| SB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Home School Opportunities Make Education Sound Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow all taxpayers, including taxpayers who do not itemize their deductions, a tax deduction for expenses relating to the home schooling of their childre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB85 | Intro
Sine Die | Restoring America's Competitiveness in Enterprise (RACE) Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the maximum income tax rate on corporations, including personal service corporations, to 20% of taxable income over $50,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB132 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal Justice and Forensic Science Reform Act of 2011 - Establishes an Office of Forensic Science (the Office) within the Office of the Deputy Attorney General in the Department of Justice (DOJ). Requires the Director of the Office (the Director) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB125 | Intro
Sine Die | Local Disaster Contracting Fairness Act of 2011- Prohibits the head of an executive agency from entering into an agreement for debris removal or demolition services in connection with natural disaster reconstruction efforts unless the agreement speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HR56 | Intro
Sine Die | Congratulates the Florida International University (FIU) Golden Panthers football team for their first bowl victory in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl and their outstanding performance during the 2010 season. Salutes FIU wide receiver Eugene "T.Y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| SB59 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain support organizations for tax-exempt teaching hospitals to acquire debt secured by income-producing real property used to provide financial support for such hospitals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB48 | Intro
Sine Die | Pharmacist Student Loan Repayment Eligibility Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to make pharmacists eligible for educational loan repayment through the National Health Service Corps in exchange for service in a health professional sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB172 | Intro
Sine Die | Western States Trail Study Act of 2011 - Amends the National Trails System Act to require the Western States Trail, a trail of approximately 100 miles from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California, along which are conducted the Western States Trail Ride an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB81 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any amounts remaining of Senate Official Personnel and Office Expense Accounts after all payments are made for the year to be deposited in the Treasury and used for deficit reduction or, in fiscal years for which there is no federal budget d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB53 | Intro
Sine Die | Doctor of Nursing Practice and Doctor of Pharmacy Dual Degree Program Act of 2011 - Expresses the sense of the Senate that there should be established a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) dual degree program, which would...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB83 | Intro
Sine Die | Drug Free Families Act of 2011 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require state TANF programs to implement a program to test TANF applicants and recipients for illegal drug use. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB413 | Intro
Sine Die | Defense and Deficit Reduction Act - Prohibits the aggregate funds appropriated or otherwise made available for military functions administered by the Department of Defense (DOD) from exceeding: (1) in the case of FY2011, the aggregate for FY2008; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To House Armed Services Committee |
| SB159 | Intro
Sine Die | Confidence in Long-Term Care Insurance Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to request the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to: (1) conduct reviews every five years of the national and state-spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB180 | Intro
Sine Die | Prisoner Opportunity, Work, and Education Requirement Act or the POWER Act - Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to require federal prison inmates to: (1) work for not less than 50 hours weekly; and (2) engage in job training and educational and lif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB173 | Intro
Sine Die | Sacramento River National Recreation Area Act of 2011 - Establishes the Sacramento River National Recreation Area in California, consisting of specified public land in Tehama and Shasta Counties. Requires the development of a comprehensive plan for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB174 | Intro
Sine Die | Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention America Act or the HeLP America Act - Establishes or expands programs regarding children's nutrition and physical activity in schools and with child care providers, including expanding the free fruit fruit program an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB124 | Intro
Sine Die | Safety for Our Schoolchildren Act of 2011 - Requires states and local educational agencies (LEAs) to: (1) obtain an FBI background check on individuals prior to offering them employment as school employees; and (2) if the check identifies them as sex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB111 | Intro
Sine Die | Voting Integrity and Verification Act of 2011 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require each voting system purchased after December 31, 2012, and used in an election for federal office to produce an individual permanent paper record for e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB130 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit any authorized committee of a candidate or any other political committee established, maintained, or controlled by a candidate or person who holds a federal office from employing the spouse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB58 | Intro
Sine Die | Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require each Medicare participating hospital to implement a hospital-wide staffing plan for nursing services furnished in the hospital. Requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB176 | Intro
Sine Die | Common Sense Concealed Firearms Permit Act of 2011 - Amends the federal criminal code to direct each state that allows its residents to carry concealed firearms to establish a process through which a resident must obtain a permit to carry a concealed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB155 | Intro
Sine Die | Domestic Jobs Innovation Bonus Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a manufacturer who has domestic production gross receipts that are greater than 50% of total production gross receipts an increased tax credit for research expenditures, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB122 | Intro
Sine Die | National Monuments Act of 2011 - Requires the President to obtain congressional approval of proposed national monuments situated upon land owned or controlled by the federal government and certify compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB84 | Intro
Sine Die | Mobile Mammography Promotion Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the motor fuel excise tax fuel used in any highway vehicle designed exclusively to provide mobile mammography services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB80 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the taxpayer election to deduct state and local general sales taxes in lieu of state and local income taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB160 | Intro
