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Community-Supported Agriculture Promotion Act

Bill: 112-hr-4012
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2012-02-09 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural practices and innovations
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Food assistance and relief
Nutrition and diet

Summary:
action_date: 2012-02-09
text: 
Community-Supported Agriculture Promotion Act - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to carry out a Community-Supported Agriculture Promotion program to promote community-supported agriculture.
 
Provides Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) funding for the program through FY2018.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2012-02-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-02-09
text: Introduced in House
Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4013
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2012-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment taxes
Income tax rates
Self-employed
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2012-02-13
text: 
Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2012 - Amends the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 to extend through 2012 the 2% reduction in employment tax rates for employees and self-employed individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Responsible Farming Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4015
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Tim [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2012-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Farmland

Summary:
action_date: 2012-02-13
text: 
Responsible Farming Act of 2012 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to repeal the conservation stewardship program.
 
States that such repeal shall not be construed to affect the terms and conditions of any stewardship contract that was entered into on or before the date of enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
action_date: 2012-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2012-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Carried Interest Fairness Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4016
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2012-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Financial services and investments
Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: 
Carried Interest Fairness Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) set forth a special rule for the inclusion in gross income of partnership interests transferred in connection with the performance of services, (2) treat as ordinary income the net capital gain with respect to an investment services partnership interest except to the extent such gain is attributable to a partner's qualified capital interest, (3) exempt income from investment services partnership interests from treatment as qualifying income of a publicly traded partnership, (4) increase the penalty for underpayments of tax resulting from failure to treat income from an investment services partnership interest as ordinary income, and (5) include income and loss from an investment services partnership interest for purposes of determining net earnings from self-employment and applicable self-employment taxes.
 
Defines "investment services partnership interest" as any interest in a partnership held by a person who provides services to a partnership by: (1) advising the partnership about investing in, purchasing, or selling specified assets; (2) managing, acquiring, or disposing of specified assets; or (3) arranging financing with respect to acquiring specified assets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E187)
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Flood Insurance for Farmers Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4020
Sponsor: Rep. Garamendi, John [D-CA-10]
Introduced: 2012-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Agricultural insurance
Dams and canals
Disaster relief and insurance
Farmland
Floods and storm protection

Summary:
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: 
Flood Insurance for Farmers Act of 2012 - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 with respect to development by the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) of comprehensive criteria designed to encourage adoption of adequate state and local measures for land-management programs in flood-prone areas.
 
Prohibits such criteria from placing prohibitions, restraints, or conditions, including requiring floodproofing or flood damage mitigation activities or related features, upon either new construction or substantial improvement of an agricultural structure in any area having special flood hazards.
 
Requires such criteria, with respect only to structures in certain levee-protected areas, to require any substantial improvement to an existing residential structure to have the lowest floor (including any basement) elevated to or above the base flood level.
 
Requires such criteria to permit a legacy community located in a covered levee-protected area to adopt adequate land use and control measures for: (1) repair or restoration to pre-damaged conditions, or (2) replacement of existing residential and non-residential structures other than repetitive loss structures.
 
Defines &quot;legacy community&quot; as one whose population is less than 2,000 and is located in an area for which a substantial portion of the economy currently is, and historically was, based upon agricultural production.
 
Directs the Administrator to make flood insurance coverage available upon request for: (1) an agricultural structure located in an area having special flood hazards, and (2) structures in covered levee-protected areas.
 
Directs the Administrator and the Secretary of Agriculture to establish jointly a task force to report to certain congressional committees on challenges faced by legacy communities located in areas having special flood hazards, including recommendations to: (1) strengthen the economic viability and vitality of such communities, and (2) allow infill development and building expansion. 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to waive certain requirements for naturalization for American Samoan United States nationals to become United States citizens.

