| HB6655 | Pass | Protect Our Kids Act of 2012 - Establishes the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities to: (1) study the use of child protective services and child welfare services under titles IV and XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-14
Became Public Law No: 112-275. |
| HB6621 | Pass | Amends the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) to make technical changes regarding the transitional program for covered business method patents and joinder of parties. Applies, to any civil action commenced on or after enactment of this Act, the AI...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-14
Became Public Law No: 112-274. |
| HB6586 | Pass | Space Exploration Sustainability Act - Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010 to express the sense of Congress that the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shall procee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-14
Became Public Law No: 112-273. |
| HB6364 | Pass | World War I Centennial Commission Act - Establishes the World War I Centennial Commission to: (1) plan, develop, and execute programs, projects, and activities to commemorate the centennial of World War I; (2) encourage private organizations and stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-14
Became Public Law No: 112-272. |
| HB6328 | Pass | Clothe a Homeless Hero Act - Directs the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration [TSA] ) to transfer unclaimed clothing recovered at airport security checkpoints to the local airport authority or other local a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-14
Became Public Law No: 112-271. |
| HB6060 | Pass | Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Extension Act of 2012 - Extends through FY2019 the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to use power revenues collected pursuant to the Colorado River Storage Project Act for annual base funding of endangered f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-14
Became Public Law No: 112-270. |
| HB6029 | Pass | Foreign and Economic Espionage Penalty Enhancement Act of 2012 - Amends the federal criminal code to increase the maximum fine for economic espionage (i.e., stealing or obtaining, duplicating or conveying, or buying or possessing trade secrets withou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-14
Became Public Law No: 112-269. |
| HB4606 | Pass | Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to issue right-of-way permits for natural gas pipelines (including all appurtenances used in their operation) that, as of March 1, 2012, are within the boundary of Glacier National Park in Montana. Specifies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-14
Became Public Law No: 112-268. |
| HB4365 | Pass | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make Thrift Savings Fund accounts subject to a federal tax levy. Requires any revenue gain attributable to the enacment of this Act to be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury and used solely for deficit re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-14
Became Public Law No: 112-267. |
| HB4212 | Pass | Drywall Safety Act of 2012 - (Sec. 2) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Commerce should insist that: (1) the government of China, which has ownership interests in the companies that manufactured and exported problematic drywall to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-14
Became Public Law No: 112-266. |
| HB2076 | Pass | 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] | 2013-01-14
Became Public Law No: 112-265. |
| HB1464 | Pass | North Korean Refugee Adoption Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of State to designate a representative to regularly brief Congress on U.S. efforts to advocate for the best interests of North Korean children and children of one North Korean parent, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-14
Became Public Law No: 112-264. |
| HB443 | Pass | Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to convey specified property, including all land appurtenances, in Kotzebue, Alaska, to the Maniilaq Association for use in connection with health and social services programs. Requires such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-14
Became Public Law No: 112-263. |
| HB6671 | Pass | Video Privacy Protection Act Amendments Act of 2012 - Amends provisions of the federal criminal code authorizing a video tape service provider to disclose personally identifiable information concerning any consumer to any person with the informed, wr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-258. |
| HB6620 | Pass | Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012 - Amends the federal criminal code to eliminate certain limitations on the length of Secret Service protection for former Presidents and their spouses and children. Authorizes the Secret Service to protect: (1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-257. |
| HB6587 | Pass | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 225 Simi Village Drive in Simi Valley, California, as the "Postal Inspector Terry Asbury Post Office Building."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-256. |
| HB6379 | Pass | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6239 Savannah Highway in Ravenel, South Carolina, as the "Representative Curtis B. Inabinett, Sr. Post Office."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-255. |
| HB6260 | Pass | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 211 Hope Street in Mountain View, California, as the "Lieutenant Kenneth M. Ballard Memorial Post Office."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-254. |
| HB6014 | Pass | Katie Sepich Enhanced DNA Collection Act of 2012 - Directs the Attorney General to make grants to assist states with the costs associated with the implementation of DNA arrestee collection processes. Defines "DNA arrestee collection process" to mean ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-253. |
| HB5859 | Pass | Repeals the requirement that the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) prescribe regulations to require passenger motor vehicle dealers to distribute to prospective buyers information comparing insurance costs for different makes and models of passenger ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-252. |
| HB4389 | Pass | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 19 East Merced Street in Fowler, California, as the "Cecil E. Bolt Post Office."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-251. |
| HB4073 | Pass | Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to accept the quitclaim, disclaimer, and relinquishment by the Manitou and Pikes Peak Railway Company of a specified right-of-way adjacent to Pike National Forest that was originally granted to the Mt. Manitou ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-250. |
| HB4057 | Pass | Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to develop a comprehensive policy to improve outreach and transparency to veterans and members of the Armed Forces (members) through the provision of information on institutions of higher learning. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-249. |
| HB4053 | Pass | Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012 - (Sec. 3) Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to: (1) identify, annually, a list of high-priority federal programs for greater levels of oversight and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-248. |
