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Women's Procurement Program Improvement Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4203
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2012-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Public contracts and procurement
Small business
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: 
Women's Procurement Program Improvement Act of 2012 - Amends the Small Business Act with respect to the procurement program for women-owned small businesses (providing a federal procurement contracting preference to such businesses) to remove current contract award price limits.
 
Allows a contracting officer to award a sole source contract to any economically disadvantaged women-owned small business if: (1) the small business is determined to be responsible and the contracting officer does not expect two or more of such businesses to submit offers; (2) the anticipated contract price will not exceed $6.5 million in the case of a manufacturing contract, or $4 million in the case of all other contracts; and (3) the contract can be made at a fair and reasonable price. Provides identical contracting authority for women-owned small businesses in substantially underrepresented industries.

action_date: 2012-12-27
text: 

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

 
Women's Procurement Program Improvement Act of 2012 - Amends the Small Business Act with respect to the procurement program for women-owned small businesses (providing a federal procurement contracting preference to such businesses) to remove current contract award price limits.
 
Allow a contracting officer to award a sole source contract to any economically disadvantaged women-owned small business if: (1) the small business is determined to be responsible and the contracting officer does not expect two or more of such businesses to submit offers; (2) the anticipated contract price will not exceed $6.5 million in the case of a manufacturing contract, or $4 million in the case of all other contracts; and (3) the contract can be made at a fair and reasonable price. Provides identical contracting authority for women-owned small businesses in substantially underrepresented industries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-27
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 535.
action_date: 2012-12-27
text: Reported by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 112-732.
action_date: 2012-12-27
text: Reported by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 112-732.
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2012-03-21
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Introduced in House
To require certain warning labels to be placed on video games that are given certain ratings due to violent content.

Bill: 112-hr-4204
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2012-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child safety and welfare
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer affairs
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Marketing and advertising
Product safety and quality
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: 
Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to issue regulations requiring that a warning label stating that &quot;exposure to violent video games has been linked to aggressive behavior&quot; be placed on the packaging of any video game that is rated E (Everyone), Everyone 10+ (Everyone 10 and older), T (Teen), M (Mature), or A (Adult) by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Introduced in House
Synthetics are Dangerous Act

Bill: 112-hr-4205
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Andre [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2012-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: 
Synthetics are Dangerous Act - Amends the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998 to: (1) include among the purposes of the national youth anti-drug media campaign to encourage parents and other interested adults to discuss with young people the dangers of synthetic drug use; (2) define &quot;drug&quot; for purposes of such campaign to be a controlled substance, including a synthetic drug; and (3) define a &quot;synthetic drug&quot; as an artificially produced substance that is an analog or derivative of a controlled substance but is not itself a controlled substance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Introduced in House
American Dream Accounts Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4207
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2012-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Congressional oversight
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Financial literacy
Higher education
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: 
American Dream Accounts Act of 2012 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to eligible entities so each can establish and administer American Dream Accounts for a group of at least 30 low-income public school students who, at the time the entities apply for a grant, are attending a grade no higher than ninth grade.
 
Lists as eligible entities: (1) state educational agencies, (2) local educational agencies, (3) charter schools, (4) institutions of higher education (IHEs), (5) nonprofit organizations, (6) entities experienced in educational savings or assisting low-income students attain higher education, and (7) consortia of two or more of these entities.
 
Describes an American Dream Account as a personal online account for low-income students that monitors their progress toward higher education and includes a college savings account that provides some tax-preferred accumulation.
 
Requires American Dream Accounts to provide students with opportunities, either online or in person, to: (1) attain financial literacy; (2) learn about preparing for enrollment in an IHE; and (3) identify their skills or interests, including career interests.
 
Requires grantees, subject to federal privacy laws and regulations, to allow vested stakeholders to have secure Internet access to an American Dream Account, but not the college savings account portion of that Account.
 
Prohibits grantees from using their grant to provide the initial deposit into the college savings account portion of a student's American Dream Account.
 
