Summary: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2011 - Makes appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for FY2011. Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2011 - Makes appropriations for FY2011 to the Department of Labor for: (1) the Employment and Training Administration, including training and employment services; (2) the Office of the Job Corps; (3) community service employment for older Americans; (4) federal unemployment benefits and allowances; (5) state unemployment insurance and employment service operations; (6) the State Paid Leave Fund; (7) advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (8) employment and training program administration; (9) the Employee Benefits Security Administration; (10) the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (11) the Wage and Hour Division; (12) the Office of Labor Management Standards; (13) the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs; (14) the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs; (15) certain special benefits, including ones for disabled coal miners; (16) the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (17) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; (18) the Mine Safety and Health Administration; (19) the Bureau of Labor Statistics; (20) the Office of Disability Employment Policy; (21) departmental management; (22) veterans employment and training; and (23) the Office of Inspector General. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds and transfers of funds appropriated under this title. (Sec. 101) Allows not more than 1% of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Labor in this Act to be transferred between a program, project, or activity. Prohibits any increase of any such program, project, or activity by more than 3% by any such transfer. (Sec. 102) Prohibits funds under this Act from being obligated or expended to procure goods mined, produced, manufactured, or harvested or services rendered, in whole or in part, by forced or indentured child labor in industries and host countries already identified by the Department of Labor prior to enactment of this Act, in accordance with a specified executive order. (Sec. 103) Prohibits the availability of funds to the Department of Labor for grants under the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 (ACWIA) for any purpose except the training of foreign workers in the occupations and industries for which they were hired under the H-1B visa program, and necessary related activities. (Sec. 104) Requires certain ACWIA grants for demonstration programs and projects to provide technical skills training for workers to be awarded competitively. (Sec. 105) Prohibits recipients of employment and training funds from using them to pay the salary and bonuses of an individual at a rate in excess of Executive Level II, with an exception for specified vendors. Prohibits use of Job Corps funds under this title to pay individual compensation at a rate in excess of Executive Level I. (Sec. 106) Prohibits the Secretary of Labor from taking any action, with certain exceptions, to amend a specified definition for functions and activities or to modify a certain procedure for redesignation of local areas under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 until legislation reauthorizing the Act has been enacted. (Sec. 107) Allows transfer to Program Administration of funds available to the Employment and Training Administration for technical assistance services to grantees, if those services will be more efficiently performed by federal staff. (Sec. 108) Makes additional appropriations for the Departmental Management, Working Capital Fund, subject to discretionary transfer to any other Department of Labor account, to increase the Department's acquisition workforce capacity and capabilities. (Sec. 109) Establishes within the Working Capital Fund an Investment in Reinvention Fund (IRF), which shall be available to invest in projects designed to produce measurable improvements in agency efficiency and significant taxpayer savings. Title II: Department of Health and Human Services - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2011 - Makes appropriations for FY2011 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) the Health Resources and Services Administration; (2) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); (3) the National Institutes of Health (NIH); (4) the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; (5) the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; (6) the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; (7) the Administration for Children and Families; (8) the Administration on Aging; and (9) the Office of the Secretary. (Sec. 206) Allows not more than 1% of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for HHS in this Act to be transferred between a program, project, or activity. Prohibits any increase of any such program, project, or activity by more than 3% by any such transfer. (Sec. 209) Prohibits the use of funds for voluntary family planning projects unless the applicant certifies that it encourages family participation in the decision of minors to seek family planning services and that it provides counseling to minors on how to resist attempts to coerce minors into engaging in sexual activities. (Sec. 210) Prohibits any provider of voluntary planning services under the Public Health Service Act from being exempt from any state law requiring notifications or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest. (Sec. 211) Prohibits the use of funds to carry out the Medicare Advantage program if the Secretary of Health and Human Services denies participation in such program to an otherwise eligible entity because it will not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or provide referrals for abortions. (Sec. 212) Allows the Secretary to exercise certain authority in order to carry out international health activities during FY2011. (Sec. 218) Exempts any funds appropriated in this or any other any subsequent Act from the requirement of the Public Health Service Act that the Secretary designate an appropriate allocation to carry out certain activities through the Minority Health Offices of specified agencies. (Sec. 219) Prohibits the availability of funds appropriated for FY2011, or in any previous or subsequent appropriations Act, for transfer from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund to carry out the United States Public Health Sciences Track under the Public Health Service Act. (Sec. 220) Makes additional appropriations for the General Departmental Management account to increase the HHS acquisition workforce capacity and capabilities. (Sec. 221) Requires the transfer of appropriations for the Prevention and Public Health Fund to specified accounts, including amounts specified for public health and prevention outreach, coordination, strategic planning, and media activities. Requires funds transferred for the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity Grant Program to be available without reference to the authorization of appropriations for that Program. Title III: Department of Education - Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2011 - Makes appropriations for FY2011 to the Department of Education for: (1) education for the disadvantaged; (2) impact aid; (3) school improvement programs; (4) Indian education; (5) innovation and improvement activities; (6) safe schools and citizenship education; (7) English language acquisition and language enhancement; (8) special education; (9) rehabilitation services and disability research; (10) special institutions for persons with disabilities, including the American Printing House for the Blind, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and Gallaudet University; (11) career, technical, and adult education; (12) certain student financial assistance programs (including rescissions of funds), as well as federal administrative expenses for such programs (setting a maximum individual Pell Grant amount); (13) specified higher education programs; (14) Howard University; (15) the college housing and academic facilities loans program; (16) the historically Black college and university capital financing program account; (17) the Institute of Education Sciences; and (18) departmental management, including program administration, the Office for Civil Rights, and the Office of the Inspector General. Sets the maximum individual Pell Grant amount at $4,860 during award year 2011-2012. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title. (Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of funds to transport teachers or students in order to: (1) overcome racial imbalance in any school; or (2) carry out a racial desegregation plan. (Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of funds to require, directly or indirectly, the transportation of any student to a school other than the school nearest the student's home, except, for a student requiring special education, to the school offering that special education, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Declares that such a prohibited indirect requirement of transportation of students includes the transportation of students to carry out a plan involving the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, the clustering of schools, or any combination of grade restructuring, pairing, or clustering. Exempts the establishment of magnet schools from such prohibition. (Sec. 303) Prohibits the use of funds to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in public schools. (Sec. 304) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than 1% of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Education in this Act. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than 3% by any such transfer. (Sec. 305) Authorizes the Outlying Areas to consolidate funds received under this Act under part A (Innovative Programs) of title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. (Sec. 306) Makes additional appropriations to increase the Department's acquisition workforce capacity and capabilities. (Sec. 307) Transfers the Health Education Assistance Loan (HEAL) program from the Secretary of HHS to the Secretary of Education. (Sec. 308) Directs the Secretary of Education to establish an Early Learning Challenge Fund to award competitive grants to states that propose to: (1) provide an integrated system of high-quality early learning programs and services; and (2) develop, implement, or advance a statewide quality rating and improvement system for early learning programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY2011. (Sec. 309) Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to rename: (1) the Office of Vocational and Adult Education the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education; and (2) the Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education the Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical, and Adult Education. Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY2011 to: (1) the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled; (2) the Corporation for National and Community Service; (3) the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; (4) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (5) the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; (6) the Institute of Museum and Library Services; (7) the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MEDPAC); (8) the National Council on Disability; (9) the National Health Care Workforce Commission; (10) the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB); (11) the National Mediation Board; (12) the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (13) the Railroad Retirement Board; and (14) the Social Security Administration. (Sec. 401) Requires the Corporation for National and Community Service to make any significant changes to program requirements, service delivery, or policy only through public notice and comment rulemaking. Prohibits, for FY2011 and during any grant selection process, an officer or employee of the Corporation from knowingly disclosing any covered grant selection information regarding such selection, directly or indirectly, to any person other than an authorized officer or employee of the Corporation. (Sec. 402) Requires that donations made to the Corporation be used to supplement and not supplant current programs and operations. (Sec. 403) Limits to U.S. Armed Forces veterans eligible for veterans education benefits any National Service Trust educational award under the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to pay expenses for an educational institution or training establishment approved for veterans education benefits. Title V: General Provisions - Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act. (Sec. 501) Authorizes the Secretaries of Labor, of Health and Human Services, and of Education to transfer unexpended balances of prior appropriations to accounts corresponding to current appropriations provided in this Act, to be used for the same purpose, and for the same periods of time, for which they were originally appropriated. (Sec. 505) Bars use of funds to distribute any needle or syringe for the purpose of preventing the spread of blood borne pathogens in any location that has been determined by the local public health or local law enforcement authorities to be inappropriate for such distribution. (Sec. 507) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated in this Act, and in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated in this Act, for: (1) any abortion; or (2) health benefits coverage that includes coverage of abortion. (Sec. 508) Declares that this prohibition does not apply: (1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest; or (2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. Declares that nothing in Sec. 507 shall be construed as: (1) prohibiting the expenditure by a state, locality, entity, or private person of state, local, or private funds (other than Medicaid matching funds); or (2) restricting the ability of any managed care provider from offering abortion coverage or the ability of a state or locality to contract separately with such a provider for such coverage with state funds (other than Medicaid matching funds). Bars the availability of funds to a federal agency or program, or to a state or local government, if it subjects any institutional or individual healthcare entity to discrimination on the basis that the healthcare entity does not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions. (Sec. 509) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for: (1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under certain federal regulations and the Public Health Service Act. (Sec. 510) Bars the use of funds for activities promoting the legalization of any drug or other substance included in schedule I of the schedules of controlled substances under the Controlled Substances Act, except for normal and recognized executive-congressional communications. Makes such limitation inapplicable when there is significant medical evidence of a therapeutic advantage to the use of such drug or other substance or that federally sponsored clinical trials are being conducted to determine therapeutic advantage. (Sec. 511) Bars the use of funds to promulgate or adopt any final standard under the Social Security Act providing for, or providing for the assignment of, a unique health identifier for an individual (except in an individual's capacity as an employer or a healthcare provider), until legislation is enacted specifically approving the standard. (Sec. 512) Bars the obligation or expenditure of funds to enter into or renew a contract with an entity if: (1) it is otherwise a contractor with the United States and is subject to the requirement regarding submission of an annual report to the Secretary of Labor concerning employment of certain veterans; and (2) it has not submitted the required report for the most recent applicable year. (Sec. 513) Prohibits the transfer of funds made available in this Act to any federal department, agency, or instrumentality, except pursuant to an appropriation Act. (Sec. 514) Prohibits the availability of funds under the Library Services and Technology Act, as amended by the Children's Internet Protection Act, to certain libraries unless they have made specified required certifications. (Sec. 515) Prohibits the availability of certain funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Children's Internet Protection Act and the No Child Left Behind Act, to certain elementary or secondary schools unless the responsible local educational agency (LEA) has made specified required certifications. (Sec. 517) Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) request that a candidate for appointment to a federal scientific advisory committee disclose his or her political affiliation or voting history or the position he or she holds with respect to political issues not directly related to and necessary for the work of the committee involved; or (2) disseminate scientific information that is deliberately false or misleading. (Sec. 518) Requires the Secretaries of Labor, of Health and Human Services, and of Education each to report to the congressional appropriations committees on the number, amount, and other specified details of contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements exceeding $500,000 in value and awarded by the respective Department on a noncompetitive basis during each quarter of FY2011. (Sec. 519) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for first-class travel by the employees of agencies funded by this Act in contravention of federal regulations concerning airline coach-class Seating Upgrade Programs. (Sec. 520) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to enter into a contract greater than $5 million, or to award a grant in excess of that amount, unless the prospective contractor or grantee certifies to the awarding agency that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, it: (1) has filed all federal tax returns required during the three years preceding the certification; (2) has not been convicted of a criminal offense under the Internal Revenue Code; and (3) has not, more than 90 days before certification, been notified of any unpaid federal tax assessment for which the liability remains unsatisfied, except in certain circumstances. (Sec. 521) Makes additional appropriations to the Social Security Administration to increase its acquisition workforce capacity and capabilities.

