| HB6679 | Intro
Sine Die | Tim Fagan's Law or Counterfeit Drug Enforcement Act of 2012 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish a criminal fine and/or imprisonment for a person who: (1) knowingly causes a prescription drug to be adulterated, misbranded, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB6676 | Intro
Sine Die | Drone Aircraft Privacy and Transparency Act of 2012 - Amends the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 to direct the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to study and identify any potential threats to privacy protections posed by the integration of u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
To House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade |
| HB6662 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) establish a pilot program to be known as the Road User Fee Pilot Project to study alternatives to the system of taxing motor vehicle fuels, including alternatives based upon the mileage of vehicles subjec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
To House Subcommittee on Energy and Power |
| HB6645 | Intro
Sine Die | Save and Strengthen Medicare Act of 2012 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to add a new Medicare part E (Unified Medicare with Choice and Competition) which prohibits benefit coverage for an individual under either Medi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| 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. |
| SB2234 | Intro
Sine Die | End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act of 2012 - (Sec. 3) Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to expand the authority of a federal agency to terminate a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement involving grantees or contract...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 571. |
| SB1980 | Intro
Sine Die | Pirate Fishing Elimination Act - Implements the Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing, done at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (U.N.) in Rome, It...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
By Senator Rockefeller from Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation filed written report. Report No. 112-255. |
| SB1910 | Intro
Sine Die | Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2012 - (Sec. 2) States as the purpose of this Act to apply the same employment benefits and obligations to federal employees in same-sex domestic partnerships and to their domestic partners as appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 572. |
| SB1440 | Engross
Sine Die | Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Reauthorization Act or PREEMIE Reauthorization Act - Title I: Prematurity Research Expansion and Education For Mothers Who Deliver Infants Early - (Sec. 101) Amends th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendments to Senate bill. |
| SB1100 | Intro
Sine Die | Keeping Politics Out of Federal Contracting Act of 2011 - Prohibits the head of an executive agency from: (1) requiring a contractor to submit political information as part of a solicitation, request for bid, request for proposal, or any other commun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 570. |
| SB241 | Intro
Sine Die | Non-Federal Employee Whistleblower Protection Act of 2012 - Repeals and replaces provisions prohibiting reprisals against employees of civilian and defense contractors for disclosures to federal officials of information concerning a substantial viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-19
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 569. |
| HB6681 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 815 County Road 23 in Tyrone, New York, as the "Specialist Christopher Scott Post Office Building."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-18
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB6680 | Intro
Sine Die | Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2012 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit a person from possessing a firearm unless that person has been issued a firearm license under this Act or a state system cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB6677 | Intro
Sine Die | Common Sense Housing Investment Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax deduction for mortgage interest, to: (1) allow, in lieu of such deduction, a tax credit for 20% of mortgage interest paid in a taxable year for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-18
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB6678 | Intro
Sine Die | College Research Education and Teacher Excellence (CREATE) Opportunity Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the research tax credit permanent. Makes 100% of a taxpayer's expenditures for qualified research at an institution of highe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-18
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6675 | Intro
Sine Die | Economic Stimulus, Tax Credit Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish a debit card stimulus program for issuing pre-loaded six-month debit cards to eligible taxpayers. Prescribes the amount on the debit card to be the sum of: (1)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-18
To House Armed Services Committee |
| SB3689 | Intro
Sine Die | Senior Airman Michael Malarsie Act - Directs the Secretaries of Defense (DOD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) to jointly establish the Senior Airman Michael Malarsie Program for the awarding of grants to certain nonprofit organizations to assist them in es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-18
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB6582 | Pass | American Energy Manufacturing Technical Corrections 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 con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-18
Became Public Law No: 112-210. |
| SB3486 | Pass | 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 (Hague Treaty) and the Patent Law Treaty. (Both treaties wer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-18
Became Public Law No: 112-211. |
| SB1792 | Engross
Sine Die | Strengthening Investigations of Sex Offenders and Missing Children Act of 2011 - Amends the federal judicial code to authorize the United States Marshals Service to investigate, at the request of another federal, state, or local law enforcement agenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1793 | Engross
Sine Die | Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012 - Authorizes the Attorney General (AG), at the request of an appropriate law enforcement official of a state or political subdivision, to assist in the investigation of violent acts and shooting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-18
Held at the desk. |
| HB3187 | Pass | March of Dimes Commemorative Coin Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue up to 500,000 $1 silver coins emblematic of the mission and programs of the March of Dimes. Requires the design of the coins to be emblematic of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-18
Became Public Law No: 112-209. |
| SB3685 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of the Interior Tribal Self-Governance Act of 2012 - Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to revise tribal self-governance requirements. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the Tribal Self-Gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-17
To Senate Indian Affairs Committee |
| HB6674 | Intro
Sine Die | Earnings Contingent Education Loans Act of 2012 or the ExCEL Act of 2012 - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to make students ineligible to receive Direct Loans (DLs) on or after July 1, 2014. Makes certain exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-17
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6673 | Intro
Sine Die | Parental Bereavement Act of 2012 or Sarah Grace Act of 2012 - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to entitle an eligible employee to up to 12 workweeks of leave during any 12-month period because of the death of a son or daughter. Allows ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-17
