| SB3523 | Intro
Sine Die | Innovative Design Protection Act of 2012 - Extends copyright protection to fashion designs. Revises the definition of "useful article" to include an article of apparel (clothing, handbags, purses, wallets, tote bags, belts, and eyeglass frames). Exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-20
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 573. |
| HB6166 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 333 West Broadway Street in San Diego, California, as the "James M. Carter and Judith N. Keep United States Courthouse."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-20
Received in the Senate. |
| HB6016 | Engross
Sine Die | Government Employee Accountability Act - Sets forth investigative leave requirements for federal employees in the competitive service and Senior Executive Service (SES) career employees. Defines "investigative leave" as a temporary absence without du...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-20
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SR439 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses support for: (1) law enforcement agency efforts to provide training to law enforcement agents on how to investigate and prosecute cases of sex trafficking and how to identify and rescue trafficking victims; and (2) trafficking victim servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-20
Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S8319-8320) |
| HB4367 | Pass | Amends the Electronic Fund Transfer Act with respect to mandatory fee disclosures on automated teller machines (ATMs) operated by a person other than a financial institution holding a consumer's account. Repeals the requirement that such a fee discl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-20
Became Public Law No: 112-216. |
| HB4062 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1444 Main Street in Ramona, California, as the "Nelson 'Mac' MacWilliams Post Office Building."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-20
Received in the Senate. |
| HB4014 | Pass | Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to make the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) a "covered agency" that may share information with another covered agency or any other federal agency without waiving any privilege applicable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-20
Became Public Law No: 112-215. |
| SB1998 | Pass | DHS Audit Requirement Target Act of 2012 or the DART Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, in order to ensure compliance with the Department of Homeland Security Financial Accountability Act, to take the necessary steps to ensure that the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-20
Became Public Law No: 112-217. |
| HB3319 | Pass | Makes any U.S. citizen of Pascua Yaqui blood who is enrolled by the Pascua Yaqui Tribe eligible for the federal services and benefits made available to members of federally recognized tribes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-20
Became Public Law No: 112-214. |
| HB2919 | Intro
Sine Die | Community Shelter Protection Act of 2011 - Prohibits the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from requiring an educational institution (elementary or secondary school that is provided FEMA assistance under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-20
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 517. |
| HB2838 | Pass | Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2012 - Title I: Authorization - (Sec. 101) Authorizes FY2013-FY2014 appropriations for the Coast Guard for: (1) operation and maintenance; (2) acquisition, construction, rebuilding, and improvement of na...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-20
Became Public Law No: 112-213. |
| HB2467 | Pass | Bridgeport Indian Colony Land Trust, Health, and Economic Development Act of 2012 - Declares approximately 39.36 acres of federal land in Mono County, California, to be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Bridgeport Indian Colon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-20
Became Public Law No: 112-212. |
| HB2471 | Engross
Sine Die | Title I: Video Privacy Protection - Video Privacy Protection Act Amendments Act of 2012 - (Sec. 102) Amends provisions of the federal criminal code authorizing a video tape service provider to disclose personally identifiable information concerning a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-20
By Senator Leahy from Committee on the Judiciary filed written report. Report No. 112-258. Additional views filed. |
| HB1073 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the U.S. courthouse to be constructed at a specified site in Jackson, Mississippi, as the "R. Jess Brown United States Courthouse."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-20
Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 173. |
| HB1063 | Intro
Sine Die | Strengthening Medicare And Repaying Taxpayers Act of 2012 - (Sec. 2) Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to reimbursement to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) by a health plan for any conditional Medic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-20
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 112-715, Part I. |
| SB3697 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act relating to certain mercury compounds, products, and processes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB3696 | Intro
Sine Die | New Columbia Admission Act - Sets forth procedures for admission into the United States of the state of New Columbia. Requires the Mayor of the District of Columbia to: (1) submit to the eligible voters propositions for statehood and adoption of a St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB6688 | Intro
Sine Die | Averting the Fiscal Cliff Act - Title I: Job Protection and Recession Prevention Act - Subtitle A: Job Protection and Recession Prevention Act - Job Protection and Recession Prevention Act of 2012 - Makes permanent: (1) the Economic Growth and Tax Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
To House Rules Committee |
| HB6687 | Intro
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] | 2012-12-19
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6686 | Intro
Sine Die | Mercury Use Reduction Act of 2012
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
To House Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy |
| HB6685 | Intro
Sine Die | Protect Law Enforcement Armor Act or the PLEA Act - Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) expand the definition of "armor piercing ammunition" to include a projectile that may be used in a handgun and that is determined by the Attorney G...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB6683 | Intro
Sine Die | Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide tax benefits for individuals and businesses affected by Hurricane Sandy, including: an exemption from the gross income limitation for deducting casualty losses att...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6682 | Intro
Sine Die | Standard Data and Technology Advancement Act of 2012 or Standard DATA Act of 2012 - Amends part A of title XI of the Social Security Act to direct the head of the department or agency responsible for administering certain human services programs to d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB6679 | Intro
Sine Die | Tim Fagan's Law or Counterfeit Drug Enforcement Act of 2012 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish a criminal fine and/or imprisonment for a person who: (1) knowingly causes a prescription drug to be adulterated, misbranded, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB6676 | Intro
Sine Die | Drone Aircraft Privacy and Transparency Act of 2012 - Amends the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 to direct the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to study and identify any potential threats to privacy protections posed by the integration of u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
To House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade |
| SR625 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizes and applauds the planned January 12, 2013, opening of the United States Freedom Pavilion: the Boeing Center, an iconic pavilion and a major feature of the America's National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana. Recognizes the ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8233-8234; text as passed Senate: CR S8233-8234; text of measure as introduced: CR S8205-8206) |
| SCR65 | 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] | 2012-12-19
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| HB6662 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) establish a pilot program to be known as the Road User Fee Pilot Project to study alternatives to the system of taxing motor vehicle fuels, including alternatives based upon the mileage of vehicles subjec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
To House Subcommittee on Energy and Power |
| HR839 | Intro
Sine Die | Declares that the House of Representatives has heard with profound sorrow and deep regret the announcement of the death of the Honorable Daniel K. Inouye, a Senator from Hawaii. Declares that when the House adjourns on December 19, 2012, it stand ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB6645 | Intro
Sine Die | Save and Strengthen Medicare Act of 2012 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to add a new Medicare part E (Unified Medicare with Choice and Competition) which prohibits benefit coverage for an individual under either Medi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HR836 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the printing of a revised edition of the Rules and Manual of the House of Representatives for the 113th Congress to be printed as a House document, including 3,000 additional copies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HR837 | Intro
Sine Die | Declares that the House of Representatives has heard with profound sorrow and deep regret the announcement of the death of the Honorable Daniel K. Inouye, a Senator from Hawaii. Declares that when the House adjourns on December 19, 2012, it stand ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
To House Administration Committee |
| HR838 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of State should take the appropriate steps in the United Nations (U.N.) to amend Article 22 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice to move the seat of the court from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| SCR63 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of the Senate to make a technical correction in the enrollment of S. 2367 (21st Century Language Act of 2012).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| SCR64 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the use of the rotunda of the Capitol on December 20, 2012, for the lying in state of the remains of Daniel K. Inouye, a Senator from Hawaii and formerly a Representative from that state in recognition of the long and distinguished service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| SR618 | Intro
Sine Die | (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Observes the 100th birthday of civil rights icon Rosa Parks. Commemorates the legacy of Rosa Parks to inspire all people of the United States ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S8232-8233) |
| HB6504 | Engross
Sine Die | Small Business Investment Company Modernization Act of 2012 - Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to increase from $225 million to $350 million the maximum amount of outstanding leverage to be made available by the Small Business Adminis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
Received in the Senate. |
| HR668 | Intro
Sine Die | Refers H.B. 5862, relating to members of the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma (O-Gah-Pah), to the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for a determination as to whether the Tribe and its members have Indian trust-related legal or equitable claims ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 398 - 5 (Roll no. 635). (text: CR H7280-7281) |
| SB2234 | Intro
Sine Die | End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act of 2012 - (Sec. 3) Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to expand the authority of a federal agency to terminate a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement involving grantees or contract...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 571. |
| SB1980 | Intro
Sine Die | Pirate Fishing Elimination Act - Implements the Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing, done at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (U.N.) in Rome, It...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
By Senator Rockefeller from Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation filed written report. Report No. 112-255. |
| SB1910 | Intro
Sine Die | Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2012 - (Sec. 2) States as the purpose of this Act to apply the same employment benefits and obligations to federal employees in same-sex domestic partnerships and to their domestic partners as appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 572. |
| SB1440 | Engross
Sine Die | Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Reauthorization Act or PREEMIE Reauthorization Act - Title I: Prematurity Research Expansion and Education For Mothers Who Deliver Infants Early - (Sec. 101) Amends th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendments to Senate bill. |
| SB1100 | Intro
Sine Die | Keeping Politics Out of Federal Contracting Act of 2011 - Prohibits the head of an executive agency from: (1) requiring a contractor to submit political information as part of a solicitation, request for bid, request for proposal, or any other commun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 570. |
| SB241 | Intro
Sine Die | Non-Federal Employee Whistleblower Protection Act of 2012 - Repeals and replaces provisions prohibiting reprisals against employees of civilian and defense contractors for disclosures to federal officials of information concerning a substantial viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 569. |
| SR624 | Intro
Sine Die | Declares that the Senate has heard with profound sorrow and deep regret of the death of the Honorable Daniel K. Inouye, Senator from Hawaii. Declares that when the Senate adjourns December 18, 2012, it stand adjourned as a further mark of respect to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-18
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8152; text as passed Senate: CR S8152; text of measure as introduced: CR S8140) |
| SR623 | Intro
Sine Die | Notifies the President of the United States of the election of the Honorable Patrick J. Leahy as President of the Senate pro tempore.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-18
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8103-8104; text as passed Senate: CR S8104; text of measure as introduced: CR S8140) |
| SR622 | Intro
Sine Die | Notifies the House of Representatives of the election of the Honorable Patrick J. Leahy as President of the Senate pro tempore.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-18
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8103; text as passed Senate: CR S8103; text of measure as introduced: CR S8139) |
| HB6681 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 815 County Road 23 in Tyrone, New York, as the "Specialist Christopher Scott Post Office Building."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-18
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB6680 | Intro
Sine Die | Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2012 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit a person from possessing a firearm unless that person has been issued a firearm license under this Act or a state system cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB6677 | Intro
Sine Die | Common Sense Housing Investment Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax deduction for mortgage interest, to: (1) allow, in lieu of such deduction, a tax credit for 20% of mortgage interest paid in a taxable year for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-18
To House Financial Services Committee |