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occupational_safety_and_health_administration safety_and_health_administration bureau_of_labor_statistics office disability employment policy departmental management veterans employment training office_of_inspector_general sets forth authorized uses limitations funds transfers funds appropriated title sec allows discretionary funds current fiscal year department_of_labor act transferred program project activity prohibits increase program project activity transfer sec prohibits funds act obligated expended procure goods mined produced manufactured harvested services rendered forced child labor industries host countries identified department_of_labor prior enactment act accordance specified executive order sec prohibits availability funds department_of_labor grants american competitiveness workforce improvement act purpose training foreign workers occupations industries hired h-1b visa program necessary related activities sec requires certain grants demonstration programs projects provide technical skills training workers awarded competitively sec prohibits recipients employment training funds pay salary bonuses individual rate excess executive level exception specified vendors prohibits use job_corps funds title pay individual compensation rate excess executive level sec prohibits secretary labor taking action certain exceptions amend specified definition functions activities modify certain procedure redesignation local areas workforce investment act legislation reauthorizing act enacted sec allows transfer program administration funds available employment_and_training_administration technical assistance services grantees services efficiently performed federal staff sec makes additional appropriations departmental management working capital_fund subject discretionary transfer department_of_labor account increase department acquisition workforce capacity capabilities sec establishes working capital_fund investment fund shall available invest projects designed produce measurable improvements agency efficiency significant taxpayer savings title department_of_health_and_human_services department_of_health_and_human_services appropriations act makes appropriations fy2011 department_of_health_and_human_services hhs health_resources_and_services_administration centers_for_disease_control_and_prevention cdc national_institutes_of_health nih substance_abuse_and_mental_health_services_administration agency healthcare_research_and_quality centers medicare medicaid_services administration children families administration_on_aging office_of_the_secretary sec allows discretionary funds current fiscal year hhs act transferred program project activity prohibits increase program project activity transfer sec prohibits use funds voluntary family planning projects applicant certifies encourages family participation decision minors seek family planning services provides counseling minors resist attempts coerce minors engaging sexual activities sec prohibits provider voluntary planning services public_health_service_act exempt state law requiring notifications reporting child abuse child sexual abuse rape incest sec prohibits use funds carry medicare_advantage program secretary health_and_human_services denies participation program eligible entity provide pay provide coverage provide referrals abortions sec allows secretary exercise certain authority order carry international health activities fy2011 sec exempts funds appropriated subsequent act requirement public_health_service_act secretary designate appropriate allocation carry certain activities minority health offices specified agencies sec prohibits availability funds appropriated fy2011 previous subsequent appropriations act transfer public health social_services emergency fund carry united_states public health sciences track public_health_service_act sec makes additional appropriations general departmental management account increase hhs acquisition workforce capacity capabilities sec requires transfer appropriations prevention_and_public_health_fund specified accounts including amounts specified public health prevention outreach coordination strategic planning media activities requires funds transferred epidemiology laboratory capacity grant program available reference authorization appropriations program title iii department_of_education department_of_education appropriations act makes appropriations fy2011 department_of_education education disadvantaged impact aid school improvement programs indian education innovation improvement activities safe schools citizenship education english_language_acquisition language_enhancement special education rehabilitation services disability research special institutions persons disabilities including american printing house blind national technical institute deaf university career technical adult_education certain student financial assistance programs including rescissions funds federal administrative expenses programs setting maximum individual pell_grant specified higher education programs university college housing academic facilities loans program historically black college university capital financing program account institute_of_education_sciences departmental management including program administration office civil rights office_of_the_inspector_general sets maximum individual pell_grant award year sets forth authorized uses limitations funds appropriated title sec prohibits use funds transport teachers students order overcome racial imbalance school carry racial plan sec prohibits use funds require directly indirectly transportation student school school nearest student home student requiring special education school offering special education order comply title civil rights act declares prohibited indirect requirement transportation students includes transportation students carry plan involving reorganization grade structure schools pairing schools schools combination grade restructuring pairing exempts establishment magnet schools prohibition sec prohibits use funds prevent implementation programs voluntary prayer public schools sec allows transfer appropriations discretionary funds current fiscal year department_of_education act prohibits increase appropriation transfer sec authorizes outlying areas consolidate funds received act innovative_programs title elementary secondary education act sec makes additional appropriations increase department acquisition workforce capacity capabilities sec transfers health education assistance loan heal program secretary hhs secretary education sec directs secretary education establish early learning challenge fund award competitive grants states propose provide integrated system high quality early learning programs services develop implement advance statewide quality rating improvement system early learning programs authorizes appropriations fy2011 sec amends department_of_education_organization_act rename office vocational adult_education office career technical adult_education assistant secretary vocational adult_education assistant secretary career technical adult_education title related agencies makes appropriations fy2011 committee purchase people blind severely disabled corporation_for_national_and_community_service corporation_for_public_broadcasting federal_mediation_and_conciliation_service federal safety health review commission institute museum library services medicare_payment_advisory_commission medpac national council disability national_health_care_workforce_commission national_labor_relations_board nlrb national mediation board occupational_safety_and_health_review_commission railroad_retirement_board social_security_administration sec requires corporation_for_national_and_community_service significant changes program requirements service delivery policy public notice comment rulemaking prohibits fy2011 grant selection process officer employee corporation knowingly disclosing covered grant selection information selection directly indirectly person authorized officer employee corporation sec requires donations corporation supplement supplant current programs operations sec limits armed_forces veterans eligible veterans education benefits national_service_trust educational award national_and_community_service_act pay expenses educational institution training establishment approved veterans education benefits title general_provisions specifies certain uses limits prohibitions use funds appropriated act sec authorizes secretaries labor health_and_human_services education transfer unexpended balances prior appropriations accounts corresponding current appropriations provided act purpose periods time originally appropriated sec bars use funds distribute purpose preventing spread blood borne pathogens location determined local public health local law enforcement authorities inappropriate distribution sec prohibits expenditure funds appropriated act trust_fund funds appropriated act abortion health benefits coverage includes coverage abortion sec declares prohibition apply pregnancy result act rape incest case woman suffers physical disorder physical injury physical illness including life endangering physical condition caused arising pregnancy certified physician place woman danger death abortion performed declares sec shall construed prohibiting expenditure state locality entity private person state local private funds medicaid matching funds restricting ability managed care provider offering abortion coverage ability state locality contract separately provider coverage state funds medicaid matching funds bars availability funds federal agency program state local government subjects institutional individual healthcare entity discrimination basis healthcare entity provide pay provide coverage refer abortions sec prohibits use funds available act creation human embryo research purposes research human embryo destroyed knowingly subjected risk injury death greater allowed research certain federal regulations public_health_service_act sec bars use funds activities promoting legalization drug substance included schedule schedules controlled substances controlled substances act normal recognized executive congressional communications makes limitation inapplicable significant medical evidence therapeutic advantage use drug substance federally sponsored clinical trials conducted determine therapeutic advantage sec bars use funds promulgate adopt final standard social_security_act providing providing assignment unique health identifier individual individual capacity employer healthcare provider legislation enacted specifically approving standard sec bars obligation expenditure funds enter renew contract entity contractor united_states subject requirement submission annual report secretary labor concerning employment certain veterans submitted required report recent applicable year sec prohibits transfer funds available act federal department agency instrumentality pursuant appropriation act sec prohibits availability funds library services technology act amended children internet protection act certain libraries specified required certifications sec prohibits availability certain funds elementary secondary education act amended children internet protection act child left act certain elementary secondary schools responsible local educational agency lea specified required certifications sec prohibits use funds request candidate appointment federal scientific advisory_committee disclose political affiliation voting history position holds respect political issues directly related necessary work committee involved disseminate scientific information deliberately false misleading sec requires secretaries labor health_and_human_services education report congressional appropriations committees number specified details contracts grants cooperative agreements exceeding value awarded respective department noncompetitive basis quarter fy2011 sec prohibits use funds act class travel employees agencies funded act contravention federal regulations concerning airline coach class seating upgrade programs sec prohibits use funds act enter contract greater million award grant excess prospective contractor grantee certifies awarding agency best knowledge belief filed federal tax returns required years preceding certification convicted criminal offense internal_revenue_code days certification notified unpaid federal tax assessment liability remains certain circumstances sec makes additional appropriations social_security_administration increase acquisition workforce capacity capabilities