To House Administration Committee |
| SB3686 | Intro
Sine Die | Workplace Religious Freedom Act of 2013 - Amends provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 related to equal employment opportunities to include in the term "religion" all aspects of religious observance and practice, as well as belief, unless an emp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-17
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB3688 | Intro
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 |
| HB6651 | Intro
Sine Die | Securing Our Borders and Our Data Act of 2011 [sic] - Sets forth rules for the search or seizure at a U.S. border of digital electronic devices or digital storage media. Prohibits a search of the digital contents of such devices or media unless such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-17
To House Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security |
| HB6642 | Intro
Sine Die | Customs Trade Facilitation and Enforcement Act of 2012 - Establishes U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBPA), headed by the Commissioner of U.S. C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-17
To House Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security |
| 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 |
| HB3548 | Intro
Sine Die | North American Energy Access Act - (Sec. 2) Prohibits construction, operation, or maintenance of the oil pipeline and related facilities described in the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Keystone XL Pipeline Project issued by the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-17
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 515. |
| SB1223 | Intro
Sine Die | Location Privacy Protection Act of 2012 - (Sec. 3) Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit a covered entity from knowingly collecting, receiving, recording, obtaining, or disclosing to a nongovernmental individual or entity geolocation informati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-17
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 567. |
| SB675 | Intro
Sine Die | Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2012 - (Sec. 5) Recognizes the right of the Native Hawaiian people to reorganize a Native Hawaiian governing entity to provide for their common welfare and to adopt an appropriate constitution and byla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-17
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 568. |
| HB6156 | Pass | Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal and Sergei 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-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-14
Became Public Law No: 112-208. |
| HB4297 | Intro
Sine Die | Workforce Investment Improvement 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-14
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 513. |
| HB3283 | Intro
Sine Die | Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act - (Sec. 2) Amends the Commodity Exchange Act regarding extra-territorial swap transactions between: (1) a registered swap dealer who is either a U.S. person or a person whose parent company is a U.S. person; and (2) a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-14
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 512. |
| HB6658 | Intro
Sine Die | Urban Competitiveness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income any capital gain from the sale or exchange of a stock, partnership, or business property interest invested in an enterprise zone area which had an average unemp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-13
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6659 | Intro
Sine Die | Urban Recovery and Growth Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the issuance of economic development extension bonds for the purpose of economic development or refinancing the indebtedness of a city that has an average unemployment rate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-13
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6660 | Intro
Sine Die | Personal Holding Company Tax Parity and Reinvestment Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude dividends received by a U.S. shareholder from a controlled foreign corporation from the definition of "personal holding company income" for purpose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-13
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6661 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14 Red River Avenue North in Cold Spring, Minnesota, as the "Officer Tommy Decker Memorial Post Office."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-13
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB6667 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial Consumers Association Act of 2012 - Authorizes the establishment of, and sets forth operational requirements for, a nonprofit corporation to be known as the Financial Consumers Association whose mission shall be to advance the rights and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-13
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB6668 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers Solidarity Act of 2012 - Requires any person found by a final decision or order to have engaged in an unfair labor practice in violation of the National Labor Relations Act to: (1) be proposed for debarment for five years from any federal con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-13
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB6669 | Intro
Sine Die | Foster Youth Higher Education Opportunities Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to inform students who indicate on their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-13
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB6663 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent: (1) the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, and (2) provisions of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 that reduce tax rates on capital gain and dividend income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-13
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB3678 | Intro
Sine Die | FHA Emergency Fiscal Solvency Act of 2012 - Amends the National Housing Act (NHA) to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (who currently is authorized) to establish and collect additional annual premium payments for the first 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-13
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB3679 | Intro
Sine Die | Indian Trust Asset Reform Act - Reaffirms the federal government's fiduciary responsibilities to Indians. States that: (1) the most exacting common law fiduciary standards governing private trustees also govern the federal government when it manages...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-13
To Senate Indian Affairs Committee |
| HB6654 | Intro
Sine Die | Foreign Counterfeit Merchandise Prevention Act - Amends the federal criminal code to provide that it shall not be a violation of the prohibition against a federal employee disclosing trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary information for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB6657 | Intro
Sine Die | Egypt Accountability and Democracy Promotion Act - States that U.S. policy shall be to use its foreign assistance for Egypt to advance U.S. national security interests in Egypt, including encouraging the advancement of political, economic, and religi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-13
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| SB3681 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Small Business Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), in obtaining the best available collateral for a disaster loan of not more than $200,000 relating to damage to or destruction of property or econo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-13
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| SB3682 | Intro
Sine Die | Center to Advance, Monitor, and Preserve University Security Safety Act of 2012 or the CAMPUS Safety Act of 2012 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
