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Patient Access to Drugs in Shortage Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6611
Sponsor: Rep. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2012-11-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicaid
Medicare
Prescription drugs
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: 
Patient Access to Drugs in Shortage Act of 2012 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA), with respect to use of average sales price payment methodology for drugs and biologicals, to prescribe a formula for determining the payment amount, using the volume-weighted wholesale acquisition cost, for a multiple source or a single source sterile injectable drug product with three or fewer active manufacturers, if there is no period of exclusivity in effect or available. 
 
Incorporates such payment methodology under the hospital outpatient department prospective payment system for any such drug furnished between July 1, 2013, and January 1, 2020.
 
Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to exempt from the rebate agreement requirement a multiple source drug furnished between July 1, 2013, and January 1, 2020, and for which payment may be made under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medicare Insurance).
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to exclude such multiple source drugs from the term &quot;covered outpatient drug&quot; subject to specified price limitations under the &quot;340B&quot; drug pricing program.
 
Directs the Secretary to contract with an independent entity to study the effects of this Act on patient access to sterile products.
 
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to exclude certain branded prescription drugs on a specified drug shortage list from the annual fee imposed on branded prescription pharmaceutical manufacturers and importers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-11-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2012-11-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in House
To redesignate the Dryden Flight Research Center as the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center and the Western Aeronautical Test Range as the Hugh L. Dryden Aeronautical Test Range.

Bill: 112-hr-6612
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Kevin [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2012-11-29 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: California
Congressional tributes
Federal officials
Government buildings, facilities, and property
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Research administration and funding
Space flight and exploration

Summary:
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: 
Redesignates: (1) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, as the "NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center," and (2) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Western Aeronautical Test Range in California as the "NASA Hugh L. Dryden Aeronautical Test Range."

action_date: 2012-12-31
text: 

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

 
Redesignates: (1) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, as the "NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center," and (2) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Western Aeronautical Test Range in California as the "NASA Hugh L. Dryden Aeronautical Test Range."


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-01
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2012-12-31
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 404 - 0 (Roll no. 653). (text: CR H7485)
action_date: 2012-12-31
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2012-12-31
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): 404 - 0 (Roll no. 653).(text: CR H7485)
action_date: 2012-12-31
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H7512-7513)
action_date: 2012-12-31
text: At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Ms. Edwards 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: 2012-12-31
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6612.
action_date: 2012-12-31
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7485-7491)
action_date: 2012-12-31
text: Mr. Hall moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in House
Markets and Trading Reorganization Act

Bill: 112-hr-6613
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2012-11-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Commodities markets
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial services and investments
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: 
Markets and Trading Reorganization Act - Establishes the Securities and Derivatives Commission as an independent regulatory commission.
 
Directs such Commission to establish three principal divisions: (1) a Markets and Trading Division with oversight of market conduct and utilities, the conduct of market professionals, and self-regulatory organizations with regard to such market professionals, including related examination functions; (2) an Issuers and Financial Disclosures Division with oversight of the issuance of securities, including investment companies and related rules and examinations; and (3) an Enforcement Division responsible for the enforcement of all Commission rules. 
 
Transfers to the Commission all functions and personnel of: (1) the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and (2) the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 
 
Grants the Commission fee and funding authority.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2012-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2012-11-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in House
Fire-Damaged Home Rebuilding Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6614
Sponsor: Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2012-11-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Disaster relief and insurance
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Floods and storm protection
Land use and conservation
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: 
Fire-Damaged Home Rebuilding Act of 2012 - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to prohibit certain mandatory land use and control measures in an area from being considered to be in compliance with land management criteria for participation in the flood insurance program unless those measures authorize the granting of a variance from compliance for a residential structure located in an area having special flood hazards but which is substantially damaged, instead, by non-flood related causes.
 
Requires such a variance to allow for the repair and restoration of the structure to its predamaged condition on its original location without any higher elevation, but only if its owner at the time of the damage repairs and restores the structure for continued occupancy.
 
Allows a variance to be granted only by the appropriate regional director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), subject to specified considerations.
 
Requires chargeable flood insurance premium rates for a residential structure granted such a variance to equal, after repair and restoration, the rates which would have been applicable if the structure had not been substantially damaged, repaired, and restored under the variance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in House
To exclude from gross income payments from the Aurora Victim Relief Fund to the victims of the event at the Century 16 Cinema in Aurora, Colorado, on July 20, 2012.

Bill: 112-hr-6615
Sponsor: Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2012-11-29 in the House
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: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in House
To protect securities transactions in the United States from enforcement of certain excise taxes imposed by any foreign government, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-6616
Sponsor: Rep. Price, Tom [R-GA-6]
Introduced: 2012-11-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Europe
Financial services and investments
France
International law and treaties
Sales and excise taxes
Securities
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from assisting any foreign government with respect to the collection of any excise tax, related penalty, or related foreign judgment on securities transactions occurring on a U.S. exchange or over the counter within the United States, regardless of the nationality of the issuer of such security, the residence of any party to the transaction, or any existing tax treaty provision to the contrary (including Article 28 of the United States Tax Treaty With France). 
 
Directs the Secretary, pursuant to Article 29 of such Treaty, to exempt transactions occuring in the United States which are: (1) on a U.S. stock exchange, (2) between U.S. individuals, or (3) with U.S. financial services firms or branches of foreign firms operating in the United States.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2012-11-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in House
Indian Trust Asset Reform Act

Bill: 112-hr-6617
Sponsor: Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2]
Introduced: 2012-11-29 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Department of the Interior
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Federal-Indian relations
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Indian lands and resources rights
Judicial review and appeals

Summary:
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: 
Indian Trust Asset Reform Act - Reaffirms the federal government's fiduciary responsibilities to Indians. 
 