Summary: Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Act or the PREEMIE Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to expand, intensify, and coordinate the activities of NIH with respect to research on the causes and prevention of preterm labor and delivery and the care and treatment of preterm infants; (2) establish within NIH a multicenter clinical program and trans-disciplinary centers for prematurity research; (3) require the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to conduct research, activities, and studies on preterm birth; and (4) require the CDC to award grants for telemedicine demonstration projects for services for high risk pregnancies. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish and implement a national science-based consumer education campaign on the prevention of preterm birth; and (2) conduct and report on research studies and demonstration projects for reducing the rate of preterm birth. Requires the Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality of HHS to report annually to the Secretary on a strategic plan for the conduct of preterm birth-related research.

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Summary: America Recruits Act of 2011 - Expresses the sense of Congress that it should take certain actions to help U.S. companies create new manufacturing and services jobs in the United States. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish a program to award federal grants to states recruiting high-value jobs, that is, those within an eligible facility that contribute to the value of a manufactured product, pay wages higher than the mean hourly U.S. wage, and have North American Industrial Classifications corresponding with: (1) manufacturing, (2) software publishers, (3) computer systems design, or (4) related codes. Allows states to use such grants to issue forgivable loans of $5,000 per full-time equivalent employee to eligible entities deciding whether to locate in a foreign country or the United States to assist them in locating in rural or distressed areas of the state. Establishes the United States Economic Competitiveness Commission to: (1) assess U.S. competitiveness in the global economy as well as offer recommendations to the federal government for its improvement over time; and (2) develop the Technology Database Mapping Program to identify markets for new and developing technologies, including manufacturing process technologies, for U.S. corporations to gain a competitive advantage in each sector of the global economy. Directs the Secretary to develop recommendations for executive or legislative action to: (1) expand the scope of high-value jobs and engineering work performed by U.S. companies in order to create new jobs in the United States; and (2) encourage U.S. corporations with high-value jobs located in a foreign country to repatriate them to the United States, including foreign earnings, in order to increase investment and job creation in the United States. Requires the Secretary to establish annual baseline and target levels for: (1) high-value job creation and high-value job growth in U.S. manufacturing and information technology, and (2) repatriating high-value jobs to the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to establish task forces to meet these levels. Directs the Secretary to ensure that industry-approved certification assessments and standards are established and available to providers of education and training programs in manufacturing and information technology in order to: (1) improve program performance; and (2) ensure that individuals who complete training have the skills to enter high-skill, high-demand occupations in manufacturing and information technology. Directs the Secretary to improve certain annual and five-year surveys to gather information about all companies in the United States that own or operate manufacturing or information technology facilities, including customer service facilities outside the United States, to identify specified information about them. Directs the Secretary to seek to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to develop recommendations for improving the capabilities of U.S. industrial facilities to compete in the global economy through the use of advanced manufacturing technologies. Directs the International Trade Commission (ITC) to: (1) report biennially to Congress and the President on the effects of distortive or discriminatory economic policies of foreign countries, and (2) assess the effects of foreign countries, practices, and industries in the National Trade Estimate that are commercially significant and pose the greatest threat to the United States over the next ten years.

