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End Racial Profiling Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-1670
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2011-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Border security and unlawful immigration
Civil actions and liability
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Customs enforcement
Department of Justice
Government information and archives
Government liability
Law enforcement administration and funding
Racial and ethnic relations
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-06
text: 
End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 - Prohibits any law enforcement agent or agency from engaging in racial profiling. Grants the United States or an individual injured by racial profiling the right to obtain declaratory or injunctive relief.
 
Requires federal law enforcement agencies to maintain adequate policies and procedures to eliminate racial profiling and to cease existing practices that permit racial profiling.
 
Requires state or local governmental entities or state, local, or tribal law enforcement agencies that apply for grants under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program and the Cops on the Beat Program to certify that they maintain adequate policies and procedures for eliminating racial profiling and have eliminated any existing practices that permit or encourage racial profiling. 
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants and contracts for the collection of data relating to racial profiling and for the development of best practices and systems to eliminate racial profiling. Requires the Attorney General to issue regulations for the collection and compilation of data on racial profiling and for the implementation of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Committee on the Judiciary Senate Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 112-944.
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6481-6482)
action_date: 2011-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-10-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6339-6340)
action_date: 2011-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Foreign Earnings Reinvestment Act

Bill: 112-s-1671
Sponsor: Sen. Hagan, Kay R. [D-NC]
Introduced: 2011-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Taxation of foreign income
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-06
text: 
Foreign Earnings Reinvestment Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend the election allowed to a domestic corporation to deduct current and accumulated dividends received from a controlled foreign corporation to the corporation's last taxable year beginning before the enactment of this Act or the first taxable year which begins during the one-year period beginning on such enactment date, (2) reduce tax rates on foreign earnings of domestic corporations that reinvest such earnings in the United States and that expand their payrolls over 2010 levels, and (3) increase the taxable income of domestic corporations that fail to maintain employment levels in the 23-month period after receiving a reduction in tax rates under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor Elimination Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-1672
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2011-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Jurisdiction and venue

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-06
text: 
Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor Elimination Act of 2011 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to provide that anyone within the United States who enters into a conspiracy to possess or traffic in controlled substances outside the United States, or who aids or abets others in such conduct, shall be subject to the same penalties that would apply to such conduct if it were to occur within the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Effective Teaching and Leading Act

Bill: 112-s-1674
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2011-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-06
text: 
Effective Teaching and Leading Act - Amends title II (Preparing, Training, and Recruiting High Quality Teachers and Principals) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to create a new Part E: Building School Capacity for Effective Teaching and Leadership.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to allot grants to states for subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to improve teaching and school leadership through a system of teacher and principal induction, professional development, and evaluation that is developed, implemented, and evaluated in collaboration with local teacher, principal, and school leader organizations and preparation programs.
 
Requires LEAs to include in such system: (1) a comprehensive, coherent, high quality formalized induction program for beginning teachers during their first two years of full-time employment; (2) high-quality effective professional development for teachers, principals, school librarians, and other school leaders at their lowest achieving schools; (3) a rigorous, transparent, and equitable teacher and principal evaluation system for all their schools; (4) ongoing high-quality support, coaching, and professional development for principals and other school leaders at their lowest achieving schools; (5) opportunities for teachers and school librarians to assume new school leadership roles and receive training regarding such roles; and (6) significant and sustainable stipends above a teacher's base salary for teachers that serve as mentors, instructional coaches, teacher leaders, or evaluators under these programs.
 
Directs LEA grantees to conduct a valid and reliable full population survey of teaching and learning, at the school and LEA level, the results of which are to inform and be integrated into such systems.
 
Requires a formal evaluation of each system to be conducted by the state, an institution of higher education, or an external agency and the results disseminated widely.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6342-6347)
action_date: 2011-10-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6342)
action_date: 2011-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Preparing Students for Success in the Global Economy Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-1675
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2011-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Performance measurement
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-06
text: 
Preparing Students for Success in the Global Economy Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Education to allot formula grants to states and, through them, award competitive subgrants to high-need local educational agencies (LEAs) or educational service agencies serving such LEAs to improve preschool and elementary and secondary school science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education.
 
Allots such grants to states pursuant to a formula that takes into account each state's share of elementary and secondary school students and each state's share of such students who are impoverished. 
 
Awards the grants to states on a competitive basis if this Act's funding falls below a specified amount. Authorizes the Secretary to award capacity-building grants to states to help them qualify for competitive grants.
 
Requires subgrants to be used for activities that include: (1) recruiting, supporting, evaluating, and training STEM teachers; (2) developing and improving high-quality STEM curricula and instructional supports to improve student achievement in those subjects; and (3) integrating STEM instruction with instruction in reading, English language arts, or other academic subjects.
 
Authorizes states to require subgrantees to obtain a commitment from one or more outside partners to match, from nonfederal funds, a portion of the subgrant funds.
 
Directs the Secretary to award competitive grants to partnerships between states or LEAs and outside entities experienced in improving the effectiveness or retention of STEM teachers, to establish and operate STEM master teacher corps programs. 
 
Requires the partnerships to: (1) select a group of highly-rated STEM teachers to serve as corps members in high-need schools; (2) provide corps members with instructional leadership responsibilities, research-based training, and a salary supplement; and (3) build a community of practice among corps members.
 
Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences, to establish performance metrics and use those metrics to evaluate this Act's programs and identify best practices to improve STEM instruction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2011-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Buffett Rule Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-1676
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2011-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-06
text: 
Buffett Rule Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers to donate an amount (not less than $1), in addition to any tax owed, which shall be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury and transferred to an account used to reduce the public debt. Requires such donation to be designated on a taxpayer's income tax return at the time such return is filed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Continuum of Learning Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-1677
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2011-10-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Child care and development
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Licensing and registrations
Preschool education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-11
text: 
Continuum of Learning Act of 2011 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to coordinate school improvement and professional development activities with early childhood development and education programs.
 
Amends the school improvement program under part A of title I of the ESEA to require states to create or revise early learning guidelines for preschool age children and early learning standards for children in kindergarten through grade three. 
 
Requires the guidelines and standards to be developmentally appropriate and cover all domains of child development and learning.
 
Requires states to encourage local educational agencies (LEAs) and elementary schools to use school improvement funds to offer early childhood education programs from birth to school entry.
 
Requires LEAs to: (1) ensure, to the extent feasible, starting with the 2015-2016 school year, that teachers placed in the early elementary school grades have a specialized early childhood education teaching license, credential, or endorsement; and (2) work with early childhood education programs to establish a continuity of curricular objectives and developmental expectations that support children's transition to school.
 
Limits the use of child assessments for children from birth through grade two.
 
Amends part A (Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting Fund) of title II of the ESEA to require states to incorporate knowledge regarding early childhood development and learning into teacher and principal certification or licensing requirements.
 
Requires professional development activities to include: (1) training in early child development and learning, and (2) joint training for elementary school staff and early childhood education program staff.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2011-10-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Saving Fishing Jobs Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-1678
Sponsor: Sen. Ayotte, Kelly [R-NH]
Introduced: 2011-10-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Atlantic Ocean
Department of Commerce
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Small business
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-11
text: 
Saving Fishing Jobs Act of 2011 - Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, with respect to multispecies fishing permits in the Gulf of Mexico, to remove a provision limiting the eligible signers (fishermen constituting more than 50% of the permit holders, or holding more than 50% of the allocation in the fishery) of a petition to the Secretary of Commerce requesting that the appropriate Regional Fishery Management Council or Councils be authorized to initiate the development of a limited access privilege program to only those participants who have substantially fished the species proposed to be included in the program.
 
Sets forth procedures for the Secretary to: (1) certify a fishery management plan (or amendment) requested by a percentage of eligible fisherman to establish a limited access privilege program to harvest in fisheries under the authority of the New England, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, or Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; (2) terminate such a program in effect on or established after enactment of this Act for a fishery under the authority of such Councils when, within specified periods, the number of eligible fishermen is at least 15% less than the number of such fishermen previously in the fishery; and (3) collect fees, including observer costs, pursuant to modified fee-setting requirements for such programs.
 
