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District of Columbia Voting Rights Restoration Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-597
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2011-02-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Congressional operations and organization
District of Columbia
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Maryland
Members of Congress
Political representation
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-09
text: 
District of Columbia Voting Rights Restoration Act of 2011 - Restores the right of District of Columbia residents to participate as Maryland residents in congressional elections and presidential elections.
 
Repeals provisions of: (1) the District of Columbia Delegate Act that establishes the office of District of Columbia Delegate to the House of Representatives; and (2) the District of Columbia Statehood Constitution Convention Initiative of 1979 that provides for electing a Senator and Representative for the District.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Elections.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2011-02-09
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and 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: 2011-02-09
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and 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: 2011-02-09
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and 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: 2011-02-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-09
text: Introduced in House
To eliminate the preferences and special rules for Alaska Native Corporations under the program under section 8(a) of the Small Business Act.

Bill: 112-hr-598
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2011-02-09 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Business records
Government information and archives
Indian social and development programs
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Public contracts and procurement
Small Business Administration
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-09
text: 
Amends the Small Business Act to exclude from the definition of &quot;Indian tribe&quot; any Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) or Alaska Native Village (ANV).
 
Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to provide that, for purposes of eligibility for procurement contracts provided through the Small Business Administration (SBA), whether an ANC or ANV is socially or economically disadvantaged shall be determined by the SBA Administrator according to eligibility standards for SBA 8(a) general small business loans. Makes members of socially and economically disadvantaged ANCs or ANVs eligible for such loans.
 
Directs the Administrator to apply to small businesses owned by an ANC or ANV the competitive thresholds for awarding SBA sole source contracts that are applicable to small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.
 
Prohibits the Administrator from extending or waiving, for small businesses owned by an ANC or ANV, the time limitations applicable to participants in the small business capital ownership development program. Outlines annual report requirements for program participants who are ANCs or ANVs.
 
Requires the Administrator to amend SBA regulations to incorporate amendments made by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2011-02-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2011-02-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2011-02-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E186-187)
action_date: 2011-02-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-09
text: Introduced in House
Stimulus Repeal Act

Bill: 112-hr-599
Sponsor: Rep. Woodall, Rob [R-GA-7]
Introduced: 2011-02-09 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Economic performance and conditions

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-09
text: 
Stimulus Repeal Act - Repeals the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Restores provisions amended or repealed by such Act and rescinds all unobligated balances of the budgetary authority made available in such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2011-02-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-09
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Enrique Soriano and Areli Soriano.

Bill: 112-hr-600
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2011-02-09 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-09
text: Provides for the relief of Enrique Soriano and Areli Soriano.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-02-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-02-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-09
text: Introduced in House
End Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-601
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Business investment and capital
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Oil and gas
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
End Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require seven-year amortization of the geological and geophysical expenditures of covered large oil companies. Defines &quot;covered large oil company&quot; as a taxpayer which is a major integrated oil company or which 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.
 
Prohibits the use of the last-in, first-out (LIFO) accounting method by major integrated oil companies. 
 
Limits or denies the foreign tax credit and tax deferrals for amounts paid or accrued by a dual capacity taxpayer to a foreign country or U.S. possession for any period with respect to combined foreign oil and gas income. Defines &quot;dual capacity taxpayer&quot; as a person who is subject to a levy of a foreign country or U.S. possession and receives (or will receive) directly or indirectly a specific economic benefit from such county or possession.. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E192)
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
TEAM-Education Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-602
Sponsor: Rep. Harper, Gregg [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Transition toward Excellence, Achievement and Mobility through Education Act of 2011 or TEAM-Education Act of 2011 - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to allow states to use special education grant funds to contract with entities that have the experience to assist disabled children in accomplishing the transition objectives outlined in their Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).
 
Conditions a state's eligibility for such grant funds on its having a plan to coordinate state efforts to transition disabled youth into adulthood. 
 
Requires local educational agencies (LEAs) to provide a disabled child and his or her parents, when the child's secondary education ends, with a comprehensive record of the child's work experiences and skills that would be relevant to prospective employers, post-secondary education programs, career placement services, and mentors.
 
Requires IEPs, after a child attains age 14, to describe: (1) the transition services to be provided to assist the child in reaching postsecondary goals, and (2) the training the child will receive to empower the child to act on his or her own behalf. (Currently, IEPs are to address postsecondary goals and transition services when children turn 16.)
 
Requires an IEP team: (1) to include a representative of the state intellectual and developmental disabilities agency after a disabled child attains age 14, if the child is expected to be eligible to receive certain adult services upon reaching adulthood; (2) to consider the transition services necessary to assist the child to attain postsecondary education, integrated employment, independent living, and community participation; (3) at the request of a 14 year old disabled child, to take certain steps to enable his or her parents to advocate at IEP team meetings on the child's behalf; and (4) after the child attains age 14, to evaluate the progress made in meeting, and discuss any additional services that may be needed to meet, the child's transition objectives.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide grants to states to assist LEAs in establishing transition service coordinators.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
TEAM-Empowerment Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-603
Sponsor: Rep. Harper, Gregg [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Special education
State and local government operations
Vocational and technical education
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Transition toward Excellence, Achievement, and Mobility through Empowerment Act of 2011 or the TEAM-Empowerment Act of 2011 - Amends the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award competitive grants to states for the development and implementation of an individual transition plan (ITP) for each individual with a developmental disability in the state who is transitioning from secondary school into adulthood. 
 
Requires ITPs to assist the developmentally disabled achieve integrated employment, postsecondary education, independent living, and community engagement.
 