america recruits act expresses sense congress certain actions help companies create new manufacturing services jobs united_states directs secretary commerce establish program award federal grants states recruiting high value jobs eligible facility contribute value manufactured product pay wages higher mean hourly wage north american industrial classifications corresponding manufacturing software publishers computer systems design related codes allows states use grants issue loans time equivalent employee eligible entities deciding locate foreign country united_states assist locating rural distressed areas state establishes united_states economic competitiveness commission assess competitiveness global economy offer recommendations federal_government improvement time develop technology database mapping program identify markets new developing technologies including manufacturing process technologies corporations gain competitive advantage sector global economy directs secretary develop recommendations executive legislative action expand scope high value jobs engineering work performed companies order create new jobs united_states encourage corporations high value jobs located foreign country repatriate united_states including foreign earnings order increase investment job creation united_states requires secretary establish annual baseline target levels high value job creation high value job growth manufacturing information technology high value jobs united_states authorizes secretary establish task forces meet levels directs secretary ensure industry approved certification assessments standards established available providers education training programs manufacturing information technology order improve program performance ensure individuals complete training skills enter high skill high demand occupations manufacturing information technology directs secretary improve certain annual year surveys gather information companies united_states operate manufacturing information technology facilities including customer service facilities outside united_states identify specified information directs secretary seek enter agreement national_academy_of_sciences develop recommendations improving capabilities industrial facilities compete global economy use advanced manufacturing technologies directs international_trade_commission itc report biennially congress president effects discriminatory economic policies foreign countries assess effects foreign countries practices industries national trade estimate commercially significant pose greatest threat united_states years


