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Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act

Bill: 112-hr-849
Sponsor: Rep. Bachmann, Michele [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2011-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air quality
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Educational facilities and institutions
Energy efficiency and conservation
Government studies and investigations
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health facilities and institutions
Lighting, heating, cooling
Metals

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: 
Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act - Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to repeal provisions concerning energy efficiency standards for general service incandescent lamps, rough service lamps, other designated lamps, and incandescent reflector lamps unless the Comptroller General has transmitted to Congress within six months after this Act's enactment a report that finds that: (1) consumers will obtain a net savings, in terms of dollars spent on monthly electric bills and expenses for new light fixtures to accommodate the use of the light bulbs required by such provisions, compared to dollars spent before their enactment; (2) the phase-out of incandescent light bulbs required by such provisions will reduce overall carbon dioxide emissions by 20% in the United States by 2025; and (3) such phase-out will not pose any health risks, including risks associated with mercury containment in certain light bulbs, to consumers or the general public, including health risks with respect to hospitals, schools, day care centers, mental health facilities, and nursing homes.

Requires the report to include monthly and yearly projections of expenses for electric bills and new light fixtures for January 1, 2012, through December 31, 2017.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
To facilitate a proposed project in the Lower St. Croix Wild and Scenic River, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-850
Sponsor: Rep. Bachmann, Michele [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2011-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Lakes and rivers
Minnesota
Roads and highways
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: 
 Deems consistent with the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act the construction of a four-lane highway bridge over the Lower St. Croix River, Minnesota and Wisconsin, in accordance with the Section 7 Evaluation issued by the National Park Service (NPS) in October 2005. 

action_date: 2011-12-01
text: 
 
 Permits the head of any federal agency to authorize and assist in the construction of a new bridge crossing the St. Croix River approximately six miles north of the I-94 crossing if specified mitigation items described in the 2006 St. Croix River Crossing Project Memorandum of Understanding for Implementation of Riverway Mitigation Items are included as enforceable conditions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 209.
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 112-309.
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 112-309.
action_date: 2011-10-05
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 30 - 14.
action_date: 2011-10-05
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2011-10-05
text: Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Clean Energy Jobs Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-851
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2011-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Budget deficits and national debt
Business investment and capital
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Motor fuels
Oil and gas
Sales and excise taxes
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: 
Clean Energy Jobs Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2016: (1) the income and excise tax credits for biodiesel and renewable diesel used as fuel and for alcohol used as fuel, (2) the cellulosic biofuel producer tax credit, and (3) the reduced credit for ethanol blenders.
 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend through 2016 the additional tariff on ethyl alcohol blends (ethanol) used as fuel.
 
Requires seven-year amortization of the geological and geophysical expenditures of covered large oil companies. Defines a &quot;covered large oil company&quot; as a taxpayer that is a major integrated oil company or that has gross receipts in excess of $50 million in a taxable year.
 
Denies certain tax benefits to any taxpayer that is not a small, independent oil and gas company, including: (1) the tax credits for producing oil and gas from marginal wells and for enhanced oil recovery; (2) expensing of intangible drilling and development costs in the case of gas wells and geothermal wells; (3) percentage depletion; (4) the tax deduction for qualified tertiary injectant expenses; (5) the exemption from limitations on passive activity losses; and (6) the tax deduction for income attributable to domestic production activities.
 
Dedicates any increase in revenues resulting from this Act to the reduction of a federal budget deficit or the federal debt. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
United States War Bonds Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-852
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2011-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Afghanistan
Asia
Defense spending
Iraq
Middle East
Military operations and strategy
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: 
United States War Bonds Act of 2011- Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue United States War Bonds to aid in the funding of the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and other military operations abroad identified by the Secretary of Defense (DOD) as being part of the international conflicts against terrorism.
 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Transition-to-Success Mentoring Act

Bill: 112-hr-853
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Andre [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2011-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: 
Transition-to-Success Mentoring Act - Amends title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to reauthorize appropriations under part H (School Dropout Prevention).
 
Establishes a transition-to-success mentoring program under part H of the ESEA requiring the Secretary of Education to award five-year grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) or partnerships between LEAs and community-based nonprofit organizations to establish, expand, or support school-based mentoring programs to assist at-risk students in transitioning from middle to high school.
 
Requires grantees to assign to each at-risk student in his or her middle school a success coach who: (1) creates a plan of success for the student; (2) enters into an agreement with the student's parents regarding their role in implementing such plan; (3) meets with the student at least once a month to assess and assist the student's progress; (4) meets at least quarterly with the student and the student's parents, teachers, or counselors to evaluate the student's progress and revise or establish new goals for the next academic year; and (5) serves as the student's advocate between the student's parents and teachers.
 
