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Support for Survivors Act

Bill: 112-s-658
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2011-03-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Crime victims
Crimes against women
Department of Defense
Department of Veterans Affairs
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Evidence and witnesses
Government information and archives
Military personnel and dependents
Right of privacy
Sex offenses
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-28
text: 
Support for Survivors Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to identify the most appropriate and effective means for the preservation by the Department of Defense (DOD) of documentary evidence of incidents of sexual assault or harassment in which a member of the Armed Forces is the victim (covered incidents), which shall be a single means to be used by all the military departments. Requires the means identified to be in electronic form and to include the full protection of the victim's privacy and lifetime access to such evidence.
 
Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a joint task force to determine whether to establish a documentary evidence form, report, or document in lieu of forms, reports, and documents currently generated by DOD.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) report to Congress on the means of preservation identified; and (2) provide for the implementation of such means by the military departments within 18 months after the enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-03-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Home Health Care Access Protection Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-659
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2011-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Home and outpatient care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: 
Home Health Care Access Protection Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the prospective payment system (PPS) for home health services and adjustments to it for case mix changes.
 
Requires for 2012 and each subsequent year that any evaluation of case mix changes and any such adjustment be made using standards developed consistent with specified processes, taking certain criteria into account.
 
Directs the Secretary to convene a Technical Advisory Group to advise on the development of such standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1934-1935)
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
PATIENTS Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-660
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2011-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Genetics
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: 
Preserving Access to Targeted, Individualized, and Effective New Treatments and Services (PATIENTS) Act of 2011 or the PATIENTS Act of 2011 - Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from using data obtained from comparative effectiveness research, including such research that is conducted or supported using funds appropriated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) or authorized or appropriated under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to deny or delay coverage of an item or service under a federal health care program. Requires the Secretary to ensure that comparative effectiveness research conducted or supported by the federal government accounts for factors contributing to differences in the treatment response and preferences of patients, including patient-reported outcomes, genomics and personalized medicine, the unique needs of health disparity populations, and indirect patient benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1935)
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Natural Resources Restoration Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-662
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2011-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Oil and gas
Pollution liability

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: 
Natural Resources Restoration Act of 2011 - Amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enter into an arrangement with the National Academies to convene a panel of scientists to evaluate and report on the natural resource damages from the blowout and explosion of the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon on April 20, 2010, the resulting hydrocarbon releases into the environment, and the various response actions that injured natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico and in state water and land bordering the Gulf of Mexico (Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill). 
 
Requires the panel to report on the costs for federal and state trustees designated with respect to natural resource damages from the spill of: (1) restoring such injured natural resources; and (2) compensating such trustees for the loss of natural resource services from April 20, 2010, to the date the natural resources are fully restored. Requires trustees, in assessing such damages, to include a special assessment in an amount equal to 30% of the cost of restoring such resources and services or an amount mutually agreed to by the responsible parties and the trustees. Requires special assessments to be: (1) paid by the responsible parties; (2) used by trustees to conduct projects to restore natural resources injured by such spill; and (3) credited toward any other natural resource damages assessed against the responsible parties for such spill.
 
Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations establishing a program under which responsible parties can purchase credits for the cost of such projects carried out by trustees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-28
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 112-951.
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Al-Housseynou Ba.

Bill: 112-s-663
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2011-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Provides for the relief of Al-Housseynou Ba.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Wetlands Conservation Investment Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-664
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2011-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Capital gains tax
Income tax rates
Lakes and rivers
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
U.S. and foreign investments
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: 
Wetlands Conservation Investment Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat gain or loss from the sale or exchange of a mitigation bank credit by the sponsor of the mitigation bank (i.e., the wetland, stream, or other aquatic resource area that has been restored, established, enhanced, or preserved for the purpose of providing compensation for unavoidable impacts to aquatic resources) who earned such credit as the sale or exchange of a capital asset held for more than one year (thus allowing preferential tax treatment of such gain or loss). Exempts from tax withholding requirements any gain from sales of mitigation bank credits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
SECTORS Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-665
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2011-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Adult education and literacy
Economic development
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Performance measurement
Public-private cooperation
Vocational and technical education
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: 
Strengthening Employment Clusters to Organize Regional Success Act of 2011 or SECTORS Act of 2011 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require the Secretary of Labor to award renewable three-year competitive industry or sector partnership grants to eligible entities to develop strategies that: (1) encourage growth and competitiveness through work with employers within a targeted industry cluster; (2) help workers move toward economic self-sufficiency and ensure that they have access to supportive services; (3) address the needs of firms with limited human resources or in-house training capacity, including small- and medium-sized firms; and (4) coordinate with entities that carry out state and local workforce investment, economic development, and education activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury Care Improvement Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-666
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2011-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health facilities and institutions
Idaho
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Montana
Neurological disorders
North Dakota
Rural conditions and development
South Dakota
Veterans' medical care
Washington State
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: 
Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury Care Improvement Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to report to Congress on the feasibility and advisability of establishing a Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center or Polytrauma Network Site for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in the northern Rockies or the Dakotas.
 
