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A bill to amend the Alaska National Gas Pipeline Act to improve the Alaska pipeline construction training program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-s-304
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2011-02-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Alaska
Employment and training programs
Oil and gas
Pipelines
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: 
Amends the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Act to add to the purpose of any grants by the Secretary of Labor to the Alaska Workforce Investment board support of a program to train workers in the construction, operation, maintenance, and performance of all related environmental processes involving existing and future oil and gas infrastructure in Alaska.
 
Modifies grant requirements by replacing the current ones with a mandatory certification by the Governor of Alaska that there is a need for the funds in order to ensure an adequately skilled, safe, and competent workforce to construct, operate, and maintain: (1) an Alaska natural gas pipeline system; or (2) all related environmental processes involving existing and future oil and gas infrastructure in Alaska. 
 
Increases from 15% to 50% the amount of federal funds that may be used for such training facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S632)
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to repeal a prohibition on the use of certain funds for the termination of the Constellation program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Bill: 112-s-305
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2011-02-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Appropriations
Congressional oversight
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Public contracts and procurement
Space flight and exploration

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: 
Repeals the prohibition on the availability of certain funds for the termination or elimination of any program or activity of the architecture for the Constellation Program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). 
 
Permits the Administrator of NASA to terminate any contract under the Constellation program that cannot be modified to comply with certain requirements concerning the development of the Space Launch System and the multi-purpose crew vehicle. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Introduced in Senate
National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-306
Sponsor: Sen. Webb, Jim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2011-02-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Crime prevention
Government studies and investigations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: 
National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2011 - Establishes the National Criminal Justice Commission.

Directs the Commission to: (1) review all areas of the criminal justice system, including federal, state, local, and tribal governments' criminal justice costs, practices, and policies; (2) make findings regarding such review and recommendations for changes to prevent, deter, and reduce crime and violence, reduce recidivism, improve cost-effectiveness, and ensure the interests of justice at every step of the criminal justice system; (3) consult with government and nongovernment leaders, including the United States Sentencing Commission; and (4) submit a final report on its findings, conclusions, and recommendations to Congress, the President, and state, local, and tribal governments and make such report available to the public. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Commission should work toward unanimously supported findings and recommendations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of Moldova.

Bill: 112-s-309
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2011-02-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Europe
Moldova
Normal trade relations, most-favored-nation treatment

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: 
Authorizes the President to extend nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of Moldova.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S633)
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Ending Unemployment Payments to Jobless Millionaires Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-310
Sponsor: Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK]
Introduced: 2011-02-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: 
Ending Unemployment Payments to Jobless Millionaires Act of 2011 - Prohibits federal funds from being used to make payments of unemployment compensation (including such compensation under the Federal-State Extended Compensation Act of 1970 and the emergency unemployment compensation program under the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008) to an individual whose resources in the preceding year were at least $1 million. 
 
Requires an individual's resources to be determined in the same manner as a subsidy eligible individual's resources are determined under the alternative resource standard of the Social Security Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Medical Foods Equity Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-311
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2011-02-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Food assistance and relief
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicare
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: 
Medical Foods Equity Act of 2011 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare), XIX (Medicaid), and XXI (Children's Health Insurance Program) (CHIP, formerly known as SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to include coverage of: (1) medically necessary food and food modified to be low protein that is formulated to be consumed or administered under the supervision of a physician and the medical equipment and supplies necessary to administer such food; and (2) pharmacological doses of vitamins and amino acids used for the treatment of inborn errors of metabolism. Applies such coverage requirements to the TRICARE program (military health care).
 
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to require health plans to provide coverage of such food, vitamins, and amino acids.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to determine the minimum yearly coverage for all health insurance plans based upon the expanded coverage provided by this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to establish age-specific minimum levels of coverage. Declares that the minimum yearly coverage determined by the Secretary shall not preempt any state standards that require a higher minimum yearly coverage level for the same services and benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S633-634)
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Patients' Freedom to Choose Act

Bill: 112-s-312
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the Senate
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: 2011-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Kantishna Hills Renewable Energy Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-313
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Dams and canals
Electric power generation and transmission
Land transfers
Licensing and registrations
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Kantishna Hills Renewable Energy Act of 2011 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to issue permits for specified microhydro projects in the Kantishna Hills area within the Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Defines &quot;microhydro project&quot; as a hydroelectric power generating facility with a maximum power generation capability of 100 kilowatts and includes any distribution or transmission line required to serve such area. 
 
Directs the Secretary to exchange Park and Preserve land near or adjacent to land owned by Doyon Tourism, Inc., located at the mouth of Eureka Creek for approximately 18 acres of land owned by Doyon Tourism within the Galena patented mining claim. 
 
Requires the land acquired by the Secretary to be administered as part of the Park and Preserve. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-11
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 112-124.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S643-644)
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-314
Sponsor: Sen. Johanns, Mike [R-NE]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Civil actions and liability
Health information and medical records
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require an abortion provider who knowingly performs an abortion of a pain-capable unborn child (defined as an unborn child who has reached a probable stage of development of 20 weeks or more after fertilization), to first: (1) inform the woman of the probable age of the child, (2) provide to the woman an Unborn Child Pain Awareness Brochure (unless she waives receipt), (3) provide information that pain medicine administered to the mother may not prevent pain in the child, but in some cases anesthesia or pain-reducing drugs can be administered directly to the child, (4) give the woman the provider's best medical judgment of the risks and costs of such anesthesia or analgesic, and (5) obtain the woman's signature on the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Decision Form and her explicit request for or refusal of the administration of drugs to the child. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Brochure that includes a statement that there is substantial evidence that the process of being killed in an abortion will cause the unborn child pain and that the mother has the option of having pain-reducing drugs administered directly to the child.
 
