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Military Sexual Assault Prevention Act of 2012

Bill: 112-s-3647
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2012-11-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against women
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Defense
Government information and archives
Judges
Lawyers and legal services
Military law
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves
Right of privacy
Sex offenses
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: 
Military Sexual Assault Prevention Act of 2012 - Prohibits any person convicted under federal or state law of rape, sexual assault, forcible sodomy, or incest from being commissioned or enlisting in the Armed Forces. Requires administrative separation from the Armed Forces, when not punitively discharged, for any member of the Armed Forces (member) on active duty, and any reserve member in an active status, who is convicted of rape, sexual assault, forcible sodomy, or an attempt thereof (covered offenses). Allows the Secretary of the military department concerned to waive such a separation in the interests of national security on a case-by-case basis.
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD), with respect to any charge under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) that alleges any of the covered offenses, to require the military department Secretaries to restrict disposition authority to specified high-command officers authorized to convene special courts-martial under the UCMJ.
 
States as the policy of the United States that any charge regarding the covered offenses should be disposed of by court-martial rather than non-judicial punishment or administrative action.
 
Requires inclusion in a member's personnel service record of a substantiated complaint of a sexual-related offense. Requires commanding officer review of a member's history of substantiated sexual offenses upon a member's transfer to the new command.
 
Requires sexual assault forms and records to be retained for at least 50 years.
 
Amends the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 to add additional required information within annual reports on sexual assaults involving members.
 
Establishes an independent panel to review and assess UCMJ judicial proceedings involving sexual assault and related offenses for purposes of developing potential improvements to such proceedings.
 
Directs the Secretary to develop a comprehensive policy to prevent and respond to sexual harassment in the Armed Forces. Requires related reports.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to exclude from gross income for purposes of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 any payments made from the Aurora Victim Relief Fund to the victims of the tragic event at the Century 16 Cinema in Aurora, Colorado, on July 20, 2012.

Bill: 112-s-3648
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2012-11-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Colorado
Crime victims
Income tax exclusion
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: 
Excludes from gross income, for income tax purposes, any amount received from the Aurora Victim Relief Fund established by the tax-exempt Community First Foundation, if such amount is paid on account of the mass shooting at the Century 16 Cinema in Aurora, Colorado, on July 20, 2012. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Ditch and Irrigation Company Tax Reform Act

Bill: 112-s-3650
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Mark [D-CO]
Introduced: 2012-11-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Corporate finance and management
Farmland
Financial services and investments
Land transfers
Securities
Tax-exempt organizations
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: 
Ditch and Irrigation Company Tax Reform Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit tax-exempt mutual ditch or irrigation companies to earn income from dispositions of certain real property and stock interests without affecting their tax-exempt status. Requires that such income be used to pay the operational and maintenance expenses of such a company.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7219-7220)
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7219)
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting and Preserving Social Security Act

Bill: 112-s-3651
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2012-12-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Inflation and prices
Self-employed
Social security and elderly assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: 
Protecting and Preserving Social Security Act - Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the Department of Labor to prepare and publish for each calendar month a Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers (CPIEC) that indicates changes over time in consumption expenditures typical for individuals in the United States age 62 or older.
 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to make the CPIEC the applicable Consumer Price Index (CPI) for computation of cost-of-lving increases in OASDI benefits for such individuals. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prescribe special rules for the determination of wages and self-employment income above the contribution and benefit base after 2012.
 
Amends SSA title II to include surplus average indexed monthly earnings (AIME) in the determination of primary OASDI amounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Patents for Humanity Program Improvement Act of 2012

Bill: 112-s-3652
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2012-12-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Foreign aid and international relief
Intellectual property

Summary:
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: 
Patents for Humanity Program Improvement Act of 2012 - Allows the holder or successor of an acceleration certificate issued pursuant to the Patents for Humanity Program (a pilot awards program established by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office [USPTO] entitling awardees to accelerate certain USPTO proceedings for patented technologies addressing humanitarian needs among an impoverished population or for further research on humanitarian technologies) to transfer, including by sale, the entitlement to such certificate to another person. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7403)
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7402-7403)
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: Introduced in Senate
National Child Protection Training Act

Bill: 112-s-3653
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2012-12-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Domestic violence and child abuse
Education programs funding
Higher education
Medical education
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: 
National Child Protection Training Act - Directs the Attorney General, through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, to establish a program to sustain at least four university, college, or community college affiliated regional training centers in coordination with the National Child Protection Training Center.
 