Authorizes the use of grant funds to train success coaches and cover the cost of any materials they use under the mentoring program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Peace Corps Commemorative Foundation to establish a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its environs, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-854
Sponsor: Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2011-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
District of Columbia
Monuments and memorials
National and community service
Peace Corps

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: 
Authorizes the Peace Corps Commemorative Foundation to establish a commemorative work on federal land in the District of Columbia to commemorate the formation of the Peace Corps and the ideals of world peace and friendship upon which it was founded. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-04
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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 Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1394)
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Grand Canyon Watersheds Protection Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-855
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2011-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Mining
Water use and supply
Watersheds
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: 
Grand Canyon Watersheds Protection Act of 2011 - Withdraws the approximately 1,068,908 acres of the Tusayan Ranger District in Arizona and federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in the vicinity of Kanab Creek and in House Rock Valley from: (1) entry, appropriation, and disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) operation of the mineral leasing, geothermal leasing, and mineral materials laws. Subjects such withdrawal to valid, existing rights. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2011-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Sloan Hills Withdrawal Act

Bill: 112-hr-856
Sponsor: Rep. Heller, Dean [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2011-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Mining
Nevada

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: 
Sloan Hills Withdrawal Act - Withdraws certain land located in the Sloan Hills area of Clark County, Nevada, from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws and from disposition under all laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2011-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Native Hawaiian Medicaid Coverage Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-857
Sponsor: Rep. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2011-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Hawaii
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: 
Native Hawaiian Medicaid Coverage Act of 2011 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide full reimbursement (100% of the federal medical assistance percentage or FMAP) for medical assistance given to a Native Hawaiian through a Native Hawaiian health care system or a federally-qualified health center.


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 E390-391)
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the conversion of a temporary judgeship for the district of Hawaii to a permanent judgeship.

Bill: 112-hr-858
Sponsor: Rep. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2011-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Federal district courts
Hawaii
Judges

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: 
Converts a temporary judgeship for the district of Hawaii to a permanent judgeship.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E383-384)
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Shingles Prevention Act

Bill: 112-hr-859
Sponsor: Rep. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2011-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug therapy
Medicare
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: 
Shingles Prevention Act - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of the shingles vaccine and its administration. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-01
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: 2011-03-01
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: 2011-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E387)
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to promote charitable donations of qualified vehicles.

Bill: 112-hr-860
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2011-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Motor vehicles
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the charitable tax deduction for contributions of qualified vehicles (i.e., highway motor vehicles, boats, or airplanes) to: (1) set forth revised acknowledgment requirements for vehicles valued at $2,500 or less and vehicles valued at more than $2,500; and (2) revise the penalty for submitting a fraudulent acknowledgment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Supreme Court Transparency and Disclosure Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-862
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2011-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Judges
Judicial procedure and administration
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: 
Supreme Court Transparency and Disclosure Act of 2011 - Applies to Supreme Court justices the same code of conduct that applies to U.S. circuit and district judges. 
 
Directs the U.S. Judicial Conference to establish procedures under which complaints alleging that a justice violated such code of conduct may be filed with and investigated by the Conference.
 
Requires a justice to publicly disclose the reasons for: (1) disqualifying himself or herself, under specified provisions of the federal judicial code, from any case in which his or her impartiality might reasonably be questioned; or (2) denying a party's motion for such disqualification. 
 
Directs the Conference to establish a process in which other justices or federal judges decide whether a justice should be disqualified when a party who is denied such a motion seeks further review.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Teacher Exchange Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-863
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Pierluisi, Pedro R. [D-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: 
Teacher Exchange Act of 2011 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to authorize states to use their grant under part A (Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting Fund) of title II of the ESEA to carry out a teacher exchange sending highly qualified teachers with at least three years of teaching experience to another state in a different region for a school year. 
 
Requires: (1) at least one of the states involved in an exchange to serve a high-need local educational agency (LEA), or (2) the states to be exchanging teachers in subjects that have a high need for qualified teachers.
 
Requires states to maintain the employment terms of teachers participating in the exchange, cover their expenses, and provide them with training. 
 
Requires the teachers to return to their state following their participation in the exchange.
 
Authorizes LEAs to use their subgrant under part A of title II of the ESEA to carry out a teacher exchange (regardless of whether or not their states are participating in the exchange) sending highly qualified teachers with at least three years of teaching experience to another LEA in a different region for a school year.
 
Requires: (1) at least one of the LEAs involved in an exchange to be a high-need LEA, or (2) the LEAs to be exchanging teachers in subjects that have a high need for qualified teachers.
 
Requires LEAs to maintain the employment terms of teachers participating in the exchange, cover their expenses, and provide them with training. 
 
Requires the teachers to return to their LEA following their participation in the exchange.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Keep Our PACT Act

Bill: 112-hr-864
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2011-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Appropriations
Department of Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: 
Keep Our Promise to America's Children and Teachers Act or Keep Our PACT Act - Makes appropriations for: (1) school improvement programs under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 for FY2011-FY2015; and (2) the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, including specified amounts for FY2011-FY2015 and an amount determined pursuant to a specified formula (based on the number of children who received special education, the average per-pupil expenditure, and the rate of change in a state's population) for FY2016 and thereafter.
 
Requires such appropriated amounts to be expended consistent with pay-as-you-go requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Introduced in House