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To amend title 49, United States Code, to change the membership of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board of Directors, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-6369
Sponsor: Rep. Wolf, Frank R. [R-VA-10]
Introduced: 2012-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
District of Columbia
Intergovernmental relations
Maryland
State and local government operations
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-10
text: 
Revises membership requirements for and reduces to nine the number of members on the board of directors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. Makes corresponding reductions in the number of members appointed by the governor of Virginia, the mayor of the District of Columbia, the governor of Maryland, and the President.
 
Reduces from 10 to 5 the number of votes required to approve bond issues and the annual budget.
 
Makes conforming amendments to the District of Columbia Regional Airports Authority Act of 1985.
 
Limits members to one term.
 
Prescribes certain term limits for the first six members appointed by the governor of Virginia.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2012-09-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2012-09-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2012-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-10
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the conveyance of the Forest Service Lake Hill Administrative Site in Summit County, Colorado.

Bill: 112-hr-6370
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2012-09-11 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Forests, forestry, trees
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to convey the Forest Service Lake Hill Administrative Site in Summit County, Colorado.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: Introduced in House
Streamlining Claims Processing for Federal Contractor Employees Act

Bill: 112-hr-6371
Sponsor: Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2012-09-11 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Labor
Executive agency funding and structure
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Labor standards
Public contracts and procurement
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: 
Streamlining Claims Processing for Federal Contractor Employees Act - Transfers authority from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to the Department of Labor for processing claims for wages due to laborers and mechanics hired by contractors on public works projects.

action_date: 2012-11-13
text: 

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

 
Streamlining Claims Processing for Federal Contractor Employees Act - Transfers authority from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to the Department of Labor for processing claims for wages due to laborers and mechanics hired by contractors on public works projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-11-14
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2012-11-13
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2012-11-13
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 361 - 3 (Roll no. 604). (text: CR H6334)
action_date: 2012-11-13
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 361 - 3 (Roll no. 604).(text: CR H6334)
action_date: 2012-11-13
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6338)
action_date: 2012-11-13
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: 2012-11-13
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6371.
action_date: 2012-11-13
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6334-6335)
action_date: 2012-11-13
text: Mr. Walberg moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Employment Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6372
Sponsor: Rep. Coffman, Mike [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2012-09-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disability and paralysis
Employment and training programs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: 
Veterans Employment Act of 2012 - Instructs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to consider all qualified veterans before any non-veterans for employment in the competitive service at the VA. 
 
Requires the VA to consider, among qualified veterans, those with a service-connected disability having a rating of 30% before considering non-service-connected disabled veterans.
 
Requires the Director of the VA to submit annual reports to Congress with respect to the hiring of veterans in the competitive service. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2012-09-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2012-09-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: Introduced in House
Family Farm Relief Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6373
Sponsor: Rep. Gibson, Christopher P. [R-NY-20]
Introduced: 2012-09-11 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional oversight
Department of Agriculture
Department of Homeland Security
Department of State
Employee hiring
Foreign labor
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Immigration status and procedures
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Temporary and part-time employment
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: 
 Family Farm Relief Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a process for receiving H-2A nonimmigrant visas (temporary agricultural workers) which shall ensure that that petitioners may file such petitions over the Internet or in paper form. (Transfers administration of the H-2A program from the Department of Labor to USDA.)
 
Includes dairy workers in the H-2A category with a maximum 12-month period of admissions which may be renewed three months after the end of each such period.
 
Revises H-2A certification provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs located at 180 Martin Drive in Carrollton, Georgia, as the "Trinka Davis Veterans Village".

Bill: 112-hr-6374
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2012-09-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Department of Veterans Affairs
Georgia
Government buildings, facilities, and property

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: 
Designates the facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) at 180 Martin Drive in Carrollton, Georgia as the "Trinka Davis Veterans Village."


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2012-11-28
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2012-11-28
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6477)
action_date: 2012-11-28
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H6477)
action_date: 2012-11-28
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6374.
action_date: 2012-11-28
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6477-6478)
action_date: 2012-11-28
text: Mr. Miller (FL) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: Introduced in House
Instructional Leadership Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6376
Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2012-09-11 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
School administration
State and local government operations
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: 
Instructional Leadership Act of 2012 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states, local educational agencies (LEAs), nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, or partnerships or consortia which include at least one of those entities to develop and implement innovative programs and sites to train school principals in instructional leadership skills.
 
Requires the Secretary to award additional competitive grants to states or partnerships or consortia which include states for pilot programs that evaluate and promote the incorporation of instructional leadership standards into state principal certification or licensure.
 
 Directs the Secretary to establish a definition of &quot;an effective principal&quot; that is based on reports from this Act's grantees and emphasizes instructional leadership standards. 
 
Requires the Secretary to award competitive grants to states and high-need LEAs or partnerships between such LEAs and certain educational entities to develop state-of-the-art principal induction programs that provide new principals a minimum of three years of extensive, high-quality, comprehensive induction into the field of school administration. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1473)
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: Introduced in House
Mobile Device Privacy Act

Bill: 112-hr-6377
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2012-09-12 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Civil actions and liability
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Consumer affairs
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Right of privacy
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-12
text: 
Mobile Device Privacy Act - Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to promulgate regulations requiring sellers or manufacturers of mobile devices and software, providers of mobile services, and operators of online services offering downloads of monitoring software for installation on a mobile device to disclose to consumers information about the installation and purpose of such software. Allows exemptions for uses consistent with the reasonable expectations of consumers.
 