Creates an exception to save the life of the mother. 
 
Establishes civil penalties for willfully failing to comply with this Act. Authorizes: (1) the U.S. Attorney General (DOJ) to bring a civil action under this Act, and (2) private rights of action for violations of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
SHIELD Act

Bill: 112-s-315
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Organized crime
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful Dissemination Act or the SHIELD Act - Amends the federal criminal code to expand the prohibition against disclosure of classified information to include: (1) disclosures of classified information that benefit a transnational threat, and (2) any classified information concerning the human intelligence activities of the United States or any foreign government or concerning the identity of a classified source or informant of an element of the U.S. intelligence community. 
 
Defines &quot;transnational threat&quot; as: (1) any activity, including international terrorism, narcotics trafficking, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the delivery systems for such weapons, or organized crime, that threatens the national security of the United States; or (2) any individual or group that engages such activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Fort Hood Victims and Families Benefits Protection Act

Bill: 112-s-316
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Crime victims
Department of Defense
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Military facilities and property
Military personnel and dependents
Terrorism
Texas
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Fort Hood Victims and Families Benefits Protection Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) any member of the Armed Forces who was killed or wounded in the attack at Fort Hood, Texas, on November 5, 2009, and the family members of those victims, should receive the same treatment and benefits as the victims and families of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States; (2) such members and families have made tremendous sacrifices, and the United States should provide them with the maximum level of benefits available, identical to that available to those killed or wounded in an overseas combat zone such as Iraq or Afghanistan; and (3) the Department of Defense (DOD) should honor the Americans killed or injured in such attack with awards that recognize their sacrifices, including the Purple Heart for members and the Secretary of Defense Medal for the Defense of Freedom for civilian DOD employees.
 
Treats members and DOD civilian employees killed or wounded in the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, as members killed or wounded in a combat zone or civilian employees killed or wounded in a terrorist attack or while serving in a contingency operation, respectively, for purposes of specified laws, regulations, and policies concerning compensation, awards, and other benefits for which such members and employees are eligible.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Affordable Housing Preservation and Revitalization Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-317
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Housing and community development funding
Housing supply and affordability
Income tax credits
Low- and moderate-income housing
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Affordable Housing Preservation and Revitalization Act of 2011 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to ensure that funds in the residual receipts account of an eligible multifamily housing property are transferred, at the time of a qualified sale or exchange, to preservation entities.
 
Requires that funds in the residual receipts account be used, subject to housing agency approval, to: (1) pay for rehabilitation costs approved by the housing agency; (2) deposit funds into the property's replacement reserve account; and (3) pay for social and other services, associated acquisition costs, and any other costs that have been approved by the housing agency and will directly benefit such tenants.
 
Defines &quot;preservation entity&quot; as: (1) a nonprofit tax-exempt corporation, or (2) a limited partnership or limited liability company where the sole general partner or sole managing member of such ownership entity is a nonprofit tax-exempt corporation, and (3) that has the capacity to acquire and preserve an eligible multifamily housing property.
 
States that, for purposes of the low-income housing credit under the Internal Revenue Code, residual receipts used or transferred under this Act shall not be considered federal funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S644)
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Secure Airport Terminal Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-318
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Congressional oversight
Department of Homeland Security
Photography and imaging
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Secure Airport Terminal Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to prescribe regulations that: (1) require the use of security cameras at all screening locations and all locations where passengers exit the sterile area at airports in the United States; (2) prescribe requirements for the use, maintenance, and testing of such security cameras and other technological devices; and (3) specify that employees of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) have access to all such security cameras and technological devices as well as data or recordings from them relating to airport security.
 
(Under aviation security regulations: (1) &quot;screening location&quot; means each site at which individuals or property are inspected for the presence of weapons, explosives, or incendiaries; and (2) &quot;sterile area&quot; means a portion of an airport that provides passengers access to boarding aircraft and to which the access generally is controlled by TSA, or by an aircraft operator or a foreign air carrier, through the screening of persons and property.)
 
Directs the DHS Assistant Secretary (TSA) to report to Congress: (1) recommendations for improving the security of each location at an airport where passengers exit the sterile area, and (2) an assessment of differences in location configurations and options for improving security at such locations.
 
Prescribes a civil penalty of up to $10,000 for individuals who enter an aircraft or an airport area in violation of security requirements. Increases the criminal penalty of maximum imprisonment for such violations from one year to 10 years.
 
Directs each U.S. airport operator that is required to establish an air transportation security program to ensure that signs meeting DHS requirements for providing notice of such penalties are displayed near all screening locations, all locations where passengers exit the sterile area, and other appropriate airport locations. Subjects an individual to such penalties, however, without regard to whether signs are displayed as required by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Genesio Januario Oliveira.

Bill: 112-s-320
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the Senate
Subjects: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Provides for the relief of Genesio Januario Oliveira.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Delisting Gray Wolves to Restore State Management Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-321
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Interior
Endangered and threatened species
Idaho
Mammals
Montana
Oregon
Utah
Washington State
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Delisting Gray Wolves to Restore State Management Act of 2011 - Grants the full force and effect of law to the final rule entitled &quot;Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Final Rule To Identify the Northern Rocky Mountain Population of Gray Wolf as a Distinct Population Segment and To Revise the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate