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Stop Government Shutdowns Act

Bill: 112-hr-1471
Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Dale E. [D-MI-5]
Introduced: 2011-04-08 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Military personnel and dependents
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-08
text: 
Stop Government Shutdowns Act - Appropriates amounts for continuing federal projects and activities at the current rate for operations and under the authority and conditions provided in the applicable appropriation Act or Acts that provided funds for them for the previous fiscal year if, as a result of a failure to enact a regular or continuing appropriation Act or joint resolution, there is a lapse in appropriations for such projects or activities.
 
 Makes appropriations, funds, and authority granted in this Act available until the earliest of: (1) the enactment into law of an appropriation for the project or activity concerned, (2) the enactment into law of the applicable appropriation Act for such fiscal year without any provision for such project or activity, or (3) the last day of the fiscal year for which such appropriations and funds are made available or such authority is granted for such project or activity.
 
Prohibits appropriations or funds made available or authority granted pursuant to this Act from being used to initiate or resume any project or activity for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were not available during the previous fiscal year.
 
 
Authorizes the use of appropriations or funds made available or authority granted without regard to specified time limitations for submission and approval of apportionments requirements; but declares that nothing in this Act may be construed to waive any other provision of law governing the apportionment of funds.
 
Prescribes requirements for: (1) denial of high rates for operation or complete distribution of appropriations in the lapsed-appropriations period, (2) the most limited funding action for continuation of projects and activities, and (3) apportionment of funds for civilian personnel compensation and benefits as necessary to avoid furloughs.
 
 Prohibits any decrease in the pay for members of the Armed Forces during a lapsed-appropriations period.
 
Requires expenditures made pursuant to this Act to be charged to the applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization whenever an appropriations bill is subsequently enacted into law.
 
 
Continues at a specified maintenance rate, through the date on which appropriations for such programs under this Act expires, certain activities with respect to entitlements and other mandatory payments whose budget authority was provided in previous appropriations Acts, as well as for activities under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2011-04-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-08
text: Introduced in House
To designate a portion of Interstate Route 710 located between post mile 5.2 and post mile 6.2 in Los Angeles County, California, as the "Jenny Oropeza Highway".

Bill: 112-hr-1472
Sponsor: Rep. Richardson, Laura [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2011-04-08 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-08
text: 
Designates a certain portion of Interstate Route 710 located in Los Angeles County, California, as the Jenny Oropeza Highway.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2011-04-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-04-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-08
text: Introduced in House
Freedom from Government Competition Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1474
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2011-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: 
Freedom from Government Competition Act of 2011 - Requires each executive or military department or independent establishment to obtain all goods and services necessary for or beneficial to the accomplishment of its authorized functions by procurement from private sources, except if: (1) such goods or services are required by law to be produced or performed by such agency; or (2) the head of the agency determines and certifies that federal production or performance is necessary for the national defense or homeland security, that a good or service is so inherently governmental in nature that it is in the public interest to require production or performance by government employees, or that there is no private source capable of providing the good or service.
 
Requires such private sector provision of goods and services to be performed through: (1) the divestiture of federal involvement, (2) the award of a contract using competitive procedures, or (3) conducting a public-private competitive sourcing analysis in accordance with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) procedures and determining that using the private sector is in the best interest of the United States and provides the best value to the taxpayer.
 
Authorizes an agency head to utilize federal employees to provide goods or services previously provided by a private sector entity upon completion of a public-private competitive sourcing analysis and after determining that provision by federal employees provides the best value.
 
Requires the Director to carry out a study, in conjunction with the Comptroller General, to evaluate the activities carried out in each agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform     .
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Domestic Refugee Resettlement Reform and Modernization Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1475
Sponsor: Rep. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI-9]
Introduced: 2011-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Immigrant health and welfare
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: 
Domestic Refugee Resettlement Reform and Modernization Act of 2011 - Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study regarding the effectiveness of the Office of Refugee Resettlement's domestic refugee resettlement programs. 
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish as head of the Office an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Refugee and Asylee Resettlement. (Currently, the head of such Office is a Director.)
 
Revises the refugee grant and contract assistance allocation formula.
 
Directs the Assistant Secretary to: (1) report to Congress regarding states experiencing departures and arrivals due to secondary migration; and (2) expand the Office's data analysis, collection, and sharing activities to include data on mental and physical medical cases, housing needs, and refugee employment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Integrity in Medicare Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1476
Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2011-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical ethics
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: 
Integrity in Medicare Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to exclude certain advanced diagnostic imaging services from the in-office ancillary services exception to the prohibition on physician self-referral.
 
(Thus prohibits a physician [or an immediate family member] who has an ownership or investment relationship or compensation arrangement with an entity from referring a patient to the entity for certain advanced diagnostic imaging services for which a Medicare payment otherwise may be made.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-04-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
S Corporation Modernization Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1478
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2011-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Business investment and capital
Capital gains tax
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Securities
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: 
S Corporation Modernization Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the tax treatment of S corporations by: (1) permanently reducing from 10 to 5 years the period during which S corporation built-in gains are subject to tax; (2) repealing mandatory termination of S corporation elections for excessive passive investment income; (3) allowing S corporations to increase passive investment income from 25 to 60% without incurring additional tax; (4) allowing nonresident aliens to be potential current beneficiaries of an electing small business trust (ESBT); (5) allowing individual retirement accounts (IRAs) to be S corporation shareholders; (6) allowing ESBTs to claim expanded charitable tax deductions; and (7) making permanent the rule requiring a basis adjustment to stock of an S corporation making charitable contributions of property. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1479
Sponsor: Rep. Latham, Tom [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2011-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aging
Health technology, devices, supplies
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Income tax credits
Tax treatment of families