| HB3892 | Pass | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 8771 Auburn Folsom Road in Roseville, California, as the "Lance Corporal Victor A. Dew Post Office."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-247. |
| HB3869 | Pass | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 600 East Capitol Avenue in Little Rock, Arkansas, as the "Sidney 'Sid' Sanders McMath Post Office Building."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-246. |
| HB3641 | Pass | Pinnacles National Park Act - Establishes Pinnacles National Park in California to: (1) preserve and interpret for the benefit of future generations the chaparral, grasslands, blue oak woodlands, and majestic valley oak savanna ecosystems of the park...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-245. |
| HB3263 | Pass | Lake Thunderbird Efficient Use Act of 2012 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to amend an existing contract or enter into one or more new contracts with the Central Oklahoma Master Conservancy District for the storage and conveyance of nonpro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-244. |
| HB2338 | Pass | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 600 Florida Avenue in Cocoa, Florida, as the "Harry T. and Harriette Moore Post Office."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-243. |
| HB1845 | Pass | Medicare IVIG Access and Strengthening Medicare and Repaying Taxpayers Act of 2012 - Title I: Medicare IVIG Access - (Sec. 101) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a three-year demonstration project under part B (Sup...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-242. |
| HB1339 | Pass | Designates Salem, Massachusetts, as the Birthplace of the National Guard of the United States. Directs the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to provide military ceremonial support at the dedication of any monument, plaque, or other official recognit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-10
Became Public Law No: 112-241. |
| HB3408 | Intro
Sine Die | Title XIV [sic]: Keystone XL Pipeline - North American Energy Access Act - (Sec. 14002) Prohibits construction, operation, or maintenance of the oil pipeline and related facilities described in the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the K...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
Laid on the table. |
| HR845 | Intro
Sine Die | Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish a standing Committee on Repeals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
To House Rules Committee |
| 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 |
| HB6719 | Intro
Sine Die | Telehealth Promotion Act of 2012 - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act (SSA) and other specified federal law to declare that services provided via telecommunications systems under Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP (SSA titles XVIII, XIX, and XXI) a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB6717 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Students from Worthless Degrees Act - Makes any institution of higher education (IHE) postsecondary program designed to prepare students for a recognized occupation or profession requiring licensing or other entry pre-conditions ineligible...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
To House Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity |
| HB6701 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Secretary of the Army (the Secretary) to offer to extend, for one or more periods of 15 years, the current lease involving a parcel of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in Fairbanks, Alaska, that was withdrawn for military use and i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
To House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands |
| HB6697 | Intro
Sine Die | Consumer Bounty Act - Directs courts to require defendants to pay a minimum of $10,000 to prevailing plaintiffs in civil actions brought under specified citizen suit provisions of: (1) the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA); (2) the Surface Mining C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
To House Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs |
| HB6696 | Intro
Sine Die | Blackwater Trading Post Land Transfer Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to take the Blackwater Trading Post lands in Pinal County, Arizona, into trust for the benefit of the Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
To House Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs |
| HB6689 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of, and land acquisition for, a project to reclaim and reuse wastewater in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
To House Subcommittee on Water and Power |
| 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. |
| HB6580 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans Dental and Vision Benefits Act of 2012 - Provides that, if the Secretary of Veterans Affairs determines that a veteran who is enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system and obtaining supplemental dental or vision ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| HB6577 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011 to permit retraining assistance under the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program to be used by a veteran to pursue a program of education for training on a less than full-time basis if the program consists of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
To House Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity |
| HCR138 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizes Birmingham, Alabama, as the home to the first and longest running celebration of Veterans Day. Recognizes Raymond Weeks for his pioneering efforts in the establishment of Veterans Day. Honors the sacrifices and pays tribute to the men and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| HB8 | Pass | American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 - Title I: General Extensions - (Sec. 101) Makes permanent the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 for individual taxpayers whose taxable income is at or below a $400,000 threshold amount ($4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
Became Public Law No: 112-240. |
| HB4310 | Pass | National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 101) Authorizes appropriations for FY2013 for the Department of De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-02
Became Public Law No: 112-239. |
| HR844 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.B. 8) to extend certain tax relief provisions enacted in 2001 and 2003, and to provide for expedited consideration of a bill providing for comprehensive tax reform, and for other pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-01
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| 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. |
| HB6729 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), not later than 150 days after the enactment of this Act, to coordinate with the heads of federal agencies to: (1) use available administrative authority to eliminate, consolidate, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
