| SB2318 | Pass | Department of State Rewards Program Update and Technical Corrections Act of 2012 - (Sec. 2) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Department of State rewards program should be expanded to: (1) address the threat to U.S. interests from transnationa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-15
Became Public Law No: 112-283. |
| SB3677 | Pass | Amends the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 to apply escrow requirements for flood insurance payments to residential improved real estate or a mobile home (currently, such requirements apply to improved real estate or a mobile home).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-14
Became Public Law No: 112-281. |
| SB3662 | Pass | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6 Nichols Street in Westminster, Massachusetts, as the "Lieutenant Ryan Patrick Jones Post Office Building."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-14
Became Public Law No: 112-280. |
| SB3630 | Pass | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 218 North Milwaukee Street in Waterford, Wisconsin, as the "Captain Rhett W. Schiller Post Office."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-14
Became Public Law No: 112-279. |
| SB3472 | Pass | Uninterrupted Scholars Act (USA) - Amends provisions of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 that prohibit the Department of Education from funding educational agencies or institutions that release student educational records (or per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-14
Became Public Law No: 112-278. |
| SB3454 | Pass | Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 - Title I: Budget and Personnel Authorizations - (Sec. 101) Authorizes appropriations for FY2013 for the conduct of intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the: (1) Office of the Directo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-14
Became Public Law No: 112-277. |
| SB3331 | Pass | Intercountry Adoption Universal Accreditation Act of 2012 - Applies universal intercountry adoption accreditation standards under the Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000, and related regulations, to the same extent as they apply to the offering or prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-14
Became Public Law No: 112-276. |
| SJR44 | Pass | Grants the consent of Congress to the State and Province Emergency Management Assistance Memorandum of Understanding entered into between the states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, New York, and W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-14
Became Public Law No: 112-282. |
| SB3666 | Pass | Amends the Animal Welfare Act to exclude from the definition of "exhibitor," for purposes of the licensing and other regulatory requirements of the Act, owners of common, domesticated household pets who derive less than a substantial portion of incom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-261. |
| SJR49 | Pass | Appoints Barbara Barrett as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-262. |
| SB3202 | Pass | Dignified Burial and Other Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 2012 - Title I: Cemetery Matters - (Sec. 101) Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to furnish a casket or urn of sufficient quality for a dignified burial for the burial in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-260. |
| SB925 | Pass | Mt. Andrea Lawrence Designation Act of 2011 - Designates peak 12,240, which is located 0.6 miles northeast of Donahue Peak on the northern border of the Ansel Adams Wilderness and Yosemite National Park in California, as Mt. Andrea Lawrence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-259. |
| SB3716 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to add vaccines against seasonal influenza to the list of those vaccines subject to the excise tax on taxable vaccines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
Held at the desk. |
| SR630 | Intro
Sine Die | Congratulates the Navy and the many crews of the U.S.S. Enterprise (CVN 65) (Enterprise) on having provided the United States an incalculable service in international relations and engagement and in the prevention and winning of armed conflicts over ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8668; text as passed Senate: CR S8668; text of measure as introduced: CR S8666) |
| SB3313 | Engross
Sine Die | Women Veterans and Other Health Care Improvements Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish fertility counseling and treatment, including assisted reproductive technology, to a spouse or surrogate of a severely wounded, ill, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| SB3250 | Engross
Sine Die | Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Reporting Act of 2012 or the SAFER Act of 2012 - (Sec. 2) Amends the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to authorize the Attorney General to make Debbie Smith grants under such Act to states or local governm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendments to Senate bill. |
| SB2045 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that the principal office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) be in the metropolitan area of Washington, DC, but allows the CAVC to sit any place within the United States. Requires judges in active service on the CAVC to:...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| SB847 | Intro
Sine Die | Safe Chemicals Act of 2011 - Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate a rule that establishes: (1) the data that constitute the minimum data sets for chemica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
An errata sheet on written report No. 112-264 was printed to include Minority views. |
| SB692 | Intro
Sine Die | National Hurricane Research Initiative Act of 2011 - Requires the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere (the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA]) to establish a National Hurricane Research Initi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
By Senator Rockefeller from Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation filed written report. Report No. 112-266. |
| SB140 | Engross
Sine Die | Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Conservation and Recreation Act - Designates specified land and inland water within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan as wilderness and as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
To House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands |
| SB302 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to issue right-of-way permits, subject to certain terms and conditions, for: (1) a high-pressure natural gas transmission pipeline (including appurtenances) in nonwilderness areas within the boundary of Denali...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-01
Held at the desk. |
| SB3715 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends for one year the limited antitrust exemption under the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act for participating in meetings and consultations to discuss security countermeasures, qualified countermeasures, or qualified pandemic or epidemic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-31
Held at the desk. |
| SB3563 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to revise the Federal Permit Streamlining Pilot Project offices to: (1) specify Field Office for each of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Offices designated; and (2) replace the Miles City, Montana, field offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-31
Held at the desk. |
| SB2015 | Engross
Sine Die | Powell Shooting Range Land Conveyance Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Powell Recreation District in Wyoming, without consideration, the land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in the Wind River District and id...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-31
Held at the desk. |
| SB1478 | Engross
Sine Die | Minuteman Missile National Historic Site Boundary Modification Act - Amends the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site Establishment Act of 1999 to modify the boundary of the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in South Dakota by including in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-31
Held at the desk. |
