| SB3520 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment Insurance Extension Act of 2010 - Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 with respect to the state-established individual emergency unemployment compensation account (EUCA). Extends the final date for entering a federal-state a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-22
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. |
| SB2724 | Intro
Sine Die | Lake Tahoe Restoration Act of 2010 - Reauthorizes the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act. (Sec. 2) Restates the findings and purposes of such Act. Sets forth as its purposes to: (1) enable the Chief of the Forest Service, the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-21
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 436. |
| SB3513 | Intro
Sine Die | Bonus Depreciation Extension to Create Jobs Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2011 the additional 50% depreciation allowance for investment property, including computer software, water utility property, and qualified leasehold ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-21
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. |
| SB3511 | Intro
Sine Die | Promoting Electric Vehicles Act of 2010 - Establishes within the Department of Energy (DOE) a national plug-in electric drive vehicle deployment program. Directs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary) to: (1) provide, upon local request, technical assis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-18
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. |
| SB3362 | Intro
Sine Die | Sustainable Schools Pollution Reduction Act of 2010 - Amends the Clean Air Act to establish within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a sustainable schools pollution reduction program, under which the EPA Administrator shall provide competitiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-18
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 431. |
| SB3363 | Intro
Sine Die | Water Resources Research Amendments Act of 2010 - Amends the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 to: (1) authorize appropriations for water resources research and technology institutes through FY2016; and (2) require the Secretary of the Interior to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-18
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 432. |
| SB3374 | Intro
Sine Die | Cleanfields Investment Act - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a program to provide grants for: (1) inventory...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-18
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 434. |
| SB3254 | Intro
Sine Die | Employee Misclassification Prevention Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to require every person to: (1) keep records of non-employees (contractors) who perform labor or services (except substitute work), including through an en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-17
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. |
| SB3510 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the 15-year recovery period classification for qualified leasehold improvement, restaurant, and retail improvement property, for purposes of the depreciation tax deduction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-17
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. |
| SB3102 | Intro
Sine Die | Rural Energy Savings Program Act - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture (through the Rural Utilities Service) to make interest-free loans to eligible entities for loans to qualified consu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-17
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held. |
| SB3507 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require a joint congressional resolution of approval for a subsequent arrangement to an agreement for peaceful nuclear cooperation (section 123 agreement). (Under current law such an agreement becomes effective...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-17
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. |
| SB3508 | Intro
Sine Die | Global Conservation Act of 2010 - Directs the President to: (1) designate a Special Coordinator for Global Conservation; (2) through the Special Coordinator establish the International Conservation Strategy to help combat global natural resource and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-17
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. |
| SB3503 | Intro
Sine Die | International Documentary Exchange Act of 2010 - Authorizes the Secretary of State to make grants to U.S. filmmakers and nongovernmental organizations that use independently produced documentary films to promote a better understanding of the United S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-17
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. |
| SB3294 | Intro
Sine Die | Central Idaho Economic Development and Recreation Act - Designates specified parcels of federal land in central Idaho as wilderness areas and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS). Repeals existing law requiring review ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-16
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-730. |
| SB3310 | Intro
Sine Die | Tony Dean Cheyenne River Valley Conservation Act of 2010 - Designates specified lands in South Dakota as wilderness areas and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Sets forth requirements for the administration of the wilderne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-16
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-730. |
| SB3500 | Intro
Sine Die | Local Jobs for America Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor, acting through the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the Department of Labor, to provide for the allotment of funds to states, local government units, and community-based orga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-16
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. |
| SR559 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizes the historical significance to the nation, and supports the continued celebration, of Juneteenth Independence Day (June 19, 1865, the day Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War had ended and that the ensla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-16
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5046-5047; text as passed Senate: CR S5046-5047; text of measure as introduced: CR S4996) |
| SB3233 | Intro
Sine Die | Surplus Uranium Disposition Act of 2010 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to authorize the Secretary of Energy to barter, transfer, or sell uranium to eligible entities at fair market value. Requires eligible entities to: (1) obtain a combined o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-15
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-699. |
| SB3251 | Intro
Sine Die | Improving Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Use By Federal Agencies Act of 2010 - Authorizes the head of each executive agency to establish projects under which an agency head may offer to enter into cost-effective power purchase agreements, dur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-15
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-699. |
| SB3487 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric Consumer Right to Know Act or the e-KNOW Act - Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to grant an electric consumer the right to access the consumer's retail electric energy information in an electronic form, in conformity...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-15
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. |
| SB3493 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Public Health Service Act to extend through FY2012 the current authorization of appropriations for the national public awareness campaign for gynecologic cancers (Johanna's law). Authorizes appropriations in subsequent fiscal years at leve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-15
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4942) |
| SB3484 | Intro
Sine Die | Secure Federal File Sharing Act - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue guidance to: (1) prohibit the download, installation, or use by government employees and contractors of open-network peer-to-peer file shari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-14
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. |
| SB2852 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable Energy Environmental Research Act of 2009 - Requires the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere in the Under Secretary's capacity as Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to develop a pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-14
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 428. |
| SJR26 | Intro
Sine Die | Disapproves the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on December 15, 2009, relating to the endangerment finding and the cause or contribute findings for greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-10
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 47 - 53. Record Vote Number: 184. (consideration: CR S4836) |
| SR550 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the week of June 14-June 18, 2010, as National Health Information Technology Week.Recognizes the value of information technology and management systems in transforming health care for the people of the United States.Calls on all interested...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-10
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4866; text as passed Senate: CR S4866; text of measure as introduced: CR S4859) |
| SB3087 | Intro
Sine Die | Organization of American States Revitalization and Reform Act of 2010 - States that it is U.S. policy to: (1) promote democracy, human rights, and the rule of law throughout the Western Hemisphere; and (2) support the principles expressed in the Char...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-10
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 426. |
| SB3476 | Intro
Sine Die | National Emergency Centers Establishment Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish at least six national emergency centers on military installations to use existing infrastructure to provide: (1) temporary housing, medical, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-10
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. |
| SB3477 | Intro
Sine Die | Blue Star/Gold Star Flag Act of 2010 - Prohibits a condominium association, cooperative association, or residential real estate management association from adopting or enforcing any policy, or entering into any agreement, that would restrict or preve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-10
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. |
| SB1388 | Intro
Sine Die | Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Grand Coulee Dam Equitable Compensation Settlement Act - (Sec. 3) States that the purpose of this Act is to compensate the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation, Washington State for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-10
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 425. |
| SB2779 | Intro
Sine Die | Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the United States Geological Survey (USGS), to establish a nutrient and sediment monitoring network for the Upper Mississippi River Basin. Directs th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-09
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-707. |
| SB1507 | Intro
Sine Die | Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Funding Reform Act of 2009 - Requires government contributions for health benefits for United States Postal Service (USPS) annuitants to be paid first from the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund up to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-09
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 424. |
| SB3467 | Intro
Sine Die | Northern Border Counternarcotics Strategy Act of 2010 - Amends the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2006 to require the Director of National Drug Control Policy to develop, submit to specified congressional committees, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-09
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. |
| SB3387 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the release of 5,412.5 acre-feet of water from the marketable yield pool (the portion of the regulatory capacity that is dedicated to marketing purposes) of water stored in the Ruedi Reservoir (a component of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-09
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-707. |
| SB2891 | Intro
Sine Die | Hoover Power Allocation Act of 2009 - Amends the Hoover Power Plant Act of 1984 (HPPA) to modify, commencing October 1, 2017, certain statutory schedules governing contracts for delivery to specified localities in Arizona, California, and Nevada of h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-09
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-707. |
| SB3472 | Intro
Sine Die | Big Oil Bailout Prevention Unlimited Liability Act of 2010 - Amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to make the party responsible for an offshore facility, except a deepwater port, from which oil is discharged into or upon navigable waters or adjoining...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-09
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. |
| SB446 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Supreme Court to permit television coverage of all open sessions of the Court unless it decides by majority vote that allowing such coverage in a particular case would violate the due process rights of any of the parties involved.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-08
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 420. |
| SR339 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Supreme Court should permit live television coverage of all open sessions of the Court unless the Court decides, by a vote of the majority of justices, that allowing such coverage in a particular case would ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-08
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 421. |
| SB554 | Intro
Sine Die | Motorcoach Enhanced Safety Act of 2009 - (Sec. 3) Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to prescribe regulations requiring motorcoaches (manufactured more than two years after publication of a final rule) to be installed with: (1) safety seat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-08
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 419. |
| SR512 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates June 2010 as National Aphasia Awareness Month. Expresses support for efforts to: (1) increase awareness of aphasia (a communication impairment caused by brain damage that typically results from a stroke); and (2) make the voices of people ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-07
Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S4627) |
| SB3455 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 101) Authorizes appropriations for FY2011 for procurement for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-04
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 415. |
| SB3456 | Intro
Sine Die | Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 - Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 - (Sec. 2002) Terminates all authorizations contained in Titles XXI through...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-04
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 416. |
| SB3457 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Energy National Security Act for Fiscal Year 2011 - Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI [sic]: Department of Energy National Security Programs - Subtitle A: National Se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-04
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 417. |
| SB2895 | Intro
Sine Die | Oregon Eastside Forests Restoration, Old Growth Protection, and Jobs Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Chief of the Forest Service, to manage certain forest, stream, grassland, wetland, alpine, and other land and water l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-04
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-682. |
| SB3436 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to require the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to provide rebates for expenditures made by entities: (1) for the purchase and installation of a new electric motor that has a nominal full load e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-27
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. |
| SB3441 | Intro
Sine Die | All Students Achieving through Reform Act of 2010 or All-STAR Act of 2010 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to certain eligible entities and, through them, sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-27
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4541-4544) |
| SB3442 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric Vehicle Deployment Act of 2010 - Establishes within the Department of Energy (DOE) a national electric drive vehicle deployment program. Directs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary) to: (1) develop a national plan for electric drive vehicle ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-27
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. |
| SB3451 | Intro
Sine Die | United States-Israel Rocket and Missile Defense Cooperation and Support Act - Authorizes the President to provide assistance to the government of Israel for the procurement, maintenance, and sustainment of the Iron Dome Short Range Artillery Rocket D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-27
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. |
| SB1782 | Pass | (This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on March 16, 2010. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Federal Judiciary Administrative Improvements Act of 2010 - Amends the federal judicial code to: (1) remove the po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-27
Became Public Law No: 111-174. |
| SB3333 | Pass | (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House passed version is repeated here.) Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010- Title I: Statutory Licenses - (Sec. 102) Requires a satellite ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-27
Became Public Law No: 111-175. |
| SB3448 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensuring All Students Year-round (EASY) Access to Meals and Snacks Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to reimburse private nonprofit and local government service institutions (other than public schools) under the school lun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-27
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. |
