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Project Ready STEM Act

Bill: 112-hr-4366
Sponsor: Rep. Fudge, Marcia L. [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2012-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Minority education
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: 
Project Ready STEM Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to national intermediaries and, through them, subgrants to their community-based affiliates to operate after school, summer, and weekend programs that focus on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education.
 
Defines a &quot;national intermediary&quot; as a national private nonprofit organization that has: (1) a network comprising community-based affiliates in at least 50 urban communities, (2) expertise in overseeing programs to help middle and secondary school students succeed, and (3) operated in at least 25 states continuously for at least 20 years.
 
Requires the STEM programs to primarily serve students who are traditionally underrepresented in STEM field careers, and include project-based learning opportunities and individualized instruction.
 
Directs each subgrantee to collaborate with an institution of higher education in providing such services.
 
Requires grantees to direct at least: (1) 50% of their grant to community-based affiliates that are successfully operating STEM programs so that they can expand them to reach more students traditionally underrepresented in STEM field careers, and (2) 25% of their grant to the development of STEM programs by community-based affiliates not currently operating any.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2012-04-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E595)
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the release of Federal tax levies which cause business hardship.

Bill: 112-hr-4368
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2012-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the release of a federal tax levy on any trade or business of a taxpayer who can show hardship due to such levy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Eliminating Duplicative and Inefficient Taxpayer Spending Act

Bill: 112-hr-4370
Sponsor: Rep. Tipton, Scott  R. [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2012-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Government information and archives
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Summary:
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: 
Eliminating Duplicative and Inefficient Taxpayer Spending Act - Requires each applicant for a grant from an executive agency to submit in the grant application: (1) a list of each similar federal grant applied for in the prior year, (2) a list of each similar federal grant received in the previous five years, and (3) a statement of whether the applicant has ever been debarred or suspended from receiving grants. Imposes penalties on grant applicants who fail to provide such information. 
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to: (1) issue guidance to agencies for implementing this Act, and (2) establish uniform policies and procedures to ensure that agencies share information about grants within such agencies and with other agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Fairness for World War II and Korean War Spouses Act

Bill: 112-hr-4371
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2012-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Marriage and family status
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: 
Fairness for World War II and Korean War Spouses Act - Makes the annual rate of pension paid to the surviving spouses of veterans of World War II or the Korean conflict the greater of the following amounts, reduced by the survivor's annual income: (1) the current limit applicable to surviving spouses of veterans of any period of war; or (2) the amount equal to the poverty line, as determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the prior year.
 
Prohibits benefits paid by any federal entity from being included in the determination of annual income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require the social security number of the student and the employer identification number of the educational institution for purposes of education tax credits, to permanently allow disclosure of return information to prison officials to prevent prisoners from filing false and fraudulent tax returns, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-4372
Sponsor: Rep. Black, Diane [R-TN-6]
Introduced: 2012-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Crime prevention
Employee benefits and pensions
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Higher education
Income tax credits
Student aid and college costs
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require individuals who claim a tax credit for qualified tuition and related expenses under the Hope Scholarship tax credit or the Lifetime Learning tax credit to include their social security numbers on their tax returns, (2) require the educational institutions of such individuals to provide their employer identification numbers, and (3) make permanent the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to disclose tax return information relating to inmates in federal or state prisons whom the Secretary has determined may have filed or facilitated the filing of a false tax return.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Making Adoption Affordable Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4373
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2012-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Disability and paralysis
Income tax credits
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: 
Making Adoption Affordable Act of 2012 - Makes permanent provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 allowing an increased tax credit for adoption expenses and an increased exclusion from gross income for amounts paid by an employer for adoption expenses.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reinstate and make permanent: (1) the increase in the tax credit for adoption expenses and the increased exclusion from gross income for amounts paid by an employer for adoption expenses that were enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, (2) the annual inflation adjustments for such increased amounts, and (3) the refundability of the tax credit for adoption expenses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the increased limitation on the cover over of the tax on distilled spirits to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Bill: 112-hr-4374
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2012-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alcoholic beverages
Caribbean area
Intergovernmental relations
Puerto Rico
Sales and excise taxes
State and local finance
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2013 the increase in the amount of distilled spirits tax covered into the treasuries of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Taxpayer Bill of Rights Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4375
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2012-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Bankruptcy
Civil actions and liability
Department of the Treasury
Federal appellate courts
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government liability
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Jurisdiction and venue
Legal fees and court costs
Right of privacy
Small business
Specialized courts
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: 
Small Business Taxpayer Bill of Rights Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow businesses with average annual gross receipts of not more than $50,000 that prevail in an administrative or court proceeding involving the determination, collection, or refund of tax, interest, or penalty to recover their costs incurred in such proceedings; (2) increase the amount of civil damages against Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officers or employees for reckless, intentional, or negligent disregard of internal revenue laws and extend from two to five years the period for bringing a claim for damages; (3) increase the penalties against federal officers or employees for unlawful acts in connection with internal revenue laws and for unauthorized disclosures or inspections of tax returns; and (4) allow a taxpayer whose interest abatement claim does not exceed $50,000 to elect to bring a small tax case petition in U.S. Tax Court.
 
Prohibits ex parte communications between officers in the IRS Office of Appeals and other IRS employees with respect to matters pending before such officers and employees. 
 
