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[Q]: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Health Care Waiver Fairness Act of
2011''.

SEC. 2. PPACA WAIVER PROCESS.

(a) In General.--Title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act (Public Law 111-148) is amended by adding at the end the
following new subtitle:

''Subtitle G--Waiver Process

''SEC. 1601. ESTABLISHMENT OF WAIVER PROCESS.

''(a) In General.--The applicable authorities (as defined in
subsection (c)) shall collectively establish a process (in this section
referred to as the 'waiver process') under which the administrator of a
health plan, an employer, an individual, or other entity may seek to
waive the application of a requirement under this title with respect to
such plan, employer, individual, or entity. Among the requirements
under this title, such process shall apply to the following:
''(1) Section 5000A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
(relating to requirement to maintain minimum essential
coverage), as inserted by section 1501(b).
''(2) Section 6055 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
(relating to reporting of health insurance coverage), as
inserted by section 1502(a).
''(3) Section 18A of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
(42 U.S.C. 218a, relating to automatic enrollment for employees
of large employers), as inserted by section 1511.
''(4) Section 18B of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
(42 U.S.C. 218b, relating to notice to employees), as inserted
by section 1512.
''(5) Section 4980H of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
(relating to shared responsibility for employers regarding
health coverage), as inserted by section 1513(a).
''(6) Section 6056 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
(relating to certain employers required to report on health
insurance coverage), as inserted by section 1514(a).
''(7) Section 10108 (relating to free choice vouchers).
''(8) Regulations regarding the treatment of group health
plans or health insurance coverage as a grandfathered health
plan (as defined in section 1251(e)).
''(9) Section 2718(b) of the Public Health Service Act
(relating to medical loss ratios), as inserted by section 1001.
''(b) Waiver Process.--
''(1) In general.--The applicable authorities shall
establish the waiver process consistent with the following:
''(A) Notice and guidance.--Public notice and
guidance shall be provided regarding the process for
submission of waiver requests.
''(B) Standard.--A waiver request with respect to
the application of a requirement to a plan, employer,
individual, or entity shall be accompanied by a
statement that--
''(i) identifies the specific requirement
(or requirements) to be waived; and
''(ii) describes how the imposition of each
specific requirement for which a waiver is
requested on the plan, employer, individual, or
entity would result in a significant decrease
in access to coverage or a significant increase
in premiums or other costs for such plan,
employer, individual, or entity.
''(C) Deemed approval.--A waiver request filed that
is accompanied by such a statement shall be deemed to
be approved.
''(D) Publication of data.--The applicable
authorities shall regularly publish data regarding the
waiver requests received for the different
requirements.
''(2) Treatment of approved waivers.--In the case of
approval under the waiver process of a waiver request with
respect to a requirement of this title and an entity,
notwithstanding any other provision of law, such requirement
shall not apply to such entity on and after the date of
approval of the request.
''(3) Relation to other exemptions and exceptions.--Nothing
in this section shall be construed as superceding other
provisions of this title insofar as they provide for
exceptions, exemptions, or other special treatment with respect
to requirements under this title.
''(c) Applicable Authority.--In this section, the term 'applicable
authority' means--
''(1) except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the
Secretary of Health and Human Services;
''(2) the Secretary of Labor with respect to the provisions
of this title, including amendments made by this title, that
are administered by such Secretary; and
''(3) the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to the
provisions of this title, including amendments made by this
title, that are administered by such Secretary, including
sections of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 specified in
subsection (a).
''(d) References to Requirements Under This Title.--In this
section, a reference to a requirement under this title include such a
requirement under an amendment made by this title, including as amended
by title X of this Act or by the provisions of the Health Care and
Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-152).
''(e) Public Awareness Campaign.--Of the amounts available in the
Prevention and Public Health Fund established under section 4002,
notwithstanding any other provision of law, $50,000,000 shall be
available to and expended by the Secretary of Health and Human Services
to conduct, in coordination with other applicable authorities, a public
awareness campaign of the waiver process. Amounts made available under
this subsection shall remain available until expended.''.
(b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents of such Act is
amended by adding at the end of the items relating to title I the
following:

