| HB6262 | Intro
Sine Die | Middle Class and Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2012 - Makes provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA) permanent for taxpayers whose adjusted gross incomes do not exceed a specified base amount (i.e., $200...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-08-01
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6099 | Intro
Sine Die | Supporting Entrepreneurial Economic Development Act of 2012 or the SEED Act of 2012 - Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to prohibit a recipient of an economic adjustment grant from making, but permits a venture development ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-31
To House Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises |
| HB3803 | Intro
Sine Die | District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit any person from performing or attempting to perform an abortion within the District of Columbia except in conformity with this Act's requirem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-31
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 220 - 154, 2 Present (Roll no. 539). |
| HB6129 | Intro
Sine Die | Ban the Use of Credit Scores in Auto Insurance Act - Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit: (1) a consumer reporting agency from furnishing a consumer report or consumer information to any person for use in making a decision to underwrite ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-31
To House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit |
| HB6127 | Intro
Sine Die | Liquidity Enhancement for Small Public Companies Act - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to prohibit the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from proposing, adopting, maintaining, or enforcing any rule, regulation, policy, or procedure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-31
To House Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises |
| HR745 | Intro
Sine Die | Condemns the growing repression of democracy and human rights in Ecuador, including the suppression of freedom of expression and increased government control over the judiciary. Calls on the Secretary of State to: (1) note in the 2012 and future Coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-31
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6034 | Intro
Sine Die | Advancing Agricultural Floodplain Management Act of 2012 - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to jointly establish a task force to analyze the challenges faced by agricu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-31
To House Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity |
| HB6133 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center Commemorative Coin Act to require surcharges on coins issued under such Act to be used, in part, for retirement of debt associated with building the existing National Infantry Museum and Soldier ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-31
To House Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology |
| HB6125 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to declare that certain federal agencies ("covered agencies") shall not be deemed to have waived any confidentiality applicable to information by either transferring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-31
To House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit |
| HR748 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses support for the designation of National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-31
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HR746 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it out of order to consider a concurrent resolution providing for adjournment or adjournment sine die unless the House has been notified that the President has signed a bill to extend for one year certain expired or expiring tax provisions that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-31
To House Rules Committee |
| HB6237 | Intro
Sine Die | Main Street Stabilization Act of 2012 - Directs the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish a grant program for small business development centers. Requires program funding to be used for: (1) the development of business advisory capacit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-31
To House Small Business Committee |
| HB6238 | Intro
Sine Die | Community Post Office Relocation Act - Authorizes the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to sell, at fair market value, to certain tax-exempt private organizations fee simple title to USPS-owned post office buildings containing an office subject to relocatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-31
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB6242 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the President to report to Congress every two years regarding executive branch actions taken to ensure that the interests of all refugees displaced from Arab countries, including Jews, Christians, and other groups, are considered in any final...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-31
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB6243 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt certain on-demand flights (flights for which the departure time, departure location, and arrival location are specifically negotiated with the customer) from the excise tax on transportation of persons and p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-31
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6142 | Intro
Sine Die | Assuring Medicare Stability and Access for Seniors Act of 2012 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend for one year the Medicare physician payment rates without change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-31
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5337) |
| HB6201 | Intro
Sine Die | Long Island Aviation History Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of Long Island, with a particular focus on the Hempstead Plains, the areas surrounding Suffolk County Air Force Base, the hamlet of Bethpage,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-31
To House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands |
| HB6208 | Intro
Sine Die | Retaining Essential Environmental Fishing Structures Act or REEFS Act - Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior, during a two-year period, from requiring or authorizing either the removal or movement of any facility used for oil or gas activities und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-31
To House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources |
| HB6228 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends through September 30, 2013, with specified exceptions, programs under the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008. Suspends specified price support authorities. Extends specified: (1) commodity programs, (2) conservation programs, (3) empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-30
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB6229 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Fire Administration Reauthorization Act of 2012 - Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to: (1) authorize the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) Administrator to appoint a Deputy Administrator (current law requires the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-30
To House Science, Space, And Technology Committee |
| HB16 | Intro
Sine Die | Sensible Estate Tax Relief Act of 2012 - Extends through 2013 provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 pertaining to estates, gifts, and generation-skipping transfers. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-30
To House Budget Committee |
| HB6101 | Intro
Sine Die | Student Veteran Academic Counseling Enhancement Act or Student Veteran ACE Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Secretary) to make educational counseling available to students pursuing an approved program of education while using educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-27
To House Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity |
| HB6214 | Intro
Sine Die | HHS Employee Compensation Reform Act of 2012 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to state that provisions authorizing the appointment of special consultants or authorizing individual scientists to receive fellowships do not authorize the designati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-27
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB6216 | Intro
Sine Die | Make It In America, Create Transportation Manufacturing Jobs in America Act - Eliminates certain grounds for waiving Buy American requirements that the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) obligate federal funding for certain air navigation, highway, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-27
To House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials |
| HB6218 | Intro
Sine Die | Mary Colella Autoimmune Disease Awareness Act of 2012 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish an Autoimmune Diseases Interdepartmental Coordinating Committee for the purpose of fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-27
