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Save the La Jolla Post Office Act

Bill: 112-hr-6049
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2012-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: California
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Historical and cultural resources
Land transfers
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: 
Save the La Jolla Post Office Act - Grants a right of first refusal to the La Jolla Historical Society in La Jolla, California, to acquire title to the property located at 1140 Wall Street in La Jolla, California (known as the La Jolla Post Office) after the Postmaster determines that such property is no longer needed to carry out postal operations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the use of funds for the rule entitled "Provisional Unlawful Presence Waivers of Inadmissibility for Certain Immediate Relatives" published by the Department of Homeland Security on April 2, 2012 (77 Fed. Reg. 19902).

Bill: 112-hr-6052
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2012-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Appropriations
Border security and unlawful immigration
Department of Homeland Security
Family relationships
Immigration status and procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: 
Prohibits federal funds from being used to promulgate, finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule &quot;Provisional Unlawful Presence Waivers of Inadmissibility for Certain Immediate Relatives&quot; or any successor or substantially similar rule.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: Introduced in House
FAST Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6055
Sponsor: Rep. Reyes, Silvestre [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2012-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Customs enforcement
Immigration status and procedures
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: 
Facilitating Access of Services and Trade Act of 2012 or FAST Act of 2012 - Authorizes the Commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), upon request of any person, to enter into reimbursable fee agreements with that person to defray CBP costs for providing customs and immigration services for a 10-year period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2012-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2012-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the energy efficient appliance credit.

Bill: 112-hr-6056
Sponsor: Rep. Stivers, Steve [R-OH-15]
Introduced: 2012-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy efficiency and conservation
Income tax credits
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for energy efficient appliances, to extend such credit for certain dishwashers, clothes washes, and refrigerators manufactured in calendar years 2012 and 2013.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Home Health Care Access Protection Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6059
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2012-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Home and outpatient care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: 
Home Health Care Access Protection Act of 2012 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the prospective payment system (PPS) for home health services and adjustments to it for case mix changes.
 
Requires for 2013 and each subsequent year that any evaluation of case mix changes and any such adjustment be made using standards developed consistent with specified processes, taking certain criteria into account.
 
Directs the Secretary to convene a Technical Advisory Group to advise on the development of such standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2012-06-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
WIPA and PABSS Continuation of Services Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6061
Sponsor: Rep. Becerra, Xavier [D-CA-31]
Introduced: 2012-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability assistance
Employment and training programs
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: 
WIPA and PABSS Continuation of Services Act of 2012 - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to repeal the expired authorization of appropriations for (and thus continue services under) the Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA) program and the Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security (PABSS) program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1185-1187)
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
To make improvements to the Children's Gasoline Burn Prevention Act.

Bill: 112-hr-6065
Sponsor: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]
Introduced: 2012-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Oil and gas
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: 
Amends the Children's Gasoline Burn Prevention Act to require each portable fuel container manufactured for sale in the United States and intended for use by consumers to conform to American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International standard specifications for: (1) child resistance of portable fuel containers for consumer use; (2) cautionary labeling of portable gasoline, kerosene, and diesel containers for consumer use; and (3) portable kerosene and diesel containers for consumer use. Considers such standards to be a consumer product safety rule issued by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
 
Requires ASTM International to notify CPSC of any proposed revision to applicable standards. Requires the proposed revision to be incorporated in the consumer product safety rule unless CPSC notifies ASTM International that such revision does not carry out the purposes of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Commuter Savings Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6066
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, Nan A. S. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2012-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Appropriations
Employee benefits and pensions
Government trust funds
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Income tax exclusion
Public transit
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: 
Commuter Savings Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2013 the equalization of the exclusion from gross income for employer-provided commuter transit and parking benefits. 
 
Reduces appropriations to the Prevention and Public Health Fund established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by the amount of the revenue estimated to be lost by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4783)
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2012-06-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Fairness Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6068
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2012-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Chesapeake Bay
Delaware
District of Columbia
Forests, forestry, trees
Land use and conservation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Maryland
New York State
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Water quality
Watersheds
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: 
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Fairness Act of 2012 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to provide technical assistance to a Chesapeake Bay state (Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia) to assist in developing water quality goals that reduce losses of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment from agricultural or nonindustrial private forest land in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
 
 Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial and technical assistance to such a state to assist agricultural producers or owners to promote state water quality goals. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance to producers and owners in such watershed, either directly or through a technical service provider, an agricultural or silvicultural producer association, a state or local government, an Indian tribe, a farmer cooperative, an institution of higher education, or an organization with an established history of working with producers on agricultural land, to address: (1) local conservation priorities related to agricultural production, wildlife habitat development, and nonindustrial private forest land management; or (2) critical watershed-scale soil erosion, water quality, sediment reduction, or other natural resource concerns. Authorizes such technical assistance to be provided for: (1) conservation services to reduce losses of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment from agricultural and nonindustrial private forest land in such watershed; or (2) identifying best management practices and assessing practices required to achieve compliance with state and federal water quality laws.
 
