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To amend title 5, United States Code, to give members of the United States Capitol Police the option to delay mandatory retirement until age 60.

Bill: 112-hr-4285
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2012-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional agencies
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Law enforcement officers
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Physical fitness and lifestyle

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: 
Revises mandatory retirement requirements for members of the U.S. Capitol Police under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS).
 
Requires the Capitol Police Board, at a member's request, to exempt the individual from automatic separation requirements until he or she becomes age 60, if the member: (1) undergoes a physical examination during the six-month period ending on the day the member turns age 57; and (2) on the basis of the examination, meets appropriate physical fitness criteria.
 
(Currently, the Board, when in its judgement the public interest so requires, may exempt such a member from automatic separation until that member becomes 60 years of age.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Student Loan Grace Period Extension Act

Bill: 112-hr-4286
Sponsor: Rep. Hahn, Janice [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2012-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: 
Student Loan Grace Period Extension Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend the grace period before payment must begin on Direct Stafford Loans from 6 months to 12 months after borrowers cease to carry at least one-half the normal full-time academic workload. 
 
Extends the federal interest subsidy on Direct Stafford Loans to all of the interest accrued on such loans before the loan repayment period begins. (Currently, the subsidy applies to all of the interest accrued before a borrower ceases to carry at least one-half the normal full-time academic workload.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E465-466)
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the definition of homeless veteran for purposes of benefits under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 112-hr-4287
Sponsor: Rep. Hahn, Janice [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2012-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: 
Includes as a homeless veteran, for purposes of eligibility for benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), a veteran or veteran's family fleeing domestic or dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, or other dangerous or life-threatening conditions in the current housing situation, including where the health and safety of children are jeopardized, there is no other residence, and there is a lack of resources or support networks to obtain other permanent housing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E478-479)
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Commercial Drivers Licenses for Veterans Act

Bill: 112-hr-4288
Sponsor: Rep. Hahn, Janice [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2012-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Licensing and registrations
Motor carriers
Transportation employees
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: 
Commercial Drivers Licenses for Veterans Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a program of grants to states to assist veterans who received and completed training to drive large vehicles while serving in the Armed Forces obtain, upon their discharge or release from active-duty service, state commercial drivers licenses. Requires states, in order to be grant-eligible, to demonstrate a shortage of individuals with such licenses.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on barriers experienced by such veterans in obtaining such licenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E469)
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Transparency and Accountability in Congressional Travel Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4289
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Timothy V. [R-IL-15]
Introduced: 2012-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional officers and employees
Congressional operations and organization
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Legislative rules and procedure
Members of Congress
Transportation costs
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: 
Transparency and Accountability in Congressional Travel Act of 2012 - Prohibits a Member of Congress or congressional employee from undertaking any official foreign travel unless, within 14 days before and within 14 days after such travel, the individual prepares and submits to the Clerk of the House of Representatives or the Secretary of the Senate, as appropriate, a specified statement (in both paper and electronic form) containing travel-related information.
 
Allows the Member or congressional employee to exclude classified information from such statements, so long as the Member includes documentation in support of such exclusion.
 
Requires the Secretary of Defense (DOD) or the Secretary of State, as appropriate, for official travel by a Member or congressional employee for which any of the costs are to be paid by their respective departmental funds, to give such individual, within 10 days after completion of such travel, a written statement specifying: (1) the cost incurred, itemized by the cost of transportation, lodging, and meals; and (2) whether the aircraft used was chartered, private, military, or, in the case of commercial aircraft, whether the seating was coach, business class, or first class.
 
Requires the Clerk and the Secretary to post such statements on their respective official public Internet sites.
 
Prohibits a vacation stopover for annual leave at any point during official foreign travel.
 
Specifies restrictions on official foreign travel by Member and House committee employees, except travel to a military installation or to a theater of operations of the Armed Forces.
 
Requires each Member and congressional employee who undertakes official foreign travel to: (1) take necessary actions to reduce travel costs, and (2) return any per diem remaining unexpended at conclusion of the travel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Homeowner Tax Fairness Act

Bill: 112-hr-4290
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2012-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: 
Homeowner Tax Fairness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2015 the exclusion from gross income of income attributable to the discharge of indebtedness on a principal residence, (2) extend through 2014 the tax deduction for mortgage insurance premiums, (3) exclude from gross income any National Mortgage Settlement amount, and (4) deny a tax deduction for any National Mortgage Settlement amount paid in exchange for a full release of the potential civil claims of the United States under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.
 
