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Consumer Protection Home Inspection Counseling Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4219
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2012-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Housing finance and home ownership
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: 
Consumer Protection Home Inspection Counseling Act of 2012 - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to publish a Mortgagee Letter informing mortgagees of their obligation to provide prospective homebuyers with specified HUD public outreach publications concerning the importance of obtaining independent home inspections. 
 
Requires persons providing housing counseling for HUD-approved counseling agencies to: (1) be trained through a certain voluntary home inspection training module, and (2) distribute and explain certain counseling aids. 
Requires any homeownership counseling program under HUD auspices or administration to be provided only by organizations or counselors HUD-certified as competent to provide voluntary home inspection counseling. 
Authorizes HUD to withhold, withdraw, or suspend housing counseling certifications for any non-compliant housing counselor or counseling entity. 
Requires HUD to establish a comprehensive program to train HUD staff, contractors, individuals, and entities that provide housing counseling under specified HUD-funded programs also to provide counseling to consumers on voluntary home inspection. 
Requires such training program to include development of a training module to: (1) train counselors as well as counseling aids for use by housing counselors and suitable for distribution to consumers; and (2) be comprehensible to untrained consumers with or without ongoing assistance from housing counselors. 
 
Requires HUD, at the Secretary's discretion, to develop a new independent protocol, or amend existing protocols, to certify that such housing counselors have successfully completed training using the voluntary home inspection training module and counseling aids established under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: Introduced in House
Mutual Community Bank Competitive Equality Act

Bill: 112-hr-4220
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2012-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Aging
Allied health services
Disability and paralysis
Employment and training programs
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Home and outpatient care
Housing and community development funding
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Medical education
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public housing

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: 
 Home-Based Health Services Training and Employment Act of 2012 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to establish a pilot program to make grants on a competitive basis to eligible entities for the training of public housing residents as home health aides and providers of home-based health services to enable them to provide covered home-based health services (i.e., services for which medical assistance is available under a state Medicaid plan or for which financial assistance is available under this Act) to residents of: (1) public housing who are elderly, disabled, or both; and (2) federally-assisted rental housing who are elderly, disabled, or both, subject to criteria that the Secretary may establish.
 
Authorizes the use of grant funds: (1) to establish or maintain and carry out a program to train public housing residents to provide covered home-based health care services to elderly and disabled public housing residents and to elderly and disabled residents of federally-assisted rental housing, (2) for the transportation and child care expenses of public housing residents in training, and (3) for the administrative expenses of carrying out such a program.

Provides that for any resident of public housing who is trained as a home health aide or as a provider of home-based health services under the program, any income received for providing covered home-based health services shall apply towards eligibility for benefits under federal housing programs as specified, based on length of time following completion of the training.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the full exclusion applicable to qualified small business stock.

Bill: 112-hr-4226
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2012-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Financial services and investments
Income tax exclusion
Securities
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a permanent 100% exclusion from gross income of gain from the sale or exchange of qualified small business stock held for more than 5 years, (2) eliminate such tax exclusion as an item of tax preference for alternative minimum tax (AMT) purposes, and (3) repeal the 28% capital gains tax rate on qualified small business stock.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of State to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force as a foreign terrorist organization, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-4228
Sponsor: Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]
Introduced: 2012-03-21 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Congressional oversight
Foreign and international banking
Immigration status and procedures
Iran
Middle East
Sanctions
Terrorism
Trade restrictions
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: 
 Directs the Secretary of State to: (1) designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization, and (2) report to Congress on IRGC terrorist activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia .
action_date: 2012-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.
action_date: 2012-03-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign 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: 2012-03-21
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign 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: 2012-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Iron Dome Support Act

Bill: 112-hr-4229
Sponsor: Rep. Berman, Howard L. [D-CA-28]
Introduced: 2012-03-21 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Israel
Middle East
Military assistance, sales, and agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: 
Iron Dome Support Act - Authorizes the President to provide assistance to the government of Israel for the procurement, maintenance, and sustainment of the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system for purposes of intercepting short-range missiles launched against Israel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Gas Rebate Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4231
Sponsor: Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3]
Introduced: 2012-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Motor vehicles
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: 
Gas Rebate Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal certain tax incentives for oil and gas companies, including: (1) the tax credit for enhanced oil recovery, (2) the tax credit for producing oil and gas from marginal wells, (3) the expensing allowance for intangible drilling and development costs, (4) the tax deduction for tertiary injectant expenses, (5) the exception to passive loss limitations for working interests in oil and gas properties, and (6) percentage depletion for oil and gas wells.
 
Denies a tax deduction for income attributable to the domestic production, refining, processing, transportation, or distribution of oil, gas, or any primary product thereof. Extends to seven years the required amortization period for geological and geophysical expenditures.
 
Allows registered motor vehicle owners a rebate against income tax based on their share of revenues saved from the repeal of the tax incentives for oil and gas companies by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Restoring Essential Safeguards for a Transparent, Open, and Reliable Executive under FOIA Act

Bill: 112-hr-4232
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-3]
Introduced: 2012-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Financial services and investments
Freedom of information
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: 
Restoring Essential Safeguards for a Transparent, Open, and Reliable Executive under FOIA Act - Amends the Freedom of Information Act to deny an exemption from disclosure requirements to any instrumentality of the federal government engaging in any transaction: (1) that results in the United States owning, subscribing to, or otherwise having any interest in the stock or equity of any company, association, or corporation, except for any investments through pension funds; or (2) in which the instrumentality or its employees or agents execute authority with respect to the federal government's ownership interest in any such company, association, or corporation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1648)
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Kadyn's Act

