US Legislation | 2011-2012 | 112th Congress | House

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
HB311	Intro Sine Die	Social Security Number Fraudulent Use Notification Act of 2011 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to require the Commissioner of Social Security to notify an individual when: (1) the Soc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-25 To House Subcommittee on Social Security
HB312	Intro Sine Die	Securing the Homeland Through Agency Reporting Enhancement Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act with respect to any case in which the Social Security account number in the wage records... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-25 To House Subcommittee on Social Security
HB428	Intro Sine Die	Telephone Excise Tax Repeal Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the excise tax on communication services (i.e., local telephone service, toll telephone service, and teletypewriter exchange service). [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-25 To House Ways And Means Committee
HB234	Intro Sine Die	Savings for Seniors Act of 2011 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to establish in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund a Social Security Surplus Protection Account to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-25 To House Subcommittee on Social Security
HB445	Intro Sine Die	Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the taxpayer election to deduct state and local general sales taxes in lieu of state and local income taxes. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-25 To House Ways And Means Committee
HB434	Intro Sine Die	Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from hiring any employee to carry out or enforce the provision of the Internal Revenue Code, as added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, that requires individuals and their dependents to maintai... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-25 To House Ways And Means Committee
HB417	Intro Sine Die	Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2011 - Repeals the provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that extends to corporations that are not tax-exempt the requirement to report payments of $600 or more. Amends the Internal Revenue Code... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-25 To House Ways And Means Committee
HCR1	Engross Sine Die	Authorizes the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader of the Senate, or their respective designees, to notify the Members of the House and the Senate, respectively, to assemble at a place outside the District of Columbia whenever, in their opin... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-25 Received in the Senate.
HB423	Intro Sine Die	Member Address Privacy and Protection Act - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require the appropriate state or local official to provide adequate technological security measures to prevent the addresses of the residences of Members of Congr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-25 To House Administration Committee
HB395	Intro Sine Die	Healthy Communities Water Supply Act of 2011 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to authorize appropriations for the pilot program for alternative water source projects. Requires the Administrator ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-25 To House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
HB405	Intro Sine Die	Airport Master Plan Customer Convenience Enhancement, Security, and Sustainability Act of 2011 or ACCESS Act 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to encourage (including through Federal Aviation Administration [FAA] advisory circulars... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-25 To House Subcommittee on Aviation
HCR10	Engross Sine Die	Provides for a joint session of Congress on January 25, 2011, to receive a message from the President. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-25 Message on Senate action sent to the House.
HR38	Intro Sine Die	Requires the Chair of the House Committee on the Budget to include in the Congressional Record the contemplated allocation for the Committee on Appropriations for the remainder of FY2011 that assumes non-security spending at FY2008 levels or less. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-25 The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
HB67	Intro Sine Die	Amends the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 to extend through February 29, 2012, a provision granting roving electronic surveillance authority. Amends the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to extend until... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
HR50	Intro Sine Die	Requires the Architect of the Capitol to enclose the visitors' galleries of the House of Representatives with a clear and bomb-proof material and install audio equipment so that the House proceedings on the floor will be clearly audible in the galler... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Administration Committee
HB74	Intro Sine Die	Private Prison Information Act of 2011 - Requires each nongovernmental entity or state or local governmental entity that has an agreement with any federal agency to incarcerate or detain federal prisoners in a non-federal prison or correctional facil... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
HB82	Intro Sine Die	Drug Court Reauthorization Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize appropriations for the drug courts program for FY2012-FY2018 and to modify certain program requirements relating to grant authority, grant app... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
HB83	Intro Sine Die	Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act of 2011 - Amends the Omnnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to: (1) allow the use of juvenile accountability block grants for bullying prevention and intervention programs; (2) require the Attorne... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
HB84	Intro Sine Die	Contempt of the House of Representatives Subpoena Authority Act of 2011 - Grants the U.S. district court for the District of Columbia original jurisdiction over any civil action brought by the House of Representatives (or any authorized committee or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law
HB89	Intro Sine Die	American Child Support Enforcement Immigration Act of 2011 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) from approving a family-based immigration petition or fiance/fiancee nonimmigrant petition by... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement
HB100	Intro Sine Die	Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal Act of 2011 or the CLEAR Act of 2011 - States that: (1) state and local law enforcement personnel, in the course of their routine duties, have the inherent authority to investigate, apprehend, or trans... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement
HB106	Intro Sine Die	Public Official Accountability Act - Amends the federal criminal code to provide for a two-year increase in the prison sentence of public officials convicted of any crime: (1) committed during the course of official duty and intended to enrich such o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
HB107	Intro Sine Die	Caging Prohibition Act of 2011 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit state or local election officials from preventing an individual from registering or voting in any election for federal office, or from permitting a formal challenge under s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
HB109	Intro Sine Die	Establishes the National Commission on Presidential War Powers and Civil Liberties to investigate, and report to the President and Congress on, the broad range of executive branch national security policies undertaken since the terrorist attacks of S... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on the Constitution
HB112	Intro Sine Die	National Silver Alert Act of 2011 - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) establish a national Silver Alert communications network within the Department of Justice (DOJ) to assist regional and local search efforts for missing seniors; (2) assign a DOJ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
HB125	Intro Sine Die	Enumerated Powers Act - Requires each Act of Congress to contain a concise and definite statement of the constitutional authority relied upon for the enactment of each portion of that Act. Declares that failure to comply with this requirement shall g... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on the Constitution
HB126	Intro Sine Die	Fairness in Firearm Testing Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to make a video recording of the entire process of its examination and testing of an item for the purp... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
HB140	Intro Sine Die	Birthright Citizenship Act of 2011 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to consider a person born in the United States "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States for citizenship at birth purposes if the person is born in the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement
HB162	Intro Sine Die	Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judgeship and Reorganization Act of 2011 - Divides the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit into: (1) the Ninth Circuit, composed of California, Guam, Hawaii, and Northern Mariana Islands; and (2) the Twelfth Cir... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law
HB196	Intro Sine Die	Simplifying The Ambiguous Law, Keeping Everyone Reliably Safe Act of 2011 or the STALKERS Act of 2011 - Amends the federal criminal code to revise the definition of stalking and impose criminal penalties on anyone who, with intent to kill, physically... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
HB197	Intro Sine Die	Confers upon the U.S. Court of Federal Claims jurisdiction to hear, determine, and render final judgment on any legal or equitable claim against the United States to receive just compensation for the taking of certain lands in the state of Missouri b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement
HB212	Intro Sine Die	Sanctity of Human Life Act - Declares that: (1) the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human and is the person's paramount and most fundamental right; (2) each human life begins with fertilization, cloning, or its function... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on the Constitution
HB218	Intro Sine Die	People Resolved to Obtain an Understanding of Democracy Act or the P.R.O.U.D. Act - Amends the Immigration and Naturalization Act to provide for the naturalization of certain graduates of U.S. high schools who are under 25 years of age on the date of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement
HB324	Intro Sine Die	Directs the Secretary of Defense to authorize a Department of Defense (DOD) law enforcement officer to: (1) execute and serve a warrant or other process; (2) make an arrest without a warrant for any offense committed in the presence of the officer, o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E99)
HB221	Intro Sine Die	Noose Hate Crime Act of 2011 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose a fine and/or prison term of up to two years on anyone who, with intent to harass or intimidate any person because of that person's race, religion, or national origin, displays... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
HB328	Intro Sine Die	Safety, Efficiency, and Accountability in Transportation Projects Through Public Inspection Act of 2011 - Requires public employees to perform construction inspections on all surface transportation projects receiving federal funding. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E98)
HB223	Intro Sine Die	Federal Prison Bureau Nonviolent Offender Relief Act of 2011 - Amends the federal criminal code to direct the Bureau of Prisons, pursuant to a good time policy, to release a prisoner who has served one half or more of his or her term of imprisonment ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
HB224	Intro Sine Die	David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2011 or David's Law - Amends the federal criminal code to impose penalties for willfully causing bodily injury to any person or, through the use of fire, a firearm, or an explosive device, attempting to cause s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
HB330	Intro Sine Die	Homebuyer Tax Credit Renewal Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reinstate the first-time homebuyer tax credit for one year beginning on the enactment date of this Act. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E96)
HB331	Intro Sine Die	Fair Taxes for Seniors Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a one-time increase (from $250,000 to $500,000, or from $500,000 to $1 million for married taxpayers filing joint returns) in the exclusion of gain from the sale of a pri... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E97)
HB227	Intro Sine Die	Child Gun Safety and Gun Access Prevention Act of 2011 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to: (1) raise the age of handgun eligibility to 21 (currently, 18); and (2) prohibit persons under age 21 from possessing semiautomatic assault ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
HJR3	Intro Sine Die	Constitutional Amendment - States that the liberty of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children is a fundamental right. States that neither the United States nor any state shall infringe upon this right without demonstrating th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on the Constitution
HJR4	Intro Sine Die	Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits outlays for a fiscal year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a three-fifths rollcall vote of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on the Constitution
HJR5	Intro Sine Die	Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits outlays for a fiscal year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding one-fifth of economic output of the United States, unless two-thirds of each chamber provide for a specific increase of outla... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on the Constitution
HJR6	Intro Sine Die	Constitutional Amendment - Waives application of the First Amendment to the political speech of any corporation, partnership, business trust, association, or other business organization with respect to the making of contributions, expenditures, or ot... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on the Constitution
HJR7	Intro Sine Die	Constitutional Amendment - Waives application of the First Amendment to the political speech of any corporation, partnership, business trust, association, or other business organization with respect to the making of contributions, expenditures, or ot... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on the Constitution
HJR8	Intro Sine Die	Constitutional Amendment - Grants Congress the power to set limits on the amounts of contributions and expenditures with respect to candidates in a federal election. Grants a state the power to set limits on the amounts of contributions and expenditu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on the Constitution
HJR10	Intro Sine Die	Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits outlays for a fiscal year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a three-fifths rollcall vote of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on the Constitution
HJR11	Intro Sine Die	Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits all outlays for a fiscal year (including those for debt service and other debt functions) from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a two-thirds r... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on the Constitution
HJR13	Intro Sine Die	Constitutional Amendment - Grants Congress the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the U.S. flag. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-24 To House Subcommittee on the Constitution