''Subtitle G--Waiver Process

''Sec. 1601. Establishment of waiver process.''.
[A]: Health Care Waiver Fairness Act of 2011 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Treasury to establish waiver processes under which the administrator of a health plan, an employer, an individual, or other entity may seek to waive the application of a health insurance coverage requirement under PPACA. Sets forth PPACA requirements that may be waived, including those related to minimum essential coverage and employers offering health care coverage to employees.

Establishes requirements for the waiver process, including requiring submission of a statement describing how the imposition of the PPACA requirement would result in a significant decrease in access to coverage or a significant increase in premiums or other costs for such plan, employer, individual, or entity. Deems to be approved any waiver including such a statement.

Requires the Secretary of HHS to conduct a public awareness campaign of the waiver process with funds made available for the Prevention and Public Health Fund.

[Q]: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

This Act may be cited as the ''Wildland Firefighters Health
Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

For the purposes of this Act--
(1) the term ''wildland firefighter'' means an employee of
a Federal land management agency, the duties of whose position
are primarily to perform work directly related to the
prevention, control, suppression, and management of wildfires,
including--
(A) an employee of a Federal land management agency
who is assigned to support wildland fire suppression
activities; and
(B) an employee who is transferred to a supervisory
or administrative position from a position of wildland
firefighter (as defined by the preceding provisions of
this paragraph);
(2) the term ''Federal land management agency'' means--
(A) within the Department of the Interior, the
Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, the National Park Service, and the Fish and
Wildlife Service; and
(B) within the Department of Agriculture, the
Forest Service; and
(3) the term ''employee'' has the meaning given such term
by section 2105 of title 5, United States Code.

SEC. 3. CLASSIFICATION OF WILDLAND FIREFIGHTERS.

(a) Requirements.--
(1) In general.--Within 30 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Office of Personnel Management, in
cooperation with the Federal land management agencies, shall
commence development of a separate and distinct wildland
firefighter occupational series that will more accurately
reflect the variety of duties performed by wildland
firefighters.
(2) Designation.--The official title assigned to any
occupational series established pursuant to paragraph (1) shall
include the designation of ''Wildland Firefighter''.
(3) Positions described.--Paragraph (1) applies with
respect to any class or other category of positions that
consists primarily or exclusively of forestry technician
positions, range technician positions, or any other positions
the duties and responsibilities of which include--
(A) significant wildfire preparedness and
suppression activities; or
(B) activities necessary to meet any other
emergency incident to which assigned.
(4) Consultation.--Congress encourages the Office of
Personnel Management to consult with recognized employee
organizations, employee associations, and any other groups that
represent Federal wildland firefighters in carrying out this
subsection.
(b) Hazardous Duty Differential Not Affected.--Section 5545(d)(1)
of title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking all after
''except'' and inserting an em dash and the following:
''(A) an employee in an occupational series
covering positions for which the primary duties are
wildland firefighting, as determined by the Office; and
''(B) in such other circumstances as the Office may
by regulation prescribe; and''.
(c) Employees Currently in 401 Series.--Any individual who, as of
the date of the enactment of this Act, holds a position of wildland
firefighter shall have the option of either remaining in the 401 series
(as in effect on such date under chapter 51 of title 5, United States
Code) or being included in the new wildland firefighter series, as
established pursuant to subsection (a).

SEC. 4. PAY AND BENEFITS.

