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Cody Miller Initiative for Safer Prescriptions Act

Bill: 112-hr-6514
Sponsor: Rep. Gibson, Christopher P. [R-NY-20]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Cody Miller Initiative for Safer Prescriptions Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to promulgate regulations regarding the authorship, content, format, and dissemination requirements for patient medication information (PMI) for prescription drugs.
 
Requires such regulations to require the PMI for such a drug: (1) to be scientifically accurate and to be based on the approved professional labeling and authoritative, peer-reviewed literature; and (2) to include plain language that is not promotional in tone or content. Requires that such language include: (1) the established name of the drug; (2) drug uses and clinical benefits; (3) general directions for proper use; (4) contraindications, common side effects, and the most serious risks of the drug; (5) measures patients may take to reduce the side effects and risks; (6) when a patient should contact his or her health care professional; (7) instructions not to share medications; (8) any key storage requirements; (9) recommendations relating to proper disposal of any unused portion of the drug; and (10) known clinically important interactions with other drugs and substances.
 
Requires such regulations to: (1) include standards related to performing timely updates of drug information, ensuring that common information is applied consistently and simultaneously across similar drug products and for drugs within classes of medications, and developing a process to assess the quality and effectiveness of PMI in promoting patient understanding and safe and effective use; (2) require the sponsor of a new drug or biological product to submit PMI as part of the new drug or abbreviated (generic) new drug application and provide for approval or disapproval of the PMI as part of the application process; (3) require the sponsor of any drug lawfully marketed in the United States to submit PMI for the drug to the Secretary for approval or disapproval of the PMI; (4) require the PMI for a generic drug to be identical to the PMI for the listed drug, except for excluding any portion of such PMI that is protected by patent or an exclusivity period under FFDCA; and (5) provide for the development of a publicly accessible electronic repository for all PMI.
 
Requires the Secretary to publish on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website a link to the Daily Med website.


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
Stop Excessive Toll Hikes Act

Bill: 112-hr-6515
Sponsor: Rep. Grimm, Michael G. [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Stop Excessive Toll Hikes Act - Revises urbanized area formula grant eligibility requirements to allow a recipient (person, entity, or state or regional authority) to receive such a grant only if it certifies that it has not raised the maximum tolls for any bridge or tunnel by more than 10% during the previous 5 fiscal years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Tuscarora Nation Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 112-hr-6516
Sponsor: Rep. Hochul, Kathleen C. [D-NY-26]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Congressional tributes
Europe
Federal-Indian relations
Military history
New York State
United Kingdom

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Tuscarora Nation Congressional Gold Medal Act - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to make appropriate arrangements for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal in commemoration of the members of the Tuscarora Nation who fought to protect the residents of Lewiston, New York, from the British invasion during the War of 1812.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
STEM Network Act

Bill: 112-hr-6517
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Intergovernmental relations
Rural conditions and development
School administration
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
STEM Network Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to state-based STEM networks or similar organizations to increase elementary and secondary school students' achievement in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) disciplines, particularly in rural and low-income schools.
 
Includes among grant uses: 
 
 
 testing, sharing, and scaling up STEM education research, promising practices, and exemplary programs; 
 
 identifying state STEM education weaknesses and prioritizing strategies to address them; 
 
 implementing rigorous common STEM education content standards; 
 
 developing and implementing innovative STEM assessments; 
 
 promoting and developing pre- and in-service STEM teacher training; 
 
 developing STEM career pathways and workforce education and training programs that reflect 21st century workforce needs; and 
 
facilitating the implementation of extended STEM learning times on school sites.
 
 
Requires grantees to conduct periodic independent evaluations of their effectiveness in accomplishing those activities.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from: (1) endorsing or approving any STEM curriculum designed for use in an elementary school, secondary school, or institution of higher education; or (2) requiring a state, local educational agency, or school to adopt a specific STEM program or instructional materials.


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
State Nutrition Assistance Flexibility Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6518
Sponsor: Rep. Huelskamp, Tim [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Employment and training programs
Food assistance and relief
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local finance
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
State Nutrition Assistance Flexibility Act of 2012 - States that the purpose of this Act is to provide federal financial assistance to the states in the form of a single grant to allow the states flexibility in providing, and in financing the provision of, supplemental food and nutrition assistance.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide each qualifying state with a specified quarterly grant for each of FY2013-FY2022.
 
Requires a state to certify that such supplemental food and nutrition assistance will include specified work and benefits use requirements. 
 
Authorizes states to: (1) set aside funds to be used during periods of unexpectedly high unemployment or program enrollment, and (2) use up to 30% of funds for other welfare-related programs.
 
Prohibits supplemental food and nutrition assistance from being provided to aliens not residing legally in the United States.
 
Requires annual state audits.
 
 
Repeals: (1) the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program); (2) the emergency food assistance program; (3) community food projects; (4) the commodity supplemental food program; (5) the senior farmers' market nutrition program; and (6) the fresh fruit and vegetable program.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-10-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Horticulture .
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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 Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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 Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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
Defend Your Home Against Wildfire Act

Bill: 112-hr-6519
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan D. [R-CA-52]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
General public lands matters
Licensing and registrations
Property rights

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Defend Your Home Against Wildfire Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) and the Secretary of the Interior to establish a process for the expedited consideration of a permit application submitted by the owner of eligible private property to remove vegetation on federal land adjacent to the property to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire that would threaten a residential structure on such property. 
 
Requires the final decision on an application for a vegetation removal permit to be made no later than 14 days after the application is received. 
 
