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United States Postal Service Pension Obligation Recalculation and Restoration Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1351
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2011-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government trust funds
Postal service
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: 
United States Postal Service Pension Obligation Recalculation and Restoration Act of 2011 - Prescribes the "average pay" and the appropriate percentage thereof to be used in determining annuities for civilian employment with the United States Postal Service (USPS) for purposes of provisions relating to future benefits attributable to such employment in order to calculate the amount of any USPS surplus or supplemental liability under the Civil Service Retirement System. 
 
Requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM): (1) within six months after enactment of this Act, to determine (or, if applicable, redetermine) the amount of such surplus or liability as of the close of the most recently ending fiscal year using the methodology required under this Act; and (2) if the result is a surplus, to transfer the surplus amount to the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund within 15 days after the determination of a surplus.
 
Provides for an alternate determination of an USPS surplus or supplemental liability for FY2016-FY2020.
 
Requires transfer of certain surplus postal retirement contributions in FY2011 to the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund or the Employees' Compensation Fund under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA).
 
Expresses the intent of Congress that this Act shall apply to allocations of past, present, and future benefit liabilities between the USPS and the Treasury.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy     .
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
Deficit Reduction Through Fair Oil Royalties Act

Bill: 112-hr-1352
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2011-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Energy prices
Energy revenues and royalties
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: 
Deficit Reduction Through Fair Oil Royalties Act - Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from issuing new oil or natural gas production leases in the Gulf of Mexico under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to a person that does not renegotiate its existing leases in order to require royalty payments if oil and natural gas prices are greater than or equal to specified price thresholds.
 
Authorizes the Secretary, in the case of multiple lessees, to implement a separate agreement modifying payment responsibilities (including such price thresholds) with any lessee that owns a lease share. Prescribes analogous requirements for lease transfers.
 
Requires rentals or royalties received by the United States to be deposited in the Treasury for federal budget deficit reduction or, if there is no federal budget deficit, for reducing the federal debt.
 
Directs the Secretary to agree to a lessee's request to amend any lease issued for any Central and Western Gulf of Mexico tract in the period of January 1, 1996, through November 28, 2000, to incorporate price thresholds applicable to royalty suspension requirements that are equal to or less than the price thresholds specified under OCSLA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
Collinsville Renewable Energy Promotion Act

Bill: 112-hr-1353
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2011-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Connecticut
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: 
Collinsville Renewable Energy Promotion Act - Authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to: (1) reinstate the license for either or each of the projects numbered 10822 and 10823, and (2) extend for two years after the date on which either or each such project is reinstated the time period during which the licensee must commence project construction.
 
Directs FERC to: (1) transfer the reinstated licenses to the town of Canton, Connecticut, if it reinstates them and extends the time period during which the licensee is required to commence project construction; and (2) complete an environmental assessment for the projects and update the environmental analysis performed during the licensing process. 
 
Sets a deadline for FERC to make a final decision on reinstatement of either or both projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
American Jobs Matter Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1354
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2011-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public contracts and procurement
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: 
American Jobs Matter Act of 2011 - Requires an executive agency to state in a solicitation for competitive proposals that the agency may consider information that the offeror may include on the effects awarding the contract to the offeror would have on employment within the United States (jobs impact statement). Allows such statement to include a guarantee that jobs created or retained in the United States will not be moved outside the United States after award of the contract. 
 
Requires each agency to: (1) assess, annually, the accuracy of such a statement submitted by an offeror awarded a contract; (2) submit an annual report on the frequency of use of such statements in evaluating competitive proposals; and (3) track the number of jobs created or retained during the performance of a contract awarded to an offeror that submitted such a statement. Authorizes an agency to evaluate whether a contractor should be proposed for debarment if the number of jobs that the agency estimates will be created based on such statement significantly exceeds the number created or retained.
 
 Sets forth analogous provisions for defense contracts. 
 
Requires revision of the Federal Acquisition Regulation to implement the amendments made by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform     .
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Accountability and Transparency Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1355
Sponsor: Rep. Neugebauer, Randy [R-TX-19]
Introduced: 2011-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Department of the Treasury
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Reserve System
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: 
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Accountability and Transparency Act of 2011 - Amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to remove the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, an independent bureau in the Federal Reserve System, to the Department of the Treasury, where it would not be autonomous.
 
Repeals the requirement of an annual transfer to the Bureau of funds from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Subjects the Bureau to the regular authorization, budget, and appropriations process of the Department of the Treasury.
 
Repeals establishment of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Fund and of a Victims Relief Fund.
 
