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To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make tuition payments for veterans enrolled in institutions of higher learning who are receiving assistance under the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program by not later than the tuition due date for the quarter, semester, or term.

Bill: 112-hr-3462
Sponsor: Rep. Clarke, Hansen [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2011-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make tuition payments for veterans enrolled in institutions of higher education and receiving assistance under the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program by not later than the tuition due date for the quarter, semester, or term.
 
Directs the Secretary, in determining payment amount, to take into consideration any waiver of or reduction in tuition and fees, and any scholarship or other federal, state, institutional, or employer-based aid or assistance made or awarded as of the payment due date. Requires repayment to the Secretary of any waiver, reduction, or other assistance amount made or awarded after such date.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
Sandra Day O'Connor Civic Learning Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3464
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2011-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Teaching, teachers, curricula
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: 
Sandra Day O'Connor Civic Learning Act of 2011 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the Commissioner for Education Statistics, in administering the National Assessment of Educational Progress, should increase the number of students tested to improve disaggregation and analysis of data regarding progress in history and civics.
 
Amends part C (Innovation for Teacher Quality) of title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to repeal We the People, a Civic Education program, and replace it with a program awarding competitive grants to nonprofit educational organizations to develop and implement programs that promote civic learning and engagement through instruction, professional development, and evaluations.
 
Requires such programs to promote: (1) equity through access to funding and program benefits; (2) innovation through design, settings, and delivery; (3) scalability through broad, cost-effective implementation and institutionalization; and (4) accountability through program assessments and the identification of best practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Act

Bill: 112-hr-3465
Sponsor: Rep. Inslee, Jay [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2011-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Forests, forestry, trees
Government information and archives
Land use and conservation
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: 
National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Act - Identifies roadless areas within the National Forest System set forth in specified maps as National Forest Inventoried Roadless Areas, and directs the Secretary of Agriculture to manage such Areas to maintain their roadless character. Authorizes the Forest Service to modify such maps for the sole purpose of improving their accuracy or inclusiveness. Requires any substantial modification of those maps to be made through the national forest management planning process and documented in an environmental impact statement. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
action_date: 2011-11-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
Taxpayers' Cancer Research Funding Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3466
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2011-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cancer
Government trust funds
Medical research
Research administration and funding
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: 
Taxpayers' Cancer Research Funding Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers to designate on their tax returns a $5 contribution to the Breast and Prostate Cancer Research Fund ($10 for joint returns). 
 
Establishes in the Treasury the Breast and Prostate Cancer Research Fund to award grants for breast or prostate cancer research.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
Sensible Estate Tax Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3467
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2011-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Farmland
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: 
Sensible Estate Tax Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish new estate tax rates of between 37% (for estates with a value in excess of $500,000) and 55% (for estates with a value in excess of $10 million), (2) allow a $1 million estate tax exclusion, and (3) provide for an inflation adjustment to such amounts for decedents dying after 2012. Repeals the termination date applicable to the estate and gift tax provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (i.e., December 31, 2012).
 
Restores the estate tax credit for any estate, inheritance, legacy, or succession taxes paid to a state (expired after 2004). Repeals the deduction currently allowed for such taxes. 
 
Sets forth estate valuation rules for certain transfers of nonbusiness assets and limits estate tax discounts for certain individuals with minority interests in a business acquired from a decedent.
 
Requires that the value of the basis in any property acquired from a decedent or by gift be consistent with the basis as determined for estate and gift tax purposes. Requires executors of estates and donors of gifts required to file a gift tax return to disclose to the Secretary of the Treasury, and to recipients of any interest in an estate or a gift, information identifying the value of each interest received.
 
Expands rules for valuing assets in grantor retained annuity trusts to require that: (1) the right to receive fixed amounts from an annuity last for a term of not less than 10 years and that such fixed amounts not decrease during the first 10 years of the annuity term, and (2) the remainder interest have a value greater than zero when transferred.
 
Terminates the generation-skipping transfer exemption for certain long-term trusts (perpetual dynasty trusts) 90 years after the establishment of such trusts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2091)
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
Counterfeit Drug Penalty Enhancement Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3468
Sponsor: Rep. Meehan, Patrick [R-PA-7]
Introduced: 2011-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: 
Counterfeit Drug Penalty Enhancement Act of 2011 - Amends the federal criminal code to establish criminal penalties of a fine, imprisonment for life or any term of years, or both, for trafficking in counterfeit drugs. 
 
