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DIPLOMA Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-5878
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2012-05-31 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-31
text: 
Deductibility and Incentives to Promote Learning Opportunities and Maximize Assistance Act of 2012 or the DIPLOMA Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow an unlimited tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses for taxpayers whose adjusted gross incomes do not exceed $80,000 ($160,000 for joint returns), (2) extend such deduction through 2017, (3) allow a tax deduction for principal amounts paid on education loans for the first 60 months of such loans, and (4) extend the American Opportunity tax credit through 2017. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-05-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-05-31
text: Introduced in House
Protect our Prairies Act

Bill: 112-hr-5879
Sponsor: Rep. Noem, Kristi L. [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2012-05-31 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural insurance
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Disaster relief and insurance
Land use and conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-31
text: 
Protect our Prairies Act - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to reduce crop insurance assistance and noninsured crop disaster assistance for crops grown on native sod acreage converted to cropland for the first four years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2012-05-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2012-05-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-05-31
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Disability Examination Access Improvement Act

Bill: 112-hr-5880
Sponsor: Rep. Runyan, Jon [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2012-05-31 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Health personnel
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Public contracts and procurement
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-31
text: 
Veterans Disability Examination Access Improvement Act - Amends the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003 to extend through 2012 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) authority for the performance of medical disability evaluations by contract physicians.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-27
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2012-06-27
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2012-06-06
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2012-05-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2012-05-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-05-31
text: Introduced in House
Access to Veterans Benefits Improvement Act

Bill: 112-hr-5881
Sponsor: Rep. Runyan, Jon [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2012-05-31 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government information and archives
Right of privacy
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-31
text: 
Access to Veterans Benefits Improvement Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide veterans' case-tracking information access to employees of a Member of Congress or of a state or local governmental agency who regularly assist veterans with benefit claims. Directs the Secretary to ensure that such access does not: (1) allow the employee to modify the data in the case-tracking system, and (2) include access to medical records.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-27
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2012-06-27
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2012-06-06
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2012-05-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2012-05-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-05-31
text: Introduced in House
To make a technical correction in Public Law 112-108.

Bill: 112-hr-5883
Sponsor: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]
Introduced: 2012-06-01 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Military personnel and dependents
Oklahoma
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: 
Amends P.L. 112-108 to change the street number of the post office designated as the &quot;Specialist Micheal E. Phillips Post Office&quot; from 115 4th Avenue Southwest to 208 1st Avenue Southwest in Ardmore, Oklahoma.

action_date: 2012-06-21
text: 

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

 
Amends P.L. 112-108 to change the street number of the post office designated as the &quot;Specialist Micheal E. Phillips Post Office&quot; from 115 4th Avenue Southwest to 208 1st Avenue Southwest in Ardmore, Oklahoma.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-21
text: Became Public Law No: 112-135.
action_date: 2012-06-21
text: Became Public Law No: 112-135.
action_date: 2012-06-21
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2012-06-21
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2012-06-11
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2012-06-11
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2012-06-07
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2012-06-07
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S3871)
action_date: 2012-06-07
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S3871)
action_date: 2012-06-06
text: Received in the Senate, read twice.
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: On passage Passed without objection. (text: CR H3444)
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.(text: CR H3444)
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H3444)
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Committee on Oversight and Government discharged.
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Committee on Oversight and Government discharged.
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Mr. Cole asked unanimous consent to discharge from committee and consider.
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 112-135
Homeownership Preservation Education Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-5884
Sponsor: Rep. Bass, Karen [D-CA-33]
Introduced: 2012-06-01 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: 
Homeownership Preservation Education Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to carry out a pilot program to evaluate the effectiveness, in reducing defaults on residential mortgages, of reducing up-front premiums for mortgage insurance made available by the Secretary pursuant to the National Housing Act for first-time homebuyers who complete a homeownership counseling program providing for one-on-one prepurchase counseling.
 
Requires reduced premiums for mortgages secured by a 1- to 4-family dwelling that is an obligation of the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund for a first-time homebuyer who completes a HUD-approved program of counseling on the responsibilities and financial management involved in homeownership that provides for one-on-one prepurchase counseling of the homebuyer by a HUD-approved nonprofit housing counseling agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: Introduced in House
New York Fair Fishing Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-5885
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Timothy H. [D-NY-1]
Introduced: 2012-06-01 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
New York State

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: 
New York Fair Fishing Act of 2012 - Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to add the state of New York as a member of the New England Fishery Management Council. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: Introduced in House
Middle Class Dependent Care Fairness Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-5886
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2012-06-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adult day care
Child care and development
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: 
Middle Class Dependent Care Fairness Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate the mandatory reduction in the rate of the tax credit for household and dependent care services for taxpayers whose adjusted gross incomes exceed $15,000. Makes provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 that increased the amounts of employment-related expenses eligible for such credit permanent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: Introduced in House
Physician Reentry Demonstration Program Act

Bill: 112-hr-5888
Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2012-06-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Government information and archives
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Licensing and registrations
Medical education
Student aid and college costs
User charges and fees
Veterans' medical care
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: 
Physician Reentry Demonstration Program Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish a demonstration program to assist the development of innovative programs that facilitate physician reentry into clinical practice to provide required primary health services; and (2) award one grant, on a competitive basis, to an eligible entity in each of the 10 regions served by a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regional office. 
 
