| HB6274 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990, for the purposes of a civil action brought against a person for the misrepresentation of an Indian produced good or an Indian product to revise the definition of "Indian" to include: (1) a member of an I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-07
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB6312 | Intro
Sine Die | Synthetic Cathinones Control Act of 2012 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to add as schedule I controlled substances specified additional hallucinogenic substances (or the salts, isomers, or salts of isomers thereof).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-07
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB6302 | Intro
Sine Die | Reasonable Policies on Automated License Plate Readers Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to prohibit assistance under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program or the Public Safety and Community Poli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-07
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB6349 | Intro
Sine Die | Bankruptcy Administration Improvement Act of 2012 - Amends federal bankruptcy law to: (1) round to the nearest $5 any Consumer Price Index (CPI) increase in the trustee fee for services rendered in a case under chapter 7 (Liquidation); (2) increase t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-07
To House Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law |
| HB6277 | Intro
Sine Die | Keep America Secure Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Defense (DOD) and the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) from purchasing equipment or military aircraft containing non-U.S. manufactured electronic components. Allows the Secretaries to waive th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-05
To House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies |
| HB6170 | Intro
Sine Die | Saving Essential American Sailors Act or SEAS Act - Amends the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) to repeal the Act's repeal of the agricultural export requirements that: (1) 25% of the gross tonnage of certain agricultural co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-24
To House Subcommittee on Readiness |
| HR740 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses support for the designation of K-9 Veterans Day and for efforts to recognize the service of military working dogs and their handlers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-24
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB6187 | Intro
Sine Die | Cure for AIDS Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD), through the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, to establish and support an accelerated research program dedicated to discovering a cure for HIV/AIDS. Instructs the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-24
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB819 | Intro
Sine Die | Government Shutdown Fairness Act - Prohibits Members of Congress and the President from receiving basic pay for any period in which: (1) there is more than a 24-hour lapse in appropriations for any federal agency or department as a result of a failur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-20
To House Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy |
| HB6354 | Intro
Sine Die | Replaces the map included in the set of maps entitled "Coastal Barrier Resources System" (referred to in specified provisions of the Coastal Barrier Resources Act and relating to Unit P-31P in the state of Florida) with another map relating to the sa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-16
To House Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs |
| HB6343 | Intro
Sine Die | Fort Sumner Project Title Conveyance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Fort Sumner Irrigation District, located in De Baca County, New Mexico, all works, land, and facilities of the Fort Sumner reclamation project in acc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-16
To House Subcommittee on Water and Power |
| HB6221 | Intro
Sine Die | Identifying Cybersecurity Risks to Critical Infrastructure Act of 2012 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to conduct continuous, sector-by-sector research, identification, and evaluation of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-15
To House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies |
| HB6280 | Intro
Sine Die | United States-Mexico Cross-Border Security Act of 2012 - Directs the President, through the National Security Council Interagency Group, to develop a Whole-of-Government Plan in coordination with the government of Mexico to combat Mexican-based trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-15
To House Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security |
| HB6247 | Intro
Sine Die | Saving Our Dams and New Hydropower Development and Jobs Act of 2012 - Amends the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to authorize small conduit hydropower development. Designates the Power Resources Office of the Bureau of Reclamation as the lead office ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-15
Committee Hearings Held. |
| HB6292 | Intro
Sine Die | Justice for Imprisoned Americans Overseas Act of 2012 or Jacob's Law of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of State to submit a semiannnual report to Congress for five years that identifies: (1) U.S. citizens imprisoned in foreign countries whose fundament...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-14
To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
| HB6282 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), if an offer is received from the city of Carlin, Nevada, to purchase federal land within the city to convey to the city all interest of the United States in su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-14
To House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands |
| HB6286 | Intro
Sine Die | Clear Creek National Recreation Area and Conservation Act of 2012 - Establishes the Clear Creek National Recreation Area in California to promote environmentally responsible high-quality motorized and non-motorized trail based recreation, including o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-14
To House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands |
| HB6291 | Intro
Sine Die | Vietnam Veterans Donor Acknowledgment Act of 2012 - Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to acknowledge a donor contribution to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Visitor Center inside such Center in the form of a permanent statement or credit line tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-14
To House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands |
| HB6241 | Intro
Sine Die | Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2012 - Amends the federal criminal code to require the licensing of ammunition dealers. Prohibits any person except a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer from: (1) selling ammunition, with an exception for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-14
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB6335 | Intro
Sine Die | States' Medical Marijuana Property Rights Protection Act - Exempts real property from civil forfeiture under the Controlled Substances Act due to medical-marijuana-related conduct that is authorized by state law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-14
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB6193 | Intro
Sine Die | Religious Workers Visa Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend, through September 30, 2017, the special immigrant religious professionals program for certain immigrants seeking to enter the United States to work for a bona fide non...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-14
To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
| HB6245 | Intro
Sine Die | Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of 2012 - Amends federal patent law to allow a court, upon finding that a party does not have a reasonable likelihood of succeeding in an action disputing the validity or alleging infringe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-14
To House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet |
| HB6098 | Intro
Sine Die | Crop Insurance Subsidy Reduction Act - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to reduce crop insurance premium subsidy rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-13
To House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management |
| HB6089 | Intro
Sine Die | Healthy Forest Management Act of 2012 - Declares that the bark beetle epidemic, drought, and deteriorating forest health conditions on National Forest System land and public lands, with the resulting imminent risk of devastating wildfires, is an immi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-13
To House Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry |
| HB6231 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), through the Forest Service, to use funds derived from conservation-related programs executed on National Forest System lands to utilize the Agriculture Conservation Experienced Services Program to provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-13
To House Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry |
| HB5991 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Lands Renewable Energy Development Act of 2012 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require amounts received through FY2020 (currently, through FY2010) from leases under the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to be available to the Secretary of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-13
To House Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry |
| HB6009 | Intro
Sine Die | Self-Sufficient Community Lands Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish the community forest demonstration area or areas of a state, consisting of National Forest System (NFS) land, at the request of a Board of Trustees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-13
To House Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry |
| HB6068 | Intro
Sine Die | Chesapeake Bay Watershed Fairness Act of 2012 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to provide technical assistance to a Chesapeake Bay state (Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-13
To House Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry |
| HB6022 | Intro
Sine Die | Containing Risk, Offering Protection Act - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to include coverage for losses to an insured commodity when, as a result of a federally-imposed quarantine, the commodity must be destroyed or is unable to be marketed o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-13
To House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management |
| HR761 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses dissatisfaction that the practice of gassing stray cats and dogs that have owners continues in the United States in the 21st century.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-13
To House Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry |
| HR760 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should reject the provisions of H.B. 6083, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Agriculture, that reduce the availability or amount of benefits provided under the supplemental...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-13
To House Subcommittee on Nutrition and Horticulture |
| HB6239 | Intro
Sine Die | SNAP Fraud Prevention Act of 2012 - Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to prohibit the payment of a deposit fee in excess of any state fee reimbursement to recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-13
To House Subcommittee on Nutrition and Horticulture |
| HB6191 | Intro
Sine Die | Cancer-Free Label Act of 2012 - Directs the head of each federal agency that regulates a covered product to establish a program to permit the labeling of such a product that does not contain any carcinogens as "Cancer-Free." Defines a "covered produc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-13
To House Subcommittee on Nutrition and Horticulture |
| HR736 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses: (1) disapproval of the use of gas chambers to euthanize shelter animals, and (2) support for the enactment of state laws requiring the use of euthanasia by injection with sodium pentobarbital as the standard method of euthanasia for all an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-13
To House Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry |
| HB6086 | Intro
Sine Die | Hunt Unrestricted on National Treasures Act or the HUNT Act - Requires each head of a federal public land management agency (the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management [BL...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-13
To House Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry |
| HB6200 | Intro
Sine Die | Safety And Fraud Enforcement for Seafood Act - Requires the Secretaries of Commerce and Health and Human Services (HHS) to execute a memorandum of understanding to improve interagency cooperation on seafood safety, building upon any prior agreement, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-13
To House Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry |
| HB6154 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Lands Renewable Energy Development Act of 2012 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require amounts received through FY2020 (currently, through FY2010) from leases under the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to be available to the Secretary of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-13
To House Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry |
| HB6257 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Civil Rights Trail Special Resource Study Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to evaluate a range of alternatives for the protection and interpretation of sites associated with the str...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-10
To House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands |
| HB6251 | Intro
Sine Die | Marine Debris Emergency Act of 2012 - Amends the Marine Debris Research, Prevention, and Reduction Act to authorize the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to declare a marine debris emergency upon determining ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-09
To House Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs |
| HB6235 | Intro
Sine Die | Federal Lands Energy Regulatory Certainty Act of 2012 - Bars the Secretary of the Interior, before submitting the final report on the study specified below, from taking any action to finalize or otherwise implement provisions contained in the propose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-08
To House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources |
| HB6236 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of the Interior, if the Secretary receives an offer from the city of Fernley, Nevada, to purchase identified federal land within the city, acting through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Bureau of Reclamation, to conv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-08
To House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands |
| HB6359 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income, for income tax purposes, the value of any medal awarded in, or any prize money received from the U.S. Olympic Committee on account of, competition in the Olympic Games or Paralympic Games...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-07
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6360 | Intro
Sine Die | Oversight and Accountability in Wartime Contracting Act of 2012 - Directs the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to: (1) limit contracts entered into in connection with an overseas contingency ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-07
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6326 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to authorize direct payment under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance Benefits for the Aged and Disabled) to a pharmacy for certain covered compound drugs prepared by the pharmacy for a spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-06
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB6307 | Intro
Sine Die | GSP Update for Production Diversification and Trade Enhancement Act or GSP UPDATE Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize the President to designate certain luggage and travel articles as eligible for duty-free treatment under the Generalized...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-06
To House Subcommittee on Trade |
| HB6256 | Intro
Sine Die | Recidivism Reduction Act - Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income for Aged, Blind, and Disabled) (SSI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require the reinstatement upon release of an otherwise eligible disabled inmate for SSI benefits which ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-06
Referred for a period ending not later than August 6 2012, (or for a later time if the Chairman so designates) to the Subcommittee on Social Security, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee concerned. |
| HB6227 | Intro
Sine Die | Niblack Mining Area Road Authorization Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, to establish a road corridor that follows 1 of the 2 routes identified as "Niblack Route 1" or "Niblack ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-06
To House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands |
| HB6232 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicare Better Health Rewards Program Act of 2012 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a three-year Better Health Rewards Program under which incentives ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-06
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB6300 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid Long-Term Care Reform Act of 2012 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) Congress should repeal the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS Act); (2) federal and state governments should work to reduce the number of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-06
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB6192 | Intro
Sine Die | Supplemental Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2012 - Extends through FY2012: (1) the livestock indemnity program; (2) the livestock forage disaster program; (3) emergency assistance for livestock, honey bees, and farm-raised fish; and (4) the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-06
To House Subcommittee on Trade |