Directs the appropriate Council, within a one-year period, to develop an alternative fishery management plan for any such terminated program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2011-10-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Budget Reform Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-1679
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2011-10-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Congressional committees
Congressional oversight
House of Representatives
Legislative rules and procedure
Performance measurement
Senate

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-11
text: 
Budget Reform Act of 2011 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA) to require joint budget resolutions signed by the President instead of the concurrent resolutions now required (which do not have to be signed by the President). Revises accordingly the congressional procedures for considering budget resolutions.
 
Prescribes procedures for: (1) expedited consideration in each chamber of a presidential veto of a joint budget resolution; and (2) revision of a joint budget resolution already enacted.
 
Makes specified provisional continuing appropriations in the event that any regular appropriation bill for each fiscal year in a biennium does not become law before the beginning of such fiscal year, or a joint resolution making continuing appropriations is not in effect. (Thus prevents federal government shutdown.)
 
Requires biennial budget resolutions, appropriations Acts, and government strategic and performance plans instead of annual ones.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2011-10-11
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to assure that Congress acts on the budget resolution.

Bill: 112-s-1681
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2011-10-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget process
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-11
text: 
Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to revise the requirement that the concurrent resolution on the budget be adopted before consideration of budget-related legislation.
 
Replaces the current requirement with one that makes it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any legislation after April 15 (whether or not budget-related) unless the concurrent resolution on the budget for a fiscal year has been adopted for the budget year. Allows waiver or suspension of this requirement for an emergency by a vote of three-fifths of the Members. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2011-10-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Dairy Advancement Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-1682
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2011-10-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural equipment and machinery
Agricultural insurance
Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Livestock

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: 
Dairy Advancement Act of 2011 - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to repeal the dairy product price support program.
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to permit dairy producers, as an alternative to receiving milk income loss contract program payments, to receive livestock gross margin insurance that protects against the loss of gross margin (milk market value minus feed costs) for the initial election month through September 30, 2012. Provides for a limited subsidy.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a two-class system (fluid and manufacturing milk classes) for classifying milk under federal milk marketing orders. 
 
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize loans and loan guarantees to provide dairy producers with incentives to invest in new equipment and technologies.
 
Amends the Farm Credit Act to authorize banks for cooperatives to provide dairy processing cooperatives with lines of credit and accounts receivable financing to develop export opportunities for milk and milk products.
 
Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to revise dairy product/commodity reporting provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Rehabilitation of Historic Schools Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-1685
Sponsor: Sen. Webb, Jim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2011-10-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Building construction
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Historic sites and heritage areas
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: 
Rehabilitation of Historic Schools Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow rehabilitation expenditures for a qualified public educational facility (defined as a school facility which is part of a public elementary or secondary school and is owned by a private, for-profit corporation pursuant to a public-private partnership agreement) to qualify for the rehabilitation tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Education for Tomorrow's Jobs Act

Bill: 112-s-1686
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2011-10-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: 
Education for Tomorrow's Jobs Act - Amends part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require local educational agencies receiving subgrants under part A to describe how they will establish and carry out a school improvement program, including how they will: 
 
 
 create a network of schools or programs of study that integrate a rigorous curriculum emphasizing college and career readiness, and wraparound support services; 
 
 use school-level strategies to personalize students' educational experience; 
 
 demonstrate their capacity to implement and sustain their program;
 
involve institutions of higher education, employers, community-based organizations, parent organizations, and other stakeholders in the school improvement process;
 
provide school staff and other stakeholders with high-quality training and technical assistance;
 
facilitate student transitions from secondary schools that do not award diplomas to secondary schools that do, and from the latter to postsecondary education;
 
enable their program through policies that may include budgeting, governance, curriculum, and scheduling autonomies;
 
place students, when possible, in a school or program of study that the student or their parents choose;
 
 ensure that students are able to fully participate in their school or program of study and are not placed in a school or program of study on the basis of their prior academic achievement or status as a poor, minority, disabled, or limited English proficient student; and
 
arrange for an ongoing and rigorous evaluation of their program, and disseminate best practices.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Carson National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-1687
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2011-10-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
New Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: 
Carson National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act of 2011 - Adjusts the boundary of the Carson National Forest in New Mexico to incorporate approximately 4,990 acres of land identified as the Miranda Canyon Boundary on the map entitled &quot;Carson National Forest Boundary Adjustment&quot; and dated September 21, 2010. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 112-642.
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Introduced in Senate