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President Obama's Proposed 2012-2017 Offshore Drilling Lease Sale Plan Act

Bill: 112-hr-6168
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Doc [R-WA-4]
Introduced: 2012-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alaska
Arctic Ocean
Arctic and polar regions
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: 
President Obama's Proposed 2012-2017 Offshore Drilling Lease Sale Plan Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to implement the Proposed Final Outer Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing Program (2012-2017) in accordance with the schedule for conducting oil and gas lease sales set forth in it and in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 164 - 261 (Roll no. 512).
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: Failed of passage/not agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 164 - 261 (Roll no. 512).
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5224)
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6168.
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5212-5217; text of measure as introduced: CR H5212-5213)
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: Mr. Hastings (WA) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5182-5183)
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
SEAS Act

Bill: 112-hr-6170
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2012-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Buy American requirements
Food assistance and relief
Foreign aid and international relief
Marine and inland water transportation

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: 
Saving Essential American Sailors Act or SEAS Act - Amends the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) to repeal the Act's repeal of the agricultural export requirements that: (1) 25% of the gross tonnage of certain agricultural commodities or their products exported each fiscal year be transported on U.S. commercial vessels, and (2) the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) finance any increased ocean freight charges incurred in the transportation of such items.
 
Revives and reinstates those repealed requirements to read as if they were never repealed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-08-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Veterans Pension Act

Bill: 112-hr-6171
Sponsor: Rep. Rooney, Thomas J. [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2012-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: 
Protecting Veterans Pension Act - Provides that if a veteran eligible for a pension for service or for a non-service-connected disability, or the spouse of such veteran, disposes of a resource that was part of such veteran's estate for less than its fair market value within three years before applying for such pension, then the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) shall deny or discontinue the pension payment for months beginning on the date of such disposition and ending when the uncompensated value of such resource is reached. Provides the same denial or discontinuance in the case of a veteran eligible for an increased pension payment on account of a child, unless the Secretary determines that such denial or discontinuance would work an undue hardship.
 
Applies the same denial or discontinuance, with the same undue hardship exception, in the case of: (1) a veteran's surviving spouse who disposes of a covered resource for less than fair market value within such period, and (2) an increased pension for such spouse on account of a child.
 
Requires the Secretary, at the time a veteran, surviving spouse, or child applies for such a pension, to: (1) inform the individual of such requirements, and (2) obtain information to determine whether a period of ineligibility for such payments will be required.
 
Requires annual reports from the Secretary, through 2023, on the administration of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from finalizing any rule imposing any standard of performance for carbon dioxide emissions from any existing or new source that is a fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating unit unless and until carbon capture and storage is found to be technologically and economically feasible.

Bill: 112-hr-6172
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2012-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Coal
Congressional oversight
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Environmental technology
Oil and gas
Public utilities and utility rates
Technology assessment

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: 
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 unit unless and until three of four specified officials (the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration, the Comptroller General, the Director of the National Energy Technology Laboratory, and the Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology) publish and submit to Congress a report finding that carbon capture and storage is technologically and economically feasible for such units.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2012-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
PRO-LIFE Act

Bill: 112-hr-6173
Sponsor: Rep. Neugebauer, Randy [R-TX-19]
Introduced: 2012-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Abortion
Child health
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Health facilities and institutions
Public contracts and procurement
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: 
Protecting Life in Funding Education Act or the PRO-LIFE Act - Amends the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit the provision of federal education funding to state or local educational agencies that make health services available to students through school-based health centers, unless those centers certify that they will not provide students with abortions, abortion-related materials, referrals, or suggestions, or directions to abortion services. 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6174
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2012-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Food industry and services
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Nutrition and diet

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: 
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 the menu or menu board to include: (1) the number of calories contained in the whole product; (2) the number of servings and number of calories per serving; or (3) the number of calories per the common unit division of the product, such as for a multi-serving item that is typically divided before presentation to the consumer. Permits such information to be provided by a remote-access menu, such as through the internet, for food establishments where the majority of orders are placed by customers who are off-premises at the time the order is placed.
 
Defines &ldquo;reasonable basis&rdquo; for a restaurant or similar food establishment&rsquo;s nutrient content disclosures to mean that the nutrient disclosure is within acceptable allowances for variation in nutrient content, which shall include allowances for variations in serving size, inadvertent human error in formulation of menu items, and variations in ingredients.
 
Sets forth the methods a restaurant or similar food establishment may use to determine nutritional content for disclosure, including ranges, averages, individual labeling of flavors or components, or labeling of one preset standard build. Defines &quot;preset standard build&quot; as the finished version of a menu item most commonly ordered by consumers.
 
