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Care Coordination for Older Americans Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6543
Sponsor: Rep. Schwartz, Allyson Y. [D-PA-13]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aging
Health care quality
Health programs administration and funding
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Care Coordination for Older Americans Act of 2012 - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to make it a duty and function of the Administration on Aging (AOA) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide technical assistance to, and share best practices with, states, area agencies on aging, Aging and Disability Resource Centers, and service providers to carry out outreach and coordinate activities with health care entities in order to assure better care coordination for individuals with multiple chronic illnesses. Requires AOA also to coordinate activities with other federal agencies working to improve care coordination and developing new models and best practices. 
 
Requires the designated state agency to promote the development and implementation of a state system to: (1) address the care coordination needs of older individuals with multiple chronic illnesses; and (2) work with acute care providers, area agencies on aging, service providers, and federal agencies to ensure that the system uses best practices.
 
Requires area and state plans to provide assurances that the area agencies on aging will facilitate the area-wide development and implementation of an area-wide system to address the care coordination needs of older individuals with multiple chronic illnesses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Manufacturing Innovation in America Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6544
Sponsor: Rep. Schwartz, Allyson Y. [D-PA-13]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Income tax deductions
Intellectual property
Manufacturing
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Manufacturing Innovation in America Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer to elect a tax deduction for an amount equal to 71% of the lesser of: (1) the taxpayer's patent box profit, or (2 the taxpayer's taxable income for the taxable year. Defines &quot;patent box profit&quot; to include gross receipts derived from the sale, lease, license, or or other disposition of qualified patent property in the course of a U.S. trade or business over the sum of the taxpayer's cost of goods sold allocable to patent gross receipts, other expenses, losses, or deductions, including research and development expenditures, allocable to such receipts, plus routine profit. Defines &quot;qualified patent&quot; to include a patent issued or extended by, or for which an application is pending before, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
 
Sets forth rules for the application of the patent box profit deduction to pass-thru entities, including partnerships and S corporations, trusts and estates, and agricultural and horticultural cooperatives.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to use the commercially available volume of cellulosic biofuel in setting requirements for the renewable fuel program under the Clean Air Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-6545
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Motor fuels

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Amends the Clean Air Act, with respect to reductions in requirements to use cellulosic biofuel under the renewable fuel program, to remove the requirement that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determine volumes of transportation fuel based upon estimates of projected sales provided by the Energy Information Administration.
 
Revises cellulosic biofuel use requirements to require the Administrator to reduce the applicable volume of renewable fuel and advanced biofuels requirement by the same or a lesser volume of the cellulosic biofuel requirements of the renewable fuel program. Limits, for such purposes, the projected volume of cellulosic biofuel production for a calendar year to not more than 5 percent or 1 million gallons (whichever is greater) more than the total volume of cellulosic biofuel that was commercially available for the most recent calendar year for which such volume is known.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Athlete Due Process Protection Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6546
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Athletes
Congressional oversight
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Due process and equal protection

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Athlete Due Process Protection Act of 2012 - Amends the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2006 to direct the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to provide a document to each athlete that it investigates that includes the specific doping allegations against such athlete. 
 
Requires the Agency's annual report to include: (1) information on each athlete the Agency investigated, including a copy of such document, the athlete's status as an amateur athlete, and the athlete's nationality; (2) the location and cost of each investigation and adjudication the Agency conducted; and (3) any investigations or adjudications conducted by the Agency that another U.S. or foreign agency or organization concurrently investigated or adjudicated.
 
Requires the Agency, before a new or revised procedural or evidentiary rule that relates to the Agency's investigation or adjudication process can take effect, to submit to specified congressional committees a report containing a copy of the rule, a concise general statement relating to it, and a list of actions that the Agency plans to take to implement it. Makes such rule effective 180 days after the Agency submits such report if Congress has not voted to override its implementation.
 
Prohibits any athlete who participates in an event sponsored or licensed by the sport's national governing body, or otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, the World Anti-Doping Agency, or the International Association of Athletics Federation, from being fined, suspended, expelled, or otherwise penalized unless such athlete has been: (1) served with written specific charges providing dates and times of alleged conduct in question, (2) given a reasonable time to prepare his or her defense, and (3) afforded a full and fair hearing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 to require greater experience of mine safety inspectors under that Act.

Bill: 112-hr-6547
Sponsor: Rep. Shimkus, John [R-IL-19]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Department of Labor
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Mining
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Amends the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 to increase from 5 to 10 the minimum number of years of practical mining experience a person selected by the Secretary of Labor for appointment as a mine inspector must have. Requires mine inspectors assigned to the inspection and investigation of individual mines to have at least 2 years previous experience in the particular type of mining operation where such inspections are to be made.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Diabetes Prevention Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6548
Sponsor: Rep. Shuler, Heath [D-NC-11]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Digestive and metabolic diseases
Health care coverage and access
Health promotion and preventive care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Diabetes Prevention Act of 2012 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make payments from the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund to qualified third-party intermediaries for diabetes prevention services furnished to prediabetic Medicare beneficiaries by eligible entities in local communities that are networked and managed by such third-party intermediaries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-21
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: 2012-09-21
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: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Computers in Our Communities Act

Bill: 112-hr-6549
Sponsor: Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Income tax deductions
Libraries and archives
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Computers in Our Communities Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2013 the tax deduction allowed to corporate taxpayers for charitable contributions of computer inventory for educational purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1634-1635)
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
To establish an advisory committee on national security telecommunications.