Replaces the authorization of appropriations for FY2010-FY2014 with an authorization for only FY2011-FY2012.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
Capital Access for Main Street Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1356
Sponsor: Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2011-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: 
Capital Access for Main Street Act of 2011 - Authorizes an insured depository institution with assets of less than $10 billion, for purposes of capital calculation under the Financial Institutions Examination Council's Consolidated Reports of Condition and Income, to choose to amortize any loss or write-down, on a quarterly straight-line basis over a seven-year period, which it has incurred with respect to: (1) a loan secured by commercial real estate, or (2) other real estate owned.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2011-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
Puerto Rico Medicare Part B Equity Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1357
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Pierluisi, Pedro R. [D-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Caribbean area
Medicare
Puerto Rico
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: 
Puerto Rico Medicare Part B Equity Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the enrollment of residents of Puerto Rico under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) to: (1) extend to three years the initial enrollment period; and (2) limit the Medicare part B late enrollment penalty. 
 
Directs the Administrator of Social Security to implement a plan to: (1) better inform individuals residing in Puerto Rico who are potential beneficiaries under Medicare part B about their eligibility to enroll and of the consequences of late enrollment; and (2) facilitate the enrollment of those desiring to so enroll.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-04-04
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: 2011-04-04
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: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
Returned Exclusively For Unpaid National Debt Act

Bill: 112-hr-1358
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Denny [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: 
Returned Exclusively For Unpaid National Debt Act or REFUND Act - Rescinds unwanted amounts, as identified by a state from a projected allocation, from any federal funds required to be allocated by formula among all states that agree to use them for a specified purpose.
 
Prescribes a procedure by which a state legislature may identify a projected federal allocation as unwanted funds.
 
 Requires such rescinded amounts to: (1) be deposited by the Secretary of the Treasury in the special fund account entitled &quot;Gifts to Reduce Debt Held by the Public, Bureau of the Public Debt, Treasury&quot;; and (2) be used to reduce the federal debt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
Temporary CDBG Public Services Flexibility Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1359
Sponsor: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18]
Introduced: 2011-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Housing and community development funding
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: 
Temporary CDBG Public Services Flexibility Act of 2011 - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to revise requirements for activities eligible for community development block grant (CDBG) assistance.
 
Increases from 15% to 25% the limitation on the amount of CDBG assistance that may be used to provide public services (e.g., those concerned with employment, crime prevention, child care, health, drug abuse, education, energy conservation, welfare or recreation needs) for FY2011-FY2012 to any local government that, based on information of the U.S. Bureau of the Census for 2009, has a population of between 250,000 and 800,000, has a land area of less than 75 square miles, and among cities having a population exceeding 250,000 ranks among the 25 having the highest poverty rates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
Child Protection Improvements Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1360
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2011-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child care and development
Child safety and welfare
Civil actions and liability
Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Elementary and secondary education
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Personnel records
Preschool education
Right of privacy
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: 
Child Protection Improvements Act of 2011 - Amends the National Child Protection Act of 1993 to direct the Attorney General to: (1) establish policies and procedures for a program for national criminal history background checks for child-serving organizations, (2) assist such organizations in obtaining access to nationwide background checks, (3) establish procedures for ensuring the accuracy of criminal history records, (4) identify individuals convicted of serious misdemeanors or felonies involving children, and (5) collect demographic data relating to individuals and organizations covered by this Act and make reports to Congress on such data.
 
Limits the liability of a child-serving organization for failure to conduct criminal background checks or to take adverse action against employees with a criminal history. Imposes limitations on the disclosure or use of criminal history records.
 
Amends the PROTECT Act to extend the Child Safety Pilot Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
Restroom Gender Parity in Federal Buildings Act

Bill: 112-hr-1361
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2011-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property
Public contracts and procurement
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: 
Restroom Gender Parity in Federal Buildings Act - Requires the Federal Acquisition Regulation to be revised to: (1) direct federal procurement executives involved in the acquisition, construction, or major renovation of any facility to increase infrastructure gender parity by constructing buildings in such a way that the number of toilets in women's restrooms will equal or exceed the number of toilets (including urinals) in men's restrooms or, if such a number is unachievable or not feasible, to receive a statement by the Administrator of General Services (GSA) as to why such a number of toilets is not needed; and (2) direct federal procurement executives involved in leasing buildings to give preference to the leasing of facilities that meet or exceed the female toilet to male toilet ratio of one to one.
 
Requires the Director of Federal Procurement Policy to issue guidance to all federal procurement executives providing direction and instructions to renegotiate the design of proposed facilities, renovations for existing facilities, and leased facilities to incorporate improvements that are consistent with this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management     .
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2011-04-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E620)
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
To ensure that members of the Armed Forces continue to receive their pay and allowances despite a shutdown of the Federal Government and in the event that the debt of the United States Government reaches the statutory limit.

Bill: 112-hr-1362
Sponsor: Rep. Yoder, Kevin [R-KS-3]
Introduced: 2011-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Military personnel and dependents
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer to the Secretary of Defense (DOD), and the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) in the case of the Coast Guard, amounts necessary to provide pay and allowances to members of the Armed Forces, including the reserves, who perform active service during any funding gap during FY2011 when interim or full-year appropriations for the military personnel accounts have not been enacted.
 
Requires: (1) such members to continue to be paid even if the debt of the U.S. government reaches its statutory limit, and (2) such pay obligation to take priority over all other government obligations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and 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: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and 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: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and 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: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in House