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB6164 | Intro
Sine Die | Declares that no presidential permit shall be required for the pipeline application filed on May 4, 2012, by TransCanada Corporation for the northern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline from the Canadian border to the South Dakota/Nebraska border. D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-27
To House Subcommittee on Energy and Power |
| HB6222 | Intro
Sine Die | Clean Heating Oil Act of 2012 - Amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit, effective June 1, 2016, any person from manufacturing, selling, supplying, offering for sale or supply, dispensing, transporting, or introducing into commerce heating oil which con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-27
To House Subcommittee on Energy and Power |
| HB6171 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Veterans Pension Act - Provides that if a veteran eligible for a pension for service or for a non-service-connected disability, or the spouse of such veteran, disposes of a resource that was part of such veteran's estate for less than its ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-27
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| HB6174 | Intro
Sine Die | Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 2012 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise the nutritional information that restaurants and retail food establishments must disclose. Requires the nutrient content disclosure statement on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-27
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB6107 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans E-Health & Telemedicine Support Act of 2012 or VETS Act of 2012 - Allows a health care professional who is authorized to provide health care through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and who is a licensed professional to practice a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-27
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB6207 | Intro
Sine Die | Children's Health Task Force Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to) establish and maintain a permanent Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-27
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB6209 | Intro
Sine Die | Student Loan Opportunity Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to tax-exempt private activity bond financing, to eliminate the restriction on nonprofit corporations that acquire student loan notes to notes incurred under the Hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-26
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6212 | Intro
Sine Die | Biogas Investment Tax Credit Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) an energy tax credit through 2018 for investment in qualified biogas property, and (2) financing of qualified biogas property with new clean renewable energy bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-26
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6217 | Intro
Sine Die | Make it in America: Create Clean Energy Manufacturing Jobs in America Act - Authorizes federal acquisition of, or the provision of federal funds to states for purchase of, only green technologies that are 85% manufactured in the United States from ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-26
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6219 | Intro
Sine Die | Salamander Community Conservation Act - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to make the Act's provisions regarding the determination of endangered or threatened species inapplicable to: (1) the Austin blind salamander, (2) the Georgetown salama...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-26
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB6123 | Intro
Sine Die | Fulfilling Our Promise to Student Veterans Act of 2012 - Amends the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 to include among the members and former members of the Armed Forces authorized to request the correction of erro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-26
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB6206 | Intro
Sine Die | Build America Bonds Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the issuance authority for Build America Bonds and the authority for payments to issuers of such bonds; (2) make phased reductions in the credit percentage to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-26
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6224 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing Assistance with the Paperwork from Excessive Regulations Act of 2012 - Amends the Paperwork Reduction Act to direct agency heads not to impose a civil fine for a first-time paperwork violation by a small business concern unless: (1) there i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-26
To House Small Business Committee |
| HB6226 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonbusiness energy tax credit for the insulation portion of any building cladding system (including vinyl siding with integral insulating material) that has a minium thermal resistance of R-2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-26
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6175 | Intro
Sine Die | National Park Service Study Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct special resource studies of: (1) the Kau coast, on the island of Hawaii; (2) on request, the island of Rota in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-26
To House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands |
| HB6184 | Intro
Sine Die | Restoring Storey County Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to convey to Storey County, Nevada, all surface rights of the United States in and to specified federal land, including any improvements...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-26
To House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands |
| HR741 | Intro
Sine Die | Sets forth the rule for consideration of H.B. 4078 (Regulatory Freeze for Jobs Act of 2012).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-26
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB6225 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent: (1) the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, and (2) provisions of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 that reduce tax rates on dividend and capital gain income. Amends the Internal Revenue...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-26
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HR744 | Intro
Sine Die | Celebrates the 101st anniversary of the passage of the first state registered apprenticeship law. Celebrates the 75th anniversary of the enactment of the National Apprenticeship Act of 1937. Supports the goals and ideals of National Registered Appren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-26
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HR743 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Postmaster General should issue a commemorative postage stamp honoring the nation's coal miners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-26
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB6095 | Intro
Sine Die | Morris Soskil Path to the Purple Heart Act - Requires the Secretary of the military department concerned, in the case of an individual who served as a member of the Armed Forces during World War II and whose service records are incomplete because of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-26
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB6202 | Intro
Sine Die | True Cost of Coal Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) impose a $10 per ton excise tax on the extraction of coal; (2) establish in the Treasury the Coal Mitigation Trust Fund to hold revenues from such tax; and (3) extend to 50 year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-26
To House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials |
| HB6205 | Intro
Sine Die | Protect and Save Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to disclose tax return information to federal and state law enforcement agencies to assist in the investigation of the misuse of the ident...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-26
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6149 | Intro
Sine Die | Russian World Trade Organization Commitments Verification Act of 2012 - Directs the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), within 90 days after the effective date of an Act of Congress authorizing the extension of permanent normal trade relations treatmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-25
To House Subcommittee on Trade |
| HB6146 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986, as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989, to treat a critical access hospital as rural, notwithstanding the reclassification of its location county as an urban county ("Lugar co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-25
To House Subcommittee on Health |