Summary: American Jobs Act of 2011 - Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act for a project for the construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public building or public work unless all of the iron, steel, and manufactured goods used in such project are produced in the United States (Buy American). Waives such prohibition in cases where: (1) the prohibition would be inconsistent with the public interest; (2) iron, steel, and the relevant manufactured goods are not produced in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities of a satisfactory quality; or (3) inclusion of iron, steel, and manufactured goods produced in the United States will increase the cost of the overall project by more than 25%. Requires all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors on federally-assisted projects to be paid wages at the locally prevailing rates (Davis-Bacon Act). Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) reduce employment and self-employment tax rates in 2012 to 3.1%; (2) allow employers a tax credit for payroll increases in the last quarter of 2011 and in 2012; (3) extend the 100% bonus depreciation allowance through 2012; (4) delay until 2014 the 3% withholding requirement on payments due to vendors who provide services to federal, state, and local governmental entities; and (5) increase the work opportunity tax credit for hiring unemployed veterans. Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to increase from $2 million to $5 million the limit on the guarantee for contract surety bonds and on the liability for bonds obtained by fraud or misrepresentation. Directs the Secretary of Education to allocate grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for the costs of retaining, recalling, rehiring, or hiring employees to provide early childhood, elementary, or secondary education and related services. Requires LEAs and state-funded early learning programs to obligate such funding by September 30, 2013. Prohibits the use of such grants to supplant state funding for education. Directs the Attorney General to carry out a competitive grant program pursuant to the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 for the hiring, rehiring, or retention of career law enforcement officers. Makes appropriations to the Community Oriented Policing Stabilization Fund to carry out such program and for transfer to a First Responder Stabilization Fund from which the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) shall make competitive grants for hiring additional firefighters pursuant to the Federal Fire Prevention Control Act of 1974. Directs the Secretary of Education to allocate grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to modernize, renovate, or repair early learning or elementary or secondary education facilities. Requires the Secretary to allocate grants directly to the 100 LEAs with the largest numbers of children aged 5-17 living in poverty. Requires states to give subgrant priority to projects that comply with certain green building standards. Prohibits the use of such grants for new construction, routine maintenance costs, or on facilities used for events for which the public is charged admission. Allows private, nonprofit elementary or secondary schools with a rate of child poverty of at least 40% to participate in the program on a limited basis. Directs the Secretary to allocate grants to states to modernize, renovate, or repair existing facilities at community colleges. Prohibits the use of such grants: (1) for routine maintenance costs, (2) on facilities used for events for which the public is charged admission, or (3) on facilities which are used for sectarian purposes. Requires states, in providing assistance to community college projects, to consider the extent to which the project complies with certain green building standards. Makes specified funds available to the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) for: (1) grants-in-aid for airport planning and development and noise compatibility planning projects under the airport improvement program (AIP); (2) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Next Generation air traffic control system advancements; (3) highway and bridge restoration, repair, and construction projects and for passenger and freight rail transportation and port infrastructure projects; (4) grants for high-speed rail projects, capital investment grants for intercity passenger rail service, and grants to reduce congestion on intercity rail passenger transportation; (5) capital grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak); (6) transit capital assistance grants; (7) capital projects for existing fixed guideway system modernization, replacement and repair of buses and bus-related equipment, and construction of bus-related facilities; and (8) discretionary capital investment grants for surface transportation infrastructure. Authorizes the Secretary to establish standards under which contracts for construction projects contain requirements for the local hiring of individuals to perform construction work under such contracts. Requires projects to comply with Buy American requirements. Building and Upgrading Infrastructure for Long-Term Development Act - Establishes the American Infrastructure Financing Authority (AIFA) as a wholly-owned government corporation to make direct loans and loan guarantees to facilitate transportation, water, or energy infrastructure projects. Requires infrastructure projects assisted under this Act to have costs that are reasonably anticipated to equal or exceed $100 million ($25 million for rural infrastructure projects). Sets forth special requirements for infrastructure projects in rural areas. Requires the AIFA Chief Lending Officer to establish: (1) an Office of Rural Assistance to provide technical assistance in the development and financing of rural infrastructure projects, and (2) a Center for Excellence to provide such assistance to public sector borrowers for the same purpose. Establishes an Office of Special Inspector General to audit and investigate the business activities of AIFA. Makes private projects for which no public benefit is created ineligible for financial assistance. Sets forth terms for loans or loan guarantees for infrastructure projects. Requires the Chief Executive Officer of AIFA to establish and collect fees sufficient to cover AIFA administrative costs. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2012 the exemption from the alternative minimum tax (AMT) for certain tax-exempt private activity bonds. Appropriates funds for assistance to eligible entities including state and local governments, and qualified nonprofit organizations, businesses or eligible consortia for the redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed-upon properties and for stabilization of affected neighborhoods (Project Rebuild). Allows the use of funds to: (1) establish financing mechanisms for the purchase and redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed-upon properties; (2) purchase and rehabilitate such properties; (3) establish and operate land banks for them; (4) demolish blighted structures (except public housing); and (5) redevelop abandoned, foreclosed, demolished, or vacant properties. Requires each state to receive at least $20 million of formula funds, all of which shall be used with respect to low and moderate-income individuals and families. Requires each state and local government grantee to establish procedures to create preferences for development of affordable rental housing. Allows a grantee to use up to 10% to create jobs by establishing and operating a program to maintain eligible neighborhood properties. Amends the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to permit: (1) payments from the Spectrum Relocation Fund to reimburse certain federal entities for relocation or sharing costs incurred by planning for a potential or planned auction of spectrum frequencies or the reallocation of spectrum from federal use to exclusive nonfederal (currently, required) or shared federal and nonfederal use, and (2) federal entities to allow nonfederal entities access to frequency assignments with National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) approval. Revises the categories of relocation and sharing costs. Authorizes the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), if it is consistent with the public interest in spectrum utilization for a licensee to voluntarily relinquish licensed spectrum usage rights in order to permit the assignment of new initial licenses through a competitive bidding process subject to new service rules, or to permit the designation of new spectrum for unlicensed use, to pay to such licensee a portion of any auction proceeds attributable to the licensee's relinquished spectrum usage rights. Permits the FCC, if it is in the public interest to modify the spectrum usage rights of any incumbent licensee to facilitate such new assignments and designations, to pay a portion of auction proceeds to incumbent licensees relocating to designated alternative frequencies or locations. Requires the FCC to: (1) notify Congress of the methodology (considering the value of spectrum vacated in its current use and the timeliness of clearing) for calculating such payments to licensees at least three months before the relevant auction, and (2) assign at least the first 84 megahertz from certain specified bands through a competitive bidding process. Extends permanently (currently, expires on September 30, 2012) the FCC's authority to grant a license or permit under applicable competitive bidding provisions. Sets forth requirements concerning: (1) terrestrial broadband rights on spectrum primarily licensed for mobile satellite services, and (2) domestic satellite communications services licenses. Directs: (1) the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and the FCC or the President to identify specified frequencies for competitive bidding or other reallocation or sharing, and (2) the FCC to auction specified frequency ranges. Modifies competitive bidding system design requirements. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize the FCC to establish and collect annual user fees for: (1) initial spectrum licenses or construction permits that are not granted through competitive bidding; and (2) renewals or modifications of initial licenses or other authorizations, whether or not granted through competitive bidding. Sets forth required minimum collection amounts for FY2012-FY2021. Requires that all such proceeds be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury. Directs the FCC to: (1) establish, by regulation, a fee-collection methodology and schedule; and (2) exempt broadcast television and public safety services licensees from such fees. Increases the allocation of electromagnetic spectrum for public safety entities by: (1) directing the FCC to reallocate to such entities specified frequencies of the 700 MHz D block spectrum; and (2) amending the Communications Act of 1934 to increase public safety services allocation and reduce commercial use allocation by 10 megahertz within a specified range. Authorizes flexible use of narrowband spectrum, including for public safety broadband communications, subject to exceptions. Establishes the Public Safety Broadband Corporation as a private, nonprofit corporation required to: (1) hold the single public safety wireless license (a license to be reallocated and granted by the FCC for an initial 10-year term renewable, upon application, for subsequent terms, each term a maximum of 15 years) for the 700 MHz D block and existing public safety broadband spectrums; and (2) build, deploy, and operate a nationwide public safety interoperable broadband network. Supporting Unemployed Workers Act of 2011 - Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (SSA, 2008) with respect to the state-established individual emergency unemployment compensation account (EUCA). Extends the final date for entering a federal-state agreement under the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program through January 3, 2013. Postpones the termination of the program until June 8, 2013. Amends the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act to extend until January 4, 2013, requirements that federal payments to states cover 100% of EUC. Amends the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 to exempt weeks of unemployment between enactment of this Act and June 9, 2013, from the prohibition in the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (FSEUCA of 1970) against federal matching payments to a state for the first week in an individual's eligibility period for which extended compensation or sharable regular compensation is paid if the state law provides for payment of regular compensation to an individual for his or her first week of otherwise compensable unemployment. (Thus allows temporary federal matching for the first week of extended benefits for states with no waiting period.) Amends the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 with respect to a state's authority to apply certain requirements of the FSEUCA of 1970, with specified substitutions, for determining an extended unemployment compensation period. Requires the state's "on" and "off" indicators to be based on its rate of insured unemployment and rate of total unemployment for the period beginning on the enactment of the FSEUCA of 1970 (or, if later, the date established pursuant to state law) and ending on or before December 31, 2012 (currently, December 31, 2011). Amends the SSA, 2008 to include in a federal-state agreement under the EUC program a requirement that a state provide reemployment services and reemployment eligibility assessment activities to certain recipients of EUC. Conditions an individual's continuing eligibility for EUC for any week on whether such individual has been referred to such services or activities and participated, or has completed such participation, unless there is justifiable cause for failure to do so. Authorizes the federal-state agreement to require that a state agency administering EUC establish a self-employment assistance program to provide for the payment of EUC for up to 26 weeks as self-employment assistance allowances to individuals who meet specified eligibility criteria. Allows a participant in a self-employment assistance program to opt to discontinue such participation. Requires any state that establishes a Bridge to Work program under the Supporting Unemployment Workers Act of 2011 to deduct from an individual's EUC account necessary sums to pay wages for such individual. Amends the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, as amended by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and as amended by the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009, to extend through December 31, 2012, the temporary increase in extended unemployment benefits for employees with 10 or more years of service as well as for those with less than 10. Establishes the Reemployment NOW program to facilitate the reemployment of individuals receiving emergency unemployment compensation (EUC claimants). Requires a state to submit for approval by the Secretary of Labor a state plan meeting certain minimum requirements in order to be eligible for an allotment of federal funds under the program. Authorizes a state to use its allotted funds to establish a Bridge to Work program to provide EUC claimants with short-term work experience placements with eligible employers to increase opportunities for such individuals to move to permanent employment. Authorizes a state to use its allotted funds to provide a wage insurance program to pay, for up to two years, an EUC claimant who obtains reemployment up to 50% of the difference between the wages received by the worker at the time of work separation and the wages the worker received for reemployment. Authorizes a state to its allotted funds to provide: (1) a program of enhanced reemployment services to EUC claimants, including unemployed individuals who have exhausted their EUC rights; (2) for the administrative costs associated with starting up certain self-employment assistance programs; and (3) for additional innovative programs designed to facilitate the reemployment of EUC claimants. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth requirements relating to short-time compensation programs to allow employers to reduce the workweek of their employees in lieu of layoffs. Provides for federal financing of state short-time compensation programs. Requires the Secretary of Labor to: (1) award grants to states that enact such programs; (2) develop model legislative language for use by states in developing, enacting, and implementing such programs; and (3) report to Congress and the President on the implementation of such programs. Allows an increased work opportunity tax credit for long-term unemployed individuals (individuals who are unemployed and receiving unemployment compensation for six months or more). Pathways Back to Work Act of 2011 - Establishes the Pathways Back to Work Fund, with an initial appropriation of $5 billion. Requires the Secretary of Labor to make certain Fund allocations to states with approved plans, qualifying outlying areas (U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Republic of Palau), and Native American program grantees to provide: (1) subsidized employment to unemployed, low-income adults; and (2) summer and year-round employment opportunities to low-income youth. Requires the Secretary to award competitive grants to local entities for work-based training and other work-related and educational strategies and activities of demonstrated effectiveness to provide unemployed, low-income adults and low-income youths with skills that will lead to employment. Subjects activities funded under this Act to federal labor standards and nondiscrimination protections. Fair Employment Opportunity Act of 2011 - Makes it an unlawful practice for certain employers to: (1) publish an advertisement or announcement for a job with provisions indicating that an individual's status as unemployed disqualifies the individual for employment, or that the employer will not consider or hire an individual for employment based on such status; (2) fail or refuse to consider or hire an individual because of such status; or (3) direct or request that an employment agency take an individual's status into account to disqualify an applicant for consideration for employment, or when screening or referring employees. Makes it an unlawful practice for an employment agency to commit similar acts, including to: (1) screen, or fail or refuse to consider or refer, an individual for employment because of the individual's unemployed status; or (2) limit, segregate, or classify any individual in any manner that would limit access to job information, or consideration, screening, or referral for jobs. Makes it unlawful for any employer or employment agency to: (1) interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of any right provided under this Act; or (2) fail or refuse to hire, discharge, or otherwise discriminate against an employee because such individual opposed any practice made unlawful by this Act or asserted any right under it. Prescribes enforcement authorities with respect to violations of this Act. Authorizes an individual, or any person acting on the individual's behalf, who files a claim in the appropriate U.S. court alleging violation of the prohibitions of this Act to receive: (1) an order enjoining the unlawful employment practice, (2) the reimbursement of costs expended as a result of such practice, (3) liquidated damages of at least $1,000 for each day of the violation, and (4) reasonable attorney's fees (including expert fees) and court costs. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose on individual taxpayers in taxable years beginning after 2012 an additional tax equal to 5.6% of so much of their modified adjusted gross income as exceeds $1 million. Defines "modified adjusted gross income" as adjusted gross income reduced by any deduction allowed for investment interest. Provides for an inflation adjustment to the $1 million threshold amount for taxable years beginning after 2013.