Authorizes new alternative dispute resolution procedures for taxpayer disputes with the IRS.
 
Extends to three years: (1) the period in which taxpayer property that has been wrongfully levied upon may be returned, and (2) the period for bringing suit against the United States for a wrongful tax levy.
 
Authorizes the waiver of the fee for establishing an installment agreement for payment of tax for certain low-income taxpayers who agree to make electronic debit payments. 
 
 Allows a taxpayer seeking review of a claim for innocent spouse relief or of a collection case in U.S. Tax Court a 60-day suspension of the period for filing a petition for such review when the U.S. Bankruptcy Court has issued an automatic stay in a bankruptcy case involving the taxpayer's claim.
 
Allows de novo review in U.S. Tax Court of any determination by the IRS with respect to a claim for equitable innocent spouse relief. 
 
Prohibits the IRS Office of Appeals from considering or deciding any new issue in an internal appeal that is not within the scope of the initial determination made in a taxpayer's case. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Ending Tax Breaks for Discrimination Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4376
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2012-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business expenses
Income tax deductions
Marketing and advertising
Racial and ethnic relations
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: 
Ending Tax Breaks for Discrimination Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny the tax deduction for business expenses (including advertising expenses) associated with the use of a private club that discriminates on the basis of sex, race, or color.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E558)
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4378
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2012-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability and paralysis
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Government information and archives
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health technology, devices, supplies
Licensing and registrations
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases
Neurological disorders
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: 
Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 2012 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover, as medical and other health services, complex rehabilitation technology items designed and configured for a specific qualified individual to meet that individual's unique: (1) medical, physical, and functional needs related to a medical condition; and (2) capacities for basic activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental ADLs.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) designate complex rehabilitation technology items (excluding adaptive equipment to operate motor vehicles or certain prosthetic devices and orthotics); and (2) establish eligibility criteria for them. 
 
Prescribes requirements for payments for CRT items. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish standards for clinical conditions for CRT item payment as well as quality standards for suppliers of such items.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a Healthcare Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) coding subset that uses specified HCPCS codes for CRT items.
 
Requires payment for replacement of a CRT item (or any part of one), without regard to certain continuous use or useful lifetime restrictions established for items of durable medical equipment (DME), if a qualified ordering practitioner determines that a replacement item (or part) is necessary. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-04-18
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: 2012-04-18
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: 2012-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Introduced in House
Women's Option to Raise Kids Act

Bill: 112-hr-4379
Sponsor: Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2012-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Child care and development
Employment and training programs
Family relationships
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: 
Women's Option to Raise Kids Act - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to increase from 12 to 36 months the child's age limit for exemption by a state of single parents with children from TANF requirements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2012-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2012-04-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2012-04-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E570-571)
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on capacitor grade homopolymer polypropylene resin in primary form.

Bill: 112-hr-4380
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Todd [R-IN-9]
Introduced: 2012-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on capacitor grade homopolymer polypropylene resin in primary form.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Introduced in House
Patient Safety and Drug Labeling Improvement Act

Bill: 112-hr-4384
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2012-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Health information and medical records
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: 
Patient Safety and Drug Labeling Improvement Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to allow the holder of an approved abbreviated new drug application (generic drug approval) to change the labeling of a drug so approved in the same manner authorized by regulation for the holder of an approved new drug application.
 
Allows conforming changes to be ordered to the labeling of the equivalent listed drug and each drug approved under the abbreviated new drug application process that corresponds to such listed drug.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Introduced in House
Rewarding Achievement and Incentivizing Successful Employees Act

Bill: 112-hr-4385
Sponsor: Rep. Rokita, Todd [R-IN-4]
Introduced: 2012-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
Labor-management relations
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: 
Rewarding Achievement and Incentivizing Successful Employees Act or RAISE Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to declare that neither its prohibition against interference by an employer with employees' right to bargain collectively, nor the terms of a collective bargaining agreement entered into between employees and an employer after enactment of this Act, shall prohibit an employer from paying an employee higher wages, pay, or other compensation than the agreement provides for.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Introduced in House
Budget for Disasters Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4386
Sponsor: Rep. Lamborn, Doug [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2012-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Disaster relief and insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: 
Budget for Disasters Act of 2012 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to eliminate mandatory adjustments to discretionary disaster appropriations for FY2012-FY2021.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Introduced in House
To allow for a reasonable compliance deadline for certain States subject to the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.

Bill: 112-hr-4387
Sponsor: Rep. Pompeo, Mike [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2012-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: 
Prohibits requiring a state that was not required to reduce emissions or levels of ozone, sulfur dioxide, or nitrogen oxides under the Clean Air Interstate Rule to comply with any requirement under the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule before January 1, 2017.
 
Defines: (1) the &quot;Clean Air Interstate Rule&quot; as the final rule promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) entitled &quot;Rule To Reduce Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone (Clean Air Interstate Rule); Revisions to the Acid Rain Program; Revisions to the NOX SIP Call&quot;; and (2) the &quot;Cross-State Air Pollution Rule&quot; as the final rule entitled &quot;Federal Implementation Plans: Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone and Correction of SIP Approvals&quot; and revisions to that final rule entitled &quot;Revisions to Federal Implementation Plans To Reduce Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Introduced in House