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonrefundable income tax credit of up to $500 for the purchase of a qualified hearing aid for an individual who is either: (1) age 55 or older; or (2) is claimed as a dependent of the taxpayer. Denies such tax credit to any taxpayer whose modified adjusted gross income exceeds $200,000.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
To delay enforcement and establishment of certain water quality standards within the Great Bay Estuary, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-1480
Sponsor: Rep. Guinta, Frank C. [R-NH-1]
Introduced: 2011-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aquatic ecology
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
New Hampshire
Water quality
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: 
Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for five years, from: (1) requiring a publicly owned treatment works that contributes nitrogen loadings to the Great Bay Estuary to commence construction on any upgrade of a facility for the purpose of enforcing water quality standards or effluent limitations with regard to nitrogen under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act); or (2) establishing any water quality standard or effluent limitation with regard to nitrogen in the such Estuary under such Act.
 
Requires the Administrator to study eelgrass levels, and the causes of any loss of eelgrass habitat, in such Estuary. 
 
Defines "Great Bay Estuary" to mean the estuarine zone that extends from the mouth of Portsmouth Harbor, in the vicinity of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to the head-of-tide for the eight rivers (including the tributaries of those rivers) that flow into Great Bay, Little Bay, and the Piscataqua River.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Investment Property Opportunity Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1481
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2011-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: 
Investment Property Opportunity Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income gain from the sale of residential real property that is: (1) located in a distressed housing area (i.e., a county with high foreclosure rates and declining housing fair market values), (2) acquired within 18 months after enactment of this Act, and (3) held for more than three years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Diverse Teachers Recruitment Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1482
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2011-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Minority education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: 
Diverse Teachers Recruitment Act of 2011 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive matching grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) or nonprofits, educational service agencies, institutions of higher education, or states that enter into partnerships with such LEAs to: (1) recruit individuals from underrepresented groups as public elementary and secondary school teachers, and (2) provide training and retention incentives to public elementary and secondary school teachers.
 
Prohibits grants to applicants that do not serve schools that have difficulty recruiting, training, and retaining individuals from underrepresented groups as teachers.
 
Gives priority to applicants that serve the most high-need schools and those that serve schools with high concentrations of poor, minority, disabled, or limited English proficient students.
 
Requires the Secretary to evaluate the success of the grantees and compile a database of best practices for recruiting, training, and retaining individuals from underrepresented groups as public elementary and secondary school teachers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E698)
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Drug Safety Enhancement Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1483
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2011-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Business records
Civil actions and liability
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Evidence and witnesses
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Jurisdiction and venue
Licensing and registrations
Manufacturing
Trade restrictions
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: 
Drug Safety Enhancement Act of 2011 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to expand drug establishment registration requirements to include foreign drug establishments and establishments manufacturing, preparing, propagating, compounding, or processing excipients of drugs (i.e., inactive drug additives). Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to collect registration fees.
 
Requires drug manufacturers to: (1) implement an effective quality system that requires compliance with current good manufacturing practices and timely communication of product quality issues; (2) establish risk management procedures that ensure effective risk assessment, control, and communication; and (3) establish procedures that ensure the safety, identity, quality, strength, purity, and security of all drugs and other materials used by the manufacturer.
 
Requires drug establishments to maintain records on the supply chain of the drug, ingredients, and raw materials.
 
Establishes the frequency of inspections of drug establishments. Prohibits delaying or limiting an inspection.
 
Gives the Secretary authority to order the recall of, detain, destroy, and seize drugs as necessary. 
 
Establishes civil and criminal penalties for violations of FFDCA provisions.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to require documentation of an imported drug and refuse admission if such documentation is not provided.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) require drug importers to register and to comply with good importer practices, (2) require a customs broker with respect to drugs to register, and (3) establish a corps of inspectors dedicated to inspections of foreign drug facilities and establishments.
 
Requires drug establishments, importers, and customs brokers to have a unique identifier.
 
 Deems a finished dosage form drug to be misbranded if the manufacturer's website does not list country of origin labeling for each active pharmaceutical ingredient and the place of manufacture of the finished dosage form of such drug.
 
Gives the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) subpoena authority.
 
Establishes whistleblower protections.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Catastrophic Wildfire Community Protection Act

Bill: 112-hr-1485
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2011-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Judicial review and appeals
Natural disasters
Water quality
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: 
 Catastrophic Wildfire Community Protection Act - Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture (USDA) and the Interior to carry out eligible projects on National Forest System lands and public lands, respectively, which are within or adjacent to at-risk communities or watersheds if the project is consistent with the applicable community wildfire protection plan. 
 
Requires eligible projects on such lands to be carried out in a cost-effective manner that focuses on surface, ladder, and canopy fuels reduction activities or implements forest restoration activities in response to extreme weather events or natural disasters. 
 
Requires the Secretaries to prepare an environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 for each proposed eligible project and evaluate and consider an alternative recommendation if a project is or may be inconsistent with its community wildfire protection plan. 
 
Requires administrative and judicial review of eligible projects in accordance with the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
action_date: 2011-04-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Trans Fat Truth in Labeling Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1486
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2011-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Nutrition and diet

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: 
Trans Fat Truth in Labeling Act of 2011 - Directs the Commissioner of Food and Drugs (FDA) to promulgate a final regulation revising federal nutrition labeling regulations to: (1) require the label of a food that has less than 0.5 grams and greater than 0.0 grams of trans fat per serving to contain an asterisk or other notation and a note that the food has a low trans fat content per serving, and (2) prohibit the label or labeling on such a food from indicating that the trans fat content per serving is zero. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-12
text: Introduced in House