Defines &quot;monitoring software&quot; as software with the capability to monitor mobile device usage or the location of the user and to transmit the information collected to another device or system, whether or not such capability is the primary function of the software or the purpose for which it is marketed.
 
Directs the FTC to promulgate regulations requiring: (1) the express consent of a consumer before monitoring software begins collecting and transmitting information and giving the consumer the opportunity to prohibit such collection and transmission at any time; (2) recipients of information transmitted from monitoring software to implement information security practices for the treatment and protection of the information; and (3) the filing with the FTC or the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), as appropriate, of a copy of an agreement under which a person receives the type of information regarding which disclosure is required by this Act.
 
Provides for enforcement by the FTC and FCC of regulations promulgated under this Act under the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Communications Act of 1934, respectively. Allows civil enforcement actions by states and by private persons injured by an act in violation of such regulations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2012-09-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-09-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-12
text: Introduced in House
Air and Health Quality Empowerment Zone Designation Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6378
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-11]
Introduced: 2012-09-12 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Air quality
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Environmental health
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Public-private cooperation
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-12
text: 
Air and Health Quality Empowerment Zone Designation Act of 2012 - Allows the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to designate an area as an air and health quality empowerment zone if the air pollution control district or other local governmental entity (area entity) authorized to regulate air quality for the area nominates the area for such designation, including by submitting a strategic plan designed to address air quality challenges, achieve attainment of air quality standards, and improve the health of the population in the area.
 
Requires a designated area to meet the following criteria: (1) it has been designated as being in extreme nonattainment of the national ambient air quality standard for ozone and in nonattainment of the national ambient air quality standard for PM2.5 (particulate matter diameter); (2) it had nitrogen oxide emissions from farm equipment or emissions of volatile organic compounds from farming in excess of specified limits; (3) it meets or exceeds the national average per capita incidence of asthma; (4) it experiences unemployment rates higher than the national average; and (5) the area entity will provide matching contributions of federal funds toward the activities to be carried out under the strategic plan, which may be in cash or in-kind, fairly evaluated, including plant, equipment, or services.
 
Makes the effective period of area designation the shorter of 10 years or the period ending with revocation by the Administrator.
 
Authorizes grants to an area entity on behalf of each air and health quality empowerment zone for the purpose of carrying out the strategic plan submitted under this Act.
 
Requires a report to Congress on the impact of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2012-09-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-09-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-12
text: Introduced in House
To designate 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".

Bill: 112-hr-6379
Sponsor: Rep. Clyburn, James E. [D-SC-6]
Introduced: 2012-09-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Postal service
South Carolina

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-12
text: 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."
action_date: 2013-01-10
text: 

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

 
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."


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-10
text: Became Public Law No: 112-255.
action_date: 2013-01-10
text: Became Public Law No: 112-255.
action_date: 2013-01-10
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2013-01-10
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2012-12-31
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2012-12-31
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2012-12-28
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2012-12-27
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8454)
action_date: 2012-12-27
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S8454)
action_date: 2012-12-21
text: Received in the Senate, read twice.
action_date: 2012-12-20
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2012-12-20
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR 12/19/2012 H7333)
action_date: 2012-12-20
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR 12/19/2012 H7333)
action_date: 2012-12-20
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H7416)
action_date: 2012-12-19
text: At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Mrs. Maloney objected to the vote on the grounds that a quorum was not present. Further proceedings on the motion were postponed. The point of no quorum was considered as withdrawn.
action_date: 2012-12-19
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6379.
action_date: 2012-12-19
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7333)
action_date: 2012-12-19
text: Mr. Farenthold moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2012-09-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2012-09-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-12
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 112-255
Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee Community Recovery Assistance Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6380
Sponsor: Rep. Gibson, Christopher P. [R-NY-20]
Introduced: 2012-09-12 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental technology
Floods and storm protection
Intergovernmental relations
Lakes and rivers
Marine and inland water transportation
Natural disasters
State and local finance
Water quality
Water resources funding
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-12
text: 
Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee Community Recovery Assistance Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of the Army, upon the request of a state or local government, to allow a non-federal interest to make payment of any non-federal contribution associated with a qualifying watershed mitigation project or a qualifying flood damage reduction project over a 30-year period in accordance with specified payment option provisions of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986.
 
Defines: (1) a &quot;qualifying flood damage reduction project&quot; to mean a flood damage reduction project carried out by the Corps of Engineers for a disaster county; (2) a &quot;qualifying watershed mitigation project&quot; to mean a project or study carried out by the Corps with respect to a watershed located in a disaster county to reduce the impacts of flooding, enhance rivers with respect to uses as transportation corridors, improve water quality, increase economic opportunities, utilize new technologies and innovative approaches to benefit the watershed, and/or develop and implement a long-term resource monitoring program; (3) a &quot;disaster county&quot; as a county included in the geographical area covered by a qualifying natural disaster declaration and each contiguous county; and (4) a &quot;qualifying natural disaster declaration&quot; to mean a major disaster or emergency declared by the President under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act due to damaging water and other conditions relating to Hurricane Irene or Tropical Storm Lee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2012-09-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2012-09-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-12
text: Introduced in House