Bill: 112-hr-4021
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2012-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: American Samoa
Citizenship and naturalization
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to waive specified requirements for naturalization for American Samoan U.S. nationals to become U.S. citizens.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E192)
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Structured Settlement Claimants Rights Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4022
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-27]
Introduced: 2012-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Judicial procedure and administration
Lawyers and legal services

Summary:
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: 
Structured Settlement Claimants Rights Act of 2012 - Amends the federal judicial code to declare that a claimant in any civil action before a federal court shall have the right to retain a structured settlement broker to act on behalf of that claimant for purposes of negotiating a schedule of payments or other terms of payment previously agreed to paid by or on behalf of the defendant in satisfaction of a judgment against that defendant or in accordance with the terms of a settlement.
 
Requires that a party to an administrative proceeding have the same right to retain such a structured settlement broker for negotiations with other parties. 
 Directs: (1) the court or the agency in an administrative proceeding to inform the claimant of this right at the appropriate time, and (2) the defendant to provide timely notice of any current or previous professional relationship between the defendant and the broker.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Telehealth and Telemedicine Improvement Act

Bill: 112-hr-4023
Sponsor: Rep. Hochul, Kathleen C. [D-NY-26]
Introduced: 2012-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical education
Rural conditions and development
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: 
Veterans' Telehealth and Telemedicine Improvement Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a program to increase the use of: (1) teleconsultation, telemedicine, telehealth, and home telehealth by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA); and (2) teleretinal imaging in each Veterans Integrated Services Network.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) require each VA facility involved in the training of medical residents to work with each university concerned to develop an elective rotation in telemedicine for such residents, and (2) provide VA health care professionals with education and training in the use of telemedicine to provide care for veterans in rural areas.
 
Requires the Secretary to modify the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation system to: (1) provide incentives for the use of teleconsultation, teleretinal imaging, telemedicine, and telehealth coordination services; and (2) require the inclusion of all telemedicine visits in the calculation of facility workload.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to waive the imposition or collection of copayments for teleconsultation, telemedicine, teleretinal imaging, telehealth, and home telehealth visits of veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
North America Natural Gas Security and Consumer Protection Act

Bill: 112-hr-4024
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2012-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Department of Energy
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Licensing and registrations
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Oil and gas
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: 
North America Natural Gas Security and Consumer Protection Act - Prohibits the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) from approving, before January 1, 2025, any application under the Natural Gas Act: (1) for the siting, construction, expansion, or operation of an liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal for activities related to exporting natural gas from the United States to a foreign country; or (2) to amend an existing FERC authorization in order to modify an existing authorized facility to an LNG terminal that will be used for such activities.
 
Exempts an application from such prohibition if the natural gas would be exported solely to meet certain requirements of: (1) the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (regarding presidential foreign exchange authorities), (2) Trading with the Enemy Act (regarding transactions in foreign exchange of gold or silver, property transfers, and vested interests), or (3) the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (regarding the International Energy Program).
 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Keep American Natural Gas Here Act

Bill: 112-hr-4025
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2012-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: General public lands matters
Oil and gas
Pipelines
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: 
Keep American Natural Gas Here Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to accept bids on any new oil and gas leases of federal lands (including submerged lands) under the Mineral Leasing Act or the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act only from bidders certifying that all natural gas produced pursuant to such leases will be offered for sale only in the United States.
 
 Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to prohibit granting a new right-of-way for a natural gas pipeline unless the right-of-way applicant certifies that all natural gas transported via such pipeline will be offered for sale only in the United States.
 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Energy Assistance for American Families Act

Bill: 112-hr-4026
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2012-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Energy assistance for the poor and aged

Summary:
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: 
Energy Assistance for American Families Act - Amends the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to authorize appropriations for FY2013-FY2016. 
 
Permits a state to use any allotment from such appropriations to assist households whose income does not exceed 75% of the state median income.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Senior Transportation and Mobility Improvement Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4028
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2012-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aging
Disability and paralysis
Government information and archives
Public transit
Regional and metropolitan planning
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: 
Senior Transportation and Mobility Improvement Act of 2012 - Amends the program providing formula grants to states for the special public transportation needs of older individuals and the disabled to allow states to use a portion of those grants to operate and maintain the capital assets acquired under that program.
 