Includes as eligible entities: (1) a state, hospital, academic medical center, medical school, or health center; or (2) a nonprofit organization with a demonstrated history or expertise in providing physician education and with the ability to offer programs specifically targeted at reentering physicians. 
 
Requires the Secretary to use not more than 15% of funds appropriated for this Act to work with key stakeholders to: (1) conduct a national needs assessment with regard to the supply of physicians who provide primary health services, (2) develop a database that contains a directory of programs that help physicians reenter clinical practice, (3) disseminate evidence-based assessments and evaluation tools to measure the basic core competencies of physicians reentering clinical practice, and (4) assist state regulatory authorities and hospital credentialing committees to structure requirements for reentering physicians r that ensure patient safety while addressing the burdens on such physicians.
 
Directs an entity that receives funds under this Act to use such funds to assist qualifying physicians through: (1) training to reenter clinical practice, (2) paying credentialing and other necessary fees, (3) paying salaries, or (4) providing loan repayment and other financial assistance.
 
Requires a reentering physician who participates in a demonstration program, to be eligible to receive benefits, to provide required primary health services for at least two years at a health center, a Veterans Administration Medical Center if the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) certifies that there is a shortage of physicians at such center, or a school-based health center.
 
Sets forth provisions regarding liability protection for reentering physicians participating in a demonstration program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-01
text: Introduced in House
To correct a technical error in Public Law 112-122.

Bill: 112-hr-5890
Sponsor: Rep. Dold, Robert J. [R-IL-10]
Introduced: 2012-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Military assistance, sales, and agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: 
Makes a technical correction to P.L. 112-122 (Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Act of 2012).

action_date: 2012-06-05
text: 

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

 
Makes a technical correction to P.L. 112-122 (Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Act of 2012).

action_date: 2012-06-07
text: 

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

 
Makes a technical correction to P.L. 112-122 (Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Act of 2012).

action_date: 2012-06-21
text: 

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

 
Makes a technical correction to P.L. 112-122 (Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Act of 2012).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-21
text: Became Public Law No: 112-136.
action_date: 2012-06-21
text: Became Public Law No: 112-136.
action_date: 2012-06-21
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2012-06-21
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2012-06-11
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2012-06-11
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2012-06-07
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2012-06-07
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S3871)
action_date: 2012-06-07
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S3871)
action_date: 2012-06-06
text: Received in the Senate, read twice.
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: On passage Passed without objection. (text: CR H3444)
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.(text: CR H3444)
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H3444)
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Committee on Financial Services discharged.
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Committee on Financial Services discharged.
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Mr. Dold asked unanimous consent to discharge from committee and consider.
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 112-136
Defense Base Act Insurance Improvement Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-5891
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2012-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability assistance
Military facilities and property
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: 
Defense Base Act Insurance Improvement Act of 2012 - Amends the Defense Base Act (the Act) to require satisfaction through the Government Defense Base Act self-insurance program of insurance and benefits requirements imposed on defense contractors with respect to on-job injuries.
 
Directs the Secretaries of Defense (DOD) and Labor to jointly: (1) develop and execute an implementation strategy for a self-insurance program for insurance required by the Act, and (2) report to Congress on such strategy and on the implementation of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2012-06-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2012-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Introduced in House
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Education and Outreach Campaign Repeal Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-5894
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2012-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: 
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Education and Outreach Campaign Repeal Act of 2012 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal the education and outreach campaign regarding preventive benefits.
 
Rescinds the unobligated balance of any funds made available for carrying out such campaign, as in effect on the day before the enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2012-06-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2012-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Introduced in House
Graduate Success Act

Bill: 112-hr-5895
Sponsor: Rep. Bass, Karen [D-CA-33]
Introduced: 2012-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Student aid and college costs
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: 
Graduate Success Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to pay the interest that accrues on unsubsidized Federal Family Education Loans (FFELs) and Direct Loans (DLs) that are deferred due to a student borrower's lack of full-time employment.
 
Requires the Secretary to pay the interest that accrues on Federal Consolidation Loans that are in deferment due to a borrower's lack of full-time employment, provided the application for such a loan is received on or after this Act's enactment.
 
Directs the Secretary to pay the interest that accrues on FFELs and DLs that are subject to income-based repayment provisions and are in deferment due to a borrower's lack of full-time employment.
 
Limits these interest-free deferment periods to those occurring on or after this Act's enactment and covering no more than three years of full-time unemployment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-5896
Sponsor: Rep. Gibson, Christopher P. [R-NY-20]
Introduced: 2012-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Business records
Department of Agriculture
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: 
Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a process under which an incumbent service provider providing broadband service to a remote rural area may submit to the Secretary information regarding the broadband services the provider offers in the proposed service territory so that the Secretary may assess whether a submitted application meets appropriate eligibility requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Rural Development, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2012-06-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2012-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to make certain United States territories eligible for nonprofit capacity building grants under that Act.

Bill: 112-hr-5897
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2012-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: National and community service
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: 
Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to make intermediate nonprofit organizations in Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands eligible to participate in the Nonprofit Capacity Building program. (The program provides grants to intermediary nonprofit organizations to enable them to deliver organizational development assistance to small and midsize nonprofit organizations.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-05
text: Introduced in House