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Impact Aid Timely Repayment Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-595
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2011-03-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: 
Impact Aid Timely Repayment Act of 2011 - Amends title VIII (Impact Aid) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to complete Impact Aid payments to eligible local educational agencies (LEAs) within three fiscal years of their appropriation. (The Impact Aid program compensates LEAs for the financial burden of federal activities affecting their school districts.)
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include neurologists as primary care physicians for purposes of incentive payments for primary care services under the Medicare program.

Bill: 112-s-597
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2011-03-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Medicare
Neurological disorders

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) to make neurologists eligible as primary care physicians for Medicare primary care incentive payments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission Act

Bill: 112-s-599
Sponsor: Sen. Webb, Jim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2011-03-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Sciences and History
Subjects: Commemorative events and holidays
Executive agency funding and structure
Military history
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Racial and ethnic relations
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: 
Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemoration Commission to plan, develop, and carry out programs and activities appropriate to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, and to carry out other specified duties.
 
 
Directs the National Endowment for the Humanities to award grants for appropriate activities relating to the Civil War sesquicentennial, and to consider and give priority to programs carried out by institutions of higher education, museums, nonprofit organizations, professional associations, or state sesquicentennial commissions that support the duties of the Commission, including those that concentrate on the role of African Americans in the Civil War.

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: 2011-03-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Use It or Lose It Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-600
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2011-03-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Interior
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: 
Use It or Lose It Act of 2011 - Requires holders of leases authorizing exploration and production of oil or natural gas to develop them diligently in order to ensure timely production from the lease.
 
Amends the Mineral Leasing Act and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to require a lessee, as a condition of such a lease, to pay an annual fee of $4 per acre on the acres covered by a non-producing lease.
 
Directs the Secretary to issue regulations that: (1) prescribe requirements and benchmarks for diligent oil and gas development to produce oil and gas from each lease to the maximum extent practicable during the primary term of the lease, and (2) require each leaseholder to submit a diligent development plan describing how the lessee will meet such benchmarks.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: Introduced in Senate
CURB Act

Bill: 112-s-602
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2011-03-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Economic performance and conditions
Government information and archives
Public participation and lobbying
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: 
Clearing Unnecessary Regulatory Burdens Act or the CURB Act - Requires each federal agency to: (1) report to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs on the costs and benefits of each significant regulatory action and of identified alternatives; (2) develop or have written procedures for the approval of significant guidance documents; (3) maintain on its website a list of such documents in effect; (4) establish and advertise on its website a means for the public to electronically submit comments on such documents and a request for issuance, reconsideration, modification, or rescission of such documents; and (5) publish a notice in the Federal Register announcing that a draft of an economically significant guidance document is available, make such document publicly available, invite comment on such draft, and respond to such comments.
 
Defines a &quot;significant regulatory action&quot; as any regulatory action that is likely to result in a regulation that may: (1) have an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more or adversely affect in a material way the economy, a sector of the economy, productivity, competition, jobs, the environment, public health or safety, or state, local, or tribal governments or communities; (2) create a serious inconsistency or otherwise interfere with an action taken or planned by another agency; (3) materially alter the budgetary impact of entitlements, grants, user fees, or loan programs or the rights and obligations of recipients thereof; or (4) raise novel legal or policy issues arising out of legal mandates and the priorities, principles, and provisions of this Act.
 
Authorizes an agency head, in consultation with such Office, to identify a particular document or category of such documents for which the procedures of this Act are not feasible or appropriate.
 
Requires agencies to notify the Administrator in emergency situations or when they are obligated by law to act more quickly than normal review procedures allow.
 
Allows a reduction or waiver of civil penalties on small entities for failure to comply with regulatory requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-20
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 112-220.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 112-220.
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1757)
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to modify the prohibition on recognition by United States courts of certain rights relating to certain marks, trade names, or commercial names.

