| SB92 | Intro
Sine Die | 21st Century Charter School Act - Amends the Charter School program of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Makes public and private nonprofit entities eligible for program grants. (Currently, state educational entities are eligible f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB119 | Intro
Sine Die | Government Neutrality in Contracting Act - Directs the head of any federal agency that awards or obligates funds for any construction contract, or that awards grants, provides financial assistance, or enters into cooperative agreements for constructi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB16 | Intro
Sine Die | Patient Choice Restoration Act - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Restores provisions of law amended by such Acts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB42 | Intro
Sine Die | Strengthen Social Work Workforce Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to include a graduate program in clinical social work or a program in social work among health professions schools eligible for grants to support programs for underre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB20 | Intro
Sine Die | American Job Protection Act - Repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that require large employers to offer their full-time employees the opportunity to enroll in minimum essential coverage. Applies the Internal Revenue C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB100 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the allowable amount of the railroad track maintenance tax credit; (2) revise the types of expenditures eligible for such credit; and (3) extend such credit through 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB148 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB30 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends until January 1, 2013, the placed-in-service date for buildings in the Gulf Opportunity (GO) Zone, the Rita GO Zone, or the Wilma GO Zone after which such buildings are eligible for allocations of the low-income housing tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB131 | Intro
Sine Die | Axe the Stimulus Plaques Act - Prohibits the use of funds made available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for signage to indicate that a particular project is being carried out using such funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB25 | Intro
Sine Die | Stop Unfair Giveaways and Restrictions Act of 2011 or SUGAR Act of 2011 - Eliminates nonrecourse support loans for sugar producers. Lowers sugarcane and sugar beet loans rates each year from 2012-2014 until they are $0 for the 2015 crop. Eliminates: ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| SB18 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal a provision (added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) that extends to corporations that are not tax-exempt the requirement to report payment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB14 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Commission on Congressional Budgetary Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies. Directs the President to designate two Commission co-chairpersons. Requires the Commission to: (1) establish a systematic method for assessing the ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB32 | Intro
Sine Die | Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit: (1) the transfer or possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device, except for its lawful possession within the United States on or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB43 | Intro
Sine Die | Psychologists in the Service of the Public Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a psychology postdoctoral program to make grants to and enter into contracts with e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB79 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Pregnant Women and Children From Hexavalent Chromium Act of 2011 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) publish a health advisory for hexavalent chromium that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB6 | Intro
Sine Die | Reform America's Broken Immigration System Act - Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should: strengthen our commitments to border security; pass legislation, such as the DREAM Act, supporting national and economic security; implement a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB57 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the alternative tax on qualifying shipping activities to treat a corporation electing such tax as continuing to use a qualifying vessel in the U.S. foreign trade during any period of use in the U.S. domestic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB108 | Intro
Sine Die | Affordable Footwear Act of 2011 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the reduction or elimination of duties on certain imported footwear would provide significant benefits to U.S. consumers, particularly lower-income families. Amends the Harmonized...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB31 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescription Drug and Health Improvement Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to prescription drug plans to repeal the prohibition against: (1) interference by the Secretary of Health and Human Ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB120 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO), in coordination with the National Academy of Engineering, to conduct and submit to Congress a full audit of hurricane protection funding and cost estimates associated with post-Katrina hurricane pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB137 | Intro
Sine Die | Health Insurance Rate Review Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to declare that federal provisions requiring the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to review unreasonable premium increases in health care coverage shall not be constr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB38 | Intro
Sine Die | Equity for Clinical Social Workers Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for reimbursement of covered clinical social worker services according to a new reimbursement methodology similar to the one currentl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB60 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified sum to the Pottawatomi Nation in Canada in settlement and full satisfaction of certain claims. Excludes such payment from the provisions of the Indian Tribal Judgment Funds Use or Distribution ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB146 | Intro
