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Protecting Pregnant Women and Children From Perchlorate Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-78
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child health
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental health
Environmental regulatory procedures
Firearms and explosives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Water quality
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
Protecting Pregnant Women and Children From Perchlorate Act of 2011 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) publish a health advisory for perchlorate that is fully protective of the health of vulnerable persons (including pregnant women, infants, and children), taking into consideration body weight, exposure patterns, and all routes of exposure; and (2) establish a national primary drinking water regulation for perchlorate that is protective of vulnerable persons and the maximum contaminant level of which is as close to the maximum contaminant level goal for perchlorate , and as protective of vulnerable persons, as is feasible.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Pregnant Women and Children From Hexavalent Chromium Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-79
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child health
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental health
Environmental regulatory procedures
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Metals
Water quality
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
Protecting Pregnant Women and Children From Hexavalent Chromium Act of 2011 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) publish a health advisory for hexavalent chromium that is fully protective of the health of vulnerable individuals (including pregnant women, infants, and children), taking into consideration body weight, exposure patterns, and all routes of exposure; and (2) establish a national primary drinking water regulation for hexavalent chromium that is protective of vulnerable individuals and the maximum contaminant level of which is as close to the maximum contaminant level goal for hexavalent chromium, and as protective of vulnerable individuals, as is feasible.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide a permanent deduction for State and local general sales taxes.

Bill: 112-s-80
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the taxpayer election to deduct state and local general sales taxes in lieu of state and local income taxes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S187)
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S186-187)
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to direct unused appropriations for Senate Official Personnel and Office Expense Accounts to be deposited in the Treasury and used for deficit reduction or to reduce the Federal debt.

Bill: 112-s-81
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional operations and organization
Members of Congress
Senate

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
Requires any amounts remaining of Senate Official Personnel and Office Expense Accounts after all payments are made for the year to be deposited in the Treasury and used for deficit reduction or, in fiscal years for which there is no federal budget deficit, to reduce the federal debt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Adoption Tax Relief Guarantee Act

Bill: 112-s-82
Sponsor: Sen. Johanns, Mike [R-NE]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
Adoption Tax Relief Guarantee Act - Exempts provisions expanding the adoption tax credit and adoption assistance programs enacted by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 from the general terminating (sunset) provisions of that Act.
 
Eliminates the terminating date in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act applicable to increases in the adoption tax credit and employer-provided adoption benefits.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the tax credit for adoption expenses in the taxable year in which such expenses are paid or incurred. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Drug Free Families Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-83
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
Drug Free Families Act of 2011 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require state TANF programs to implement a program to test TANF applicants and recipients for illegal drug use.
 
Requires state TANF programs to deny assistance to individuals who test positive for illegal drugs and individuals convicted of drug-related crimes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Mobile Mammography Promotion Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-84
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cancer
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Motor fuels
Motor vehicles
Sales and excise taxes
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
Mobile Mammography Promotion Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the motor fuel excise tax fuel used in any highway vehicle designed exclusively to provide mobile mammography services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Restoring America's Competitiveness in Enterprise (RACE) Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-85
Sponsor: Sen. Johanns, Mike [R-NE]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
Restoring America's Competitiveness in Enterprise (RACE) Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the maximum income tax rate on corporations, including personal service corporations, to 20% of taxable income over $50,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to close the loophole that allowed the 9/11 hijackers to obtain credit cards from United States banks that financed their terrorist activities, to ensure that illegal immigrants cannot obtain credit cards to evade United States immigration laws, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-s-86
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Citizenship and naturalization
Consumer credit
Social security and elderly assistance
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
Authorizes a financial institution, when verifying the identity of a non-U.S. citizen or national who is seeking to open a bank account, to accept only: (1) a Social Security number, (2) a passport number and the country of issuance, (3) an alien identification card number, or (4) any combination of such items.
 
Prohibits a financial institution, for such verification purposes, from accepting identification documents issued by a foreign government, other than an unexpired passport.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize and request the President to award the Medal of Honor posthumously to Captain Emil Kapaun of the United States Army for acts of valor during the Korean War.

Bill: 112-s-87
Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Asia
Conflicts and wars
Congressional tributes
Military personnel and dependents
North Korea
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
Authorizes and requests the President to award the Medal of Honor posthumously to Captain Emil Kapaun for acts of valor during the Korean War.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Ethical Stem Cell Research Tax Credit Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-88
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cell biology and embryology
Health promotion and preventive care
Income tax credits
Medical research

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
Ethical Stem Cell Research Tax Credit Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 30% of qualified stem cell research expenses paid or incurred in a taxable year. Defines &quot;qualified stem cell research expenses&quot; as expenses for carrying out basic and applied research to develop techniques for the isolation, derivation, production, testing, and human clinical use of stem cells that may result in improved understanding of or treatments for diseases and other adverse health conditions. Prohibits a tax credit for any research expenses that may involve: (1) the creation of a human embryo for research purposes; (2) the destruction of or discarding of, or risk of injury to, a human embryo; or (3) the use of any stem cell for prohibited purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Withholding Tax Relief Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-89
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment taxes
Public contracts and procurement
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
Withholding Tax Relief Act of 2011- Repeals provisions of the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 requiring federal, state, and local governmental entities to withhold 3% of payments due to vendors providing goods and services to such entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Star Print ordered on on the bill.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Family-Friendly Employer Award Act

Bill: 112-s-90
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Defense
Employee leave
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
Military Family-Friendly Employer Award Act - Establishes in the Department of Defense (DOD) an annual award to be known as the Military Family-Friendly Employer Award (Award) for non-federal employers who have developed and implemented workplace flexibility policies and practices: (1) to assist the working spouses and caregivers of members of the Armed Forces who are deployed away from home, and to assist such members upon their return from deployment; and (2) that reflect a deep awareness and commitment in response to the needs of the military family unit.
 