Defines &quot;National Mortgage Settlement amount&quot; as any amount received pursuant to the settlement in a legal action against Bank of America Corporation filed in U.S. District Court on March 12, 2012, which is: (1) a payment for transitional assistance; (2) a payment from the Borrower Payment Fund under the National Mortgage Settlement to a borrower whose home was finally sold or taken in foreclosure after December 31, 2007, and before January 1, 2012; or (3) a payment received as a result of a foreclosure or excess charge of interest that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has determined was not in compliance with the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E477)
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
United States Commission on an Open Society with Security Act

Bill: 112-hr-4291
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2012-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Advisory bodies
First Amendment rights
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government studies and investigations
Homeland security
Public participation and lobbying
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: 
United States Commission on an Open Society with Security Act - Establishes the United States Commission on an Open Society with Security to study how the government may provide for both security in, and public access to, federal buildings and other federal property and sites. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Management.
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2012-03-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E467-468)
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
ID MEDS Act

Bill: 112-hr-4292
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Harold [R-KY-5]
Introduced: 2012-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Justice
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Intergovernmental relations
Prescription drugs
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: 
Interstate Drug Monitoring Efficiency and Data Sharing Act of 2012 or the ID MEDS Act - Directs the Attorney General to establish national interoperability standards to facilitate the exchange of prescription information by states receiving grant funds under the Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (Rogers Program) and the Controlled Substance Monitoring Program (CS Program).
 
Directs the Attorney General to ensure that such standards: (1) implement open standards that are freely available to promote broad implementation; (2) provide for the use of exchange intermediaries to facilitate interstate interoperability; (3) support transmissions that are fully secured, using industry standard methods of encryption, to ensure that protected health information and personally identifiable information are not compromised during transmission; and (4) employ access control methodologies to share protected information solely in accordance with state laws and regulations.
 
Requires a grant recipient under the Rogers Program to ensure that the state databases comply with the national interoperability standards. Allows a recipient of an enhancement grant under such Program to use grant funds to standardize the technology architecture used by the recipient to comply with such standards. 
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require states to ensure that databases established under the CS Program comply with such standards.
 
Directs the Attorney General to report on enhancing the interoperability of state prescription monitoring programs with other technologies and databases used for detecting and reducing fraud, diversion, and abuse of prescription drugs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Restore Main Street's Credit Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4293
Sponsor: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2012-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Credit and credit markets
National Credit Union Administration
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: 
Restore Main Street's Credit Act of 2012 - Amends the Federal Credit Union Act to exclude from the definition of &quot;member business loan&quot; (and related loan limits) an extension of credit made to a Main Street business (an organization, other than a nonprofit organization, with 20 or fewer full-time employees that possesses, occupies, or leases property other than a home for its business's operations).
 
Instructs the National Credit Union Administration Board (NCUAB) to issue guidelines for extensions of credit made by an insured credit union to a Main Street business in order to promote: (1) appropriate levels of such extensions within the credit union's total lending portfolio, and (2) the credit union's cooperative nature and its safety and soundness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Limited End Strength Reduction Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4294
Sponsor: Rep. West, Allen B. [R-FL-22]
Introduced: 2012-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
Military operations and strategy
Military personnel and dependents
Military readiness

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: 
Limited End Strength Reduction Act of 2012 - Directs the President, upon determining that a reduction in end strength of the regular Army or Marine Corps (or both) is necessary for any of FY2014-FY2017, to submit to Congress with the budget request for that year a certification that such reduction, should the assumptions of the most recent National Security Strategy prove to be incorrect, will not: (1) undermine the ability of the Armed Forces to meet the requirements of the Strategy, (2) increase U.S. security risks, or (3) compel members of the Armed Forces to endure diminished dwell time and repeated deployments.
 
Prohibits: (1) the Army end strength from being reduced by more than 15,000 during each such year from the end strength of the preceding year; and (2) the Marine Corps end strength from being reduced by more than 5,000 in the same manner.
 
Requires the defense budget for each such year: (1) to include amounts for maintaining an end strength sufficient to comply with current active-duty end strength requirements; and (2) to not rely on any emergency, supplemental, or overseas contingency operations funding.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act to repeal a duplicative program relating to inspection and grading of catfish.

Bill: 112-hr-4296
Sponsor: Rep. Hartzler, Vicky [R-MO-4]
Introduced: 2012-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural marketing and promotion
Aquaculture

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: 
Repeals a provision of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 establishing an inspection and grading program for catfish and other species of farm-raised fish shellfish effective on the date of enactment of such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Burdensome Paperwork Reduction for Our Miners Act

Bill: 112-hr-4298
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2012-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Coal
Disability assistance
Employee benefits and pensions
Government information and archives
Mining

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: 
Burdensome Paperwork Reduction for Our Miners Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor, acting through the Director of the Division of Coal Mine Workers' Compensation and the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Labor, to review forms for obtaining workers' compensation benefits under the Federal Black Lung Benefits Program to determine whether it is feasible to combine or reduce such forms in order to further the purposes of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
 
Directs the Secretary to implement any feasible combination or reduction of such forms.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Quality Housing for Veterans Act

Bill: 112-hr-4299
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-11]
Introduced: 2012-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Housing for the elderly and disabled
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: 
Quality Housing for Veterans Act - Extends through 2014 the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide specially adapted housing assistance to certain disabled veterans residing temporarily in housing owned by a family member.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-06
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2012-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Work Study Opportunities Act

Bill: 112-hr-4300
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-11]
Introduced: 2012-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: 
Veterans Work Study Opportunities Act - Makes permanent the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide a work-study allowance for certain activities of individuals receiving educational assistance through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). (Under current law, such authority extends only through the period preceding June 30, 2013.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Introduced in House