| SB446 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Ruben Mkoian, Asmik Karapetian, and Arthur Mkoyan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB434 | Intro
Sine Die | Teaching Geography is Fundamental Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a geography education grant program under title II (Teacher Quality Enhancement). Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award a grant to a national nonpro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-02
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB442 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Robert Liang and Alice Liang.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB465 | Intro
Sine Die | Senior Financial Empowerment Act of 2011 - Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC): (1) to disseminate to seniors and their families and caregivers information on mail, telemarketing, and Internet fraud targeting seniors, including on ways of ref...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB449 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Joseph Gabra and Sharon Kamel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB452 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Alfredo Plascencia Lopez and Maria Del Refugio Plascencia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB440 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Jose Buendia Balderas, Alicia Aranda De Buendia, and Ana Laura Buendia Aranda.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB431 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Marshals Service 225th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, in commemoration of the 225th anniversary of the establishment of the United States Marshals Service, to mint and issue $5 gold and $1 si...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-02
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB450 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Jacqueline W. Coats.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB444 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Shirley Constantino Tan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB456 | Intro
Sine Die | Cold Storage Reporting Improvement Act of 2011 - Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require monthly reporting to the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) of items contained in the cold storage survey and the dairy products survey of the Nati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-02
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| SB388 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits Members of Congress and the President from receiving basic pay for any period in which: (1) there is more than a 24-hour lapse in appropriations for any federal agency or department that results from failure to enact a regular appropriation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-02
Held at the desk. |
| SB443 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Javier Lopez-Urenda and Maria Leticia Arenas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB438 | Intro
Sine Die | Heart Disease Education, Analysis, Research, and Treatment for Women Act or the HEART for Women Act - Directs the Comptroller General to report on whether the presentation of clinical study safety and effectiveness data by sex, age, and racial subgro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-02
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB426 | Intro
Sine Die | Developing Innovative Partnerships and Learning Opportunities that Motivate Achievement Act or DIPLOMA Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award renewable five-year grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local consortia that incl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-01
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB422 | Intro
Sine Die | Passenger Vehicle Loss Disclosure Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to require all insurers and self-insurers of passenger motor vehicles to disclose to the public, in a commercially reasonable, electronically accessible man...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-01
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB424 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicare Ambulance Access Preservation Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to increase to 6% the rate of increase in the fee schedule for ground ambulance services furnished between January 1, 2012, and January 1, 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB425 | Intro
Sine Die | National Neurological Diseases Surveillance System Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-01
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB428 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Office of the Inspector General (IG) of the Senate. Requires the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate to appoint the first IG. Limits the IG to an initial five-year term, and two additional terms if reappointed. Requires the IG...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-01
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB417 | Intro
Sine Die | Churchill County Land Transfer Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer to the Secretary of the Navy, without consideration, approximately 400 acres of federal land that is adjacent to Naval Air Station Fallon in Churchill County, Neva...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-28
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB420 | Intro
Sine Die | Foster Care Mentoring Act of 2011 - Amends part B (Child-Welfare Services) of title IV of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants to states to support the establishment or expansion and opera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB416 | Intro
Sine Die | North Korean Refugee Adoption Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of State to develop a comprehensive strategy for facilitating the adoption of North Korean children by U.S. citizens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-28
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB380 | Intro
Sine Die | Andean Trade Preference Extension Act of 2011 - Amends the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA) to extend duty-free treatment or other preferential treatment of the products of Colombia and Ecuador through November 30, 2012. Extends through FY2013 pref...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB405 | Intro
Sine Die | Gulf Stream Protection Act of 2011 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from granting an oil or gas lease to a bidder conducting oil and gas operations off the coast of Cuba unless the bidde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB391 | Intro