Requires each grantee to establish a transition planning and services (TPS) administrative unit within its intellectual and developmental disabilities agency to develop, and assist in the implementation of, ITPs. Requires that unit to offer strategies, training, and information to the developmentally disabled and their families that facilitates their participation in the transition process.
 
States that ITPs are to: (1) apply until an individual's 26th birthday; (2) be reviewed annually and updated as needed; (3) be developed during in-person meetings that include the individual and his or her family; and (4) address the individual's needs in the areas of postsecondary education, career preparation and work-based learning, development and leadership, connecting activities, and family involvement and supports.
 
Requires the TPS administrative unit to use transition brokers to: (1) facilitate coordination among state agencies in the development of ITPs; and (2) assist the developmentally disabled, consistent with their ITPs, in navigating the complex system of supports and services available through federal and state programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
TEAM-Employment Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-604
Sponsor: Rep. Harper, Gregg [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Vocational and technical education
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Transition toward Excellence, Achievement, and Mobility through Employment Act of 2011 or TEAM-Employment Act of 2011 - Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to extend from 18 to 48 months the length of time a designated state unit may provide supported employment services, including: (1) activities related to customized employment, or (2) a set of activities implemented during the search for employment leading to an integrated employment outcome for an individual with a disability.
 
Authorizes the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration of the Department of Education to make up to ten grants to or contracts with eligible entities to pay all or part of the cost of special demonstration programs that expand and improve rehabilitation, employment, and other services for adults and youths with disabilities. 
 
Authorizes the Assistant Secretary of Education for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to provide, for FY2012-FY2016, grants to eligible entities to carry out certain activities to help youths between the ages of 14 and 26 with significant disabilities to transition to adulthood.
 
Includes among such activities development and provision of: (1) innovative and effective practices through person-centered planning processes for attaining integrated employment experiences, including customized employment, supported employment services, and employment experiences after school, on weekends, and in the summer months; (2) certain educational-, work-, and family-related objectives and activities based upon the highest expectations of such youths; (3) appropriate and effective curricula and the deployment of professionals with expertise to provide training to school personnel to assist such youths to obtain integrated employment at the greater of minimum or competitive wages; and (4) assistance to such youths and their families to help determine appropriate services under federal and state programs.
 
Limits an eligible entity to one grant or contract during a five-year period.
 
Prohibits the use of grant funds for activities that result in such youths being placed in facility-based segregated services as an employment outcome or post-secondary outcome.
 
Establishes a National Coordination Center on Systems Change and Transformation in the Transition of Youths with Significant Disabilities into Adulthood.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Patients' Freedom to Choose Act

Bill: 112-hr-605
Sponsor: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Patients' Freedom to Choose Act - Repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 that: (1) restrict payments from health savings accounts, medical savings accounts, and health flexible spending arrangements for medications to prescription drugs and insulin only; and (2) impose a $2,500 limitation on salary reduction contributions to a health flexible spending arrangement under a cafeteria plan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Federal Program Sunset Commission Act

Bill: 112-hr-606
Sponsor: Rep. Schock, Aaron [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Federal Program Sunset Commission Act - Establishes the Federal Program Sunset Commission to evaluate the efficiency and public need for each federal program using specified criteria. Requires the Commission to: (1) submit to Congress and the President an annual report containing a list of federal programs that the Commission recommends to be abolished or reorganized and draft legislation to carry out the Commission's recommendations, and (2) monitor the implementation of laws relating to its recommendations for the abolishment or reorganization of such programs. Requires that all federal programs the Commission recommends for abolishment be abolished, unless reauthorized by Congress. 
 
Requires the Comptroller General and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), in consultation with the Director of the Congressional Research Service (CRS), to prepare an annual inventory of programs within each federal agency to advise and assist Congress and the Commission in carrying out this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Alpine Lakes Wilderness Additions and Pratt and Middle Fork Snoqualmie Rivers Protection Act

Bill: 112-hr-608
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Washington State
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Alpine Lakes Wilderness Additions and Pratt and Middle Fork Snoqualmie Rivers Protection Act - Designates certain land in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest in the state of Washington, which shall be considered to become a part of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, as wilderness and as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. 
 
Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate the Middle Fork Snoqualmie and Pratt Rivers in Washington as scenic and/or wild rivers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-25
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-02-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
American Competitiveness Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-609
Sponsor: Rep. Hanna, Richard L. [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
American Competitiveness Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the maximum income tax rate on corporations to 25% of corporate taxable income exceeding $50,000. Provides a special rule for any taxable year beginning in 2011 by establishing a maximum 30% rate for corporate taxable income exceeding $75,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Making Investments Now for Dementia Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-610
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Neurological disorders
Research administration and funding
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Making Investments Now for Dementia Act of 2011 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury (the Secretary) to issue bonds to aid in the funding of Alzheimer's research in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
 
Declares that the bonds authorized under this Act shall be in such form and denominations, and shall be subject to such terms and conditions of issue, conversion, redemption, maturation, payment, and rate of interest, as the Secretary may prescribe.
 
Requires the Secretary to submit an annual report to Congress describing the actions taken by the Secretaries during the year, with the first such report describing the implementation of the program and subsquent reports describing the use of funds and the status of the program.
 
Authorizes appropriations to the Director of NIH for research on Alzheimer's research equal to the amounts received by the Secretary from the sale of bonds under this Act, less amounts determined by the Secretary to be necessary for administration of such sales.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that any funds collected pursuant to this Act are in addition to yearly appropriated funds and are not to be used to supplement current funding.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-02-10
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: 2011-02-10
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: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House