States that nothing in this Act shall be construed to apply to a drug solely because the drug is manufactured in or imported from a foreign country.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
Universal Prekindergarten and Early Childhood Education Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3469
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Preschool education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: 
Universal Prekindergarten and Early Childhood Education Act of 2011 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow local educational agencies (LEAs) that receive funds for 21st Century Community Learning Center activities to use them also for educational activities for children four years of age or younger, if the LEA agrees to phase in, where possible, a prekindergarten program taught by teachers with qualifications equivalent or similar to those teaching other grades in the school involved.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2085)
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
Competitive Justice Training Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3470
Sponsor: Rep. Ribble, Reid J. [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2011-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against children
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Law enforcement administration and funding
Pornography
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: 
Competitive Justice Training Act of 2011 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) deviating from the competitive open grant process for the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program (ICAC Program) training and establishing arbitrary limitations on the amount of such training provided by certain providers is anti-competitive and does not result in maximizing taxpayer value, training participation, or program quality or reducing associated overhead costs; and (2) the Attorney General should administer ICAC Program training grants without arbitrary statutory or regulatory limitations and should prioritize cost, quality, and proven training results.
 
Amends the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008 to repeal the provision prohibiting the Attorney General from awarding any one entity other than a law enforcement agency more than $2 million annually to establish and conduct training courses for ICAC task force members and other law enforcement officials.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
HIRE Act

Bill: 112-hr-3471
Sponsor: Rep. Tsongas, Niki [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2011-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Housing and community development funding
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: 
Helping Individuals Return to Employment Act or HIRE Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to award competitive grants to eligible entities to hire unemployed individuals age 16 and older to perform a minimum of 20 hours per week of work to benefit certain communities, including activities such as public works, beautification, historic restoration, tutoring, and adult education.
 
Restricts such grants to eligible entities located in or primarily serving in a community designated either as a renewal community, an empowerment zone, or a historically underutilized business zone (HUBZone), if the unemployment rate in the area is higher than 7% during the 3-month period preceding award of the grant. 
 
Requires that priority in the award of grants be given to individuals who have been unemployed for more than a year.
 
Prescribes certain grant limitations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2011-11-17
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: 2011-11-17
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: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Introduced in House
Mobilizing Opportunities for Veterans Employment Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3473
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Public contracts and procurement
Public transit
Roads and highways
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
Mobilizing Opportunities for Veterans Employment Act of 2011 - Requires recipients of federal assistance for federal-aid highway projects and capital public transportation projects to give preference to the hiring of veterans with the requisite skills and abilities to perform construction work on such projects. Exempts from these requirements federal-aid highway projects on Indian reservation roads in which preference in the hiring of Indians living on or near a reservation on such projects is authorized.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
Keeping IDs Safe Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3475
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Crime prevention
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
Keeping IDs Safe Act of 2011 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act with respect to voluntary state transmittal to the Commissioner of Social Security of information from death certificates in order to correct OASDI program information.
 
Revises the Commissioner's authority to use or provide for the use of records corrected in reliance on such information for statistical and research activities conducted by federal and state agencies. Adds to such uses federal law enforcement and tax administration activities as well as statistical and research activities conducted by state agencies.
 
Declares that any information related to a deceased person received by the Commissioner other than under a contract with a state shall be treated, with respect to protection from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act of 1974, in the same manner as information received from a state pursuant to a voluntary contract. Prohibits the use of such information for any purpose other than for correction of OASDI program information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7834)
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend bond authority for those empowerment and enterprise zones with unused bond limitation at the end of 2011.

Bill: 112-hr-3478
Sponsor: Rep. Gonzalez, Charles A. [D-TX-20]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax exclusion
Rural conditions and development
Securities
State and local finance
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2012 the authority for issuance of bonds in empowerment and enterprise zones with unused bond limitations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
EPIC Act

Bill: 112-hr-3480
Sponsor: Rep. Griffin, Tim [R-AR-2]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
End Pensions in Congress Act or EPIC Act - Amends the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) to exclude Members of Congress, except the Vice President, from further CSRS and FERS retirement coverage.
 
Prohibits further government contributions or deductions from such Member's basic pay for deposit in the Treasury to the credit of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund.
 
States that nothing in this Act shall: (1) be considered to nullify, modify, or otherwise affect any right, entitlement, or benefit under CSRS for any Member covering any period before the enactment of this Act; or (2) affect the eligibility of a Member to participate in the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) in accordance with otherwise applicable law.
 
Allows Members covered by such exclusion, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to elect to remain subject to CSRS or FERS, as the case may be.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
Stop Taxpayer Funded Cell Phones Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3481
Sponsor: Rep. Griffin, Tim [R-AR-2]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Telecommunication rates and fees
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
Stop Taxpayer Funded Cell Phones Act of 2011 - Prohibits a provider of commercial mobile communications service from receiving universal service support under specified provisions of the Communications Act of 1934 for the provision of such service through the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Lifeline program (a program that provides discounts on monthly telephone service to qualifying low-income consumers).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Education Equity Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3483
Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
Veterans Education Equity Act of 2011 - Revises the formula for the payment by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of tuition and fees for individuals entitled to educational assistance under the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program and pursuing programs of education at public institutions of higher learning to include, as an additional payment formula, the greater of: (1) the actual net costs for in-state tuition after applying the receipt of any tuition waivers, reductions, scholarships, or other assistance; or (2) $17,500 for the academic year beginning on August 1, 2011 (such amount to be increased each subsequent year by the average percentage increase in undergraduate tuition costs).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-12-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House