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No More Tulias: Drug Law Enforcement Evidentiary Standards Improvement Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-231
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2011-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Evidence and witnesses
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: 
No More Tulias: Drug Law Enforcement Evidentiary Standards Improvement Act of 2011 - Prohibits a state from receiving for a fiscal year any drug control and system improvement (Byrne) grant funds under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, or any amount from any other law enforcement assistance program of the Department of Justice, unless the state does not fund any antidrug task forces for that fiscal year or the state has in effect laws that ensure that: (1) a person is not convicted of a drug offense unless the facts that a drug offense was committed and that the person committed that offense are supported by evidence other than the eyewitness testimony of a law enforcement officer (officer) or individuals acting on an officer's behalf; and (2) an officer does not participate in a antidrug task force unless that officer's honesty and integrity is evaluated and found to be at an appropriately high level. 
 
Requires states receiving federal funds under this Act to collect data on the racial distribution of drug charges, the nature of the criminal law specified in the charges, and the jurisdictions in which such charges are made.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Military Success in Iraq And Diplomatic Surge for National and Political Reconciliation in Iraq Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-232
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2011-01-07 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Border security and unlawful immigration
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Conflicts and wars
Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Egypt
Energy revenues and royalties
Europe
European Union
Foreign aid and international relief
International organizations and cooperation
Iran
Iraq
Middle East
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Military operations and strategy
Militias and paramilitary groups
Oil and gas
Persian Gulf States
Racial and ethnic relations
Reconstruction and stabilization
Religion
Saudi Arabia
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Syria
Terrorism
United Nations
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: 
Military Success in Iraq and Diplomatic Surge for National and Political Reconciliation in Iraq Act of 2011 - Makes specified declarations of policy, including that: (1) the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (the Iraq Resolution) is the sole basis of authority under which the President launched the invasion of Iraq in 2003; (2) Congress authorized the use of such force to defend U.S. national security and to enforce all relevant United Nations (UN) Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq; and (3) Congress has the ultimate authority to determine whether such objectives have been achieved.
 
Repeals the Iraq Resolution.
 
Requires the withdrawal, by the earlier of October 1, 2011, or 90 days after the enactment of this Act, of all units and members of U.S. Armed Forces deployed in Iraq, as well as all security forces under federal contract and working in Iraq. Provides exceptions.
 
States as the policy of the United States to pursue regional and international initiatives to assist Iraq in achieving certain security, political, and economic milestones. Sets forth presidential actions to implement such policy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2011-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
No One Strike Eviction Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-233
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2011-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Crime victims
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Family relationships
Housing and community development funding
Low- and moderate-income housing
Public housing
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: 
No One Strike Eviction Act of 2011 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to revise the requirement that a public housing agency (PHA) establish administrative grievance procedures for one strike evictions of tenants from public and federally assisted housing for violent or drug-related criminal activity on or off such premises, or any activity resulting in a felony conviction.
 
Requires the PHA or other reviewing body, during such procedures, to consider all mitigating circumstances and the impact of such actions upon the family and dependents of that person.
 
Exempts a tenant from eviction or denial or termination of a tenancy based solely upon such individual's familial relationship to a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense.
 
Amends the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 to modify tenant requirements for PHA programs or federally assisted housing to make only an individual ineligible (currently, the entire household with the individual) if such individual is an illegal drug user or alcohol abuser.
 
Authorizes a PHA or owner to deny criminal offenders admission to such programs or housing, but not other members of the offender's household.
 
Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to exempt a tenant in public housing or housing assisted under the voucher program or any other section 8 rental assistance program from eviction for criminal or drug-related activity engaged in by a member of a tenant's household, or any guest or other person under the tenant's control, if: (1) the tenant did not know and should not have known of the activity; or (2) the tenant, a member of the tenant's household, or any guest or other person under the tenant's control was the victim of criminal activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Savings for Seniors Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-234
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2011-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Financial services and investments
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: 
Savings for Seniors Act of 2011 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to establish in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund a Social Security Surplus Protection Account to hold the Social Security surplus.

Denies the availability of the balance in the Account for investment by the Managing Trustee.

Establishes in the executive branch of Government a Social Security Investment Commission to study and report to the President and Congress on the most effective vehicles for investment of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, other than investment in the form of U.S. obligations resulting in the transfer of Trust Fund assets to the general fund of the Treasury.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To provide that rates of pay for Members of Congress shall not be adjusted under section 601(a)(2) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 in the year following any fiscal year in which outlays of the United States exceeded receipts of the United States.

Bill: 112-hr-236
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2011-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Inflation and prices
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: 
Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to provide that pay for Members of Congress may not be increased by any adjustment scheduled to take effect in a calendar year if the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) determines that the federal aggregate outlays during the last completed fiscal year exceeded the federal aggregate receipts during such fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy     .
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2011-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Homeowners Assistance Program of the Department of Defense to give the Secretary of Defense flexibility regarding setting the commencement date for homeowner assistance for members of the Armed Forces permanently reassigned during the mortgage crisis.