Bill: 112-s-603
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2011-03-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Caribbean area
Civil actions and liability
Cuba
Evidence and witnesses
Intellectual property
Jurisdiction and venue
Latin America
Property rights

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: 
Amends the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 to prohibit U.S. courts from recognizing, enforcing, or otherwise validating any assertion of rights by an individual (under current law, by a designated Cuban national) of a mark, trade name, or commercial name that was used in connection with a business or assets that were confiscated by the Cuban government unless the original owner of such mark or name, or such owner's bona fide successor, has expressly consented. Applies such prohibition only if the individual asserting the rights knew or had reason to know at the time of acquiring the rights asserted that the mark or name was the same or substantially similar to the mark or name used in connection with the business or assets that were confiscated. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-604
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2011-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare
Mental health
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: 
Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of marriage and family therapist services and mental health counselor services under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance), particularly those provided in rural health clinics, federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), and in hospice programs.
 
Amends Medicare part C (Miscellaneous) to exclude such services from the skilled nursing facility (SNF) prospective payment system.
 
Authorizes marriage and family therapists and mental health counselors to develop discharge plans for post-hospital services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1829-1830)
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Dangerous Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-605
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2011-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: 
Dangerous Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011 or David Mitchell Rozga Act - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to add as a schedule I controlled substance any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains specified cannabimimetic agents (or the salts, isomers, or salts of isomers thereof).
 
Extends the period during which the Attorney General may temporarily schedule a substance in schedule I to avoid an imminent hazard to public safety to two years with a one-year extension (currently, one year with a six-month extension).

action_date: 2011-07-29
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Dangerous Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011 or David Mitchell Rozga Act - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to add as a schedule I controlled substance any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains specified cannabimimetic agents (or the salts, isomers, or salts of isomers thereof).
 
Extends the period during which the Attorney General may temporarily schedule a substance in schedule I to avoid an imminent hazard to public safety to two years with a one-year extension (currently, one year with a six-month extension).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-29
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 122.
action_date: 2011-07-29
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2011-07-29
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2011-07-28
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2011-04-06
text: Committee on United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. Hearings held.
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1830-1831)
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Creating Hope Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-606
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2011-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Health promotion and preventive care
Infectious and parasitic diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: 
Creating Hope Act of 2011 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise the priority review voucher program for tropical diseases to: (1) include rare pediatric diseases; (2) allow unlimited transfers of vouchers under the program; and (3) require a sponsor intending to use a voucher to notify the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) at least 90 days (currently, 365 days) before submission of the application.
 
Revises provisions regarding the priority review user fee, including to make it payable upon notification of the Secretary of intent to use the voucher.
 
Authorizes the Secretary, upon request of the manufacturer or sponsor of a new drug, to designate that a new drug is: (1) for a rare pediatric disease, and (2) an innovative treatment.
 
Requires the Secretary to deem a rare pediatric disease product application to be incomplete if it does not contain a description of the sponsor's plan to market the product in the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to refuse to issue a priority review voucher upon the approval of a rare pediatric disease application if the Secretary finds that the sponsor lacks a good faith intention to market the product in the United States. Directs the Secretary to issue a guidance document setting forth the evidentiary support necessary to demonstrate such a good faith intention.
 
Requires sponsors of applications under the priority review voucher program to report to the Secretary within five years after the approval of the application on the demand and distribution of the product within the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Cathedral Rock and Horse Heaven Wilderness Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-607
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2011-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Oregon
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: 
Cathedral Rock and Horse Heaven Wilderness Act of 2011 - Designates specified Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in Oregon as potential wilderness areas. 
 
Provides for the designation of such areas, to be known as the Cathedral Rock Wilderness and the Horse Heaven Wilderness, as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. 
 
Authorizes certain land exchanges with specified landowners. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-18
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 112-39.
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1831-1832)
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Maritime Lien Reform Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-608
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2011-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Licensing and registrations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: 
Maritime Lien Reform Act of 2011 - Bars specified federal shipping laws related to maritime liability from: (1) establishing maritime liens on state or federal fishing licenses (authorizing a person or use of a vessel to engage in fishing), and (2) authorizing civil actions to enforce maritime liens on such licenses.
 