Prohibits a vegetation removal permit from authorizing vegetation removal activities by a private landowner on federal land more than 100 feet beyond the boundary or boundaries shared by such land and the eligible private property. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary concerned to make a grant to a recipient of a vegetation removal permit to help cover up to 25% of the vegetation removal costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-10-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
action_date: 2012-10-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
No Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying Act

Bill: 112-hr-6520
Sponsor: Rep. Hurt, Robert [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional-executive branch relations
Firearms and explosives
Government information and archives
Income tax rates
Marketing and advertising
Product safety and quality
Public contracts and procurement
Public participation and lobbying
State and local government operations
State and local taxation
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
No Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying Act - Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for publicity or propaganda purposes, for the preparation, distribution, or use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, electronic communication, radio, television, or video presentation that is designed to support or defeat the enactment of federal, state, or local legislation or the promulgation of proposed or pending regulations, administrative actions, or orders issued by the executive branch of any state or local government. Imposes the same prohibition on the use of appropriated funds for payment of salaries or expenses of federal grant or contract recipients who are attempting to influence legislation and regulatory actions. Extends such prohibitions to any activity to advocate or promote tax increases, restrictions on legal consumer products, or gun control.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
To provide payment for patient navigator services under title XIX of the Social Security Act.

Bill: 112-hr-6521
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Health care coverage and access
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require a state Medicaid plan to provide for state reimbursement of an eligible entity for any patient navigator service provided to a Medicaid-eligible individual.
 
Includes within the definition of &quot;medical assistance&quot; certain patient navigator services defined under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) as assisting in specified ways individuals who are at risk for or who have cancer or other chronic diseases.
 
Treats as eligible entities those identified under PHSA as public or nonprofit private health centers (including federally qualified health centers), health facilities operated by or pursuant to a contract with the Indian Health Service, hospitals, cancer centers, rural health clinics, academic health centers, or nonprofit entities that enter into a partnership or coordinate referrals with such a center, clinic, facility, or hospital to provide patient navigator services.


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
Middle Class College Tuition Tax Credit Expansion Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6522
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion
Inflation and prices
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Middle Class College Tuition Tax Credit Expansion Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning tax credits with a new American Opportunity Tax Credit that: (1) allows an increased income tax credit for the qualified tuition and related expenses of a student who is carrying at least one half of a normal course load, (2) increases the income threshold for reductions in the credit amount based upon modified adjusted gross income, (3) allows a lifetime dollar limitation on such credit of $25,000 for all taxable years, and (4) makes 50% of the credit refundable. Allows an exclusion from gross income of any amount received as a Federal Pell Grant. 


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
ITIN Reform Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6523
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government information and archives
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
ITIN Reform Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue an individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN) to an individual only if such individual: (1) submits an application for an ITIN in person at an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) taxpayer assistance center with required documentation, or (2) submits an application in person outside of the United States to an IRS employee or a designee of the Secretary at a U.S. diplomatic mission or consular post with required documentation. Exempts from such requirements: (1) the spouse, or the dependents, without a social security number of a taxpayer who is a member of the U.S. Armed Forces, and (2) nonresident aliens claiming tax treaty benefits. 


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 H6236)
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
U.S. Financial Services Global Viability Act

Bill: 112-hr-6524
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Corporate finance and management
Department of the Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Reserve System
Financial services and investments
Foreign and international banking
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
U.S. Financial Services Global Viability Act - Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 to delay the effective date for prohibitions or the mandate for related rulemaking against proprietary trading by a banking entity and any equity, partnership, or other ownership interest of a banking entity in or sponsorship of hedge funds or private equity funds. (Currently the effective date of such prohibitions and the mandate to make related regulations is the earlier of 12 months after the date of the issuance of final rules or 2 years after the date of enactment [July 21, 2010].)
 
 Delays the effective date of such prohibitions and regulatory mandate until the Secretary of the Treasury: (1) identifies the foreign countries having foreign banks chartered and headquartered in them that compete significantly with banking entities subject to such Act, and (2) certifies that such countries have applied to such foreign banks (including subsidiaries and affiliates) requirements equivalent to those set forth under such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Truth in Spending Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6525
Sponsor: Rep. Kinzinger, Adam [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Truth in Spending Act of 2012 - Requires the President's annual budget request to Congress to include the most recent reports of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regarding the difference between the actual costs and the estimated costs of direct spending legislation, including proposed legislative language, if any, in such reports.
 
Requires OMB to submit annually for inclusion in the President's budget request reports (with follow-up reports every five fiscal years) on the total estimated cost and total actual cost of direct spending legislation for the then budget year and four outyears.
 
Requires the President, within seven days after receiving an OMB report, to submit proposed legislative language, if any, set forth in the report to both chambers.
 
Prescribes the procedure for fast track consideration of the legislation in both chambers.
 
Prohibits the budgetary effects of such legislation from being entered on either PAYGO scorecard under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, 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 the Budget, 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
RESCUE Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6526
Sponsor: Rep. Landry, Jeffrey M. [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Congressional oversight
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Telecommunication rates and fees
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Restore Effective Statistics to the Calculation of USF Expenditures Act of 2012 or the RESCUE Act of 2012 - Prohibits the Order of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the Matter of Connect America Fund and High-Cost Universal Service Support from having any force or effect after the enactment of this Act. (The FCC Order relates to Universal Service Fund [USF] expenditures and the adoption, on April 25, 2012, of a methodology for establishing benchmarks for capital and operating costs reimbursable to rate-of-return cost companies from high-cost loop support.)
 
Directs the FCC to report to Congress on alternatives to the methodology in such Order and to make such report available to the public on the FCC website.
 
Prohibits the FCC from adopting such an alternative methodology until a specified period after the report is submitted to Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
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