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A bill to provide that no Federal or State requirement to increase energy efficient lighting in public buildings shall require a hospital, school, day care center, mental health facility, or nursing home to install or use energy efficient lighting if that lighting contains mercury.

Bill: 112-s-397
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Educational facilities and institutions
Energy efficiency and conservation
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health facilities and institutions
Lighting, heating, cooling
Metals

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to prohibit any federal or state requirement to increase energy efficient lighting in public buildings from requiring a hospital, school, day care center, mental health facility, or nursing home to install or use energy efficient lighting that contains mercury.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Blackfeet Water Rights Settlement Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-399
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Dams and canals
Forests, forestry, trees
Government trust funds
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Lakes and rivers
Montana
Water storage
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Blackfeet Water Rights Settlement Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in providing to the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana the St. Mary River water right, to allocate to the Tribe 50,000 acre-feet per year of stored water in Lake Sherburne Reservoir as part of the tribal water right. Exempts the Tribe from any requirement to pay any costs associated with the allocation. Prohibits the allocation from being increased by any year-to-year carryover storage. 
 
Requires the Tribe and the Secretary to enter into an agreement to lease the water allocated to the Tribe for use by the Secretary for the Milk River Project.
 
 
Requires, as part of the tribal water right, the Secretary to allocate permanently to the Tribe all remaining unallocated water in Lake Elwell. Exempts the Tribe from any requirement to pay any costs associated with the allocation. Prohibits the allocation from being increased by any year-to-year carryover storage.
 
Directs the Secretary to carry out activities necessary to: (1) planning, design, and construction for rehabilitation and improvement of the Blackfeet Irrigation Project; (2) the completion to authorized acreage of the Blackfeet Irrigation Project; and (3) planning, design, and construction for rehabilitation and improvement of the Four Horns Dam and Reservoir and associated delivery systems of the Blackfeet Irrigation Project.
 
Authorizes, ratifies, and confirms a specified compact and the Birch Creek Agreement.
 
Holds the tribal water right in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Tribe.
 
 
Establishes: (1) the Blackfeet Land and Water Development Fund, and (2) the Birch Creek Mitigation Fund.
 
Sets forth requirements concerning: (1) water rights in the Lewis and Clark National Forest, and (2) Milk River water rights.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-20
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 112-492.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S904)
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Federal Power Act to ensure that rates and charges for electric energy are assessed in proportion to measurable reliability or economic benefit, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-s-400
Sponsor: Sen. Corker, Bob [R-TN]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Electric power generation and transmission
Public utilities and utility rates

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Amends the Federal Power Act to deny any rate or charge for the transmission of electric energy contained in any filing made or proceeding initiated after June 17, 2010, from being considered just and reasonable unless it is based upon an allocation of costs for new transmission facilities that is reasonably proportionate to measurable economic or reliability benefits projected, as determined by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), to accrue to the persons that pay such rates or charges.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Cold War Service Medal Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-402
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military history
Military personnel and dependents
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Cold War Service Medal Act of 2011 - Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to issue the Cold War Service Medal to members of the Armed Forces who were discharged or released under honorable conditions after having: (1) served on active duty for at least 24 consecutive months during the Cold War (September 2, 1945, through December 26, 1991), (2) deployed outside the continental United States for at least 30 days during such period, or (3) performed other Cold War service as the Secretary of Defense (DOD) may prescribe.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should expedite the design of the Medal as well its issuance to eligible members.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Molalla River Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

Bill: 112-s-403
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Oregon
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Molalla River Wild and Scenic Rivers Act - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (the Act) to designate specified segments of the Molalla River in Oregon as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. 
 
Amends the Act to rename the Squaw Creek in Oregon as Wychus Creek.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-11
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 112-124.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S906-907)
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Gulf Stream Protection Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-405
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Bahamas
Caribbean area
Cuba
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Florida
Gulf of Mexico
Latin America
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Mexico
Oil and gas
Pollution liability

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Gulf Stream Protection Act of 2011 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from granting an oil or gas lease to a bidder conducting oil and gas operations off the coast of Cuba unless the bidder submits to the Secretary: (1) a Cuban oil spill response plan, which includes worst-case-scenario oil discharge plans; and (2) evidence that the bidder has sufficient financial and other resources necessary for a cleanup effort to respond to a worst case scenario oil discharge in Cuba that occurs in, or would impact, the waters of the United States.
 
Requires the Secretary to implement an oil spill risk analysis and planning process for oil spill response plans for nondomestic oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico.
 
Instructs: (1) the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to conduct modeling of the Cuban waters; and (2) the Secretary to take into account any such modeling data collected.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to verify that companies operating in the United States that are conducting drilling operations off the coast of Cuba are subject to standards as stringent as OCSLA standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S907-908)
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S907)
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to modify the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to require specific evidence for access to business records and other tangible things, and provide appropriate transition procedures, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-s-406
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Evidence and witnesses
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in an application for a court order requesting access to business records and other tangible evidence in connection with a foreign intelligence investigation, to include a statement that the information sought is relevant to an authorized investigation to obtain information not concerning a U.S. person or to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities and either: (1) pertains to a foreign power or agent of a foreign power, (2) is relevant to the activities of a suspected agent of a foreign power who is the subject of the investigation, or (3) pertains to an individual in contact with, or known to, a suspected agent of a foreign power. Requires such statement to enumerate the minimization (protection) procedures adopted by the Attorney General applicable to FBI retention and dissemination of any information made available.
 