Sine Die | Recovering Excessive Stimulus Expenditures for Taxpayers Act or RESET Act - Rescinds all unobligated balances of the discretionary appropriations made available by division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (stimulus funds). Req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB386 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment Insurance Solvency Act of 2011 - Amends title XII of the Social Security Act (Advances to State Unemployment Funds) to: (1) extend through December 31, 2012, the waiver granted to states for payment of interest on advances made from the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB385 | Intro
Sine Die | Dale Long Emergency Medical Service Providers Protection Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1986 to include within the definitions of "member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew" and "public safety officer" for purposes of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB407 | Intro
Sine Die | National Monument Designation Transparency and Accountability Act of 2011 - Amends the Antiquities Act of 1906 to require land reserved as part of a national monument to be confined to the smallest area necessary to ensure the proper care and managem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB378 | Intro
Sine Die | Incentives to Educate American Children Act of 2011 or the I Teach Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a refundable tax credit of $1,000 for: (1) teachers in public elementary or secondary schools or public kindergartens in rural ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB381 | Intro
Sine Die | Collectible Firearms Protection Act - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to allow the importation of certain firearms listed as curios or relics into the United States by a licensed importer without the requirement of an authorization from or payment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB415 | Intro
Sine Die | Spectrum Optimization Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish competitive bidding rules for conducting auctions of certain licensed spectrum that a licensee voluntarily relinquish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB389 | 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] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB393 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescribe A Book Act - Creates a Pediatric Early Literacy program under which the Secretary of Education awards matching grants to nonprofit organizations for the implementation of three-part models through which: (1) health care providers encourage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB400 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Federal Power Act to deny any rate or charge for the transmission of electric energy contained in any filing made or proceeding initiated after June 17, 2010, from being considered just and reasonable unless it is based upon an allocation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB374 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicare Mental Health Inpatient Equity Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 190-day lifetime limit on inpatient psychiatric hospital services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB397 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to prohibit any federal or state requirement to increase energy efficient lighting in public buildings from requiring a hospital, school, day care center, mental health facility, or nursing home...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB408 | Intro
Sine Die | Community Hospital Jobs Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to deem to meet the criteria for a sole community hospital (SCH), with respect to discharges during FY2011-FY2013, any hospital with Medicare provider numb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB412 | Intro
Sine Die | Harbor Maintenance Act of 2011 - Requires the total budget resources for expenditures from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for harbor maintenance programs to equal the level of receipts plus interest credited to such Fund for that fiscal year. Limi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB377 | Intro
Sine Die | President Street Station Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the President Street Station, a railroad terminal in Baltimore, Maryland, to evaluate the terminal's national significance and determine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB188 | Pass | Designates the U.S. courthouse under construction at 98 West First Street, Yuma, Arizona, as the "John M. Roll United States Courthouse."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
Became Public Law No: 112-2. |
| SB392 | Intro
Sine Die | Promoting Health as Youth Skills In Classrooms And Life Act - Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish an Office of Safe and Healthy Students in the Department of Education to assume the responsibilities of the Office of Safe ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB387 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs each Secretary of the military department concerned to: (1) establish procedures to implement flexible spending arrangements (FSAs) for military health care and dependent care for active-duty military personnel on a pre-tax basis; and (2) con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SB390 | Intro
Sine Die | Blue Star/Gold Star Flag Act of 2011 - 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] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB406 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in an application for a court order requesting access to business records and other tangible evidence in connection with a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB402 | Intro
Sine Die | Cold War Service Medal Act of 2011 - Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to issue the Cold War Service Medal to members of the Armed Forces who were discharged or released under honorable conditions after having: (1) served ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SB206 | Intro
Sine Die | Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act 2011or SOAR Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award five-year grants on a competitive basis to nonprofit organizations to carry out a program to provide expanded school choice opportunities to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 112-195. |
| SB369 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal in recognition of the contributions of Giuseppe Garibaldi to the nation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB362 | Intro
Sine Die | Pancreatic Cancer Research and Education Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish and implement a Pancreatic Cancer Initiative to assist in coordinating activities to address ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB360 | Intro
Sine Die | Honest Expenditure Limitation Program Act of 2011 or HELP Act - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
To Senate Budget Committee |
| SB367 | Intro
Sine Die | Hire A Hero Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow employers a work opportunity tax credit for hiring a member of the Ready Reserve or the National Guard, and (2) make such credit permanent. Rescinds the amount of appropriated ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