Bill: 112-hr-6550
Sponsor: Rep. Sullivan, John [R-OK-1]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Computers and information technology
Emergency communications systems
Homeland security
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Directs the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to establish the National Telecommunications and Information Security Advisory Committee.
 
Requires the Committee to report periodically to the Assistant Secretary with information and advice from the perspective of the telecommunications industry on national security telecommunications, including: (1) information and advice on the implementation of Presidential Directive 53 concerning National Security Telecommunications Policy, (2) information and advice on the feasibility and effectiveness of implementing specific measures to improve the telecommunications aspects of the national security posture of the United States, and (3) the identification and solution of problems the Committee considers will affect national security telecommunications capability.
 
 Sets forth membership provisions and requires members to serve without pay.
 
Directs executive agency heads, to the extent permitted by law, to provide the Committee such information with respect to national security telecommunications matters as the Committee may require to carry out its duties under this Act.
 
Requires termination of the Commission within two years after its establishment unless the Assistant Secretary renews the Committee under the Federal Advisory Committee Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to ensure that security is taken into account in certain efforts related to the interconnectivity of telecommunications networks, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-6551
Sponsor: Rep. Sullivan, John [R-OK-1]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Computer security and identity theft
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to expand the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) coordination of interconnectivity among telecommunications networks to include: (1) assistance in the development of essential information security technologies and capabilities for protecting telecommunications networks, (2) efforts to mitigate supply chain vulnerabilities, and (3) support of nationwide awareness and outreach efforts to educate the public about ways to mitigate threats to network security.
 
Directs the FCC to include network security considerations in its procedures for overseeing coordinated network planning of telecommunications carriers and providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
To continue an advisory committee considering the optimal security, reliability, and interoperability of communications systems.

Bill: 112-hr-6552
Sponsor: Rep. Sullivan, John [R-OK-1]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Emergency communications systems
Homeland security
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Public-private cooperation
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to continue the advisory committee known as the FCC's Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council.
 
Requires the Council to submit to the FCC and Congress recommendations on how to: (1) promote reliable 9-1-1 services, E9-1-1 services, and Next Generation 9-1-1 services and extend next generation capabilities to other services using abbreviated dialing codes; (2) make broadband networks, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems, and other communications networks more secure, resilient, and defendable against Internet-based attacks; (3) leverage advanced technologies and the Internet to distribute emergency alerts and warnings to the public; and (4) improve priority services programs related to national security and emergency preparedness, including Government Emergency Telecommunications Service, Telecommunications Service Priority, and Wireless Priority Service.
 
Directs the Council to include with such recommendations a summary of the greatest and growing threats to the security of communications networks and an itemization of any statutory or regulatory obstacles.
 
Prohibits this Act from being construed as a grant of authority to the FCC to adopt rules or regulations imposing binding obligations on businesses or consumers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to add an additional purpose to section 1 of such Act.

Bill: 112-hr-6553
Sponsor: Rep. Sullivan, John [R-OK-1]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Computer security and identity theft
Homeland security
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Expands the purposes of the Communications Act of 1934 to include a requirement that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) execute and enforce such Act to make communications networks more secure, resilient, and defendable against Internet-based attacks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Nuclear Reactor Safety First Act

Bill: 112-hr-6554
Sponsor: Rep. Tierney, John F. [D-MA-6]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Licensing and registrations
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Nuclear power

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Nuclear Reactor Safety First Act - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to prohibit the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) from approving the renewal of a nuclear reactor license if the renewal application was submitted more than 10 years before the license's expiration.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Defense to use the Armed Forces to protect certain nuclear material of the National Nuclear Security Administration.

Bill: 112-hr-6555
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-3]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Nuclear weapons
Radiation

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to ensure that category 0 and category I special nuclear material of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is protected by the Armed Forces in accordance with the level of protection that is equivalent to the protection provided for nuclear weapons. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-10-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Campus Safety for Children Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6556
Sponsor: Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-FL-20]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Consumer affairs
Crime prevention
Crimes against children
Crimes against women
Criminal justice information and records
Higher education
Sex offenses
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Campus Safety for Children Act of 2012 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education (IHEs) that participate in title IV (Student Assistance) programs to include in their annual campus security reports, provided to current and prospective students and employees, statistics on sexual offenses against minors that were reported to campus security authorities or local police agencies over the three preceding calendar years.
 
Prohibits those IHEs from exempting school employees from their campus sexual assault prevention programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
College Cost Reduction Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6557
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Department of Education
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Higher education
Legislative rules and procedure
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
College Cost Reduction Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Education to establish the Higher Education Regulatory Reform Task Force to prepare a report, that is to be submitted to Congress and made available on a publicly accessible website, on federal regulatory requirements for institutions of higher education (IHEs).
 
Requires the report to contain: (1) a list of rules that are determined to be outmoded, duplicative, ineffective, or excessively burdensome; (2) an analysis of how the costs of such rules outweigh their benefits; (3) recommendations to consolidate, modify, simplify, or repeal such rules and a description of the justification for and impact of such recommendations; and (4) recommendations on establishing a permanent entity to review new regulatory requirements affecting IHEs.
 
Requires the President to submit to Congress a legislative proposal for carrying out some or all of the recommendations contained in the report. Includes, as part of that proposal, a requirement that the Secretary promulgate regulations requiring IHEs to control annual tuition increases and penalizing noncompliant schools.
 
Establishes congressional procedures to expedite consideration of the President's proposal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House