Excepts from such requirements any court order issued prior to September 30, 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
National Monument Designation Transparency and Accountability Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-407
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Coal
Congressional oversight
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Federal-Indian relations
Historic sites and heritage areas
Indian lands and resources rights
Intergovernmental relations
Land use and conservation
Mining
Monuments and memorials
Oil and gas
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Public participation and lobbying
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
National Monument Designation Transparency and Accountability Act of 2011 - Amends the Antiquities Act of 1906 to require land reserved as part of a national monument to be confined to the smallest area necessary to ensure the proper care and management of the objects to be protected by the monument. 
 
Sets forth requirements for the designation of national monuments under the Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Hospital Jobs Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-408
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Community Hospital Jobs Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to deem to meet the criteria for a sole community hospital (SCH), with respect to discharges during FY2011-FY2013, any hospital with Medicare provider number 51-0047.
 
(An SCH is one which: (1) is more than 50 miles from any similar hospital, (2) is the exclusive provider of services to at least 75% of its service area populations, or (3) has been designated as an SCH under previous rules. An SCH is allowed special payment options under the Medicare Diagnostic Related Group [DRG] program.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S908)
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Combating Dangerous Synthetic Stimulants Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-409
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Combating Dangerous Synthetic Stimulants Act of 2011 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to include as a Schedule I controlled substance any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains 4-methylmethcathinone (Mephedrone) or 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) or their salts, isomers, or salts of isomers.

action_date: 2011-07-28
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Combating Dangerous Synthetic Stimulants Act of 2011 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to include as a Schedule I controlled substance any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains 4-methylmethcathinone (Mephedrone) or 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) or their salts, isomers, or salts of isomers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-28
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 120.
action_date: 2011-07-28
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2011-07-28
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2011-07-28
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2011-04-06
text: Committee on United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. Hearings held.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Helping Our Homeless Veterans Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-411
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Homelessness and emergency shelter
Housing and community development funding
Rural conditions and development
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Helping Our Homeless Veterans Act of 2011 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to enter into agreements with state or local government agencies, tribal organizations, and nonprofit organizations to collaborate in the provision of case management services to expand and improve the provision of supported housing services and related outreach to veterans, including veterans in rural areas or underserved veterans who live in metropolitan areas or on Indian lands. Outlines support services to be provided, including the maintenance of referral networks for homeless veterans. Requires each entity chosen to report annually to the Secretary on collaborative services undertaken.
 
Includes within case management services personal health and development assistance and housing assistance for veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-08
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 112-116.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Harbor Maintenance Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-412
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Appropriations
Government trust funds
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Sales and excise taxes
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
 Harbor Maintenance Act of 2011 - Requires the total budget resources for expenditures from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for harbor maintenance programs to equal the level of receipts plus interest credited to such Fund for that fiscal year. Limits the use of such resources to such programs only.

Declares that it shall be out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that would cause total budget resources for the Fund in a fiscal year for harbor maintenance programs to be less than the level of receipts plus interest credited to the Fund for that fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S909)
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S909)
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Spectrum Optimization Act

Bill: 112-s-415
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2011-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: 
Spectrum Optimization Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish competitive bidding rules for conducting auctions of certain licensed spectrum that a licensee voluntarily relinquishes for assignment of new initial licenses subject to new service rules or for other purposes, in which a portion of the auction proceeds are shared with such relinquishing licensees.
 
Requires the FCC to commence such auctions (commonly referred to as incentive auctions) within two years after enactment of this Act.
 
Excludes such proceeds from being deposited in the Treasury under specified provisions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2011-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
North Korean Refugee Adoption Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-416
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2011-02-28 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Asia
Child safety and welfare
China
North Korea
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
South Korea

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: 
North Korean Refugee Adoption Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of State to develop a comprehensive strategy for facilitating the adoption of North Korean children by U.S. citizens.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Churchill County Land Transfer Act

Bill: 112-s-417
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2011-02-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Military facilities and property
Nevada

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: 
Churchill County Land Transfer Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer to the Secretary of the Navy, without consideration, approximately 400 acres of federal land that is adjacent to Naval Air Station Fallon in Churchill County, Nevada, and that was withdrawn under a specified public land order. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the World War II members of the Civil Air Patrol.

Bill: 112-s-418
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2011-02-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Congressional tributes
Homeland security
Military civil functions

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: 
Directs the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to arrange for the award of a single Congressional Gold Medal to honor collectively the World War II members of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) in recognition of their military service and exemplary record during World War II. 
 
Requires the Medal's display at the Smithsonian Institution. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Medal should be made available for display elsewhere, particularly at locations associated with the CAP.
 
Permits the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold medal, at a price sufficient to cover the costs of the medals.

action_date: 2012-05-10
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Directs the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to arrange for the award of a single Congressional Gold Medal to honor collectively the World War II members of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) in recognition of their military service and exemplary record during World War II. 
 
Requires the Medal's display at the Smithsonian Institution. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Medal should be made available for display elsewhere, particularly at locations associated with the CAP.
 
Permits the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold medal, at a price sufficient to cover the costs of the medals.
 
Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2012-05-14
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2012-05-10
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S3071-3072)
action_date: 2012-05-10
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S3071-3072)
action_date: 2012-05-10
text: Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S3071-3073)
action_date: 2012-05-10
text: Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S3071-3073)
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Introduced in Senate