States that: (1) the most exacting common law fiduciary standards governing private trustees also govern the federal government when it manages Indian Trust Assets, and (2) those standards are not limited to the express terms of statutes and regulations.
 
Indian Trust Asset Management Demonstration Project Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish an eight-year Indian trust asset management demonstration project that allows Indian tribes to propose, for the Secretary's approval, Indian trust asset management plans.
 
Allows participating Indian tribes that contract or compact trust management functions or activities under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to develop and carry out trust asset management systems, practices, and procedures that differ from the Secretary's. 
 
Requires each plan to: (1) be consistent with all tribal laws and all federal treaties, statutes, executive orders, and court decisions applicable to the trust assets and their management; (2) establish procedures for nonbinding mediation or resolution of any plan-related disputes between the Indian tribe and the federal government; (3) include an annual evaluation by the Indian tribe and affected federal agencies of the plan's implementation; and (4) identify any federal regulations that the plan will supersede.
 
Prohibits the approval of any plan that does not: (1) protect trust assets from loss, waste, and unlawful alienation; and (2) promote the interests of the trust asset's beneficial owner.
 
Establishes, in the Department of the Interior, an Under Secretary for Indian Affairs who is to report directly to the Secretary and assume the functions of the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs and the Office of Special Trustee for American Indians.
 
Requires the Office of the Under Secretary to carry out additional duties relating to the management of Indian trust assets and resources through an Office of Trust Reform Implementation and Oversight.
 
Requires the Under Secretary to give a hiring preference to Indians.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in House
Department of Justice Global Advisory Committee Authorization Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6618
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9]
Introduced: 2012-11-29 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Criminal justice information and records
Intergovernmental relations
Judicial procedure and administration
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: 
Department of Justice Global Advisory Committee Authorization Act of 2012 - Authorizes the Attorney General to provide technical and financial assistance and support to the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative Advisory Committee. Requires the Committee to: (1) gather views from federal, state, local, and tribal agencies that work to support public safety and justice; (2) recommend to the Attorney General measures to improve the administration of justice and protect the public by promoting practices and technologies for database interoperability and the secure sharing of justice and public safety information between local, state, and tribal governments and the federal government; and (3) report annually on issues considered and recommendations made.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that state, local, and tribal governments and other relevant entities should use the recommendations developed by the Committee to evaluate, improve, and develop effective strategies and technologies to improve public safety and information sharing.
 
Directs the Attorney General to require any applicant for a funding solicitation from the Department of Justice (DOJ) for the implementation of an information sharing solution to include within the application: (1) how the solution would comply with Committee standards, or (2) the reason for any non-compliance with such standards.
 
Directs the Attorney General to: (1) review the state of information sharing between state, local, and tribal corrections and law enforcement agencies and the federal government; and (2) identify barriers and best practices and assess ways for information sharing to improve the awareness and safety of law enforcement and corrections officials.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in House
Anchorage Land Conveyance Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6619
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2012-11-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Economic development
Land transfers
Land use and conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: 
Anchorage Land Conveyance Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey, without consideration, to the city of Anchorage, Alaska, the reversionary interests of the United States in specified parcels of non-federal land in order to unencumber the title to such land to enable the economic development of such land. 
 
Requires the city to pay all costs associated with such conveyance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Introduced in House
Officer Safety Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6622
Sponsor: Rep. Lungren, Daniel E. [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2012-11-30 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Federal district courts
Jurisdiction and venue
Law enforcement officers
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2012-11-30
text: 
Officer Safety Act of 2012 - Amends the federal judicial code to deem a law enforcement officer who is the defendant in a criminal prosecution to have been acting under the color of his office, solely for purposes of determining the propriety of removal of the case to U.S. district court, if the officer: (1) protected an individual in the officer's presence from a crime of violence; (2) provided immediate assistance to an individual who suffered, or who was threatened with, bodily harm; or (3) prevented the escape of any individual whom the officer reasonably believed to have committed, or was about to commit, in the officer's presence a crime of violence that resulted in, or that was likely to result in, death or serious bodily injury.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2012-11-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-11-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-11-30
text: Introduced in House
Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6623
Sponsor: Rep. Harris, Andy [R-MD-1]
Introduced: 2012-11-30 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Cell biology and embryology
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Genetics
Medical ethics
Medical research
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2012-11-30
text: 
Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2012 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit any public or private person or entity, in or affecting interstate commerce, from: (1) performing or attempting to perform human cloning; (2) participating in an attempt to perform human cloning; or (3) shipping, receiving, or importing the product of human cloning for any purpose. Sets forth criminal and civil penalties for violations.

Provides that nothing in this Act shall restrict areas of scientific research not specifically prohibited by this Act, including research in the use of nuclear transfer or other cloning techniques to produce molecules, DNA, cells other than human embryos, tissues, organs, plants, or animals other than humans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2012-11-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-11-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-11-30
text: Introduced in House
Family Telephone Connection Protection Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6624
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2012-11-30 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Competition and antitrust
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Telecommunication rates and fees
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2012-11-30
text: 
Family Telephone Connection Protection Act of 2012 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to consider the following types of regulation of inmate telephone service: (1) prescribing a maximum uniform per-minute rate (paid to telephone service providers), (2) prescribing a maximum uniform service connection or other per-call rate, (3) prescribing variable maximum rates depending on factors such as carrier costs or the size of the correctional facility, (4) requiring providers of inmate telephone service to offer both collect calling and debit account services, (5) prohibiting the payment of commissions by such providers to administrators of correctional facilities, and (6) requiring such administrators to allow more than one service provider at a facility so that prisoners have a choice.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-11-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2012-11-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-11-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-11-30
text: Introduced in House