| SB3434 | Intro
Sine Die | Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010 - Requires the Secretary of Energy to establish: (1) the Home Star Retrofit Rebate Program to provide rebates to contractors to be passed through as discounts to homeowners who retrofit their homes to achieve ene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-27
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4531-4539) |
| SB3430 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Tax Equalization and Compliance Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the tax credit for social security taxes paid for employee cash tips to employers of cosmetologists. Requires employers of cosmetologists to repo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-26
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4445-4446) |
| SB3421 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Against Indebting our Descendants through Fully Offset Relief (PAID FOR) Temporary Extension Act of 2010 - Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 with respect to the state-established individual emergency unemployment compensatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-26
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 411. |
| SR540 | Intro
Sine Die | Honors the entrepreneurial spirit of small businesses during National Small Business Week beginning May 23, 2010. Applauds the efforts and achievements of small business owners and their employees. Recognizes the work of the Small Business Administra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-26
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4470-4471; text as passed Senate: CR S4471; text of measure as introduced: CR S4446) |
| SR508 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses support for the designation of June 2010 as National Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiecstasia (HHT) month. Recognizes: (1) the need to pursue research to find better treatments and a cure for HHT; (2) the HHT Foundation International as the o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-26
Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4469-4470; text as passed Senate: CR S4470) |
| SB3419 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical Debt Relief Act of 2010 - Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit a consumer reporting agency from making any report containing information related to a fully paid or settled medical debt that had been characterized as delinquent, ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-25
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4221) |
| SR532 | Intro
Sine Die | Congratulates the people of China for hosting Expo 2010. Expresses the sense of the Senate that Expo 2010 constitutes an important step along the path of reform and opening up in China. Calls on the sponsors and operators of the USA Pavilion to m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-25
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 409. |
| SB3409 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Propane Education and Research Act of 1996 to revise requirements for the annual report by the Secretary of Commerce to the Propane Education and Research Council, the Secretary of Energy, and the public analyzing changes in the price of p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-25
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. |
| SB3416 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act with respect to the duties of users of consumer reports who take adverse actions on the basis of information contained in such reports. Excludes any health care practice, accounting practice, or legal practice wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-25
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. |
| SB3248 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the United States Department of the Interior Building located at 1849 C Street, NW, in Washington, DC, as the "Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-25
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 407. |
| SB3411 | Intro
Sine Die | Help Haitian Adoptees Immediately to Integrate Act of 2010 or the Help HAITI Act of 2010 - Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to adjust to permanent resident status an alien who was granted parole admission into the United States pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-25
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. |
| SB3423 | Intro
Sine Die | Veto Wasteful Spending and Protect Taxpayers Act of 2010 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to authorize the President to suspend and propose for cancellation (line item veto) any dollar amount of discretionary budg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-25
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget. |
| SB3420 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Against Indebting our Descendants through Fully Offset Relief (PAID FOR) Temporary Extension Act of 2010 - Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 with respect to the state-established individual emergency unemployment compensatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-25
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4221-4222) |
| SB707 | Engross
Sine Die | Telework Enhancement Act of 2010 - (Sec. 3) Requires each executive agency to establish a telework policy, determine and notify eligible employees, provide an interactive telework training program for eligible employees and their managers, and ensure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-25
Held at the desk. |
| SB3346 | Intro
Sine Die | Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments Act of 2010 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to increase from $20,000 per day to $75,000 per day the maximum civil liability for a person's failure to comply with such Act or any term of a le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-25
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 111-679, pt. 3. |
| SB3415 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair Pricing for Prescription Drugs Act - Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act of 2010 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to revise provisions governing the importation of prescription drugs. Waives the limitation o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-25
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. |
| SB3413 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2010 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to negotiate with p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-25
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. |
| SB2874 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2000 Louisiana Avenue in New Orleans, Louisiana, as the "Roy Rondeno, Sr. Post Office Building."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-25
Held at the desk. |
| SB3200 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 23 Genesee Street in Hornell, New York, as the "Zachary Smith Post Office Building."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-25
Held at the desk. |
| SB3217 | Intro
Sine Die | Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 - Financial Stability Act of 2010 - Establishes the Financial Stability Oversight Council to: (1) identify risks to the financial stability of the United States; (2) promote market discipline; and (3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-25
Returned to the Calendar. Calendar No. 349. |
| SB3066 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Non-Foreign Area Retirement Equity Assurance Act of 2009 to require the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to prescribe rules governing establishment and adjustment of saved or retained rates for any employee subject to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-24
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 400. |
| SB3099 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), upon the request of the licensee for the project numbered 12423 (American Falls Reservoir, Idaho), to reinstate the license and extend for three years after enactment of this Act the time perio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-24
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 403. |
| SB3100 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), upon the request of the licensee for the project numbered 12063 (Little Wood River Ranch, Idaho), to: (1) extend for three years after enactment of this Act the time period during which the lic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-24
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 404. |
| SB3402 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable Energy Access Through Leasing Act of 2010 or the REAL Act of 2010- Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make loan guarantees for the financing of renewable energy systems leased for residential use. Prohibits t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-24
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. |
| SB1562 | Intro
Sine Die | Title I: Arctic Ocean Research - Arctic Ocean Research and Science Policy Review Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to request the National Research Council to conduct a study on the existing research and research advisory entities of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-24
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 401. |
| SB2856 | Intro
