| HB6726 | Engross
Sine Die | Congressional Pay Freeze and Fiscal Responsibility Act - Amends the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011, as amended by the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2013 (P.L. 112-175), to extend the freeze on adjustments to pay of federal employees and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB6672 | Engross
Sine Die | Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act Reauthorization of 2012 - Title I: Strengthening National Preparedness and Response for Public Health Emergencies - (Sec. 101) Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to require the Secretary of Health an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. |
| HCR145 | Engross
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the North Korean missile launch of December 12, 2012, represents a flagrant violation of specified U.N. Security Council resolutions; (2) North Korea continues to defy the U.N., its Six-Party partners, and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
Received in the Senate. |
| HCR147 | Engross
Sine Die | Waives a specified requirement that the enrollment of any bill or joint resolution be printed on parchment for the duration of the 112th Congress. Provides that the enrollment of any such measure shall be in such form as may be certified by the Clerk...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-01
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HB6649 | Engross
Sine Die | Naval Vessels Transfer Act of 2012 - Authorizes the President to transfer on a grant basis to: (1) Mexico, the OLIVER HAZARD PERRY class guided missile frigates CURTS and MCCLUSKY; (2) Thailand, the OLIVER HAZARD PERRY class guided missile frigates R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-01
Received in the Senate. |
| HB6612 | Engross
Sine Die | Redesignates: (1) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, as the "NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center," and (2) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-01
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB459 | Engross
Sine Die | Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2012 - Directs the Comptroller General to: (1) complete, within 12 months of enactment of this Act, the required audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) and of the Federal Reserve Bank...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-01
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 580. |
| HB3159 | Engross
Sine Die | Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2012 - Directs the President to establish guidelines regarding the establishment of measurable goals, performance metrics, and monitoring and evaluation plans for U.S. foreign assistance. Requires s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-31
Received in the Senate. |
| HB1 | Engross
Sine Die | Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 - Makes supplemental disaster assistance appropriations to certain federal departments and agencies for expenses related to the consequences of Hurricane Sandy. Title I - Makes supplemental disaster assistanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-30
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HB6684 | Engross
Sine Die | Spending Reduction Act of 2012 - Title I: Agriculture - (Sec. 101) Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to terminate the increase in the value of supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP, formerly the food stamp program) b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-21
Received in the Senate. |
| HB6443 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) at 9800 West Commercial Boulevard in Sunrise, Florida, as the "William 'Bill' Kling VA Clinic."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-21
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB3378 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 220 Elm Avenue in Munising, Michigan, as the "Elizabeth L. Kinnunen Post Office Building."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-21
Received in the Senate. |
| HB3197 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical center in Spokane, Washington, as the "Mann-Grandstaff Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-21
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB1509 | Engross
Sine Die | Medicare Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish cost-effective procedures to ensure that: (1) a Social Security account number (or any derivative) is not displayed, coded, or embe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB6633 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 101 East Pecan Street in Sherman, Texas, as the "Paul Brown United States Courthouse."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-20
Received in the Senate. |
| HB6166 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 333 West Broadway Street in San Diego, California, as the "James M. Carter and Judith N. Keep United States Courthouse."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-20
Received in the Senate. |
| HB6016 | Engross
Sine Die | Government Employee Accountability Act - Sets forth investigative leave requirements for federal employees in the competitive service and Senior Executive Service (SES) career employees. Defines "investigative leave" as a temporary absence without du...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-20
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB4062 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1444 Main Street in Ramona, California, as the "Nelson 'Mac' MacWilliams Post Office Building."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-20
Received in the Senate. |
| HB2471 | Engross
Sine Die | Title I: Video Privacy Protection - Video Privacy Protection Act Amendments Act of 2012 - (Sec. 102) Amends provisions of the federal criminal code authorizing a video tape service provider to disclose personally identifiable information concerning a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-20
By Senator Leahy from Committee on the Judiciary filed written report. Report No. 112-258. Additional views filed. |
| HB6504 | Engross
Sine Die | Small Business Investment Company Modernization Act of 2012 - Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to increase from $225 million to $350 million the maximum amount of outstanding leverage to be made available by the Small Business Adminis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
Received in the Senate. |
| HB4362 | Engross
Sine Die | Stopping Tax Offenders and Prosecuting Identity Theft Act of 2012 or the STOP Identity Theft Act of 2012 - Calls for the Attorney General to: (1) make use of all existing resources of the Department of Justice (DOJ), including task forces, to bring m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB5817 | Engross
Sine Die | Eliminate Privacy Notice Confusion Act - Amends the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to exempt from its annual privacy policy notice requirement any financial institution which: (1) provides nonpublic personal information only in accordance with specified requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-13
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB6605 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to repeal a reporting requirement under the DNA identification grant program that requires each state or local government that receives a grant to submit to the Attorney General, for each ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-07
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. |
| HB6602 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends title 36 of the United States Code (Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations) to revise and expand the tables of contents for such title and its subtitles, revise the formatting of the chapter headings, and make techni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB5788 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 103 Center Street West in Eatonville, Washington, as the "National Park Ranger Margaret Anderson Post Office."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-06
To Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security |
| HB1857 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Bartosz Kumor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB794 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Allan Bolor Kelley.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB823 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Maria Carmen Castro Ramirez and J. Refugio Carreno Rojas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB824 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Daniel Wachira.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB357 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Corina de Chalup Turcinovic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB316 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Esther Karinge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB6429 | Engross
Sine Die | STEM Jobs Act of 2012 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make up to 55,000 visas available in FY2014 and subsequent fiscal years to qualified immigrants who: (1) have a doctorate degree in a field of science, technology, enginee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-04
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 559. |
| HB6604 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the federal building currently known as Federal Office Building 8, located at 200 C Street SW in the District of Columbia, as the "Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Federal Building."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
Received in the Senate. |
| HB6374 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) at 180 Martin Drive in Carrollton, Georgia as the "Trinka Davis Veterans Village."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB6025 | Engross
Sine Die | Mandatory Operational Control Reporting and Performance Measures Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), as part of DHS's annual performance report, to submit annual reports to Congress on: (1) the number of miles of the inter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-28
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB5997 | Engross
Sine Die | Medical Preparedness Allowable Use Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the use of Urban Area Security Initiative and State Homeland Security Grant Program funding for enhancing medical preparedness, medical surge capacity, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-28
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB5913 | Engross
Sine Die | DHS Accountability Act of 2012 - Establishes in the legislative branch an independent advisory panel to: (1) comprehensively assess the management structure and capabilities related to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and (2) make recommend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-28
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB5934 | Engross
Sine Die | Stop Tobacco Smuggling in the Territories Act of 2012 - Amends the federal criminal code to include American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam in the definition of "state" for purposes of provisions prohibiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB6371 | Engross
Sine Die | Streamlining Claims Processing for Federal Contractor Employees Act - Transfers authority from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to the Department of Labor for processing claims for wages due to laborers and mechanics hired by contractors on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-14
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB3409 | Engross
Sine Die | Stop the War on Coal Act of 2012 - Title I: Limitation on Authority to Issue Regulations Under The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 - (Sec. 101) Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior, before December 31, 2013, from issuing or appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-13
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| HB4850 | Engross
Sine Die | Enabling Energy Saving Innovations Act - (Sec. 2) Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) to exempt a walk-in cooler or walk-in freezer component manufactured on or after January 1, 2009, from the requirement that it contain wall, ceilin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-24
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HJR118 | Engross
Sine Die | Disapproves of the rule submitted by the Office of Family Assistance of the Administration for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) relating to waiver and expenditure authority under the Social Security Act with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-21
Received in the Senate. |
| HB6410 | Engross
Sine Die | Buffett Rule Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers to donate an amount (not less than $1), in addition to any tax owed, which shall be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury and transferred to an account used to red...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
Received in the Senate. |
| HB6368 | Engross
Sine Die | Border Security Information Improvement Act of 2012 - Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security to study and jointly report to specified congressional committees on cross-border violence on the southwest border of the United...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB6361 | Engross
Sine Die | Vulnerable Veterans Housing Reform Act of 2012 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to exclude as family income for Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) housing assistance purposes any Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) paymen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB6324 | Engross
Sine Die | Cutting Federal Unnecessary and Expensive Leasing Act of 2012 or the Cutting FUEL Act - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to determine: (1) the number of civilian vehicles purchased and leased by each executive agency...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB6296 | Engross
Sine Die | Disaster Loan Fairness Act of 2012 - Amends the Small Business Act to provide the interest rate to be charged by the Small Business Administration (SBA) for loans made to small businesses beginning on January 1, 2011, and ending four years after the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
Received in the Senate. |
| HB6163 | Engross
Sine Die | National Pediatric Research Network Act of 2012 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in carrying out the Pediatric Research Initiative, to act through the Director of the Eunice ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB5948 | Engross
Sine Die | Veterans Fiduciary Reform and Honoring Noble Service Act - (Sec. 2) Provides that, when in the opinion of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) a temporary fiduciary is needed to protect the benefits of a VA beneficiary while a determination of inco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB5912 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal provisions providing for the use of funds from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund for presidential nominating conventions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
Received in the Senate. |
