate or expand maple-sugaring activities or to voluntarily make the land available to the public for maple-sugaring activities.
 
Defines &quot;maple-sugaring&quot; as the collection of sap from any species of tree in the genus Acer for the purpose of boiling to produce food.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Horticulture .
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Al-Housseynou Ba.

Bill: 112-hr-1276
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2011-03-30 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Provides for the relief of Al-Housseynou Ba.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in House
Southern Borderlands Public Safety Communications Act

Bill: 112-hr-1277
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2011-03-31 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Arizona
Border security and unlawful immigration
California
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Emergency communications systems
Human trafficking
Latin America
Mexico
New Mexico
Public-private cooperation
Rural conditions and development
Smuggling and trafficking
Telephone and wireless communication
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: 
Southern Borderlands Public Safety Communications Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to make competitive grants for public-private partnerships that finance equipment and infrastructure to improve the public safety of persons who are residents of rural areas of the United States near the border with Mexico by enhancing their access to reliable mobile communications. Directs the Secretary to focus on projects in areas impacted by the illegal smuggling and trafficking of people and drugs.
 
Declares that persons eligible for grants include states, counties, municipalities, organizations representing agricultural producers and other rural Americans, and telecommunications providers.
 
Repeals the International Forestry Cooperation Act of 1990 to offset sums appropriated under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
action_date: 2011-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2011-03-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resources study regarding the suitability and feasibility of designating the John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park and other sites in Tulsa, Oklahoma, relating to the 1921 Tulsa race riot as a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-1278
Sponsor: Rep. Sullivan, John [R-OK-1]
Introduced: 2011-03-31 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Oklahoma
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Racial and ethnic relations
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the sites in Tulsa, Oklahoma, relating to the 1921 Tulsa race riot, including the John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park, to determine the suitability and feasibility of including those sites as a unit of the National Park System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
Restoring Economic Certainty Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1281
Sponsor: Rep. Ribble, Reid J. [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2011-03-31 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: 
Restoring Economic Certainty Act of 2011 - Prohibits federal agencies from taking any rulemaking action during the two-year period beginning 30 days after enactment of this Act. Extends any deadline for any action authorized or required to be taken before the end of such moratorium period for five months or until the end of the period, whichever is later. Specifies exceptions, including for actions that: (1) are determined to be necessary because of an imminent threat to health or safety or other emergency, for the enforcement of criminal laws, or to establish or enforce statutory rights against discrimination; or (2) pertain to a military or foreign affairs function other than procurement or to aviation safety.
 
Requires each federal agency to submit an economic impact statement, which shall contain a detailed estimate of the total annual costs and benefits of a regulation or rule, including the anticipated net impact on employment, on each rulemaking action that was proposed but not promulgated before the start of such moratorium. Requires any rulemaking action after the moratorium ends to include such a statement.
 
Exempts: (1) the General Accounting Office (GAO); (2) the Federal Election Commission (FEC); (3) the governments of the District of Columbia and of U.S. territories and possessions; (4) government-owned contractor-operated facilities; (5) the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; and (6) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending.
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2218)
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2011-03-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
National Metro Safety Act

Bill: 112-hr-1282
Sponsor: Rep. Edwards, Donna F. [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2011-03-31 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Public transit
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: 
National Metro Safety Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation, notwithstanding certain prohibitions, to: (1) develop, implement, and enforce national safety standards for transit agencies operating heavy rail on fixed guideways; and (2) require such standards to include National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommendations to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) regarding crashworthiness, emergency access and egress, event recorders, and hours of service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House