Establishes in DOD a Military Family-Friendly Special Task Force to provide specified assistance in the making of such Awards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Life at Conception Act

Bill: 112-s-91
Sponsor: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Abortion
Constitution and constitutional amendments

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
Life at Conception Act - Declares that the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being beginning at the moment of fertilization, cloning, and other moment at which an individual comes into being.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
21st Century Charter School Act

Bill: 112-s-92
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Credit and credit markets
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Licensing and registrations
School administration
Special education
State and local finance
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
21st Century Charter School Act - Amends the Charter School program of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. 
 
Makes public and private nonprofit entities eligible for program grants. (Currently, state educational entities are eligible for such grants.) 
 
Allows grantees to award subgrants to charter school developers or nonprofit charter support organizations and award them multiple grants to support multiple campuses of a public charter school.
 
Sets forth additional factors that are to work in favor of grant applicants, including that their state gives public charter schools funding commensurate with that provided to other public schools, has no cap on such schools, and gives the schools a high degree of autonomy.
 
Authorizes the use of subgrants to plan and implement, or expand existing, public charter schools.
 
Authorizes grantees to use a portion of the grant funds reserved for administrative expenses to improve public charter school authorizing policies and practices in their area.
 
Expands the portion of funds grantees may use in establishing revolving loan funds for loans to subgrantees for planning and operating a public charter school.
 
Requires each public charter school participating in the program to have an independent governing board that enters into a performance-based agreement with an authorized public chartering agency that describes: (1) how student performance will be measured pursuant to the state assessments required of other schools, and (2) the criteria for renewal or revocation of their charter. Prohibits such schools from giving admissions preference to any student on the basis of prior academic achievement.
 
Establishes two new grant programs awarding grants to: (1) public charter schools, public and private nonprofit entities, charter school developers, and nonprofit charter support organizations to disseminate charter school innovations to other schools and states; and (2) public and private nonprofit entities to demonstrate innovative credit enhancement initiatives that assist public charter schools in covering the cost of acquiring, constructing, and renovating facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow expenses relating to all home schools to be qualified education expenses for purposes of a Coverdell education savings account.

Bill: 112-s-93
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow payment of home school expenses from Coverdell education savings accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Home School Opportunities Make Education Sound Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-94
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Income tax deductions
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
Home School Opportunities Make Education Sound Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow all taxpayers, including taxpayers who do not itemize their deductions, a tax deduction for expenses relating to the home schooling of their children at the elementary or secondary school level.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that wages earned and self-employment income derived by individuals while such individuals were not citizens or nationals of the United States and were illegally in the United States shall not be credited for coverage under the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program under such title.

Bill: 112-s-95
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Social security and elderly assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide that wages earned, and self-employment income derived by, individuals while they were not U.S. citizens or nationals, and were in the United States illegally, shall not be credited for coverage under the OASDI program.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Title X Family Planning Act

Bill: 112-s-96
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Congressional oversight
Family planning and birth control
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
Title X Family Planning Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit federal family planning funds from being awarded to any grantees who perform abortions or whose subgrantees perform abortions, except where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. (Current law prohibits such funds from being used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning.) Excludes hospitals from such provisions as long as the hospital does not subgrant to a non-hospital entity that performs abortions.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to submit to Congress a list of grantees who perform abortions, regardless of how such abortions are funded. Makes such a grantee ineligible for family planning funds for subsequent fiscal years unless the grantee certifies that neither the grantee nor any subgrantee performs abortions that are not explicitly permitted under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Creating American Jobs through Exports Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-98
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Asia
Colombia
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Free trade and trade barriers
Latin America
Panama
South Korea
Trade agreements and negotiations
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
Creating American Jobs through Exports Act of 2011 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should: (1) continue the National Export Initiative to increase global export and investment opportunities for U.S. businesses that create jobs in the United States; and (2) submit the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement, the United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, and the United States-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement to Congress, and Congress should approve them, to create U.S. jobs and stimulate the economy by eliminating trade barriers faced by U.S. exports that result in loss of jobs in the United States.
 
Amends the Bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority Act of 2002 to authorize the President to enter into trade agreements with foreign countries regarding tariff and nontariff trade barriers: (1) on and after enactment of this Act and before July 1, 2016; or (2) on and after July 1, 2016, and before July 1, 2018, if certain congressional trade authorities procedures for implementing trade bills are extended for such period.
 
Applies certain congressional and presidential trade authorities requirements to trade agreements that resulted from negotiations commenced before enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the railroad track maintenance credit.

Bill: 112-s-100
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2011-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Railroads

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the allowable amount of the railroad track maintenance tax credit; (2) revise the types of expenditures eligible for such credit; and (3) extend such credit through 2013.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate