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Investment Adviser Examination Improvement Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6204
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2012-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Congressional oversight
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: 
Investment Adviser Examination Improvement Act of 2012 - Declares the sense of Congress that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should increase the number and frequency of examinations of investment advisers.
 
Amends the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to direct the SEC to collect an annual fee from investment advisers subject to SEC inspection or examination to defray the cost of such inspections and examinations. Exempts certain state-regulated investment advisers from the requirement to pay an annual fee.
 
Prescribes a fee calculation formula. Requires the SEC to make the formula publicly available on its website along with the factors used to reach the fee determination.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to audit biennially the use of such fees, SEC reviews of the fee formula, and any adjustments to it.
 
Makes such fees available to the SEC, without further appropriation or fiscal year limitation, to pay costs associated with inspecting and examining investment advisers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-10-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Protect and Save Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6205
Sponsor: Rep. Nugent, Richard B. [R-FL-5]
Introduced: 2012-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Consumer credit
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Crime prevention
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of the Treasury
Evidence and witnesses
Executive agency funding and structure
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Freedom of information
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Law enforcement administration and funding
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: 
Protect and Save Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to disclose tax return information to federal and state law enforcement agencies to assist in the investigation of the misuse of the identity of another person for purposes of filing a false or fraudulent tax return, (2) direct the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to establish within the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) the position of Local Law Enforcement Liaison to coordinate the investigation of tax fraud with state and local law enforcement agencies, and (3) make permanent the authority of the Secretary to disclose tax return information to federal and state prison officials to prevent the filing of false or fraudulent tax returns by prison inmates. 
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) implement an identity theft tax fraud prevention program; and (2) review whether current tax laws and regulations related to the confidentiality and disclosure of tax return information prevent the effective enforcement of federal, state, and local identity theft statutes.
 
Requires the Comptroller General (GAO) to conduct a study and report on: (1) the role of prepaid debit cards and commercial tax preparation software in facilitating fraudulent tax returns through identity theft, and (2) the role e-filing and electronic tax returns play in either facilitating or preventing fraudulent tax returns through identity theft.
 
Prohibits the Secretary of Commerce from disclosing information contained on the Death Master File relating to a deceased individual to persons who are not certified to access such information.
 
Requires the head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to submit a detailed plan to Congress on how information obtained from the IRS will be used to reduce prison tax fraud. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Build America Bonds Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6206
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2012-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Floods and storm protection
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Oil and gas
Securities
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: 
Build America Bonds Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the issuance authority for Build America Bonds and the authority for payments to issuers of such bonds; (2) make phased reductions in the credit percentage to bondholders and the percentage of payments to issuers of such bonds; (3) allow refundings of currently issued bonds; (4) allow the use of Build America bonds to fund capital expenditures for levees and flood control projects; and (5) deny a tax deduction to major integrated oil companies for income attributable to the production, refining, processing, transportation, or distribution of oil, gas, or any primary product thereof. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Children's Health Task Force Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6207
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2012-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Intergovernmental relations
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: 
Children's Health Task Force Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to) establish and maintain a permanent Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children, which shall recommend federal strategies for addressing environmental health risks and safety risks to children in the United States, within projected budgetary limits. 
 
Requires such strategies to include: (1) adoption of action plans, including multiyear and annual priorities, to address the principal risks; (2) government initiatives to address such risks; (3) recommendations on how to improve cross-agency implementation of actions to address such risks; (4) recommendations for a coordinated research agenda for the government to address such risks; (5) recommendations for partnerships among federal, state, local, and tribal governments and the private, academic, and nonprofit sectors; (6) proposed ways to enhance public outreach and communication to assist families in evaluating such risks and in making informed consumer choices; and (7) proposed ways to strengthen the data system in order to identify and track development of rulemakings and other actions to ensure they comply with current policy on evaluating such risks.
 
Directs the Task Force to submit, make publicly available, and disseminate widely a biennial report including: (1) the strategies developed and updated, (2) a description of the Task Force's accomplishments, (3) current national priorities for addressing such risks and any related emerging issues, (4) updates on federal research findings and research needs regarding such risks, (5) information submitted by federal agencies and by stakeholders for inclusion in the report, and (6) recommendations by the Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1342-1343)
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
REEFS Act

Bill: 112-hr-6208
Sponsor: Rep. Farenthold, Blake [R-TX-27]
Introduced: 2012-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Interior
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: 
Retaining Essential Environmental Fishing Structures Act or REEFS Act - Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior, during a two-year period, from requiring or authorizing either the removal or movement of any facility used for oil or gas activities under a lease under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
 
Exempts from this prohibition any removal or movement of a facility for purposes of temporary abandonment of a well, in accordance with specified federal regulations, because of an emergency identified by the Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Student Loan Opportunity Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6209
Sponsor: Rep. Marchant, Kenny [R-TX-24]
Introduced: 2012-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Higher education
Income tax exclusion
Securities
State and local finance
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: 
Student Loan Opportunity Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to tax-exempt private activity bond financing, to eliminate the restriction on nonprofit corporations that acquire student loan notes to notes incurred under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (thus allowing such corporations to access tax-exempt financing for other types of student loans). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
American Investment and Job Creation Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6210
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2012-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Economic development
Employee hiring
Foreign labor
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Higher education
Immigration status and procedures
Small business
Unemployment
Veterans' medical care
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: 
American Investment and Job Creation Act of 2012 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Actto provide an (employment-based) immigrant visa for an alien entrepreneur who has engaged in a new commercial enterprise in the United States that has benefitted the U.S. economy and: (1) has, during the period beginning four years prior to the filing of a preference classification petition for such alien, created full-time employment for at least five U.S. workers, or in the case of an enterprise in a Distressed Area Development Zone, for at least three U.S. workers; and (2) the enterprise has received enough investment or revenue during this period to support such employment creation requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6211
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2012-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Labor
Inflation and prices
Labor standards
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: 
Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2012 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to increase the federal minimum wage for employees to: (1) $8.10 an hour on the first day of the third month after the enactment of this Act; (2) $8.95 an hour after one year; (3) $9.80 an hour after two years; and (4) the amount determined by the Secretary of Labor (based on increases in the Consumer Price Index) after three years, and annually thereafter.
 
Increases the federal minimum wage for tipped employees to $3.00 an hour for one year on the first day of the third month after the enactment of this Act. Provides a formula for subsequent annual adjustments of the wage increase to ensure that it remains equal to 70% of the wage in effect under FLSA for other employees.
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor, 60 days before any increase in the minimum wage, to publish it in the Federal Register and on the Department of Labor's website. 
 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Biogas Investment Tax Credit Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6212
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2012-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Energy research
Income tax credits
Oil and gas
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: 
Biogas Investment Tax Credit Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) an energy tax credit through 2018 for investment in qualified biogas property, and (2) financing of qualified biogas property with new clean renewable energy bonds. Defines "qualified biogas property" as property comprising a system which uses anaerobic digesters or other processes to convert biomas into a gas which consists of not less than 52% methane and which captures such gas for use as a fuel. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into an agreement with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to undertake a study of biogas and to submit a report to Congress on such study.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
HHS Employee Compensation Reform Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6214
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2012-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: 
HHS Employee Compensation Reform Act of 2012 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to state that provisions authorizing the appointment of special consultants or authorizing individual scientists to receive fellowships do not authorize the designation, appointment, or employment of any special consultant, fellow, or other employee by an agency outside of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
 
Prohibits more than 5% of the total number of HHS employees from serving as special consultants or fellowship recipients. Limits, with exceptions determined by the HHS Secretary, the compensation payable to such an individual for a 12-month period to 150% of the annual rate payable under level 1 of the Executive Schedule, prorated for shorter periods.
 
Requires an annual report to Congress concerning the employment of such individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Make It In America, Create Transportation Manufacturing Jobs in America Act

Bill: 112-hr-6216
Sponsor: Rep. Garamendi, John [D-CA-10]
Introduced: 2012-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Buy American requirements
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
Public transit
Railroads
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: 
Make It In America, Create Transportation Manufacturing Jobs in America Act - Eliminates certain grounds for waiving Buy American requirements that the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) obligate federal funding for certain air navigation, highway, and rail activities and projects only if U.S. steel, iron, and manufactured goods are used in such projects. (Retains the current waiver of such Buy American requirements for any case where use of U.S. material will increase overall costs of a highway and roadway or highspeed rail project by more than 25%.)
 
Revises waiver of Buy American requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such requirements if the cost of U.S.-produced components and subcomponents is: (1) more than 60% of the cost of all components of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rolling stock in the case of obligations made on or before December 31, 2011; (2) more than 66% of the cost of all components of rolling stock in the case of obligations made during calendar 2014; (3) 75% of the cost of all components of rolling stock in the case of obligations made during calendar 2015; or (4) 85% of the cost of all components of rolling stock in the case of obligations after December 31, 2016.
 
Repeals the Secretary's authority to exempt Amtrak from Buy American requirements in certain circumstances. Revises waiver requirements to authorize a waiver with respect to rolling stock in each of the circumstances enumerated for FAA rolling stock.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2012-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2012-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Make it in America: Create Clean Energy Manufacturing Jobs in America Act

Bill: 112-hr-6217
Sponsor: Rep. Garamendi, John [D-CA-10]
Introduced: 2012-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Business investment and capital
Buy American requirements
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental technology
Income tax credits
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: 
Make it in America: Create Clean Energy Manufacturing Jobs in America Act - Authorizes federal acquisition of, or the provision of federal funds to states for purchase of, only green technologies that are 85% manufactured in the United States from articles, materials, or supplies that are 85% grown, produced, or manufactured in the United States beginning in the fourth fiscal year after enactment of this Act. Provides that such percentage shall be 30% in the first fiscal year after enactment, 50% in the second fiscal year, and 80% in the third fiscal year. 
 
Defines "green technologies" to mean renewable energy and energy efficiency products and services that: (1) reduce dependence on unreliable sources of energy by encouraging the use of sustainable biomass, wind, small-scale hydroelectric, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy and energy efficiency products and services; and (2) use hybrid fossil-renewable energy systems.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit treating any facility originally placed in service after the enactment of this Act as a qualified facility for purposes of the renewable energy production and investment tax credits unless such facility is 85% manufactured in the United States from articles, materials, or supplies that are 85% grown, produced, or manufactured in the United States. Provides that such percentage shall be 30% for a facility placed in service during 2012, 50% for a facility placed in service during 2013, and 80% for a facility placed in service during 2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Mary Colella Autoimmune Disease Awareness Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6218
Sponsor: Rep. Buerkle, Ann Marie [R-NY-25]
Introduced: 2012-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Immunology and vaccination
Medical education
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: 
Mary Colella Autoimmune Disease Awareness Act of 2012 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish an Autoimmune Diseases Interdepartmental Coordinating Committee for the purpose of formulating recommendations for the coordination of governmental and private programs and activities relating to autoimmune diseases.
 
Requires the Coordinating Committee to: (1) develop criteria to be used in defining and identifying autoimmune diseases; (2) monitor federal, state, and private activities with respect to such diseases; (3) make recommendations regarding any appropriate changes to such activities, including recommendations to the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with respect to the development of a strategic plan for the coordination of governmental and private programs and activities relating to autoimmune diseases; (4) develop, annually update, and submit to Congress, biennially, such strategic plan; and (5) make recommendations regarding public participation in decisions relating to autoimmune diseases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Salamander Community Conservation Act

Bill: 112-hr-6219
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2012-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Endangered and threatened species
Reptiles
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: 
Salamander Community Conservation Act - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to make the Act's provisions regarding the determination of endangered or threatened species inapplicable to: (1) the Austin blind salamander, (2) the Georgetown salamander, (3) the Jollyville Plateau salamander, or (4) the Salado salamander.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House