Authorizes funding for each of FY2013-FY2018 for such activities in such watershed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Department of Homeland Security Personnel Act

Bill: 112-hr-6069
Sponsor: Rep. Barletta, Lou [R-PA-11]
Introduced: 2012-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Department of Homeland Security
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Immigration status and procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: 
Protecting Department of Homeland Security Personnel Act - Prohibits any adverse personnel action, including termination, against any employee of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) who refuses to carry out a provision of the DHS memorandum issued on June 15, 2012, regarding the exercise of prosecutorial discretion with respect to individuals who came to the United States as children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
To require the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study to determine the impact on the United States of the policy announced by the Secretary of Homeland Security on June 15, 2012, concerning the exercise of prosecutorial discretion with respect to individuals who came to the United States illegally as children, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-6070
Sponsor: Rep. Barletta, Lou [R-PA-11]
Introduced: 2012-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Border security and unlawful immigration
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Comprehensive health care
Congressional oversight
Department of Homeland Security
Family relationships
Food assistance and relief
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Higher education
Immigrant health and welfare
Immigration status and procedures
Medicare
Poverty and welfare assistance
Student aid and college costs
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: 
Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study to determine the impact on the United States of the policy set forth in the memorandum dated June 15, 2012, from the Secretary of Homeland Security regarding exercising prosecutorial discretion with respect to individuals who came to the United States illegally as children.
 
Requires the study to examine the impact on: (1) national security, including how much implementing this policy will cost the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in terms of manpower and other costs; (2) fraud, including how impacted federal agencies will address an increase in fraudulent documents; (3) U.S. workers, including the effectiveness of programs under the Social Security Act (such as Medicare), the national unemployment rate and unemployment compensation, and the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; and (4) the U.S. economy, including federal Pell grants, the supplemental nutrition assistance program, college admissions and scholarships, and federal work-study programs.
 
Directs the Secretary to refrain from implementing such policy until after the Comptroller General has reported to Congress on the results of such study.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Medical and Prosthetic Research Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6071
Sponsor: Rep. Barrow, John [D-GA-12]
Introduced: 2012-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Department of Veterans Affairs
Executive agency funding and structure
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical research
Military facilities and property
Research administration and funding
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: 
Veterans Medical and Prosthetic Research Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2012 - Makes supplemental appropriations to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for FY2012 for medical and prosthetic research within the Veterans Health Administration.
 
Rescinds an identical amount from unobligated funds for the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 2005 under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Las Vegas Valley Public Land and Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6072
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2012-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Alternative and renewable resources
Aviation and airports
Electric power generation and transmission
Higher education
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Military facilities and property
Monuments and memorials
Motor vehicles
Nevada
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: 
Las Vegas Valley Public Land and Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument Act of 2012 - Establishes the Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument in Nevada. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to provide for interpretation, education, and scientific research on the Monument's paleontological resources.
 
Instructs the Secretary to issue to a qualified electric utility a 400-foot right-of-way for the construction of high-voltage transmission facilities identified as the Renewable Energy Transmission Corridor.
 
Establishes the Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument Advisory Council.
 
Adds specified land to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. 
 
Requires conveyance of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) identified as the North Las Vegas Job Creation Zone to the city of North Las Vegas, Nevada, for use for nonresidential development. Permits North Las Vegas to retain a part of such land for public recreation or other public purposes. 
 
Amends the Clark County Conservation of Public Land and Natural Resources Act of 2002 to convey additional land to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department for development of an access road and parking facilities. 
 
Permits the county to convey to a unit of local government or regional governmental entity land within the Airport Environs Overlay District if such land is used for a public purpose. 
 
Requires specified federal lands be conveyed for: (1) the Nevada System of Higher Education, (2) the Southern Nevada Supplemental Airport, and (3) an off-road vehicle recreation park. 
 
Releases the Sunrise Mountain Instant Study Area from further study for designation as wilderness.
 
 Designates: (1) an Economic Support Area in North Las Vegas, and (2) the Nellis Dunes Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Dignified Burial of Veterans Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6073
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-9]
Introduced: 2012-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Congressional oversight
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: 
Dignified Burial of Veterans Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to furnish a casket or urn of sufficient quality for a dignified burial for the burial in a national cemetery of a deceased veteran with no next of kin, or other person claiming the body of the deceased veteran, and who is without sufficient resources to cover burial and funeral expense. Prohibits the furnishing of such casket or urn in the case of a veteran convicted of a federal or state capital crime.
 
Requires the Secretary, in the case of a deceased veteran with no next of kin and without sufficient resources to cover funeral and burial expenses, to ensure that the entity responsible for transporting the body to a national cemetery for burial notifies the VA as to whether such veteran was cremated and steps taken to ensure that such veteran has no next of kin.
 
Directs the Secretary to report to the congressional veterans committees on VA compliance with industry standards for caskets and urns.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
SHUT Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6074
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-9]
Introduced: 2012-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Foreign labor
Income tax credits
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax treatment of families

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: 
Stop Handouts to Unauthorized Taxpayers Act of 2012 or the SHUT Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny the refundable portion of the child tax credit to individuals unless they include their social security number on their tax return or otherwise demonstrate that they are authorized to be employed in the United States. 
 
Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury or any delegate of the Secretary employed by the Department of the Treasury from issuing an individual taxpayer identification number unless supporting documentary evidence is submitted.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-29
text: Introduced in House