Bill: 112-hr-4236
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2012-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Intergovernmental relations
Motor carriers
Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: 
Kadyn's Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to withhold 10% of a state's apportionment of certain federal-aid highway funds if the state has not enacted and is not enforcing a law that imposes specified first offense and second offense civil and criminal penalties for motorists found guilty of illegally passing a stopped school bus.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Introduced in House
EASY Savings Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4237
Sponsor: Rep. Fleischmann, Charles J. "Chuck" [R-TN-3]
Introduced: 2012-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: 
Employees of America Streamlining for Your Savings Act of 2012 or the EASY Savings Act of 2012 - Expands the awards program for disclosures by federal employees of fraud, waste, or mismanagement that result in cost savings to the employee's agency to include identification of surplus funds or unnecessary budget authority. Directs that any savings resulting from the identification of such funds or budget authority be deposited in the Treasury and used to reduce a budget deficit or the federal debt. 
Prohibits the payment of awards to: (1) federal officers who serve in a position at level I of the Executive Schedule; (2) the head of an agency; or (3) a commissioner, board member, or other voting member of an independent establishment.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Introduced in House
TBI Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4238
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2012-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Neurological disorders
Research administration and funding
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: 
Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 2012 or TBI Act of 2012 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize through FY2020 Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) projects for the prevention of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Adds recognition of and response to TBI within the scope of such projects.
 
Extends until three years after the enactment of this Act the due date of a report from the Secretary on federal agency collaboration for collecting and disseminating studies on the incidence and prevalence of individuals with TBI who were formerly in the military and the treatment, prevention, and outreach provided to such individuals. Adds additional federal consultation requirements with respect to an HHS TBI study. Extends such study's report requirement.
 
Authorizes appropriations for FY2013-FY2017 for HHS TBI projects.
 
Allows state advisory boards established to recommend ways to improve services coordination regarding TBI to include state entities that administer funds provided to individuals with disabilities. Extends related demonstration projects.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish and implement a national plan for carrying out activities regarding TBI in collaboration with other appropriate federal, state, and local agencies. Extends through FY2017 the authorization for such activities. Provides for the distribution and amount of grants for such activities for FY2013 and thereafter.
 
Removes the requirement that a TBI protection and advocacy system, for which grant funds are provided by the Secretary, serve only one state. Requires the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Commissioner of the Administration on Developmental Disabilities to create a uniform model format for annual reports submitted by such systems. Extends through FY2017 the authorization for such systems.
 
Requires in a current HHS program on basic and clinical trauma research the inclusion of studies specific to the needs of children and youth with TBI. Extends such program through FY2017.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Wrongful Convictions Tax Relief Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4241
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2012-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: 
Wrongful Convictions Tax Relief Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a wrongfully incarcerated individual an exclusion from gross income for civil damages, restitution, or other monetary awards received as compensation for a wrongful incarceration. Defines "wrongfully incarcerated individual" as: (1) an individual who was convicted of a criminal offense under federal or state law, who served all or part of a sentence of imprisonment relating to such offense, and who was pardoned, granted clemency, or granted amnesty because of actual innocence of the offense; or (2) an individual for whom the conviction for such offense was reversed or vacated and for whom the indictment, information, or other accusatory instrument for such offense was dismissed or who was found not guilty at a new trial after the conviction was reversed or vacated. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: Introduced in House
NATO Enhancement Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4243
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-3]
Introduced: 2012-03-22 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Alliances
Arms control and nonproliferation
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Collective security
Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Europe
Foreign aid and international relief
Georgia (Republic)
Greece
International law and treaties
Macedonia
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Military education and training
Montenegro
Nuclear weapons
Russia
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: 
NATO Enhancement Act of 2012 - Designates Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina as eligible to receive assistance under the NATO Participation Act of 1994. 
 
Authorizes FY2012 appropriations for security assistance to: (1) Bosnia and Herzegovina, (2) Montenegro, (3) Georgia, (4) the Republic of Macedonia, and (5) Ukraine.
 
Directs the President to establish and update bilateral programs to assist Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, the Republic of Macedonia, and Montenegro achieve full North Atlantic Treaty Organization Alliance (NATO) membership. States that such programs shall not inhibit security cooperation with nations previously designated as eligible to receive security assistance but no longer expressing an intent to join NATO.
 
Gives priority to the provision and delivery of excess defense articles to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, the Republic of Macedonia, and Montenegro.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: Introduced in House
CURED Act

Bill: 112-hr-4244
Sponsor: Rep. Bilbray, Brian P. [R-CA-50]
Introduced: 2012-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Building construction
California
Congressional oversight
Department of the Interior
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Endangered and threatened species
Environmental regulatory procedures
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: 
Jonas Salk Elementary Cap Undo Regulatory Environmental Delay or CURED Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to issue a final decision on whether or not to issue a permit under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 authorizing the San Diego Unified School District to construct an elementary school in San Diego, California.
 
Deems the permit to have been issued if the Secretary does not make a final decision within 90 days of this Act's enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E423)
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Co-Pay Fairness Act

Bill: 112-hr-4245
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2012-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care coverage and access
Medicare
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: 
Veterans Co-Pay Fairness Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), in the case of a veteran entitled to benefits under part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act or enrolled under Medicare part B (Supplemental Security Income), to reimburse such veteran for the Medicare deductibles, copayments, or coinsurance applied against such veteran with respect to emergency medical treatment items and services provided in non-VA facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: Introduced in House
VA Enrollment Act

Bill: 112-hr-4246
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2012-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care coverage and access
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: 
VA Enrollment Act - Includes among veterans eligible to receive reimbursement from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for emergency treatment services provided in a non-VA facility those who enroll in the VA health care system within 30 days after receiving such emergency treatment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: Introduced in House