american_jobs act prohibits use funds available act project construction alteration maintenance repair public building public work iron steel manufactured goods project produced united_states buy american waives prohibition cases prohibition inconsistent public interest iron steel relevant manufactured goods produced united_states sufficient reasonably available quantities satisfactory quality inclusion iron steel manufactured goods produced united_states increase cost overall project requires laborers mechanics employed contractors subcontractors federally assisted projects paid wages locally prevailing rates davis-bacon_act amends_the_internal_revenue_code reduce employment self employment tax rates allow employers tax credit payroll increases quarter extend bonus depreciation allowance delay withholding requirement payments vendors provide services federal state local governmental entities increase work opportunity tax credit hiring unemployed veterans amends small_business_investment_act increase million million limit guarantee contract surety bonds liability bonds obtained fraud misrepresentation directs secretary education allocate grants states subgrants local educational agencies leas costs retaining rehiring hiring employees provide early childhood elementary secondary education related services requires leas state funded early learning programs obligate funding september prohibits use grants supplant state funding education directs attorney general carry competitive grant program pursuant omnibus_crime_control_and_safe_streets_act hiring rehiring retention career law enforcement officers makes appropriations community oriented policing stabilization fund carry program transfer responder stabilization fund secretary homeland_security dhs shall competitive grants hiring additional firefighters pursuant federal_fire_prevention control act directs secretary education allocate grants states subgrants local educational agencies leas modernize renovate repair early learning elementary secondary education facilities requires secretary allocate grants directly leas largest numbers children aged living poverty requires states subgrant priority projects comply certain green building standards prohibits use grants new construction routine maintenance costs facilities events public charged admission allows private nonprofit elementary secondary schools rate child poverty participate program limited basis directs secretary allocate grants states modernize renovate repair existing facilities community colleges prohibits use grants routine maintenance costs facilities events public charged admission facilities sectarian purposes requires states providing assistance community college projects consider extent project complies certain green building standards makes specified funds available secretary transportation dot grants aid airport planning development noise compatibility planning projects airport improvement program aip federal_aviation_administration faa generation air traffic control system advancements highway bridge restoration repair construction projects passenger freight rail transportation port infrastructure projects grants high speed rail projects capital investment grants intercity passenger rail service grants reduce congestion intercity rail passenger transportation capital grants national_railroad_passenger_corporation amtrak transit capital assistance grants capital projects existing fixed guideway system modernization replacement repair buses bus related equipment construction bus related facilities discretionary capital investment grants surface_transportation infrastructure authorizes secretary establish standards contracts construction projects contain requirements local hiring individuals perform construction work contracts requires projects comply buy american requirements building upgrading infrastructure long term development act establishes american infrastructure financing authority wholly owned government corporation direct_loans loan guarantees facilitate transportation water energy infrastructure projects requires infrastructure projects assisted act costs reasonably anticipated equal exceed million million rural infrastructure projects sets forth special requirements infrastructure projects rural areas requires chief lending officer establish office rural assistance provide technical assistance development financing rural infrastructure projects center excellence provide assistance public sector borrowers purpose establishes office special inspector_general audit investigate business activities makes private projects public benefit created ineligible financial assistance sets forth terms loans loan guarantees infrastructure projects requires chief executive officer establish collect fees sufficient cover administrative costs amends_the_internal_revenue_code extend exemption alternative minimum tax amt certain tax exempt private activity bonds appropriates funds assistance eligible entities including state local governments qualified nonprofit organizations businesses eligible consortia redevelopment abandoned foreclosed properties stabilization affected neighborhoods project rebuild allows use funds establish financing mechanisms purchase redevelopment abandoned foreclosed properties purchase rehabilitate properties establish operate land banks demolish blighted structures public housing redevelop abandoned foreclosed demolished vacant properties requires state receive million formula funds shall respect low moderate income individuals families requires state local government grantee establish procedures create preferences development affordable rental housing allows grantee use create jobs establishing operating program maintain eligible neighborhood properties amends national_telecommunications_and_information_administration_organization_act permit payments spectrum_relocation_fund reimburse certain federal entities relocation sharing costs incurred planning potential planned auction spectrum frequencies reallocation spectrum federal use exclusive nonfederal currently required shared federal nonfederal use federal entities allow nonfederal entities access frequency assignments national_telecommunications_and_information_administration ntia approval revises categories relocation sharing costs authorizes federal_communications_commission fcc consistent public interest spectrum utilization licensee voluntarily relinquish licensed spectrum usage rights order permit assignment new initial licenses competitive bidding process subject new service rules permit designation new spectrum unlicensed use pay licensee portion auction proceeds attributable licensee relinquished spectrum usage rights permits fcc public interest modify spectrum usage rights incumbent licensee facilitate new assignments designations pay portion auction proceeds incumbent licensees relocating designated alternative frequencies locations requires fcc notify congress methodology considering value spectrum vacated current use timeliness clearing calculating payments licensees months relevant auction assign megahertz certain specified bands competitive bidding process extends permanently currently expires september fcc authority grant license permit applicable competitive bidding provisions sets forth requirements concerning terrestrial broadband rights spectrum primarily licensed mobile satellite services domestic satellite communications services licenses directs assistant secretary commerce_for_communications_and_information fcc president identify specified frequencies competitive bidding reallocation sharing fcc auction specified frequency ranges modifies competitive bidding system design requirements amends communications act authorize fcc establish collect annual user fees initial spectrum licenses construction permits granted competitive bidding renewals modifications initial licenses authorizations granted competitive bidding sets forth required minimum collection amounts fy2012-fy2021 requires proceeds deposited general_fund_of_the_treasury directs fcc establish regulation fee collection methodology schedule exempt broadcast television public safety services licensees fees increases allocation electromagnetic spectrum public safety entities directing fcc reallocate entities specified frequencies mhz block spectrum amending communications act increase public safety services allocation reduce commercial use allocation megahertz specified range authorizes flexible use narrowband spectrum including public safety broadband communications subject exceptions establishes public safety broadband corporation private nonprofit corporation required hold single public safety wireless license license reallocated granted fcc initial year term renewable application subsequent terms term maximum years mhz block existing public safety broadband build deploy operate nationwide public safety interoperable broadband network supporting unemployed workers act amends supplemental appropriations act ssa respect state established individual emergency unemployment compensation account euca extends final date entering federal state agreement emergency unemployment compensation euc program january postpones termination program june amends assistance_for_unemployed_workers struggling families act extend january requirements federal payments states cover euc amends unemployment compensation extension act exempt weeks unemployment enactment act june prohibition federal-state_extended_unemployment_compensation_act fseuca federal matching payments state week individual eligibility period extended compensation sharable regular compensation paid state law provides payment regular compensation individual week compensable unemployment allows temporary federal matching week extended benefits states waiting period amends tax relief unemployment insurance reauthorization job creation act respect state authority apply certain requirements fseuca specified substitutions determining extended unemployment compensation period requires state indicators based rate insured unemployment rate total unemployment period beginning enactment fseuca later date established pursuant state law ending december currently december amends ssa include federal state agreement euc program requirement state provide reemployment services reemployment eligibility assessment activities certain recipients euc conditions individual continuing eligibility euc week individual referred services activities participated completed participation cause failure authorizes federal state agreement require state agency administering euc establish self employment assistance program provide payment euc weeks self employment assistance allowances individuals meet specified eligibility criteria allows participant self employment assistance program opt discontinue participation requires state establishes bridge work program supporting unemployment workers act deduct individual euc account necessary sums pay wages individual amends railroad_unemployment_insurance_act amended american_recovery_and_reinvestment_act amended worker homeownership business assistance_act extend december temporary increase extended unemployment benefits employees years service establishes reemployment program facilitate reemployment individuals receiving emergency unemployment compensation euc claimants requires state submit approval secretary labor state plan meeting certain minimum requirements order eligible allotment federal funds program authorizes state use allotted funds establish bridge work program provide euc claimants short term work experience placements eligible employers increase opportunities individuals permanent employment authorizes state use allotted funds provide wage insurance program pay years euc claimant obtains reemployment difference wages received worker time work separation wages worker received reemployment authorizes state allotted funds provide program enhanced reemployment services euc claimants including unemployed individuals exhausted euc rights administrative costs associated starting certain self employment assistance programs additional innovative_programs designed facilitate reemployment euc claimants amends_the_internal_revenue_code set forth requirements relating short time compensation programs allow employers reduce workweek employees lieu layoffs provides federal financing state short time compensation programs requires secretary labor award grants states enact programs develop model legislative language use states developing enacting implementing programs report congress president implementation programs allows increased work opportunity tax credit long term unemployed individuals individuals unemployed receiving unemployment compensation months pathways work act establishes pathways work fund initial appropriation billion requires secretary labor certain fund allocations states approved plans qualifying outlying areas virgin_islands guam american_samoa commonwealth_of_the_northern_mariana_islands republic_of_palau native american program grantees provide subsidized employment unemployed low income adults summer year round employment opportunities low income youth requires secretary award competitive grants local entities work based training work related educational strategies activities demonstrated effectiveness provide unemployed low income adults low income youths skills lead employment subjects activities funded act federal labor standards nondiscrimination protections fair employment opportunity act makes unlawful practice certain employers publish advertisement announcement job provisions indicating individual status unemployed disqualifies individual employment employer consider hire individual employment based status fail refuse consider hire individual status direct request employment agency individual status account disqualify applicant consideration employment screening referring employees makes unlawful practice employment agency commit similar acts including screen fail refuse consider refer individual employment individual unemployed status limit classify individual manner limit access job information consideration screening referral jobs makes unlawful employer employment agency interfere restrain deny exercise right provided act fail refuse hire discharge discriminate employee individual opposed practice unlawful act asserted right prescribes enforcement authorities respect violations act authorizes individual person acting individual behalf files claim appropriate court alleging violation prohibitions act receive order unlawful employment practice reimbursement costs expended result practice liquidated damages day violation reasonable attorney fees including expert fees court costs amends_the_internal_revenue_code impose individual taxpayers taxable years beginning additional tax equal modified adjusted gross income exceeds million defines modified adjusted gross income adjusted gross income reduced deduction allowed investment interest provides inflation adjustment million threshold taxable years beginning