(a) In General.--In the case of a wildland firefighter, for full-
time, part-time, and intermittent tours of duty, hours of work
officially ordered or approved in excess of 40 hours per week or 8
hours per day shall be considered overtime work, inclusive of all time
the firefighter is away from their official duty station assigned to an
emergency incident, in support of an emergency incident, or pre-
positioned for emergency response, and shall be compensable as work
time in accordance with section 5542(a) of title 5, United States Code,
as amended by subsection (b)(1).
(b) Requirements.--
(1) Amendment to title 5.--Section 5542(a) of title 5,
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end (as a flush
left sentence) the following:
''Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2), for a wildland firefighter
assigned to an emergency incident, assigned in support of an emergency
incident, or pre-positioned for emergency response, the overtime hourly
rate of pay is an amount equal to one and one-half times the hourly
rate of the basic pay of the employee, and that entire amount is
premium pay.''.
(2) Fair labor standards act of 1938.--For the purpose of
applying the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
(29 U.S.C. 201, et seq.) with respect to wildland firefighters,
no violation referred to in such provisions shall be considered
to have occurred if the requirements described in paragraph (1)
are met.
(c) Portal-to-Portal Compensation Pilot Program.--
(1) Funding.--There is authorized to be appropriated
$25,000,000 to initiate a portal-to-portal pilot program under
this subsection, commencing with the 2013 wildfire season. Any
sums required in addition to amounts appropriated pursuant to
the preceding sentence may be secured from the existing
wildfire suppression budget for the fiscal year in which the
season occurs.
(2) Duration.--The pilot program shall be carried out by
the Department of the Interior and the Department of
Agriculture for a period not to exceed 3 calendar years
beginning as of the start of the 2013 wildfire season.
(3) Report.--No later than 90 days after the completion of
the pilot program, the Secretary of the Interior and the
Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to Congress a joint
report on the effectiveness of the pilot program. Such report
shall address the effect of the program with respect to--
(A) recruitment and retention of wildland
firefighters; and
(B) any cost savings.
(4) Additional requirements.--To ensure adequate funding
and to realize maximum wildfire suppression savings, the
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture
shall take appropriate measures to ensure that total funding
for non-Federal fire suppression personnel and other resources,
by their respective Departments--
(A) for the first year of the pilot program, do not
exceed 90 percent of their combined non-Federal fire
suppression costs for the 2011 and 2012 wildfire
seasons;
(B) for the second year of the pilot program, do
not exceed 75 percent of their combined non-Federal
fire suppression costs for the 2011 and 2012 wildfire
seasons; and
(C) for the third year of the pilot program, do not
exceed 65 percent of their combined non-Federal fire
suppression costs for the 2011 and 2012 wildfire
seasons.
(d) Hazardous Duty Differential To Be Treated as Part of a Wildland
Firefighter's Base Pay for Retirement Purposes.--
(1) In general.--Section 8331(3) of title 5, United States
Code is amended--
(A) in subparagraph (G), by striking ''and'' at the
end;
(B) in subparagraph (H), by inserting ''and'' at
the end; and
(C) by adding after subparagraph (H) the following:
''(I) with respect to a wildland firefighter (as
defined by section 2 of the Wildland Firefighters
Health Protection Act), any pay differential received
under section 5545(d);''.
(2) Conforming amendment.--Such section 8331(3) is further
amended, in the matter following subparagraph (I) (as added by
paragraph (1)(C)), by striking ''subparagraphs (B) through (H)
of this paragraph'' and inserting ''subparagraphs (B) through
(I),''.
(e) Hazardous Duty Differential.--
(1) In general.--In the administration of section 5545(d)
of title 5, United States Code, the Office of Personnel
Management shall take such measures as may be necessary to
ensure that, under the schedule or schedules of pay
differentials for duty involving unusual physical hardship or
hazard, a pay differential of 25 percent shall be payable to an
individual while serving as a member of a wildland firefighting
crew.
(2) Definition.--For purposes of this subsection, the term
''wildland firefighting crew'' includes ground (hand crew,
hotshot, engine, and other fire apparatus personnel) and
airborne (smoke jumper or helitack) firefighting personnel on
the fire line of any wildfire or prescribed fuel treatment burn
or fire, as further defined in regulations of the Office of
Personnel Management.
(f) Benefits for Seasonal Wildland Firefighters.--
(1) Provisions relating to life insurance.--Section 8716(b)
of title 5, United States Code, is amended--
(A) in paragraph (2), by striking ''or'' at the
end;
(B) in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the
end and inserting ''; or''; and
(C) by adding after paragraph (3) the following:
''(4) a wildland firefighter within the meaning of section
2 of the Wildland Firefighters Health Protection Act.''.
(2) Provisions relating to health benefits.--Section
8913(b) of title 5, United States Code, is amended--
(A) in paragraph (3), by striking ''or'' at the
end;
(B) in paragraph (4), by striking the period at the
end and inserting ''; or''; and
(C) by adding after paragraph (4) the following:
''(5) a wildland firefighter within the meaning of section
2 of the Wildland Firefighters Health Protection Act.''.
(g) Buy Back of Civilian Time After 1989.--
(1) In general.--Any individual who is subject to the
Federal Employees' Retirement System as a firefighter (within
the meaning of section 8401 of title 5, United States Code) on
the date of the enactment of this Act shall be entitled to have
any qualifying firefighter service treated as creditable
service under section 8411 of such title.
(2) Qualifying firefighter service.--For purposes of this
subsection, the term ''qualifying firefighter service'' means,
in connection with an individual, any service--
(A) which was performed by such individual, as a
wildland firefighter, after 1989 and before the date of
the enactment of this Act; and
(B) for which such individual was not allowed to
receive retirement credit by reason of section 8347(g)
or 8402(c) of such title 5.
(3) Deposit requirement.--Credit for a period of service
may not be given under this subsection unless the individual
involved makes a deposit, in such manner as the Office of
Personnel Management may by regulation require, equal to the
employee contributions that would have been required (in the
case of a firefighter) for such period under section 8334(c) or
8422(a) of such title 5, with interest.
(4) Certification.--The Office of Personnel Management
shall accept the certification of the Secretary of the Interior
or the Secretary of Agriculture, as the case may be, concerning
whether an individual performed qualifying firefighter service
and the length of the period of such service the individual
performed.
[A]: Wildland Firefighters Health Protection Act - Defines "wildland firefighter" as an employee of a federal land management agency who performs work directly related to the prevention, control, suppression, and management of wildfires, including an employee who is assigned to support wildland fire suppression activities and an employee who is transferred to a supervisory or administrative position.

Directs the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in cooperation with such agencies, to commence development of a separate wildland firefighter occupational series that will more accurately reflect the variety of duties performed.

Requires a wildland firefighter's hours of work officially ordered or approved in excess of 40 hours per week or 8 hours per day to be considered overtime work. Makes time the firefighter is away from his or her official duty station assigned to an emergency incident, in support of an emergency incident, or pre-positioned for emergency response compensable as work time. Includes hazardous duty differentials as basic pay for retirement purposes.

Prohibits OPM from excluding wildland firefighters from federal employees' group life insurance (FEGLI) and from federal health care benefits.

[Q]: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Agricultural Trade Facilitation
Act''.

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS.

Congress finds the following:
(1) Pursuant to article I, section 8, clause 3 of the
Constitution of the United States, Congress has the authority
to establish negotiating objectives for the United States for
agreements related to agricultural trade.
(2) From 2008 to 2010, the value of United States
agricultural exports averaged nearly $107 billion annually.
Compared to 1998 to 2000, when the total value of agricultural
exports averaged $51,000,000,000 annually, United States
agricultural exports have more than doubled in past ten years.
(3) The Department of Agriculture's Economic Research
Service reports that each $1,000,000,000 in United States
agricultural exports supports approximately 8,400 jobs. The
Economic Research Service further reports that United States
agricultural exports supported nearly 830,000 full-time
American jobs both on and off-farm in 2009.
(4) Even as the importance of agricultural exports to the
United States economy grows, there are continued reports that
non science-based sanitary and phytosanitary measures are
restricting trade, acting as non-tariff barriers to trade. The
elimination and reduction of unwarranted sanitary and
phytosanitary barriers to trade will increase United States
agricultural exports and jobs.
(5) Sanitary and phytosanitary measures are those designed
''to protect human, animal or plant life or health from risks''
arising from additives, contaminants, pests, toxins, diseases,
or disease-carrying and causing organisms in foods, beverages,
feedstuffs, animals, or plants. Sanitary and phytosanitary
measures can take such forms as specific product or processing
standards, requirements for products to be produced in disease-
free areas, quarantine regulations, certification or inspection
procedures, sampling and testing requirements, health-related
labeling measures, maximum permissible pesticide residue
levels, and prohibitions on certain food additives.
(6) There are currently 37 active disputes involving
sanitary and phytosanitary measures being argued within the
World Trade Organization (WTO) between Member countries. These
cases have been invoked under the WTO Agreement on the
Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.
(7) While the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and
Phytosanitary Measures, to which all WTO Member countries are
parties, explicitly recognizes the rights of each country to
take their own measures, they must be science-based and applied
only to the extent necessary to protect human, animal or plant
health, and cannot be arbitrary or used to unjustifiably
discriminate domestically or between trading partners. Member
countries are also encouraged to observe established and
recognized international standards. Improper use of measures
can create substantial, if not complete, barriers to United
States exports when they are disguised barriers to trade, are
not supported by science, or are otherwise unwarranted.
(8) In 2010, a United States interagency group led by the
Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service,
reviewed more than 1,000 notifications from 50 countries as
required under the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and
Phytosanitary Measures. The United States Government commented
on 173 proposed or in-force sanitary and phytosanitary
measures. Nearly one-half of the comments were measures
regarding processed products, one-third addressed requirements
for live animals and fish (and their products, including dairy
products); and almost one-quarter were for measures that
introduced new standards or entry requirements for plants, bulk
commodities (including those made with biotechnology), and
horticultural products.
(9) Each year, the United States Trade Representative
reports that non science-based sanitary and phytosanitary trade
barriers continue to threaten, constrain, or block United
States agricultural exports.
(10) A Department of Agriculture study of the impact of
foreign technical trade barriers on United States agricultural
exports reported the presence of ''questionable technical
barriers'' in more than 60 countries affecting trade in more
than 300 agricultural products, valued at an estimated $5
billion of United States agricultural, forestry, and fishery
exports using 1996 data, accounting for about 7 percent of
total agricultural exports during that year. Although more
recent formal estimates of United States agricultural trade
effects are not available, the United States Trade
Representative continues to assert: ''[Sanitary and
phytosanitary] trade barriers prevent U.S. producers from
shipping hundreds of millions of dollars worth of goods,
hurting farms and small businesses''.
(11) The improper use of sanitary and phytosanitary trade
barriers to trade can be reduced through achieving and
implementing agreements that provide for enhanced
harmonization, transparency, equivalency, improved regulatory
practices, and more efficient and effective dispute settlement.
The elimination and reduction in use of such barriers to trade
will strengthen the international trading system by providing
certainty, predictability, and fair treatment.
(12) The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and
Phytosanitary Measures has proven valuable to United States
exporters, but experience has exposed certain inadequacies in
its rules.
(13) Accordingly, as the United States prepares for future
trade agreements, the Administration must prioritize further
strengthening of rules on sanitary and phytosanitary measures.

SEC. 3. TRADE NEGOTIATING OBJECTIVES OF THE UNITED STATES WITH RESPECT
TO THE APPLICATION OF SANITARY AND PHYTOSANITARY MEASURES
TO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.

(a) Overall Trade Negotiating Objectives.--The overall trade
negotiating objective of the United States with respect to the
application of sanitary and phytosanitary measures to agricultural
products for trade agreements between the United States and foreign
countries is to secure more open, equitable, and reciprocal market
access by strengthening the rules governing the application of sanitary
and phytosanitary measures to agricultural products.
(b) Principal Trade Negotiating Objectives.--The principal trade
negotiating objectives of the United States with respect to the
application of sanitary and phytosanitary measures to agricultural
products are the following:
(1) To strengthen the requirement that the application of
measures is based on scientific evidence by requiring parties
to the agreement to make available their risk assessments and
provide a science-based justification for regulations, in
particular in cases in which measures are more restrictive than
international standards.
(2) To encourage parties to the agreement to participate
actively in the development of international standards relating
to the application of measures and to apply those standards
whenever it is appropriate to do so and to require parties to
provide a scientific justification whenever they apply a
standard that deviates from an established international
standard.
(3) To improve regulatory coherence and increase the use of
systems-based approaches, to require parties to the agreement
to evaluate on a timely basis the health and safety protection
systems of other parties and to allow imports of products if
the system of the exporting party meets or exceeds the end-
product standards of the importing party.
(4) To require greater transparency in the development and
implementation of the measures, to require parties to the
agreement to publish proposed measures, including a scientific
justification, to provide an opportunity for interested parties
to comment on the proposal, and to take into account reasonable
concerns, and to require parties to provide significant advance
notice before implementing new, non-emergency measures in order
to provide ample time for any necessary adjustments by industry
in order to come into compliance.
(5) To require parties to the agreement to carry out risk
analysis in a timely manner consistent with the guidelines
developed by relevant international organizations, to ensure
that risk assessments are based on the most relevant scientific
data, to require parties to consider the full range of risk
management options and to ensure that the measures are no more
trade-restrictive than necessary to meet the intended purpose,
and to require effective risk communication.
(6) To improve rules governing the testing of imported
products, to require importing parties to use validated test
methods and to provide importers with the right to a
confirmatory test, and to provide the right of appeal.
(7) To promote the harmonization of export certification
requirements and to require that parties to the agreement limit
information requirements on export documents to that which is
necessary to determine whether a product meets sanitary and
phytosanitary standards.
(8) To ensure that new sanitary and phytosanitary trade
obligations are fully enforceable through an a more efficient
and effective dispute settlement process.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

(a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), this Act
takes effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and applies with
respect to negotiations entered into before, on, or after such date of
enactment for any trade agreement relating to the application of
sanitary and phytosanitary measures to agricultural products.
(b) Exception.--This Act does not apply with respect to
negotiations for any of the following:
(1) The United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement.
(2) The United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement.
(3) The United States-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement.
(4) The Doha Development Round of the World Trade
Organization.
[A]:
Agricultural Trade Facilitation Act - States that the overall trade negotiating objective of the United States with respect to the application of sanitary and phytosanitary measures to agricultural products for trade agreements between the United States and foreign countries is to secure more open and reciprocal market access by strengthening the rules governing such measures' application to agricultural products.

States that the principal trade negotiating objectives of the United States with respect to the application of sanitary and phytosanitary measures to agricultural products are to: (1) strengthen the requirement that the application of such measures is based on scientific evidence, (2) encourage parties to an agreement to participate actively in the development of international standards relating to such measures' application, (3) improve regulatory coherence and increase the use of systems-based approaches, (4) require greater transparency in such measures' development and implementation, (5) require parties to an agreement to carry out risk analysis in a timely manner consistent with international guidelines, (6) improve rules governing the testing of imported products, (7) promote harmonization of export certification requirements, and (8) ensure that new sanitary and phytosanitary trade obligations are fully enforceable through an effective dispute settlement process.

Makes this Act inapplicable to negotiations for: (1) The United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, (2) The United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement, (3) The United States-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement, and (4) The Doha Development Round of the World Trade Organization.