| HB6521 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require a state Medicaid plan to provide for state reimbursement of an eligible entity for any patient navigator service provided to a Medicaid-eligible individual. Includes within the definit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB6520 | Intro
Sine Die | No Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying Act - Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for publicity or propaganda purposes, for the preparation, distribution, or use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, electronic communication, radio, television, or vide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB6188 | Intro
Sine Die | Military Family Leave Act of 2012 - Entitles an employed family member of a member of the Armed Forces who receives notification of a call or order to active duty in support of a contingency operation, or who is deployed in connection with a continge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity |
| HB6517 | Intro
Sine Die | STEM Network Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to state-based STEM networks or similar organizations to increase elementary and secondary school students' achievement in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB6514 | Intro
Sine Die | Cody Miller Initiative for Safer Prescriptions Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to promulgate regulations regarding the authorship, content, format, and dissemina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB6506 | Intro
Sine Die | Understanding the True Cost of College Act of 2012 - Amends the Higher Education Opportunity Act to refer to the Secretary of Education's model institution of higher eduction (IHE) financial aid offer form as the standard form. Requires the standard...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB6505 | Intro
Sine Die | Social Enterprise Ecosystem and Economic Development Commission Act of 2012 or the SEEED Commission Act of 2012 - Establishes the Commission on the Advancement of Social Enterprise to examine and make recommendations on ways the federal government ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB6525 | Intro
Sine Die | Truth in Spending Act of 2012 - Requires the President's annual budget request to Congress to include the most recent reports of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regarding the difference between the actual costs and the estim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Rules Committee |
| HB6450 | Intro
Sine Die | Local Modifications to Federal Flood Control Projects Act of 2012 - Amends the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1899 to direct the Secretary of the Army, upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, to grant permission to a local sponsor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment |
| HB6490 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicare DMEPOS Market Pricing Program Act of 2012 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a market pricing program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6554 | Intro
Sine Die | Nuclear Reactor Safety First Act - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to prohibit the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) from approving the renewal of a nuclear reactor license if the renewal application was submitted more than 10 years before the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB6456 | Intro
Sine Die | Military CDL Act of 2012 - Revises certain commercial driver's license (CDL) requirements with which a state must comply in order to avoid the administrative penalty of a withholding by the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) of a percentage of the sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
For Further Action See S.3624. |
| HB6474 | Intro
Sine Die | Implementation of Simpson-Bowles Spending Reductions Act of 2012 - Prohibits the total amount of appropriations to the White House for the Executive Office of the President, to the President, and to Congress for FY2012-FY2016 from exceeding 85% of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To House Budget Committee |
| HB6422 | Intro
Sine Die | International Conservation Corps Act of 2012 - Directs: (1) the Secretary of the Interior to establish a program to provide grants to qualifying nonprofit organizations to assign and support volunteers to assist foreign countries in the administratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Water and Power |
| HB6472 | Intro
Sine Die | Savings for American Families' Future Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the rate of the tax credit for retirement savings contributions, (2) make such credit refundable, and (3) direct the Secretary of the Treasury to pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB5987 | Intro
Sine Die | Manhattan Project National Historical Park Act - (Sec. 5) Establishes the Manhattan Project National Historical Park as a unit of the National Park System, which may be composed of specified facilities, lands, or interests in land in one or more elig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 237 - 180 (Roll no. 591). |
| HB6463 | Intro
Sine Die | Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Act or GAAP Act - Requires the President's budget submission to include an estimate of the deficit or surplus for the fiscal year concerned, prepared using generally accepted accounting principles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To House Budget Committee |
| HB6275 | Intro
Sine Die | Clean Energy Victory Bond Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2022 the tax credit for investment in solar energy property, geothermal heat pumps, fuel cell property, microturbine property, combined heat and power sys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment |
| HB6462 | Intro
Sine Die | Water and Agriculture Technology Economic Revitalization Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit tax-exempt mutual ditch or irrigation companies to earn income from dispositions of certain real property and stock interests without af...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6172 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from finalizing any rule imposing a standard of performance for carbon dioxide emissions from any existing or new source that is a fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
Subcommittee Hearings Held. |
| HB2541 | Intro
Sine Die | Silviculture Regulatory Consistency Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from requiring a permit under national polluta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 495. |
| HB3563 | Intro
Sine Die | Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Modernization Act of 2012 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (HSA) to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to modernize and implement the national integrated public alert and warning system, inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 496. |
| HB6303 | Intro
Sine Die | Global Science Program for Security, Competitiveness, and Diplomacy Act of 2012 - Authorizes the Secretary of State to establish the Global Science Program for Security, Competitiveness, and Diplomacy, which shall provide for: (1) global, regional, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Research and Science Education |
| HB6430 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Buildings Reform Act of 2012 - Sets forth new requirements for the purchase or lease of federal office space, for limiting rental costs for such space, and for suspending the construction of new courthouses after November 1, 2012. Requires tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote . |
| HB6447 | Intro
Sine Die | Educator Preparation Reform Act - Amends title II (Teacher Quality Enhancement) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise the Teacher Quality Partnership grant program. (The grant program provides funds to partnerships of high-need local ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB6458 | Intro
Sine Die | Higher Education and Employment Transparency Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make publicly available on the College Navigator website the job placement information that schools who are participati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB6459 | Intro
Sine Die | Investment Savings Access After Catastrophes Act of 2012 - Defines "Hurricane Isaac disaster area" for purposes of this Act as any parish or county of Louisiana or Mississippi in an area in which a major disaster has been declared before Se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB6466 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to exempt from the cap on payments for hospice care any care furnished on or after November 1, 2004, under the Medicare program by a qualified hospice program. Qualifies a hospice program under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6468 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include tar sands in the definition of "crude oil" for purposes of the excise tax on petroleum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB4965 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the Secretary of the Army and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from: (1) finalizing, adopting, implementing, administering, or enforcing the proposed guidance described in the notice of availability and request...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 492. |
| HB6473 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 500 North Brevard Avenue in Cocoa Beach, Florida, as the "Richard K. Salick Post Office."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB5961 | Intro
Sine Die | Farmer's Privacy Act of 2012 - Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in exercising any authority under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act), from conducting aerial surveil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 493. |
| HB4278 | Intro
Sine Die | Preserving Rural Resources Act of 2012 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to replace a requirement that a permit be obtained for any discharge of dredged or fill material into the navigable waters...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 494. |
| HB6448 | Intro
Sine Die | Empowering Citizens Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to revise the system of public financing for presidential primary and general elections and to establish a system of public financing for congres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6452 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits amounts from being obligated or expended for any direct U.S. assistance, loan guarantee, or debt relief to Libya, Egypt, Pakistan, or a host country of a U.S. diplomatic facility that was attacked, trespassed upon, breached, or attempted to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To House Rules Committee |
| HB6445 | Intro
Sine Die | Recovering Service Members Disability Benefits Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to create an exception from the required waiting period for disability insurance benefits in the cas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6249 | Intro
Sine Die | Water Protection and Reinvestment Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish the Water Protection and Reinvestment Trust Fund to support investments in clean water infrastructure. Imposes through 2019 an excise tax on the sale of con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment |
| HB6389 | Intro
Sine Die | Sequestration Prevention Act of 2012 - Title I: Fully Repeal the Sequestration Provision of Round 2 of the Budget Control Act - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm--Rudman-Hollings Act), as amended by the Budge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution |
| HB6442 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the program of block grants to states for social services under title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services) of the Social Security Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6439 | Intro
Sine Die | Keep the Forest in the Family Estate Tax Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) provide an exemption from the additional estate tax for the disposition or severance of standing timber on a qualified woodland for timber that is harvest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6438 | Intro
Sine Die | Member Pay Reduction and Responsibility Act of 2012 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to require that, if any sequestration under it takes effect for FY2013, the presidential order impl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To House Budget Committee |
| HB6437 | Intro
Sine Die | Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax treatment of publicly traded partnerships as corporations, to expand the definition of "qualifying income" for such partnerships to include income and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6436 | Intro
Sine Die | Foreign Prison Conditions Improvement Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of State to report annually to Congress for 5 years describing prison and detention facility conditions in at least 30 countries receiving U.S. assistance or under U.S. sanctio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB6432 | Intro
Sine Die | Patent Law Treaties Implementation Act of 2012 - Amends federal patent law to implement the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs and the Patent Law Treaty. (Both treaties were ratified by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB5839 | Intro
Sine Die | Disaster Savings and Resilient Construction Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business-related tax credit for the cost of constructing commercial and residential buildings that comply with resilient construction requirements i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
CHANGE OF FIRST SPONSOR - Mr. Diaz-Balart asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 5839, originally introduced by Representative Geoff Davis (KY), for the purposes of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection. |
| HB2994 | Intro
Sine Die | Marine and Hydrokinetic Renewable Energy Promotion Act of 2011 - Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to require the program of marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy technology research, development, demonstration, and commercia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
PERMISSION TO BE ADDED AS A COSPONSOR - Ms. Bonamici asked unanimous consent that she be added as a cosponsor of H.R. 2994 since the original sponsor is no longer a Member of Congress. Agreed to without objection. |
| HB6434 | Intro
Sine Die | Broadening Opportunities Through Education Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states that make school attendance compulsory through age 17. Requires states to use their grant to improve their secondary school prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB6373 | Intro
Sine Die | Family Farm Relief Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a process for receiving H-2A nonimmigrant visas (temporary agricultural workers) which shall ensure that that petitioners may file such petitions over the Inter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
| HB6194 | Intro
Sine Die | U.S. Agricultural Sector Relief Act of 2012 - Amends the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), pursuant to an application submitted by any person, to seek a critical use exemption under the Montreal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 491. |
| HB6391 | Intro
Sine Die | Terminates the Islamic Republic of Pakistan's designation as a major non-NATO ally. Prohibits the President from issuing a separate designation of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan as a major non-NATO ally. Directs the President to submit an annual re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6074) |