Summary:
Accurate Background Check Act of 2013 or the ABC Act of 2013 - Amends the federal judicial code to require the Attorney General (DOJ) to provide procedures to ensure the accuracy and completeness of certain criminal records and information exchanged for employment background checks.

Directs the Attorney General, if a record or information is inaccurate or incomplete, to correct, delete, or amend such information within 10 days after a request is made and prior to releasing the record to the requesting entity. Requires the Attorney General, in such an instance, to also research state and local recordkeeping systems, maintain a disposition document database to be searched along with other federal databases, and notify reporting jurisdictions of any updated information.

Considers a record or information to be incomplete if it indicates that an arrest was made and does not include the disposition of such arrest.

Requires the Attorney General, prior to such an employment background check exchange, to obtain the signed consent of the subject of such information, provide the applicant an opportunity to challenge the record, notify the requesting entity of any such challenge, and complete an investigation of such challenge within 30 days.

Extends the procedures established pursuant to this Act to apply to authorized exchanges for: (1) national security background investigations for employment in federal service, (2) government-wide security standards for forms of identification issued to federal employees and contractors, and (3) government background checks for the issuance of transportation security cards to access the secure areas of shipping vessels and facilities.

accurate background check act act amends federal judicial code require attorney general doj provide procedures ensure accuracy completeness certain criminal records information exchanged employment background checks directs attorney general record information inaccurate incomplete correct delete amend information days request prior releasing record requesting entity requires attorney general instance research state local recordkeeping systems maintain disposition document database federal databases notify reporting jurisdictions updated information considers record information incomplete indicates arrest include disposition arrest requires attorney general prior employment background check exchange obtain signed consent subject information provide applicant opportunity challenge record notify requesting entity challenge complete investigation challenge days extends procedures established pursuant act apply authorized exchanges national security background investigations employment federal service government wide security standards forms identification issued federal employees contractors government background checks issuance transportation security cards access secure areas shipping vessels facilities


Summary: Jobs Investment Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to develop and report on recommendations for assigning to depreciable property a class life, classification, or recovery period that more equitably provides for capital cost recovery across all industries without any significant effect on total tax revenue.

jobs investment act directs secretary treasury develop report recommendations assigning depreciable property class life classification recovery period equitably provides capital cost recovery industries significant effect total tax revenue


Summary: Simplifying Technical Aspects Regarding Seasonality Act of 2014 or the STARS Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt seasonal employees from the definition of "full-time employee" for purposes of the employer mandate to provide employees with minimum essential health care coverage. Defines "seasonal employee" as an employee who is employed in a position for which the customary annual employment is not more than six months and which requires performing labor or services that are ordinarily performed at certain seasons or periods of the year.

simplifying technical aspects act stars act amends_the_internal_revenue_code exempt seasonal employees definition time employee purposes employer mandate provide employees minimum essential health_care coverage defines seasonal employee employee employed position customary annual employment months requires performing labor services ordinarily performed certain periods year


Summary:
Independent Contractor Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2015

 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth criteria for classifying a worker as an employee or an independent contractor.

Prohibits: (1) any retroactive assessment of employment tax, except with respect to certain skilled workers, for tax periods after December 31, 1978, unless the employer had no reasonable basis for not treating a worker as an employee, and (2) the issuance, after the enactment of this Act, of Treasury regulations with respect to the employment status of any individual for purposes of the employment tax.

Establishes safe harbor provisions upon which a service recipient or payor may rely in classifying a service provider as an independent contractor rather than as an employee where the service provider: (1) incurs significant financial responsibility for providing and maintaining equipment and facilities to perform work under a contract; (2) incurs unreimbursed expenses or risks income fluctuations because remuneration is directly related to sales or other output rather than solely to the number of hours actually worked or expenses incurred; (3) is compensated on factors related to the work performed and not solely on the basis of hours or time expended; and (4) substantially controls the means and manner of performing the contract services, the specifications of the service recipient or payor, and any additional contractual requirements.

independent contractor tax fairness simplification act amends_the_internal_revenue_code set forth criteria classifying worker employee independent contractor prohibits retroactive assessment employment tax respect certain skilled workers tax periods december employer reasonable basis treating worker employee issuance enactment act treasury regulations respect employment status individual purposes employment tax establishes safe harbor provisions service recipient payor rely classifying service provider independent contractor employee service provider incurs significant financial responsibility providing maintaining equipment facilities perform work contract incurs unreimbursed expenses risks income fluctuations remuneration directly related sales output solely number hours actually worked expenses incurred compensated factors related work performed solely basis hours time expended substantially controls means manner performing contract services specifications service recipient payor additional contractual requirements


Summary:
Voluntary Protection Program Act

This bill provides statutory authority for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA's) voluntary protection program, under which management, labor, and OSHA establish cooperative relationships at workplaces that have implemented a comprehensive safety and health management system.

voluntary protection program act bill provides statutory authority occupational_safety_and_health_administration osha voluntary protection program management labor osha establish cooperative relationships workplaces implemented comprehensive safety health management system


Summary:
Protection of Social Security Benefits Restoration Act

This bill amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the application of, and repeal authority for, administrative offsets to Social Security, railroad retirement, and black lung benefits.

protection social_security benefits restoration act bill amends title old age survivors disability_insurance social_security_act prohibit application repeal authority administrative offsets social_security railroad retirement black lung benefits


Summary:
Layoff Prevention Extension Act of 2016

 This bill amends the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 with respect to state short-time compensation programs that allow employers to reduce the workweek of their employees in lieu of layoffs. The bill: (1) extends federal financing of the programs for an additional two years; and (2) extends through December 31, 2016, the deadline for a state to submit to the Department of Labor its application for a short-time compensation program grant.

layoff prevention extension act bill amends middle class tax relief job creation act respect state short time compensation programs allow employers reduce workweek employees lieu layoffs bill extends federal financing programs additional years extends december deadline state submit department_of_labor application short time compensation program grant


Summary:
America Star Act

This bill directs the Secretary of Labor to establish within the Department of Labor a voluntary America Star program under which the Secretary annually shall designate certain companies, based on specified performance categories, as America Star companies for their support for the U.S. workforce.

Companies are ineligible to participate in the program if they commit serious, repeated, or willful violations of specified federal labor law.

The Secretary shall: (1) market the America Star program annually to the public through the Department's website, and (2) design a label for designated America Star companies to use by displaying it next to the company's logo.

