| HB536 | Intro
Sine Die | Indian Healthcare Improvement Act of 2011 - Reaffirms existing amendments to the Indian Health Care Improvement Act and certain other provisions of law relating to health care for Native Americans. Prohibits federal funds provided by those amendments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB675 | Intro
Sine Die | Strengthening Medicare Anti-Fraud Measures Act of 2011 - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to exclude from participation in any federal health care program entities affiliated wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HJR43 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 (P.L. 111-242) to extend through March 31, 2011, specified continuing appropriations for FY2011.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB756 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of Transportation to study the detention of commercial motor vehicle operators by shippers and receivers before loading and unloading their vehicles. Directs the Secretary to prescribe standards for the maximum number of hours t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| HB650 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends title XII (Advances to State Unemployment Fund) of the Social Security Act, as added by the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act, to extend through December 31, 2012, the waiver of certain interest payments on advances...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
To House Subcommittee on Human Resources |
| HB779 | Intro
Sine Die | Spending Control Act of 2011- Establishes the Grace Commission II to conduct a review of cost control in the federal government every two years with respect to improving management and reducing costs. Directs the Commission to conduct in-depth studie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
To House Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management |
| HB635 | Intro
Sine Die | Parental Title Protection Act of 2011 - Requires federal agencies, contractors, or government-sponsored enterprises to use the words "mother" and "father" when describing parents, and not the words "parent 1" or "parent 2" (or similar words), in all ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
To House Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform |
| HB821 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the President to submit with materials related to each federal budget transmitted to Congress by January 1, 2013, a budget for each agency that contains: (1) a description of each activity for which an agency receives an appropriation in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
To House Budget Committee |
| HB669 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensuring Continuous Medicaid Coverage for Children Act of 2011 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to change from discretionary to mandatory the authority of state Medicaid plans to provide for 12-month continuous coverage of chi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB23 | Intro
Sine Die | Belated Thank You to the Merchant Mariners of World War II Act of 2011 - Establishes in the Treasury the Merchant Mariner Equity Compensation Fund for payments by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) of a monthly benefit of $1,000 to each individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| HB763 | Intro
Sine Die | Safe and Efficient Transportation Act of 2011 - Allows a state to authorize a vehicle with a maximum gross weight (including enforcement tolerances) exceeding certain federal weight limitations to operate on Interstate Highway System (IHS) routes in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| HB26 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans Mental Health Screening and Assessment Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the increasing rate of suicide among veterans returning from Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom is a serious problem; and (2) the Secretary of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB738 | Intro
Sine Die | Coral Reef Conservation Act Reauthorization and Enhancement Amendments of 2011 - Amends the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000 to extend the award of remaining coral reef conservation program grant funds to appropriate projects, including monitoring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
To House Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs |
| HB28 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans Outreach Improvement Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish, maintain, and modify as necessary procedures for ensuring the effective coordination of outreach activities of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB668 | Intro
Sine Die | Secure High-voltage Infrastructure for Electricity from Lethal Damage Act or SHIELD Act - Amends the Federal Power Act to authorize the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), with or without notice, hearing, or report, to order emergency measur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
To House Subcommittee on Energy and Power |
| HR105 | Intro
Sine Die | Congratulates Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., on 100 years of serving local communities and enriching the lives of collegiate men throughout the nation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB707 | Intro
Sine Die | Drug Testing Integrity Act of 2011 - Makes it unlawful to knowingly manufacture, market, sell, ship, or otherwise provide to another individual any product with the intent to assist such individual to use such product to defraud a drug test. Treats ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
To House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade |
| HB666 | Intro
Sine Die | Birth Certificate Enhancement Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the National Center for Health Statistics, to provide such funds as may be necessary to suppo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB706 | Intro
Sine Die | Hospital Energy Independence Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to establish a pilot program to award grants and loan guarantees to no more than six hospitals, including academic facilities that specialize in scientific research, provide pat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
To House Subcommittee on Energy and Power |
| HB676 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanded & Improved Medicare for All Act - Establishes the Medicare for All Program to provide all individuals residing in the United States and U.S. territories with free health care that includes all medically necessary care, such as primary ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB718 | Intro
Sine Die | Huntington's Disease Parity Act of 2011 - Directs the Commissioner of Social Security, for purposes of determining cognitive, behavioral, and physical disability under titles II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) and XVI (Suppleme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E315, E761) |
| HB781 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans' Employment Transition Support Act of 2011or the VETS Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a general business tax credit for hiring certain veterans certified by designated local agencies as having served on activ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB780 | Intro