Requires the Fort Harrison Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital in Lewis and Clark County, Montana, to be evaluated as a potential location for such a Center or Site.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-08
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 112-116.
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1936)
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Care Bureaucrats Elimination Act

Bill: 112-s-668
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2011-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Health care costs and insurance
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: 
Health Care Bureaucrats Elimination Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to eliminate the Independent Payment Advisory Board charged with developing and submitting to the President, for Congress to consider, detailed proposals to reduce the per capita rate of growth in Medicare spending.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act Amendments of 2011

Bill: 112-s-669
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2011-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Employee benefits and pensions
Federal preemption
Health personnel
Marine and inland water transportation
Transportation employees
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: 
Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act Amendments of 2011 - Amends the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act to declare that it is the intent of Congress that: (1) in a claim brought under such Act, the facts are not to be given a broad liberal construction in favor of the employee or of the employer; (2) the laws pertaining to the claim are to be construed in accordance with the basic principles of statutory construction and not liberally in favor of either the employee or employer; and (3) the system established under the Act shall be efficient and self-executing, but not an economic or administrative burden.
 
Makes compensation under the Act payable regardless of fault as a cause of an injury (no-fault). 
 
Specifies requirements for proportional payment of compensation, the last employer doctrine, intervening employment, and noncontributing employment exposure.
 
Prescribes criteria for the preemption of state law providing additional or alternative remedies for an injured employee, the employee's legal representative, spouse, next of kin, or anyone otherwise entitled to recover from an employer on account of an employee's injury or death.
 
Revises requirements for physician selection. Allows a carrier to designate one or more participating networks or one or more health care panels, or both, to provide medical services to employees.
 
Modifies the formula used to determine disability compensation, including for loss of hearing.
 
Increases allowed funeral expenses.
 
Revises requirements for: (1) determination of death compensation to survivors; (2) timing and recipients of a notice of such injury or death; (3) filing of claims; (4) date of payment of compensation; (5) assignment and exemption from the claims of creditors; (6) presumptions, burdens, and rules of evidence; (7) review of compensation orders; (8) modification of compensation awards for fraud or overpayment; (9) reports of fraud; and (10) payments into the special fund in the absence of an entitled survivor of an employee. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Green Taxis Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-670
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2011-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Air quality
Energy efficiency and conservation
Intergovernmental relations
Motor fuels
Motor vehicles
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: 
Green Taxis Act of 2011 - Allows states or political subdivisions to prescribe requirements for fuel economy for taxicabs and other automobiles if such requirements are at least as stringent as federal requirements and if such vehicles: (1) are automobiles that are capable of transporting not more than 10 individuals, including the driver; (2) are commercially available or are designed and manufactured pursuant to a contract with such state or subdivision; (3) are operated for hire pursuant to a license, permit, or other authorization issued by such state or subdivision; (4) provide local transportation for a fare determined on the basis of the time or distance traveled; and (5) do not exclusively provide transportation to and from airports.
 