Applies the nutritional disclosure requirements to retail food establishments that derive more than 50% of their total revenue from the sale of food.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
National Park Service Study Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6175
Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Dale E. [D-MI-5]
Introduced: 2012-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
Congressional oversight
Detention of persons
Florida
Georgia
Government studies and investigations
Hawaii
Historic sites and heritage areas
Lakes and rivers
Military history
Military personnel and dependents
Mining
Nevada
New Mexico
New York State
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Racial and ethnic relations
Television and film
Texas
U.S. history
Utah
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: 
National Park Service Study Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct special resource studies of: (1) the Kau coast, on the island of Hawaii; (2) on request, the island of Rota in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; (3) sites in Alaska associated with the forced abandonment of the Aleut villages of Makushin, Kashega, and Biorka around Unalaska Island and Attu on Attu Island during World War II; (4) the five relocation sites in Alaska at Funter Bay, Burnett Inlet, Killisnoo, Ward Lake and the Wrangell Institute; (5) specified World War II Japanese American Relocation Center sites; (6) American Latino sites in the San Luis Valley and Central Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Colorado and New Mexico; (7) the town of Goldfield and outlying mining sites in Nevada; (8) the Hudson River Valley in New York; (9) the Norman Studios in Jacksonville, Florida, where African-American casts and crews were used in the production of silent films; (10) the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta in Alabama; and (11) Galveston Bay in Texas. 
 
Requires updates of: (1) the study authorized by the National Park Service Studies Act of 1999 relating to World War II sites, Republic of Palau; and (2) the 1979 study entitled &quot;Vermejo Ranch, New Mexico/Colorado: Study of Management Options.&quot;
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) study alternatives for commemorating and interpreting the role of the Buffalo Soldiers in the early years of the National Parks, (2) conduct a national historic landmark theme study to identify sites and resources in the southern United States that are significant to the Reconstruction era, and (3) study the feasibility of including 45 miles of the Chattahoochee River and land along the river corridor within the boundary of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area located in Georgia. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Aligning Incentives for Better Patient Care Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-6176
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-7]
Introduced: 2012-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Consumer affairs
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Hospital care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: 
Aligning Incentives for Better Patient Care Act of 2011 [
sic
] - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) except from the prohibition against certain physician referrals and other compensation any incentive payments promoting quality and efficiency that are made under a quality incentive agreement between a physician and a qualified hospital, (2) prescribe requirements for such agreements, and (3) direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide a quality incentive ombudsman with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. 
 
Amends SSA title XI to exempt such incentive payments from certain civil money penalties as well as from criminal penalites for illegal remunerations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2012-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Support Our Startups Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6177
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2012-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: 
Support Our Startups Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an increased tax deduction for business start-up expenditures in 2012 and 2013. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Economic Growth and Development Act

Bill: 112-hr-6178
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2012-07-24 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: African Development Foundation
Congressional oversight
Department of State
Economic development
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign aid and international relief
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government studies and investigations
Inter-American Foundation
Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
Public-private cooperation
Rule of law and government transparency
Trade and Development Agency
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: 
Economic Growth and Development Act - Directs the President to establish an interagency mechanism to improve coordination of U.S. development programs with private sector investment activities.
 
Directs the President and Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to: (1) direct their respective policy and country teams to include private sector consultation in all country, sector, and global development strategies; and (2) ensure that independent analyses of constraints to growth are conducted as a component of all appropriate country, sector, and global development strategies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend for 1 year the American Opportunity Tax Credit and the disregard of tax refunds for purposes of Federal, and federally-assisted, programs.

Bill: 112-hr-6179
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-25]
Introduced: 2012-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Family relationships
Higher education
Income tax credits
Poverty and welfare assistance
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2013: (1) the increase in the Hope Scholarship tax credit (American Opportunity Tax Credit), and (2) the disregard of tax refunds for purposes of determining eligibility for means tested federal programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent the alternative minimum tax from effectively repealing the Federal tax exemption for interest on State and local private activity bonds.

Bill: 112-hr-6180
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2012-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax rates
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate tax-exempt interest earned on private activity bonds as an item of tax preference for purposes of calculating the alternative minimum tax. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1308)
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain improvements in the child tax credit and the earned income tax credit, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-6181
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2012-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Poverty and welfare assistance
Tax treatment of families

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2013: (1) the increase in the refundable portion of the child tax credit, (2) the increased percentage of the earned income tax credit for taxpayers with three or more qualifying children, and (3) the disregard of tax refunds in determining eligibility for means tested federal programs. 
 
Extends through 2013 provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 relating to the child tax credit and the earned income tax credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Introduced in House
American Advanced Energy Manufacturing Jobs Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6182
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2012-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Business investment and capital
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental technology
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Manufacturing
Oil and gas
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: 
American Advanced Energy Manufacturing Jobs Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for the qualifying advanced energy project program, to: (1) allow, through December 31, 2016, an additional credit amount for the cost of manufacturing equipment that uses solar energy to generate electricity, fuel cell power plants, and systems for the electro-chemical storage of electricity; and (2) increase for 2012 the amount of credits that may be allocated under such program.
 
Provides for an offset against such increased credit by denying to any major integrated oil company: (1) a foreign tax credit if such company receives a tax preference from a foreign jurisdiction that does not impose a generally applicable income tax, and (2) a tax deduction for intangible drilling and development costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Restoring Storey County Act

Bill: 112-hr-6184
Sponsor: Rep. Amodei, Mark E. [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2012-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Nevada

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: 
Restoring Storey County Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to convey to Storey County, Nevada, all surface rights of the United States in and to specified federal land, including any improvements.
 
Makes the BLM responsible for all costs associated with such conveyance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: Introduced in House