Sine Die | Veteran Employment Transition Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the definition of "qualified veteran" for purposes of the work opportunity tax credit to mean recently discharged veterans and any veteran receiving specified benef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB68 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes use of Department of Defense (DOD) commissary and exchange stores by former prisoners of war who have been honorably separated from service and have a service-connected disability rated at 30% or more.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SB33 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 to designate a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System under the Wilderness Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB106 | Intro
Sine Die | Telephone Excise Tax Repeal Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the excise tax on communication services (i.e., local telephone service, toll telephone service, and teletypewriter exchange service).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB135 | Intro
Sine Die | Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act of 2011- Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to make permanent the ban on state and local taxation of Internet access and on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB4 | Intro
Sine Die | Make America the World's Leader in Clean Energy Act - Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should: promote investment in clean energy jobs and industries; free the United States from dependence on oil, especially foreign oil; reduce costs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB69 | Intro
Sine Die | Common Sense in Consumer Product Safety Act of 2011 - Amends the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 to: (1) provide that neither any sale after the first retail sale of a children's product that exceeds the lead limit nor the repair of s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB141 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) payment of home school expenses from Coverdell education savings accounts; and (2) an annual inflation adjustment after 2010 to the contribution limit amount for such accounts. Makes permanent provisions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB102 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduce Unnecessary Spending Act of 2011 - Amends the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to transmit, within 45 calendar days after enactment of the funding in question, a message to Congress with spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Budget Committee |
| SB145 | Intro
Sine Die | Older Worker Opportunity Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers who maintain a tax-qualified pension or retirement plan and who provide health insurance coverage a business-related tax credit for 25% of the first $6,000 of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB142 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires conveyance of approximately 44 acres of federally owned land administered by the Agricultural Research Service which comprises part of the National Animal Disease Center in the city of Ames, Iowa, to the city of Ames and its assigns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| SB74 | Intro
Sine Die | Internet Freedom, Broadband Promotion, and Consumer Protection Act of 2011 - Amends title II (Common Carriers) of the Communications Act of 1934 to add the following provisions (commonly referred to as net neutrality provisions) prohibiting a broadba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB41 | Intro
Sine Die | National Office for Social Work Research Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the Office of Social Work Research in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct, support, and disseminate targeted research concerning social wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB101 | Intro
Sine Die | Employee Stock Ownership Plan Promotion and Improvement Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exempt certain distributions, including dividends, by S corporations to an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) from the penalty tax for pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB166 | Intro
Sine Die | Good Samaritan Hunger Relief Tax Incentive Extension Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) modify the tax deduction for charitable contributions of food inventory by limiting the reduction in such deduction to the amount by which the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB63 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of the Army to issue a certificate of service to any Filipino national who the Secretary determines performed any military service in the Philippine Islands during World War II qualifying such person or such person's survivor to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB107 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat income earned by mutual funds from interests holding certain gold, silver, platinum, or palladium bullion that are regularly traded on an established U.S. securities market as qualifying income (i.e., passed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB19 | Intro
Sine Die | American Liberty Restoration Act - Repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that require individuals to maintain minimum essential health care coverage. Applies the Internal Revenue Code as if such provisions had never bee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB117 | Intro
Sine Die | Moving to Work Charter Program Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to enter into charter contracts, beginning in FY2012, with up to 250 public housing agencies administering the public housing program or the section 8...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB28 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act - Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to: (1) ensure the deployment of a nationwide public safety interoperable broadband network in the 700 MHz band which is deployed in both rural a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB21 | Intro
Sine Die | Cyber Security and American Cyber Competitiveness Act of 2011 - Calls for the enactment of bipartisan legislation to secure the United States against cyber attack, enhance American competitiveness and create jobs in the information technology industr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB136 | Intro
Sine Die | Ban Poisonous Additives Act of 2011 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem to be adulterated: (1) food intended for children three years of age or younger if the container is composed of bisphenol A; (2) a baby bottle or cup that i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB70 | Intro
Sine Die | Restores the observance of Memorial Day from the last Monday in May to May 30th of each year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