Bill: 112-hr-237
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2011-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: 
Amends the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 to expand access to Department of Defense (DOD) homeowners assistance for qualified members of the Armed Forces permanently reassigned during a designated mortgage crisis to allow the Secretary of Defense greater flexibility regarding the dates of the availability of such assistance. 

Directs the Secretary, in exercising such authority, to consult with the Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Treasury regarding the condition of housing markets in the area of a base or installation.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2011-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Military Retiree Health Care Relief Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-238
Sponsor: Rep. Emerson, Jo Ann [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2011-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Income tax credits
Medicare
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Military Retiree Health Care Relief Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable tax credit for premiums paid to enroll military retirees and their spouses and surviving spouses for supplementary medical insurance under part B of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Notch Baby Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-239
Sponsor: Rep. Emerson, Jo Ann [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2011-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: 
Notch Baby Act of 2011 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act with respect to the benefit computation formula for individuals affected by the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security Amendments of 1977 who became eligible (at age 62) for (early retirement) old-age insurance benefits after 1978 and before 1989 (and reached age 65 for full-retirement benefits after 1981 and before 1992).

Sets forth a schedule of additional benefit increases for such beneficiaries (and related beneficiaries), with percentages declining from 60% to 10% keyed to the year an individual became eligible for (early retirement) benefits between 1978 and 1989. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to promote jobs for veterans through the use of sole source contracts by Department of Veterans Affairs for purposes of meeting the contracting goals and preferences of the Department of Veterans Affairs for small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans.

Bill: 112-hr-240
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2011-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Public contracts and procurement
Small business
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Requires (current law authorizes) a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) contracting officer to award contracts to small businesses owned and controlled by veterans using other than competitive procedures for contracts above the simplified acquisition threshold in order to meet VA small business procurement contracting goals.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-07
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To clarify the implementation and enforcement of Subpart B of the Travel Management Rule (36 C.F.R. 212), relating to the designation of roads, trails, and areas for motor vehicle use, in administrative units of the National Forest System in California, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-242
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2011-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Appropriations
California
Congressional oversight
Department of Agriculture
Forests, forestry, trees
Motor vehicles
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: 
Bars the use of any funds available to the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to implement or enforce Subpart B of the Travel Management Rule relating to the designation of roads, trails, and areas for motor vehicle use in an administrative unit of the National Forest System in California, unless the Secretary has completed post-Subpart B project level trail planning of unauthorized routes in the unit not considered in subpart B.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Patent Lawsuit Reform Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-243
Sponsor: Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2011-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Intellectual property

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: 
Patent Lawsuit Reform Act of 2011 - Amends federal patent law to specify that the fine for falsely marked articles (articles falsely labeled or advertised to deceive the public into believing such articles are patented) is limited to $500, in the aggregate, for all offenses in connection with the same articles.
 
Requires a person bringing a civil action against a violator to have suffered a competitive injury and limits such person's damages to $500.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Reserve Act to remove the mandate on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Open Market Committee to focus on maximum employment.

Bill: 112-hr-245
Sponsor: Rep. Pence, Mike [R-IN-6]
Introduced: 2011-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Inflation and prices
Monetary policy
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: 
Amends the Federal Reserve Act to repeal the joint mandate on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Open Market Committee to make maximum employment one of the goals of their duty to maintain long run growth of the monetary and credit aggregates commensurate with the U.S. economy's long run potential to increase production.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the provision of law that provides for automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.

Bill: 112-hr-246
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2011-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: 
Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy     .
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2011-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the retention of the name of Mount McKinley.

Bill: 112-hr-247
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-17]
Introduced: 2011-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Presidential administrations
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: 
Requires retention of the name of Mount McKinley in Alaska. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Depleted Uranium Screening and Testing Act

Bill: 112-hr-248
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2011-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
Radioactive wastes and releases
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: 
Depleted Uranium Screening and Testing Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to: (1) establish procedures for the predeployment notification to members of the Armed Forces of any known or likely use of depleted uranium in a theater of operations and any health risks associated with exposure to depleted uranium; (2) provide for training deploying members on the safe handling of depleted uranium contamination; (3) carry out a program to identify individuals exposed to depleted uranium during active service in the Armed Forces; (4) provide such individuals with bioassay testing and notification of test results; and (5) identify specified depleted uranium exposure events.
 
Requires the Secretary of each military department to establish procedures for collecting, tracking, and maintaining information on the health status of individuals tested under this Act to assess long-term health consequences of exposure to depleted uranium.
 
Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to conduct an independent review of bioassay types and contamination thresholds for purposes of required testing.
 
Requires the Secretary of the military department concerned to provide appropriate treatment for any illness of an individual resulting from depleted uranium contamination or exposure.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a survey of radioisotope identification equipment used by the Department of Defense (DOD) to assess the capability of DOD facilities to identify concentrations of different radioisotopes in naturally occurring levels of uranium and to report survey findings to Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-07
text: Introduced in House