Sine Die | International Fisheries Agreement Clarification Act - Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to recognize the United States-Canada Transboundary Resource Sharing Understanding (and other related fishery management Underst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-24
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 402. |
| SB1067 | Pass | Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009 - (Sec. 4) Directs the President to submit to Congress a regional strategy to guide U.S. support for multilateral efforts to eliminate the threat to civilians and regional st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-24
Became Public Law No: 111-172. |
| SB3406 | Intro
Sine Die | Reserve Retirement Deployment Credit Correction Act - Removes the requirement that days of active duty or active service used to reduce the minimum age at which a member of the reserves may retire for non-regular (reserve) service must occur in the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-24
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. |
| SR536 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates June 1, 2010, as Declaration of Conscience Day. Recognizes the 60th anniversary of the landmark "Declaration of Conscience" speech delivered by Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Pays tribute to the Senator's integrity and courage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-20
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4104-4106; text as passed Senate: CR S4106; text of measure as introduced: CR S4092) |
| SB713 | Engross
Sine Die | FEMA Accountability Act of 2009 - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to: (1) complete an assessment to determine the number of temporary housing units purchased by FEMA that it needs to maintain in stock to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-20
To House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment |
| SB3388 | Intro
Sine Die | Service Member Second Amendment Protection Act of 2010 - Prohibits the Secretary of Defense (DOD) from prohibiting, issuing any requirement relating to, or collecting or recording any information relating to the otherwise lawful acquisition, possessi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-20
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. |
| SB3389 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts individuals who receive certain educational assistance for service in the Selected Reserve from limitations on the receipt of assistance under Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program for additional service, as long as such individuals have s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-20
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. |
| SB3390 | Intro
Sine Die | Student Nondiscrimination Act of 2010 - Prohibits public school students from being excluded from participating in, or subject to discrimination under, any federally-assisted educational program on the basis of their actual or perceived sexual orient...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-20
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4085-4086) |
| SB3391 | Intro
Sine Die | Restoring Ecosystem Sustainability and Protection on the Delta Act - Amends the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 to accelerate from FY2017 to FY2010 the allocation of certain Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease revenues from covered leases amo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-20
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. |
| SB3392 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to evaluate the significance of the Newtown Battlefield in Chemung County, New York (where the Battle of Newtown was fought on August 29, 1779, during the Revolutionary War), a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-20
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. |
| SB3393 | Intro
Sine Die | COBRA Health Benefits Extension Act of 2010 - Extends COBRA coverage (health insurance continuation benefits) until the earlier of: (1) the first date in which an individual is eligible for coverage under an employment-based health plan; or (2) the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-20
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. |
| SB3394 | Intro
Sine Die | Strengthening Entrepreneurship for America's Veterans Act of 2010 - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Associate Administrator for Veterans Business Development of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish an online mechanism to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-20
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4087-4090) |
| SB3395 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable Energy Market Access Program Act - Directs the Under Secretary for International Trade of the Department of Commerce to establish and carry out a program to provide cost-sharing assistance to nonprofit trade associations in the United State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-20
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4091-4092) |
| SB2921 | Intro
Sine Die | California Desert Protection Act of 2010 - Amends the California Desert Protection Act of 1994 to, among other things: (1) establish or designate national monuments, wilderness areas, a special management area, and off-highway vehicle recreation area...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-20
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 111-625. |
| SB1939 | Intro
Sine Die | Agent Orange Equity Act of 2009 - Includes as part of the Republic of Vietnam, for purposes of the presumption of service connection for diseases associated with exposure by veterans to certain herbicide agents while in Vietnam, such Republic's inlan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-19
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB1940 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to complete, and report to the congressional veterans committees on, a study of the effects on children of their parents' exposure to herbicides used in support of U.S. and allied military operations in the R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-19
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB2976 | Intro
Sine Die | Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Conservation and Recreation Act - Designates specified land and inland water within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan as wilderness and as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-19
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-645. |
| SR534 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates May 1, 2010, as Silver Star Service Banner Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-19
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4024; text as passed Senate: CR S4024; text of measure as introduced: CR S3985) |
| SR535 | Intro
Sine Die | States that the Senate: (1) welcomes the President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon Hinojosa; (2) believes that together the governments of Mexico and the United States can bring immense benefits to their people and make enormous contributions to addressin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-19
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4024; text as passed Senate: CR S4024; text of measure as introduced: CR S3985-3986) |
| SB2751 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Big Spring, Texas, as the "George H. O'Brien, Jr., Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-19
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB3271 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Event History Information Capturing Leads to Engineering Safety Improvements Act of 2010 or VEHICLE Safety Improvements Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to promulgate regulations to require: (1) each new light-, med...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-19
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Hearings held. |
| SB3286 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to commence a two-year pilot program to assess the feasibility and advisability of awarding grants to state or local government agencies or nonprofit organizations to provide assistance to veterans who a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-19
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB3035 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury Care Improvement Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to report to Congress on the feasibility and advisability of establishing a Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center or Polytrauma Network Site for the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-19
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB3314 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Appalachian Regional Commission to carry out a program of outreach to veterans who reside in the Appalachian region in order to increase their awareness, access, and use of federal, state, and lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-19
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB1780 | Intro
Sine Die | Honor America's Guard-Reserve Retirees Act - Deems as active-duty service, for purposes of benefits provided through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the service of a person entitled to retired pay for nonregular (reserve) service or, but for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-19
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. |