Requires the regional training centers to: (1) develop model inter-disciplinary undergraduate curricula on recognizing and responding to cases of child maltreatment that consists of at least a three-course certificate program or minor degree; (2) develop related model graduate curricula for medical schools, law schools, seminaries, and other institutions of higher education that instruct students likely to become child protection professionals or other professionals required by law to report cases of child maltreatment; (3) disseminate such curricula, upon the Attorney General's approval, to community colleges, colleges, university, law schools, medical schools, and other institutions of higher education; (4) develop &quot;laboratory&quot; training facilities that allow for simulated, interactive, and intensive training of students preparing for child protection careers as well as child protection professionals currently in the field; (5) assist communities in developing evidence-based prevention programs; and (6) assist states in developing and maintaining forensic interview training programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to create equal footing for tribal economic development.

Bill: 112-s-3654
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2012-12-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Gambling
Indian lands and resources rights
Indian social and development programs
Intergovernmental relations
Jurisdiction and venue
State and local government operations
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: 
Amends the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to repeal the prohibition on the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Tribe conducting on its reservation or lands gaming activities that are prohibited by Texas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7403)
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Superstorm Sandy Unemployment Relief Act of 2012

Bill: 112-s-3655
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2012-12-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Appropriations
Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection
Natural disasters
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: 
Superstorm Sandy Unemployment Relief Act of 2012 - Directs the President, in the case of an individual eligible to receive unemployment assistance under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act as a result of the disaster declaration made for Hurricane Sandy after October 20, 2012, to make such assistance available for 39 weeks after the date of the declaration (currently limited to 26 weeks).
 
Requires the payments to a state to equal 100% of the amount of unemployment compensation paid under state law to affected individuals in each affected state or any area within it.
 
 Makes payments available until July 23, 2013.
 
Makes appropriations necessary to carry out this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to repeal an obsolete provision in title 49, United States Code, requiring motor vehicle insurance cost reporting.

Bill: 112-s-3656
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2012-12-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Department of Transportation
Life, casualty, property insurance
Motor vehicles
Retail and wholesale trades
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: 
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 motor vehicles based on damage susceptibility and crashworthiness.
 
Declares any regulations promulgated pursuant to that requirement to have no force or effect.
 
Directs the Secretary, after providing for public comment, to study and report to Congress on the most useful data, format, and method for providing simple and understandable damage susceptibility information to consumers.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: Introduced in Senate
LINE Act of 2012

Bill: 112-s-3657
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2012-12-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Census and government statistics
Department of Justice
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2012-12-05
text: 
Lines Interfere with National Elections Act of 2012 or LINE Act of 2012 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require each state to provide for the minimum required number of voting systems, poll workers, and other election resources (including all other physical resources) for each voting site on the day of any federal election and on any days during which the state allows early voting for a federal election in accordance with standards established under this Act. 
 
Directs the Attorney General, to the maximum extent practicable in coordination with the Election Assistance Commission, to issue standards for a uniform and non-discriminatory distribution of such systems, workers, and other resources, taking into account with respect to any voting site, among other factors, the voting age population, the needs and numbers of disabled voters, and voters with limited English proficiency.
 
Requires the standards, to the extent possible, to provide for a distribution of voting systems, poll workers, and other election resources with the goal of: (1) ensuring an equal waiting time for all voters in the state, and (2) preventing a waiting time of over one hour at any polling place.
 
Requires each jurisdiction where a substantial number of voters waited more than 90 minutes to cast a vote in the federal election held on November 6, 2012, or any federal election held after that date, to comply with a state remedial plan to minimize voter waiting times. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2012-12-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 300 Fayetteville Street in Raleigh, North Carolina, as the "Jesse Helms Federal Building and United States Courthouse".

Bill: 112-s-3658
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2012-12-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Members of Congress
North Carolina
Senate

Summary:
action_date: 2012-12-05
text: 
Designates the federal building and U.S. courthouse located at 300 Fayetteville Street in Raleigh, North Carolina, as the &quot;Jesse Helms Federal Building and United States Courthouse.&quot; 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2012-12-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Quality Improvement Organization Program Restoration Act

Bill: 112-s-3659
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2012-12-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health programs administration and funding
Medicare
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2012-12-05
text: 
Quality Improvement Organization Program Restoration Act - Amends the Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2011 to repeal its revisions to requirements for contracts with Medicare Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs).
 
Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to specify expenditures or funding for: (1) 3-year QIO contracts for contract periods beginning on or after August 1, 2014, and ending on or before July 31, 2021, but with a certain reduction in aggregate funds payable after October 1, 2014; and (2) contracts with utilization and quality control peer review organizations for any contract period beginning on or after August 1, 2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2012-12-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Middle Class & Small Business Tax Cut Act of 2012

Bill: 112-s-3660
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2012-12-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Employment taxes
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Income tax credits
Small business
Social security and elderly assistance
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2012-12-05
text: 
Middle Class & Small Business Tax Cut Act of 2012 - Amends the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 to extend through 2013 the reductions in employment and self-employment tax rates.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow nongovernmental employers a credit against employment tax liability equal to 10% of the increase in any quarterly payroll over a payroll in a corresponding quarter in the previous calendar year. Limits the allowable amount of such credit to $500,000 for all quarters. 
 
Directs the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to: (1) notify all employers required to withhold employment taxes of the enactment and applicability of the payroll increase tax credit, and (2) report to Congress on enforcement measures taken to prevent and penalize fraud related to such tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2012-12-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Space Exploration Sustainability Act

Bill: 112-s-3661
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2012-12-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government liability
International organizations and cooperation
Licensing and registrations
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Russia
Sanctions
Space flight and exploration
Spacecraft and satellites
Technology assessment
Technology transfer and commercialization
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2012-12-05
text: 
Space Exploration Sustainability Act - Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010 to make it: (1) a long-term goal for the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) to sustainably expand permanent human presence beyond low-Earth orbit and to expand economic activity in space, and (2) a key objective of the United States to expand throughout cis-lunar space (the region of space from the Earth out to and including the region around the surface of the Moon) and beyond. 
 
Requires the Administrator of NASA to submit to Congress a strategy for achieving the long-term goal of sustainably expanding a human presence beyond low-Earth orbit through robust use of cis-lunar space. 
Instructs NASA to proceed with the utilization of the International Space Station, technology development, and follow-on transportation systems, including the space launch system and the multi-purpose crew vehicle.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2012-12-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Lieutenant Ryan Patrick Jones Post Office Designation Act

Bill: 112-s-3662
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Scott P. [R-MA]
Introduced: 2012-12-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Massachusetts
Military personnel and dependents
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2012-12-05
text: Lieutenant Ryan Patrick Jones Post Office Designation Act - Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6 Nichols Street in Westminster, Massachusetts, as the "Lieutenant Ryan Patrick Jones Post Office Building."
action_date: 2013-01-14
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Lieutenant Ryan Patrick Jones Post Office Designation Act - Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6 Nichols Street in Westminster, Massachusetts, as the "Lieutenant Ryan Patrick Jones Post Office Building."


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-14
text: Became Public Law No: 112-280.
action_date: 2013-01-14
text: Became Public Law No: 112-280.
action_date: 2013-01-14
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2013-01-14
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2013-01-02
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2013-01-02
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2013-01-01
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2013-01-01
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7527)
action_date: 2013-01-01
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H7527)
action_date: 2013-01-01
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 3662.
action_date: 2013-01-01
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7527-7528)
action_date: 2013-01-01
text: Mr. Issa moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2012-12-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2012-12-20
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2012-12-20
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2012-12-19
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S8230)
action_date: 2012-12-19
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S8230)
action_date: 2012-12-19
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8230)
action_date: 2012-12-19
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S8230)
action_date: 2012-12-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2012-12-05
text: Introduced in Senate

Enacted as: number: 112-280