Prohibits the funds in those college savings accounts from being considered in making federal student financial aid determinations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Introduced in House
Fisheries Investment and Regulatory Relief Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4208
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2012-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Commerce
Government information and archives
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: 
Fisheries Investment and Regulatory Relief Act of 2012 - Amends the Saltonstall-Kennedy Act to revise the program under which the Secretary of Commerce provides financial assistance for fisheries research and development projects. Directs each Regional Fishery Management Council to establish a fishery investment committee to: (1) develop a regional fishery investment plan identifying research, conservation, management needs, and actions to rebuild and maintain healthy fish populations and sustainable fisheries; and (2) make recommendations to the Council on grant applications and projects to implement the respective plans.
 
Requires that such plans be revised, approved by the relevant Council, and submitted to the Secretary at least once every five years. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish an annual competitive grant program to advance regional priorities included in such plans. Makes state, federal, regional, or private entities or persons eligible for such funding. Requires that preference be given to public-private partnerships.
 
Specifies that national fisheries investment program funds be used by the Secretary for research and investment that supports rebuilding and maintaining healthy U.S. fish populations and promotes sustainable fisheries. (Currently, such funds are used for harvesting, processing, marketing, and other associated infrastructures.)
 
Allocates funds to each Council and marine fisheries commissions.
 
Limits to a specified percentage the funds authorized to offset receipts for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) operations, research, and facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Introduced in House
Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4209
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2012-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: 
Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2012 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit a health plan offering group or individual health insurance that provides coverage for prescription drugs and uses a formulary or other tiered cost-sharing structure from imposing co-payment, coinsurance, or other cost-sharing requirements applicable to prescription drugs in a specialty drug tier that exceed the dollar amount of such requirements applicable to prescription drugs in a non-preferred brand drug tier.
 
Provides that if a formulary used by such a health plan contains more than one non-preferred brand drug tier, such prohibition shall be applied with respect to the non-preferred brand drug tier for which beneficiary cost-sharing is lowest.
 
Defines: (1) &quot;non-preferred brand drug tier&quot; as a category of drugs within a tier in such formulary for which beneficiary cost-sharing is greater than tiers for generic drugs or preferred brand drugs in the plan's formulary, that are prescription drugs, and that are not included within a specialty drug tier; and (2) &quot;specialty drug tier&quot; as a category of drugs within a tier in such formulary for which beneficiary cost-sharing is greater than tiers for generic drugs, preferred brand drugs, or non-preferred drugs in the plan's formulary and that are prescription drugs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Introduced in House
Restore our Neighborhoods Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4210
Sponsor: Rep. LaTourette, Steven C. [R-OH-14]
Introduced: 2012-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Housing and community development funding
Income tax credits
Securities
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: 
Restore our Neighborhoods Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a new category of tax credit bonds to be known as qualified urban demolition bonds. Allows the issuance of $4 billion of such bonds for the purpose of demolishing vacant, abandoned, and tax delinquent properties in urban areas. Provides for the allocation of $2 billion to all states to fund such demolition projects, and an additional $2 billion for certain other states that have greater numbers of vacant or foreclosed properties and higher unemployment rates (qualified states).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2012-03-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2012-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to require judges of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims to reside within fifty miles of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-4213
Sponsor: Rep. Runyan, Jon [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2012-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Federal appellate courts
Judges
Specialized courts
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: 
Requires that the principal office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) be in the metropolitan area of Washington, DC, but allows the CAVC to sit any place within the United States.
 
Requires judges in active service on the CAVC to: (1) have their official duty station at the principal office, and (2) reside within 50 miles of the District of Columbia.
 
Allows the President to remove judges violating that residency requirement who were confirmed on or after January 1, 2012.
 
Sets forth exceptions for recall-eligible retired judges.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2012-03-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-19
text: Introduced in House
Compound 1080 and Sodium Cyanide Elimination Act

Bill: 112-hr-4214
Sponsor: Rep. Campbell, John [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2012-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Crimes against animals and natural resources
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Pest management

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: 
Compound 1080 and Sodium Cyanide Elimination Act - Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to prohibit the use, production, sale, importation, or exportation of sodium fluoroacetate (known as Compound 1080).
 
