| HB4224 | Intro
Sine Die | Offering Patients True Individualized Options Now Act of 2012 or the OPTION Act of 2012 - Repeals Title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (provisions related to health insurance and health coverage expansion) and any amendments to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-26
To House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions |
| HB4403 | Intro
Sine Die | Fiscal Responsibility in Federal Contracting Act - Suspends through FY2023 the Davis-Bacon Act (which requires that the locally prevailing wage rate be paid to various classes of laborers and mechanics working under federally-financed or federally-as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-26
To House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections |
| HB4227 | Intro
Sine Die | Workforce Investment Act of 2012 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) to revise requirements and reauthorize appropriations for: (1) WIA title I, workforce investment systems for job training and employment services; and (2) WIA title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-26
To House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training |
| HB5944 | Intro
Sine Die | Today's Entrepreneurs are America's Mentors Act or TEAM Act - Amends the Small Business Act to establish in the Small Business Administration (SBA) an Office of Entrepreneurial Education, headed by a Director, to develop and provide innovative entrep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-26
To House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training |
| HB4390 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Higher Education Opportunity Act to prohibit postsecondary educational institutions from using revenues derived from federal educational assistance funds for: (1) advertising and promotion; (2) identifying and attracting prospective studen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-26
To House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training |
| HB5188 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensuring Child Care for Working Families Act of 2012 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to revise funding requirements for child care assistance to: (1) guarantee child care assista...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-26
To House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education |
| HB5195 | Intro
Sine Die | Autism Understanding and Training in School Methodologies for Educators Act of 2012 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to carry out a demonstration program to award five-year grants to eligible local education agencies for the following purposes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-26
To House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education |
| HB6444 | Intro
Sine Die | Stop RIN Fraud Act of 2012 - Amends the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), by January 1, 2013, to establish and maintain a system under which: (1) the Administrator certifies, or authorizes accred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-26
To House Subcommittee on Energy and Power |
| HB6346 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt from maximum hours requirements any employee who: (1) works as an insurance claims adjuster for at least $591 per week during the 24-month period after a major disaster; and (2) is employed as an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-26
To House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections |
| HB5981 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to declare that a qualified preretirement survivor annuity with respect to a participant under a multiemployer plan which becomes insolvent or is terminated shall not be treated as fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-26
To House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions |
| HB6562 | Intro
Sine Die | Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2012 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to distribution of additional resident positions as they affect calculation of payments for direct graduate medical education (D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-25
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB6560 | Intro
Sine Die | Local Schools and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a second advance refunding of an original tax-exempt private activity bond.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-25
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6559 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from passive loss rules any activity of a taxpayer carried on by a high technology research small business pass-thru entity. Defines "high technology research small business pass-thru entity" as an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-25
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6441 | Intro
Sine Die | National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Reauthorization Act of 2012 - Reauthorizes and revises the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Establishment Act. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to appoint 28 directors (currently, 23) that are knowledg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-24
To House Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs |
| HB6440 | Intro
Sine Die | Renames the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor in Connecticut and Massachusetts as the Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-24
To House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands |
| HB6492 | Intro
Sine Die | Sustainable, Livable And Green (S.L.A.G.) Highway Construction Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to establish in the Office of Pavement Technology of the Federal Highway Administration the position of Recovered Mineral Compo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-24
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| HB6542 | Intro
Sine Die | FEMA Reform Act of 2012 - Requires: (1) 50% of the amount estimated for a preliminary damage assessment by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for any state or local government to be released to such government not later than three days af...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-24
To House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management |
| HB6541 | Intro
Sine Die | Maximize Our Highways Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to study the economically beneficial uses of rights-of-way associated with federal-aid highways, including: (1) the identification of economically beneficial activities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-24
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| HB6515 | Intro
Sine Die | Stop Excessive Toll Hikes Act - Revises urbanized area formula grant eligibility requirements to allow a recipient (person, entity, or state or regional authority) to receive such a grant only if it certifies that it has not raised the maximum tolls ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-24
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| HB6344 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to convey at current state of agricultural use market prices specified lands formerly part of the Fort Bayard Military Reservation, Grant County, New Mexico, to the Village of Santa Clara, the City of Bayar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-24
To House Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry |
| HR805 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) Congress should enact long-term, predictable tax policy; and (2) taxpayers should be given at least one year after the enactment or expiration of legislation increasing taxes to prepare fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HCR139 | Intro
Sine Die | Condemns President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran for addressing the United Nations (U.N.) on Yom Kippur.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB6499 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act), with respect to budget enforcement through sequestration, to redefine "account" to include any item for the pay of Members of Congress. (Thus ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Budget Committee |
| HB3674 | Intro
Sine Die | Promoting and Enhancing Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Effectiveness Act of 2012 or the PRECISE Act of 2012 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to perform necessary activities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 501. |
| HB6401 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of Labor to commence a one-year pilot program to assess the feasibility and advisability of providing veterans seeking employment with access to computing facilities in order to facilitate their access to websites that: (1) matc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity |
| HB6489 | Intro
Sine Die | National Integrated Drought Information System Reauthorization Act of 2012 - Amends the National Integrated Drought Information System Act of 2006 to specify that the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) Program shall better inform ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Science, Space, And Technology Committee |
| HB6487 | Intro
Sine Die | Manufacturing Economic Recovery Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) a manufacturing recovery tax credit for investment in manufacturing real and tangible personal property used in the United States, including an increased cre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6485 | Intro
Sine Die | Accountability of Taxpayer Funding for Afghanistan Fuels Act of 2012 - Prohibits a covered product from being provided directly or indirectly to the government of Afghanistan unless the Secretary of Defense (DOD) determines and reports to Congress th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB6482 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), upon a request by the chairman or ranking minority member of either congressional budget committee, to determine if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Budget Committee |
| HB6478 | Intro
Sine Die | Denali Commission Reauthorization Act of 2012 - Amends the Denali Commission Act of 1998 (the Act) to revise requirements concerning the composition of the membership of the Denali Commission. Appoints Commission members to four-year terms. Directs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management |
| HB6421 | Intro
Sine Die | Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Women's History Museum Act of 2012 - Establishes the Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Women's History Museum to submit to the President and Congress a report containing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands |
| HB6500 | Intro
Sine Die | Detroit Economic Competitiveness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish the Detroit Jobs Trust Fund to finance economic development in Detroit, Michigan. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to make annual distributions from such Fund ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB4369 | Intro
Sine Die | Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency (FACT) Act of 2012 - Amends federal bankruptcy law concerning a trust formed under a plan of reorganization following the discharge in bankruptcy of a debtor corporation in order to assume the debtor's liability...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 498. |
| HB6510 | Intro
Sine Die | Student Loan Prepayment Standardization Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require that when the holder of a borrower's private education loans or loans made under the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB6511 | Intro
Sine Die | States that: (1) Congress condemns the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic missions in Libya, Egypt, and Yemen; and (2) the American people mourn the loss of our public servants and offer our condolences to the families of those killed in Benghazi, Libya....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Intelligence Committee |
| HB6293 | Intro
Sine Die | Servicemembers Rights Enforcement Improvement Act of 2012 - Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (the Act) concerning the protection of servicemembers against default judgments to require a plaintiff, before filing an affidavit, to conduct a di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity |
| HB6528 | Intro
Sine Die | Audit the Pentagon Act of 2012 - Requires, on March 2 of FY2013 and each subsequent fiscal year, a 5% reduction in the discretionary budget authority of a federal agency that is identified by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Armed Services Committee |
| HB6451 | Intro
Sine Die | Preserving Jobs in the Oilfield Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to ensure that, with respect to maximum hours of service for drivers, on-duty time does not include waiting time at a natural gas or oil well site for operators of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| HB6297 | Intro
Sine Die | Reducing Barriers to Veterans' Benefits Act - Presumes a service connection, for veterans' benefits purposes, for diagnosed hearing loss, tinnitus, or both, for veterans who, during active military service: (1) were assigned to a military occupationa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| HB2572 | Intro
Sine Die | Clean Up Government Act of 2011 - Amends the federal criminal code to revise and expand prohibitions against bribery, theft of public money, and other public corruption offenses. (Sec. 2) Modifies general venue rules for criminal prosecutions to all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 499. |
| HB6425 | 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 Saddlebunch Keys Unit FL-57 in the state of Florida) with another map r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs |
| HB6558 | Intro
Sine Die | Student Financial Aid Simplification Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to determine students' need and eligibility for title IV assistance, unless they qualify for the simplified needs test or expect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6557 | Intro
Sine Die | College Cost Reduction Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Education to establish the Higher Education Regulatory Reform Task Force to prepare a report, that is to be submitted to Congress and made available on a publicly accessible website, on fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Rules Committee |
| HB6556 | Intro
Sine Die | Campus Safety for Children Act of 2012 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education (IHEs) that participate in title IV (Student Assistance) programs to include in their annual campus security reports, provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB6553 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the purposes of the Communications Act of 1934 to include a requirement that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) execute and enforce such Act to make communications networks more secure, resilient, and defendable against Internet-base...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB6552 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to continue the advisory committee known as the FCC's Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council. Requires the Council to submit to the FCC and Congress recommendations on ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB6551 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to expand the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) coordination of interconnectivity among telecommunications networks to include: (1) assistance in the development of essential information security technolo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB6550 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to establish the National Telecommunications and Information Security Advisory Committee. Requires the Committee to report periodically to the Assistant Secretary with inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB6549 | Intro
Sine Die | Computers in Our Communities Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2013 the tax deduction allowed to corporate taxpayers for charitable contributions of computer inventory for educational purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6548 | Intro
Sine Die | Diabetes Prevention Act of 2012 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make payments from the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund to qualified third-part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Ways And Means Committee |