Sets the federal share of the costs of the mobility management activities such grants may cover at 90%. (Mobility management activities are designed to improve coordination among public and other transportation service providers.)
 
Requires the National Transit Database to include information on the public transportation formula grant program for older individuals and the disabled, and the public transportation formula grant program for nonurban areas.
 
Requires metropolitan planning organizations and states to involve older individuals and the disabled in metropolitan and statewide transportation planning. 
 
Directs the Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to enter into a cooperative agreement with the National Center on Senior Transportation to: (1) provide technical assistance to transit and human services organizations, (2) disseminate best practices regarding transportation for older individuals, and (3) make grants to nonprofit organizations to test innovative and replicable approaches for addressing the mobility needs of older individuals.
 
Requires the FTA to make grants to nonprofit aging services organizations to offer mobility management services, and develop and implement enhanced technology to support those services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Common Sense Economic Recovery Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4029
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2012-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: 
Common Sense Economic Recovery Act of 2012 - Cites circumstances under which, for purposes of determining capital requirements or measuring an insured depository institution's capital, such an institution may treat a non-accrual loan as an accrual loan.
 
(Non-accrual [also known as non-performing or doubtful] loans are those on which interest is overdue and full collection of principal is uncertain, and so interest, if it has not been paid in over 90 days, cannot be credited to the bank's revenue account until it has actually been received.)
 
Permits an insured depository institution to treat a non-accrual loan as an accrual loan if: (1) the loan is current, (2) no monthly payment has been more than 30 days delinquent during the previous 6-month period, and (3) loan payments are being made pursuant to the contract terms and all parties agree to any refinances and modifications.
 
Prohibits a modified or restructured loan from being treated as a non-accrual loan if the borrower demonstrates the ability to perform on such a loan: (1) over a period of 6 months; or (2) over a period of 3 consecutive payments in the case of a quarterly, semi-annual, or longer repayment schedule.
 
Prohibits the appropriate federal banking agency from: (1) imposing any additional accounting requirements upon an insured depository institution with respect to a loan treated as an accrual loan under this Act if the result of such requirement would adversely impact measurement of the institution's capital, or (2) requiring an insured depository institution to treat a loan as a non-accrual loan solely because the loan collateral has reduced in value.
 
Excludes from the accounting requirements and prohibitions of this Act any issuer of a security registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. 
 
Directs the Financial Stability Oversight Council to study how best to prevent the issuance of contradictory guidance to such institutions by federal banking agencies with respect to loan classifications and capital requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Stop the Revolving Door in Washington Act

Bill: 112-hr-4030
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2012-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional officers and employees
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Members of Congress
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: 
Stop the Revolving Door in Washington Act - Amends the federal criminal code regarding the two-year ban on lobbying contacts by former Senators with any Member, officer, or employee of either chamber, or employee of any other legislative office.
 
Imposes: (1) a five-year lobbying ban on all former Members of Congress; and (2) a two-year (currently, one-year) ban on lobbying contacts by former elected officers of either chamber, former congressional employees, or former employees of any other legislative office with any Member, officer, or employee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
To provide that claims presented to an Indian Health Service  contracting officer pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act on or before  October 31, 2005, involving claims that accrued after October 1, 1995 and on or before September 30, 1999, shall be deemed timely presented.

Bill: 112-hr-4031
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2012-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Health and Human Services
Federal-Indian relations
Indian social and development programs
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: 
Deems claims presented to an Indian Health Service contracting officer pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act on or before October 31, 2005, involving claims that accrued after October 1, 1995, and on or before September 30, 1999, to have been timely presented. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Help Entrepreneurs Create American Jobs Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4032
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2012-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2012-02-15
text: 
Help Entrepreneurs Create American Jobs Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the increase (from $5,000 to $10,000) in the tax deduction for the start-up expenditures of an active trade or business permanent (currently, limited to taxable years beginning in 2010). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-02-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H737)
action_date: 2012-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-02-15
text: Introduced in House