Specifies that a &quot;fishing license&quot; is governed solely by the state or federal law under which it was issued and is not included in the whole or as an appurtenance or intangible of a vessel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Comprehensive Assessment of Regulations on the Economy Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-609
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2011-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Agricultural conservation and pollution
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Department of Commerce
Economic development
Economic performance and conditions
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy prices
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Executive agency funding and structure
Industrial facilities
Lighting, heating, cooling
Manufacturing
Metals
Motor fuels
Oil and gas
Pipelines
Public utilities and utility rates
Small business
Solid waste and recycling
State and local government operations
State and local taxation
Transportation costs
Unemployment
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: 
Comprehensive Assessment of Regulations on the Economy Act of 2011 - Establishes within the Department of Commerce the Cumulative Regulatory Assessment Committee to assess the cumulative energy and economic impacts of federal regulatory mandates that: (1) are promulgated or issued (or are expected to be initiated) by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or a state or local government from January 1, 2010, to January 1, 2020; (2) apply to one or more impacted unit; and (3) implement any provision or requirement relating to interstate or international transport of air pollution with respect to any national ambient air quality standard, attainment of any such standard, new source performance standards, hazardous air pollutants, greenhouse gas emissions, cooling water intake structures, effluent guidelines for regulating the discharge of pollutants, the handling and disposal of coal combustion residuals, the regulation of fuels, or regional haze or reasonably attributable visibility impairment under the Clean Air Act or any other environmental regulations expected to have a significant impact on the electric power sector, the petroleum refining sector, the petrochemical production sector, pipeline facilities regulated by the Department of Transportation (DOT) or EPA, exploration, production, or transportation of oil and natural gas, or any other manufacturing sector. 
 
Defines "impacted unit" as any: (1) electric generating unit that sells electricity into the grid; (2) industrial, commercial, or institutional boiler or process heater; (3) petroleum refining facility that produces gasoline, heating oil, diesel fuel, jet fuel, kerosene, or petrochemical feedstocks; (4) petrochemical facility; (5) hydrocarbon exploration, extraction, manufacturing, production, or transportation facility; or (6) biofuel facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Help to Access Land for the Education of Scouts

Bill: 112-s-610
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2011-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Land transfers
Oklahoma

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: 
Help to Access Land for the Education of Scouts or HALE Scouts Act - Requires the conveyance of specified National Forest System land in the Ouachita National Forest in Oklahoma to the Indian Nations Council, Inc., of the Boy Scouts of America. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1832)
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
FCC Technical Expertise Capacity Heightening Act

Bill: 112-s-611
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2011-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: 
FCC Technical Expertise Capacity Heightening Act or the FCC TECH Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to permit each commissioner to appoint an electrical engineer or computer scientist to provide technical consultation and to interface with the Office of Engineering and Technology and other Federal Communications Commission (FCC) bureaus and technical staff. 
 
Directs the FCC Chairman to enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences to complete a specified study of, and report on, FCC technical policy decisionmaking and the technical personnel at the FCC.
 
Requires the FCC to biennially (currently, annually) review and report on competitive market conditions with respect to domestic and international satellite communications services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1832-1833)
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Strategic Petroleum Demand Response Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-612
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2011-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Oil and gas
Strategic materials and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: 
Strategic Petroleum Demand Response Act of 2011 - Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to direct the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to develop and implement: (1) a strategic petroleum demand response plan to reduce the consumption of petroleum products by the federal government, and (2) a voluntary response plan to encourage individual companies and state and local governments to reduce the consumption of petroleum products in conjunction with the strategic petroleum demand response plan.
 
Requires proceeds from the sale of petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to be used to: (1) implement the strategic petroleum demand response plan required by this Act, (2) procure electric vehicles for the federal government, or (3) work with the rental car industry to expand electric vehicle options for federal employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1833)
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate