| SB3583 | Intro
Sine Die | Community Parks Revitalization Act - Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to promulgate regulations establishing a community revitalization program to provide federal grants to eligible local governments for various park and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB3606 | Intro
Sine Die | Invasive Fish and Wildlife Prevention Act of 2012 - Authorizes any person, entity, or the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to propose the regulation of nonnative wildlife taxa. Requires FWS to determine whether the proposal should be app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB3605 | Intro
Sine Die | Restoring Effective Environmental Protection Act of 2012 - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act [CWA]) to prohibit the Administrator ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB3604 | Intro
Sine Die | Improving Dementia Care Treatment for Older Adults Act of 2012 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB3603 | Intro
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] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB3587 | Intro
Sine Die | California Coastal National Monument Expansion Act of 2012 - Expands the boundary of the California Coastal National Monument, established by Presidential Proclamation 7264, to include the Point Arena-Stornetta public lands in Mendocino County, Calif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB3586 | Intro
Sine Die | Recruiting Individuals to Drive Our Elders Act of 2012 or RIDE Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to publish an interim final rule to revise certain Medicaid transportation regulations to allow a state plan under t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB3585 | Intro
Sine Die | Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act - Makes an employee of a land management agency who served under a time-limited appointment in the competitive service eligible to compete for a permanent appointment in the agency if the original appointment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB3584 | Intro
Sine Die | Drought Information Act of 2012 - Amends the National Integrated Drought Information System Act of 2006 to specify that: (1) the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere shall continue to support the National Integrated Drought Informati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB3582 | 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 Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB3581 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for carbon dioxide sequestration, to: (1) establish a national limitation for such credit based upon metric tons of qualified carbon dioxide (defined as carbon dioxide captured from an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB3592 | Intro
Sine Die | Locally Grown Foods for Older Americans Act - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to require a state that establishes and operates a nutrition project to ensure that the project, where feasible, encourages the use of locally grown foods in meal pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB3580 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Chief of the Army Corps of Engineers, consistent with the Standards for Preservation and Guidelines for Preserving Historic Buildings, to preserve in place the historical integrity of Zoar, Ohio, while carrying out any study relating to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB3579 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter Integrity Protection Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make voting in a federal election (unless otherwise provided for under the federal criminal code) by an alien who is unlawfully in the United States an aggravated felony a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR574 | Intro
Sine Die | Condemns Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini and President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's offensive remarks and reprehensible policies aimed at Israel's destruction, and urges all United Nations (U.N.) member states to do the same. Calls on the U.N. Se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SR572 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates September 2012 as the National Month of Voter Registration. Calls on state and local election officials to conduct public outreach and take affirmative steps to encourage voter registration. Encourages states to be fully compliant with the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR571 | Intro
Sine Die | Congratulates the Nunaka Valley Little League junior girls softball team on winning the 2012 Little League Junior Softball World Series.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3578 | Intro
Sine Die | Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization Act of 2011 - Revises and reauthorizes programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). Title I: Ensuring College and Career Readiness for All Students - Part A: Improving th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 531. |
| SB3568 | Intro
Sine Die | Citrus, Wool, and Cotton Trust Fund Act of 2012 - Title I: Citrus Disease Research and Development Trust Fund - Citrus Disease Research and Development Trust Fund Act of 2012 - (Sec. 103) Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to establish the Citrus Disease R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
By Senator Baucus from Committee on Finance filed written report. Report No. 112-227. |
| SR568 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizes the goals and achievements of Hispanic-serving institutions across this country. Designates the week beginning September 16, 2012, as National Hispanic-Serving Institutions Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6534-6535) |
| SB3406 | Intro
Sine Die | Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal and Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012 - Title I: Permanent Normal Trade Relations for the Russian Federation - (Sec. 102) Authorizes the President to: (1) determine that title IV (Jackson-Vanik A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
By Senator Baucus from Committee on Finance filed written report. Report No. 112-226. Additional views filed. |
| SB3326 | Intro
Sine Die | (Sec. 1) Amends the African Growth and Opportunity Act to extend through FY2015 the third-country fabric rule granting duty-free treatment of apparel articles wholly assembled, or knit-to-shape and wholly assembled, or both, in one or more lesser dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
By Senator Baucus from Committee on Finance filed written report. Report No. 112-225. Additional views filed. |
| SB3276 | Intro
Sine Die | FAA Sunsets Extension Act of 2012 - Amends the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend until June 1, 2015: (1) the date for repeal of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (procedures concerning the electronic surveillance of c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
By Senator Leahy from Committee on the Judiciary filed written report. Report No. 112-229. Additional and Minority views filed. |
| SB2389 | Intro
Sine Die | Deems a claim submitted to an Indian Health Service contracting officer pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act on or before October 31, 2005, involving a claim that accrued after October 1, 1995, and on or before Septe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
By Senator Akaka from Committee on Indian Affairs filed written report. Report No. 112-228. |
| SB1894 | Intro
Sine Die | Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act - Amends the federal judicial code to include among the exceptions to U.S. jurisdictional immunity of foreign states any statutory or common law tort claim arising out of an act of extrajudicial killing, airc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. |
| SB1643 | Intro
Sine Die | United States-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act - Title I: Approval of, and General Provisions Relating to, the Agreement - (Sec. 101) Approves the United States-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement (the Agreement) entered into on June ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
By Senator Baucus from Committee on Finance filed written report. Report No. 112-224. Additional views filed. |
| SB1642 | Intro
Sine Die | United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act - Title I: Approval of, and General Provisions Relating to, the Agreement - (Sec. 101) Approves the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement (the Agreement) entered into on June 30, 2007, wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
By Senator Baucus from Committee on Finance filed written report. Report No. 112-223. Additional views filed. |
| SB1641 | Intro
Sine Die | United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act - Title I: Approval of, and General Provisions Relating to, the Agreement - (Sec. 101) Approves the United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (the Agreement) entered into on N...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
By Senator Baucus from Committee on Finance filed written report. Report No. 112-222. Additional views filed. |
| SB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Hawaiian Homeownership Opportunity Act of 2011 - Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 and the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to extend through FY2015 the authorization of appropriations for h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-20
Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably. |
| SB3562 | Intro
Sine Die | Older Americans Act Amendments of 2012 - Revises the Older Americans Act of 1965 (OAA) to include lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) individuals, HIV-positive individuals, individuals with Alzheimer's disease, veterans, and Holocaust su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB3577 | 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 Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB3572 | Intro
Sine Die | Restoring Tax and Regulatory Certainty to Small Businesses Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend temporarily: (1) the 100% exclusion from gross income of gain from the sale or exchange of small business stock, (2) the offset agains...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB3575 | Intro
Sine Die | LGBT Elder Americans Act of 2012 - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to include LGBT individuals (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered individuals) within the purview of such Act, particularly their status as LGBT individuals among those wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB3574 | 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] | 2012-09-19
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB3573 | Intro
Sine Die | Empower States Act of 2012 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act, with respect to enforcement of drinking water regulations, to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from taking any enforcement action against a state ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB3571 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act, title XIV of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, to declare that nothing in such Act, including its effective dates, shall apply with respect to regulations require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB3570 | Intro
Sine Die | Vessel Incidental Discharge Act - Requires the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating: (1) within 180 days, to establish and implement enforceable uniform national standards for the regulation of discharges incidental to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB3569 | Intro
Sine Die | Cloud Computing Act of 2012 - Amends the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to provide that each instance of unauthorized access of a cloud computing account, access of such an account in excess of authorization, or an attempt or conspiracy to access such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB3567 | Intro
Sine Die | National Women's History Museum Commission 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 recommendations with respect to a pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB3565 | Intro
Sine Die | Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Declares it an unlawful employment practice for employers, employment agencies, labor organizations, and other specified entities to: (1) not make reasonable accommodations to known limitations related to the pregnancy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB3561 | 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 Unit L06 in Topsail, North Carolina) with the map entitled &q...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB3559 | Intro
Sine Die | Farmers Undertake Environmental Land Stewardship Act or the FUELS Act - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in implementing the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure rule with respect to any farm, to requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB3557 | Intro
Sine Die | Arbitration Fairness for Students Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit institutions of higher education that participate in title IV (Student Assistance) programs from including predispute arbitration agreements in student enroll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB3555 | Intro
Sine Die | Careers for Veterans Act of 2012 - Directs the head of each federal agency to develop a plan for exercising, during the five-year period beginning on the enactment of this Act, current Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (V...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB3554 | Intro
Sine Die | Simulated Tactical Flight Training Study Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to provide for an appropriate federally funded research and development center to study the effectiveness of simulated tactical flight training in a sustain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SB3560 | Intro
Sine Die | Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act of 2012 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to develop a scientific framework for research on recalcitrant cancers (cancer with a 5-year relative survi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB3558 | Intro
Sine Die | Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011 [sic] - 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: (1) promulgating a revised ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB3556 | Intro
Sine Die | Telemarketing Fraud Modernization Act of 2012 - Amends the federal criminal code to modify telemarketing fraud prohibitions by including: (1) measures to induce investment for financial profit, participation in a business opportunity, or commitment t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3553 | Intro
Sine Die | Benefits to Research and American Innovation through Nationality Statutes Act of 2012 or the BRAINS Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make up to 55,000 visas available to qualified immigrants who: (1) possess a graduate degree at th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR559 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizes and honors Rear Admiral Jonathan W. Bailey of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps (NOAA Corps) for his lifetime of commitment and service. (Rear Admiral Bailey is retiring after serving as the Dir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-09-19
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