Amends the Clean Air Act to allow states or political subdivisions to adopt and enforce standards for the control of emissions from new motor vehicles that are taxicabs and other vehicles if such standards will be at least as protective of public health and welfare as applicable federal standards and if such vehicles meet the other criteria specified above.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Finding Fugitive Sex Offenders Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-671
Sponsor: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL]
Introduced: 2011-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Crimes against children
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Domestic violence and child abuse
Evidence and witnesses
Law enforcement officers
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: 
Finding Fugitive Sex Offenders Act of 2011 - Amends the federal judicial code and the federal criminal code to authorize the United States Marshals Service to issue administrative subpoenas solely for the investigation of unregistered sex offenders. 

action_date: 2011-12-01
text: 
Finding Fugitive Sex Offenders Act of 2011 - Amends the federal judicial code and the federal criminal code to authorize the United States Marshals Service to issue administrative subpoenas solely for the investigation of unregistered sex offenders. 
 
Directs the Attorney General to report annually on: (1) the number of such subpoenas issued, (2) the crime being investigated pursuant to each subpoena, and (3) the number of unregistered sex offenders arrested subsequent to the issuance of such a subpoena and the information that led to each individual's arrest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 247.
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1937)
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1936-1937)
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Short Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-672
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2011-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Railroads

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: 
Short Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for railroad track maintenance, to: (1) expand the types of maintenance expenditures eligible for such credit, and (2) extend such credit through 2017.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1937)
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the conveyance of the decommissioned Coast Guard Cutter STORIS.

Bill: 112-s-673
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2011-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Alaska
Coast guard
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Marine and inland water transportation
Military facilities and property
Monuments and memorials
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: 
Requires the Commandant of the Coast Guard to convey the decommissioned Coast Guard Cutter STORIS to the Storis Museum, a nonprofit entity of Juneau, Alaska, provided that the Museum agrees to enumerated conditions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2011-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Congressional Record Printing Savings Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-674
Sponsor: Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK]
Introduced: 2011-03-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional operations and organization
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: 
Congressional Record Printing Savings Act of 2011 - Revises requirements for printing the Congressional Record, specifying that it be made electronically available promptly as it is issued in daily form.
 
Prohibits the Government Printing Office (GPO) from printing more than the minimum number of copies of the Record necessary for archival purposes. 
 
Requires the Public Printer to: (1) determine that minimum number of copies, and (2) ensure the most cost-effective printing of it.
 
Requires GPO to make the Record publicly available on GPO's website in a format which enables it to be downloaded and printed by users.
 
Repeals: (1) the authority of the Librarian of Congress to furnish a copy of the daily and bound Record to the Undersecretary of State for External Affairs of Canada in exchange for a copy of the Parliamentary Hansard, and (2) the Public Printer's requirement to honor the requisition.
 
Repeals the authority of the Public Printer, under the direction of the Joint Committee, to sell: (1) subscriptions to the daily Record; and (2) current, individual numbers and bound sets of it.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian tribes.

Bill: 112-s-676
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2011-03-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: 
Amends the Act commonly known as the Indian Reorganization Act to apply the Act to all federally recognized Indian tribes, regardless of when any tribe became recognized. (This effectively overrules the Supreme Court's decision in 
Carcieri v. Salazar, 
which held that the Secretary of the Interior could not take land into trust for a specified tribe because that tribe had not been under federal jurisdiction when the Act was enacted.)
 
Ratifies and confirms any action taken by the Secretary pursuant to such Act for any Indian tribe that was federally recognized on the date of that action.

action_date: 2012-05-17
text: 
Amends the Act commonly known as the Indian Reorganization Act to apply the Act to all federally recognized Indian tribes, regardless of when any tribe became recognized. (This effectively overrules the Supreme Court's decision in 
Carcieri v. Salazar, 
which held that the Secretary of the Interior could not take land into trust for a specified tribe because that tribe had not been under federal jurisdiction when the Act was enacted.)
 
Ratifies and confirms any action taken by the Secretary pursuant to such Act for any Indian tribe that was federally recognized on the date of that action.
 
Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on the effects of 
Carcieri v. Salazar
, including a list, which is to be published, of each tribe and parcel of tribal land affected by that decision.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-17
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 405.
action_date: 2012-05-17
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Akaka with an amendment. With written report No. 112-166. Additional views filed.
action_date: 2012-05-17
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Akaka with an amendment. With written report No. 112-166. Additional views filed.
action_date: 2011-04-07
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1984-1985)
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1984)
action_date: 2011-03-30
text: Introduced in Senate