Sine Die | Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the rates and maximum allowable amount of the tax credit for employer-provided child care facilities; (2) increase the eligibility threshold amount an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB311 | Intro
Sine Die | Social Security Number Fraudulent Use Notification Act of 2011 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to require the Commissioner of Social Security to notify an individual when: (1) the Soc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To House Subcommittee on Social Security |
| HB312 | Intro
Sine Die | Securing the Homeland Through Agency Reporting Enhancement Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act with respect to any case in which the Social Security account number in the wage records...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To House Subcommittee on Social Security |
| SB5 | Intro
Sine Die | Reform America's Schools to Educate the Leaders of the Future Act - Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should: (1) ensure that all students have equitable access to a high-quality, well-rounded education that prepares them for success; (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB96 | Intro
Sine Die | Title X Family Planning Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit federal family planning funds from being awarded to any grantees who perform abortions or whose subgrantees perform abortions, except where a woman suffers from a physical...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SR17 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates November 2011 as National Military Family Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB129 | Intro
Sine Die | Natural Disaster Fairness in Contracting Act of 2011- Requires agencies, in entering into a contract to procure property or services in connection with natural disaster reconstruction efforts, to use specified competitive procedures. Allows agencies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB15 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or the head of any other federal agency from regulating carbon dioxide emissions until the Secretary of Commerce certifies that China, India, and Russia have initiated measures ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SR24 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a standing order applicable to extended debate (filibuster) on a measure, motion, or other matter in the Senate. States that, if a question to close debate (cloture) on a measure, motion, or other matter is decided in the negative and a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
Submitted in the Senate. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Over, Under the Rule. (text of measure as introduced: CR S245-246) |
| SB45 | Intro
Sine Die | Offshoring Prevention Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include in foreign base company income, for purposes of determining the foreign trade income of controlled foreign corporations, imported property income. Defines "imported property...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB40 | Intro
Sine Die | Graduate Psychology Education Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts to accredited doctoral, internship, and residency pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB103 | Intro
Sine Die | IDEA Full Funding Act - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to reauthorize and make appropriations for the grant program to assist states and outlying areas to provide special education and related services to children with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB35 | Intro
Sine Die | Gun Show Background Check Act of 2011 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to require registration of gun show promoters and to set forth the responsibilities of promoters, licensees, and other transferors. Provides that if any part of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB90 | Intro
Sine Die | Military Family-Friendly Employer Award Act - Establishes in the Department of Defense (DOD) an annual award to be known as the Military Family-Friendly Employer Award (Award) for non-federal employers who have developed and implemented workplace fle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| HB428 | 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 House Ways And Means Committee |
| SR20 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizes that the implementation of the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement, the United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, and the United States-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement will create jobs in the United States, increase export op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SJR2 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional Amendment - States that a person born in the United States shall not be a U.S. citizen unless: (1) one parent of the person is a U.S. citizen; (2) one parent of the person is an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the Un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB123 | Intro
Sine Die | Social Security Lock-Box Act of 2011 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide a point of order against consideration of any: (1) budget resolution that sets forth totals for any fiscal year with respect to the Social Security Trust Fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Budget Committee |
| SB133 | 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 |
| SB26 | Intro
Sine Die | Elimination of Double Subsidies for the Hardrock Mining Industry Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disallow the percentage depletion allowance for hardrock mines located on land currently subject to the general mining laws, or on land...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB168 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter Fraud Prevention Act - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prescribe standards for paid distribution of voter registration application forms and registration requirements for organizations. Prohibits any individual from distributing, fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB185 | Intro
Sine Die | Child Protection Compact Act of 2011 - Authorizes the Secretary of State, through the Ambassador-at-Large of the Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, to provide assistance (grants, cooperative agreements, or cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB152 | Intro
Sine Die | Dual Fuel Vehicle Act of 2011 - Requires automobile manufacturers to ensure that at least 50% of 2014 and 2015 model year automobiles and light duty trucks manufactured for sale in the United States are dual fueled (capable of operating on alternativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB164 | Intro
Sine Die | Withholding Tax Relief Act of 2011- Repeals the provision of the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 requiring federal, state, and local governmental entities to withhold 3% of payments due to vendors providing goods and services t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB147 | Intro
Sine Die | Great Lakes Water Protection Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to prohibit publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) from intentionally diverting waste streams to bypass any portion of the treat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