The Federal Trade Commission shall treat as an unfair or deceptive practice the use of a label by a company not designated as an America Star company in violation with the requirements of this Act.

america star act bill directs secretary labor establish department_of_labor voluntary america star program secretary annually shall designate certain companies based specified performance categories america star companies support workforce companies ineligible participate program commit repeated willful violations specified federal labor law secretary shall market america star program annually public department website design label designated america star companies use displaying company logo federal_trade_commission shall treat unfair deceptive practice use label company designated america star company violation requirements act


Summary:
Clean Energy Worker Just Transition Act

This bill prescribes eligibility requirements and procedures for the award of temporary adjustment assistance to a group of workers of adversely affected coal-related or coal-dependent or similar energy industries who are totally or partially separated, or threatened with total or partial separation, because of the low cost of competing alternative forms of energy.

Such assistance shall include temporary additional unemployment compensation, health insurance premium subsidy tax credits, training and support for employment, as well as additional pension benefits.

The bill establishes in the Treasury the Clean Energy Workers Trust Fund, appropriations to which shall include the increase in revenues resulting from certain revisions to the rules for taxation of inverted corporations (U.S. corporations that acquire foreign companies to reincorporate in a foreign jurisdiction with income tax rates lower than the U.S. rates).

The Internal Revenue Code (IRC) is amended to revise such rules to treat as an inverted domestic corporation subject to U.S. taxation any foreign corporation that acquires the properties of a U.S. corporation or partnership after May 8, 2014, if, after the acquisition: (1) more than 50% (by vote or value) of the stock of the new entity (expanded affiliated group) is held by former shareholders or partners of the domestic corporation or partnership, or (2) the management or control of the expanded affiliated group occurs primarily within the United States and the group has significant domestic business activities.

The bill creates a tax credit for hiring certified adversely affected energy industry workers. The Department of Labor shall provide full information to workers about the adjustment assistance available under this Act.

The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 is amended to transfer specified excess funds derived from coal mine operator-paid reclamation fees to the trustees of the 1974 UMWA Pension Plan for use solely to pay pension benefits required under such Plan.

Workplace Democracy for a Clean Energy Future

This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act to require the National Labor Relations Board to certify without an election an individual or labor organization as the exclusive representative of the employees in a unit appropriate for bargaining if a majority of the employees has signed valid authorizations designating the individual or labor organization specified in a properly filed petition as their bargaining representative and no other individual or labor organization is currently certified or recognized as the exclusive representative of any of the employees in the unit.

The Board shall develop guidelines and procedures for the designation by employees of a bargaining representative.

The bill prescribes deadlines for critical turns in collective bargaining to establish an initial agreement upon the request of an individual or labor organization that has been newly organized or certified as a representative.

The bill also creates a Community Need-Based Economic Transition Assistance Program, coordinated by the Department of Commerce, for counties or Indian tribes in which at least 35 certified adversely affected workers reside. The Appalachian Regional Commission shall award grants to such counties to support economic development planning and implementation activities in them.

The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement shall award grants to eligible counties for reclamation of abandoned coal mine land sites and associated polluted waters.

The Environmental Protection Agency shall: (1) award eligible counties capitalization grants to establish a drinking water treatment revolving loan fund; and (2) provide those counties long-term, low-interest loans for large water infrastructure projects not otherwise eligible for funding from a state revolving loan fund.

The Department of Agriculture shall provide such counties loans and loan guarantees under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to expand access to, and the quality of, broadband service across the rural United States. Commerce shall award them grants under the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program.

The Department of Energy shall award these counties grants for electricity delivery and energy reliability activities to modernize the electric grid.

clean energy worker transition act bill prescribes eligibility requirements procedures award temporary adjustment assistance group workers adversely affected coal related coal dependent similar energy industries totally partially separated threatened total partial separation low cost competing alternative forms energy assistance shall include temporary additional unemployment compensation health insurance premium subsidy tax credits training support employment additional pension benefits bill establishes treasury clean energy workers trust_fund appropriations shall include increase revenues resulting certain revisions rules taxation inverted corporations corporations acquire foreign companies reincorporate foreign jurisdiction income tax rates lower rates internal_revenue_code irc amended revise rules treat inverted domestic corporation subject taxation foreign corporation acquires properties corporation partnership acquisition vote value stock new entity expanded affiliated group held shareholders partners domestic corporation partnership management control expanded affiliated group occurs primarily united_states group significant domestic business activities bill creates tax credit hiring certified adversely affected energy industry workers department_of_labor shall provide information workers adjustment assistance available act surface_mining_control_and_reclamation_act amended transfer specified excess funds derived coal operator paid reclamation fees trustees umwa pension plan use solely pay pension benefits required plan workplace democracy clean energy future bill amends national_labor_relations_act require national_labor_relations_board certify election individual labor organization exclusive representative employees unit appropriate bargaining majority employees signed valid authorizations designating individual labor organization specified properly filed petition bargaining representative individual labor organization currently certified recognized exclusive representative employees unit board shall develop guidelines procedures designation employees bargaining representative bill prescribes deadlines critical turns collective bargaining establish initial agreement request individual labor organization newly organized certified representative bill creates community need based economic transition_assistance_program coordinated department_of_commerce counties indian tribes certified adversely affected workers reside appalachian_regional_commission shall award grants counties support economic development planning implementation activities office_of_surface_mining_reclamation_and_enforcement shall award grants eligible counties reclamation abandoned coal land sites associated waters environmental_protection_agency shall award eligible counties capitalization grants establish drinking water treatment revolving loan fund provide counties long term low interest loans large water infrastructure projects eligible funding state revolving loan fund department_of_agriculture shall provide counties loans loan guarantees rural electrification act expand access quality broadband service rural united_states commerce shall award grants broadband technology opportunities program department_of_energy shall award counties grants electricity delivery energy reliability activities modernize electric grid


Summary:
Protecting Workplace Advancement and Opportunity Act

This bill declares that the proposed or the final rule of the Department of Labor entitled "Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales and Computer Employees" shall cease to have any force or effect. The rule revises the "white collar" exemption of executive, administrative, professional, outside sales, and computer employees from minimum wage and maximum hour, or overtime, requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA).

If the proposed rule is a final rule on the date of enactment of this bill:

 Labor shall not enforce it based on conduct occurring before that enactment date, an employee shall not have any right of action against an employer for the employer's failure to comply with the final rule at any time before that enactment date, any regulations that were amended by the final rule shall be restored and revived as if the final rule had never taken effect, and nothing in this bill shall be construed to create a right of action for an employer against an employee for the recoupment of any payments made to the employee before the enactment of this bill that were in compliance with that final rule. Labor may promulgate any substantially similar rule only if it has completed certain required actions; but the rule shall not contain any automatic updates to the salary threshold for purposes of exemptions to minimum wage and maximum hour requirements under the FLSA.

The requirement that definitions applicable for such exemptions be defined and delimited from time to time by Labor regulations shall be construed to:

 require Labor to issue a new rule through notice and comment rulemaking for each change in any salary threshold it has proposed; and exclude any rule that would result in changes to any salary threshold for multiple time periods, including through any automatic updating procedure. Labor may not promulgate any final rule that includes any revision to duties tests for exemption from minimum wage and maximum hours requirements unless specific regulatory text for the provision was proposed in the proposed rule.

protecting workplace advancement opportunity act bill declares proposed final rule department_of_labor entitled defining exemptions executive administrative professional outside sales computer employees shall cease force effect rule revises white exemption executive administrative professional outside sales computer employees minimum wage maximum hour overtime requirements fair labor standards act flsa proposed rule final rule date enactment bill labor shall enforce based conduct occurring enactment date employee shall right action employer employer failure comply final rule time enactment date regulations amended final rule shall restored revived final rule taken effect bill shall construed create right action employer employee recoupment payments employee enactment bill compliance final rule labor promulgate substantially similar rule completed certain required actions rule shall contain automatic updates salary threshold purposes exemptions minimum wage maximum hour requirements flsa requirement definitions applicable exemptions defined time time labor regulations shall construed require labor issue new rule notice comment rulemaking change salary threshold proposed exclude rule result changes salary threshold multiple time periods including automatic updating procedure labor promulgate final rule includes revision duties tests exemption minimum wage maximum hours requirements specific regulatory text provision proposed proposed rule