| SB1421 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Peace Corps Commemorative Foundation to establish a commemorative work on federal land in the District of Columbia to commemorate the mission of the Peace Corps and the ideals on which it was founded. Requires the commemorative work t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-31
Held at the desk. |
| SB1047 | Engross
Sine Die | Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel Act of 2011 - Amends the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992 to expand requirements for the operation and maintenance of the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel, Colorado, to require the Secretary o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-31
Held at the desk. |
| SB970 | Engross
Sine Die | White Clay Creek Wild and Scenic River Expansion Act of 2011 - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate additional segments and tributaries of the White Clay Creek in Delaware and Pennsylvania as components of the National Wild and Scenic R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-31
Held at the desk. |
| SB499 | Engross
Sine Die | Bonneville Unit Clean Hydropower Facilitation Act - (Sec. 3) Declares that, in order to facilitate hydropower development on the Diamond Fork System (Utah), a certain amount of reimbursable costs allocated to project power in the Power Appendix of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-31
Held at the desk. |
| SB264 | Engross
Sine Die | Natchez Trace Parkway Land Conveyance Act of 2011 - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to convey to Mississippi, by quitclaim deed and without consideration, all interest of the United States in two parcels of land totaling approximately 67 acres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-31
Held at the desk. |
| SB114 | Engross
Sine Die | San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Boundary Expansion Act of 2012 - Modifies the boundary of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park located in Bexar and Wilson Counties, Texas, to include approximately 137 acres of additional id...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-31
Held at the desk. |
| SB3667 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to rename the section heading of Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the individual retirement accounts (IRAs) of married individuals as the Kay Bailey Hutchison Spousal IRA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-30
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB3687 | Pass | Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to revise the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program to: (1) limit grants by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to no more than 7...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-28
Became Public Law No: 112-237. |
| SB3642 | Pass | Theft of Trade Secrets Clarification Act of 2012 - Amends the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 to apply the prohibition against the theft of trade secrets to a trade secret that is related to a product or service used in or intended for use in intersta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-28
Became Public Law No: 112-236. |
| SB3564 | Pass | Public Interest Declassification Board Reauthorization Act of 2012 - Amends the Public Interest Declassification Act of 2000 to: (1) require any appointment to the Public Interest Declassification Board to be for three years from the date of the appo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-28
Became Public Law No: 112-235. |
| SB3315 | Pass | GAO Mandates Revision Act of 2012 - Amends the Arizona-Idaho Conservation Act of 1988 to require audits of the transactions of the U.S. Capitol Preservation Commission at least once every three years, rather than annually, unless the Chairman or Rank...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-28
Became Public Law No: 112-234. |
| SB3311 | Pass | Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 2601 2nd Avenue North, Billings, Montana, as the "James F. Battin United States Courthouse." Declares that the "James F. Battin United States Courthouse" located at 315 North 26th Street, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-28
Became Public Law No: 112-233. |
| SB3193 | Pass | Barona Band of Mission Indians Land Transfer Clarification Act of 2012 - Amends the Native American Technical Corrections Act of 2004 to revise the description of the land to be held in trust for the Barona Band of Mission Indians of California. Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-28
Became Public Law No: 112-232. |
| SB2367 | Pass | 21st Century Language Act of 2012 - Removes references to the word "lunatic" from rules of construction of the U.S. Code and banking law provisions concerning: (1) trust powers of banks, and (2) bank consolidations and mergers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-28
Became Public Law No: 112-231. |
| SB2170 | Pass | Hatch Act Modernization Act of 2012 - (Sec. 2) Allows a state or local officer or employee to be a candidate for partisan elective office unless the salary of such officer or employee is paid completely, directly or indirectly, by loans or grants mad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-28
Became Public Law No: 112-230. |
| SB1379 | Pass | D.C. Courts and Public Defender Service Act of 2011 - Amends the District of Columbia Official Code to require the chief judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals to: (1) call biennial or, as under current law, annual judicial conferences; a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-28
Became Public Law No: 112-229. |
| SB285 | Enroll
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Sopuruchi Chukwueke.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-28
Became Private Law No: 112-1. |
| SB3709 | Engross
Sine Die | (Sec. 1) Directs the Comptroller General to study any bank holding company having more than $500 billion in consolidated assets (covered institution) with respect to: favorable pricing of its debt relative to its risk profile resulting from the perc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-27
To House Financial Services Committee |
| SB2326 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 2 Niagara Square, Buffalo, New York, as the "Robert H. Jackson United States Courthouse."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-27
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 577. |
| SB2251 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 709 West 9th Street, Juneau, Alaska, as the "Robert Boochever United States Courthouse."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-27
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 576. |
| SB1763 | Intro
Sine Die | Stand Against Violence and Empower Native Women Act or the SAVE Native Women Act - Title I: Grant Programs - (Sec. 101) Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include sex trafficking as a target of the grants to Indian triba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-27
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 579. |
| SJR51 | Intro
Sine Die | Disapproves and nullifies a rule submitted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that provides guidance on the excise tax imposed on the sale of certain medical devices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR613 | Intro
Sine Die | (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Urges European governments and the European Union (EU) to: (1) designate Hizballah as a terrorist organization so th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-21
Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Voice. (text: CR S8379-8380) |
| SB2388 | Engross
Sine Die | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps Amendments Act of 2012 - Reauthorizes and amends authorities relating to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Commissioned Officer Corps (NOAA Corps). (Sec. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-21
Held at the desk. |
| SB1684 | Intro
Sine Die | Indian Tribal Energy Development and Self-Determination Act Amendments of 2012 - Title I: Indian Tribal Energy Development and Self-Determination Act Amendments - (Sec. 101) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to require the Secretary of the Interio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-21
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 575. |