Sine Die | Responsible End to the War in Afghanistan Act - States that it is the policy of the United States to ensure that funds made available for operations of the Armed Forces in Afghanistan are to be used only for providing for the safe and orderly withdra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HR103 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should initiate negotiations to enter into a bilateral free trade agreement with Turkey.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB647 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to permit a land exchange in Idaho between the Blaine County School District and the city of Ketchum involving specified parcels in Blaine County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands |
| HB679 | Intro
Sine Die | Berry Amendment Extension Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to prohibit the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from procuring specified covered items directly related to national security interests (including clothing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To House Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Management |
| HR97 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides amounts for expenses of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology for the 112th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To House Administration Committee |
| HB776 | Intro
Sine Die | Guaranteed 3% COLA for Seniors Act of 2011 - Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor to prepare and publish a monthly Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers that indicates changes over time in expenditures for consumptio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB772 | Intro
Sine Die | Extended Tax Relief for All Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers the full amount of the making work pay tax credit in 2011, less any amount received from the reduction in the employment and self-employment tax ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HCR17 | Engross
Sine Die | Declares that when the House adjourns on the legislative day of Thursday, February 17, 2011, Friday, February 18, 2011, or Saturday, February 19, 2011, it stand adjourned until 2 p.m. on Monday, February 28, 2011. Declares that when the Senate recess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HB760 | Intro
Sine Die | San Joaquin Valley USDA Rural Definition Inclusion Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to designate any part of the areas within the Counties of Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB777 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Distillery Excise Tax Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow small distilled spirits producers a credit against the excise tax on distilled spirits equal to 80% of the otherwise applicable tax on the first 65,000 of proof gallo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB786 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an employee: (1) shares of employer securities received in a qualified employee stock distribution as compensation for services that do not exceed the lowest number of employer secu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB737 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| HB749 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to taxation of U.S. shareholders of controlled foreign corporations, to permanently extend the subpart F exemption (which excludes such income from the shareholder's foreign personal holding company inco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB681 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), within 30 days after this Act's enactment, to finalize the proposed rule entitled "Oil Pollution Prevention; Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Rule Requirements...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
To House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment |
| HB712 | Intro
Sine Die | Baggage Fee Fairness Act of 2011 - Requires air carriers to refund passenger baggage fees within 30 days after the arrival of any passenger flight in which a piece of baggage is lost, delayed, or damaged. Makes it an unfair or deceptive practice for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
To House Subcommittee on Aviation |
| HB723 | Intro
Sine Die | Deauthorizes a specified portion of the project for navigation, Potomac River, Washington Channel, District of Columbia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
To House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment |
| HJR38 | Intro
Sine Die | Reappoints Robert P. Kogod as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
To House Administration Committee |
| HB690 | Intro
Sine Die | Federal Trade Commission and National Gallery of Art Facility Consolidation, Savings, and Efficiency Act of 2011 - Requires the Administrator of General Services (GSA), not later than December 31, 2014, to transfer administrative jurisdiction, custod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote. |
| HB743 | Intro
Sine Die | Hire A Hero Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain small business employers a work opportunity tax credit for hiring a member of the Ready Reserve or the National Guard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HR93 | Intro
Sine Die | Sets forth the rule for consideration of the Senate amendment to the bill (H.B. 514) to extend expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 relating to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB729 | Intro
Sine Die | Airline Passenger Bill of Rights Act of 2011 - Requires each air carrier and airport operator to submit for approval by the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) a proposed contingency plan meeting minimum standards established by the Secretary. Require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
To House Subcommittee on Aviation |
| HJR39 | Intro
Sine Die | Reappoints Shirley Ann Jackson as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
To House Administration Committee |
| HB734 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provision of the Internal Revenue Code, added by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, that imposes an excise tax on medical devices. Rescinds $39 billion of appropriated but unobligated discretionary funds. Exempts u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB747 | Intro
Sine Die | Build America Bonds Extension Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the Build America Bond program, to: (1) extend until December 31, 2012, the authority to issue such bonds and the authority for payments to issuers of such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HJR40 | Intro
Sine Die | Appoints Stephen M. Case as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
To House Administration Committee |
| HB708 | Intro
Sine Die | Safe Highway Markings Act of 2011 - Prescribes standards for glass beads used in pavement markings, limiting the arsenic or lead content to 200 parts per million. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to withhold up to 5% of the apportionment of f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| HB736 | Intro
Sine Die | Build America Bonds Extension for Rural and Urban Transportation and Highways Act of 2011 or the BABE RUTH Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the Build America Bond program, to: (1) extend until December 31, 2014, the aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB685 | Intro
Sine Die | Checkpoint Images Protection Act of 2011 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose a fine and/or prison term of up to one year on any individual who knowingly: (1) photographs or otherwise records an image produced using advanced imaging technolog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
To House Subcommittee on Transportation Security |