Prohibits the use of sodium cyanide in a predator control device. 
 
Subjects a violator of either such prohibition to a fine, imprisonment for not more than two years, or both.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2012-03-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2012-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Pharmacy Transparency and Fair Auditing Act

Bill: 112-hr-4215
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2012-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Business records
Contracts and agency
Health care costs and insurance
Health information and medical records
Medicare
Prescription drugs
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: 
Medicare Pharmacy Transparency and Fair Auditing Act - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require each contract entered into with a prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsor for the offering of a prescription drug plan to prohibit the PDP sponsor from contracting with any pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) to manage the prescription drug coverage under such plan, or to control the costs of such coverage, unless the manager satisfies specified PBM audit and disclosure requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-03-20
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: 2012-03-20
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: 2012-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: Introduced in House
Foreign Counterfeit Prevention Act

Bill: 112-hr-4216
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2012-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against property
Criminal justice information and records
Customs enforcement
Government information and archives
Intellectual property

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: 
Foreign Counterfeit Prevention Act - Amends the federal criminal code to provide that it shall not be a violation of the prohibition against a federal employee disclosing trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary information for an officer or employee of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP): (1) at the time that merchandise is presented for examination and thereafter, to provide the owner of a copyright or a registered mark or any person who may be injured by a circumvention of copyright protection systems with any information appearing on the merchandise, including its retail packaging, or a sample or image of such merchandise and its retail packaging, for the purposes of determining whether the merchandise or its packaging infringes the copyright, bears or consists of a counterfeit mark of the registered mark, or is a violation of copyright protection systems; or (2) after a determination is made that merchandise is in violation of copyright protection systems, to provide certain information to persons injured by such violation, including the date of importation, the U.S. port of entry at which the merchandise was seized, a description of the merchandise, the country of origin of the merchandise, the names and addresses of the foreign manufacturer, the exporter, and the importer of the merchandise, and a photographic or digital image of the merchandise.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2012-03-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: Introduced in House
Mutual Community Bank Competitive Equality Act

Bill: 112-hr-4217
Sponsor: Rep. Grimm, Michael G. [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2012-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Civil actions and liability
Department of the Treasury
Federal Reserve System
Federally chartered organizations
Securities
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: 
Mutual Community Bank Competitive Equality Act - Amends the Revised Statutes of the United States to authorize the Comptroller of the Currency to charter mutual national banks either de novo or through a conversion of any insured depository institution or any state mutual bank or credit union. 
 
 
Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to authorize a mutual depository to issue Mutual Investment Certificates, to be included as Tier 1 capital for purposes of any capital standards issued by an appropriate federal banking agency. 
 
Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act to: (1) prohibit any company or subsidiary, or any director, officer, employee, or person with voting power or holding proxies representing more than 25% of the voting shares of such company or subsidiary, from holding, soliciting, or exercising any proxies in respect of a mutual savings association with the intention to to control the association; and (2) allow an aggrieved association to bring a civil action to prevent such takeover attempts.
 
Prohibits any company, subsidiary, director, officer, employee, or person owning, controlling, or holding with the power to vote, or holding proxies representing more than 25% of the voting shares of such a company or subsidiary, to hold, solicit, or exercise any proxies in respect of a mutual savings association with the view or intention to controlling or attempting to control it directly or indirectly.
 
Prescribes conditions under which a mutual holding company or its stock subsidiary may: (1) contribute stock to a charitable foundation either the company or the stock subsidiary establishes, and (2) waive the right to receive any dividend declared by one of its subsidiaries.
 
Requires the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve to apply its Small Bank Holding Company Policy Statement to any mutual holding company that would otherwise qualify as a small bank holding company, if it were one.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-20
text: Introduced in House