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Stop Tenant Organizing Promotion Act

Bill: 112-hr-6298
Sponsor: Rep. Black, Diane [R-TN-6]
Introduced: 2012-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Executive agency funding and structure
Housing and community development funding
Low- and moderate-income housing
Public housing

Summary:
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: 
Stop Tenant Organizing Promotion Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from carrying out, supporting, or otherwise providing any assistance to the Tenant Resource Network Program authorized under the Department of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.
 
Amends the Act to repeal the Secretary's authority to provide funding for the Program.
 
Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of any funds currently allocated under the Program. Requires the funds to be covered into the General Fund of the Treasury and used only for reducing the federal budget deficit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-10-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 39, United States Code, to provide that the United States Postal Service shall maintain the number of officers and employees necessary to meet its homeland security and natural disaster assistance responsibilities, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-6301
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-3]
Introduced: 2012-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Drug therapy
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Homeland security
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Postal service
Terrorism
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: 
Directs the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), as an employer, to maintain a workforce of officers and employees necessary to meet its responsibilities with respect to homeland security, including the rapid residential delivery of medical countermeasures in the event of a biohazard attack against the United States, and natural disaster assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Reasonable Policies on Automated License Plate Readers Act

Bill: 112-hr-6302
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2012-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Government information and archives
Law enforcement administration and funding
Motor vehicles
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: 
Reasonable Policies on Automated License Plate Readers Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to prohibit assistance under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program or the Public Safety and Community Policing grant program to a law enforcement agency that uses an automated license plate reader unless the agency has developed written and binding policies for the use of the reader that ensure that data collected by the reader: (1) is not stored for a period exceeding 30 days unless the data is being used in an active law enforcement investigation; (2) is not stored in a statewide database or other database that consolidates data from such readers; and (3) is shared with an entity other than the agency that operates it only if the entity is another law enforcement agency, the data is to be used in an active law enforcement investigation, and the data is provided in response to a specific request for the data.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
National Bison Legacy Act

Bill: 112-hr-6304
Sponsor: Rep. Clay, Wm. Lacy [D-MO-1]
Introduced: 2012-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Mammals
National symbols

Summary:
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: 
National Bison Legacy Act - Designates the North American bison as the national mammal of the United States.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Federal Executive Board Efficiency Act

Bill: 112-hr-6305
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2012-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency planning and evacuation
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Homeland security
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Summary:
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: 
Federal Executive Board Efficiency Act - Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to establish Federal Executive Boards, which are defined as interagency entities established in a geographic area with a high concentration of federal employees outside the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area to strengthen the management and administration of agency activities and coordination among local federal officers to implement national initiatives in that area. Requires each Board for a geographic area to consist of a senior officer for each agency in that area.
 
Requires the Director to: (1) consider specified factors in determining the location for establishment of such Boards, such as whether a geographic area has a strong, viable, and active Federal Executive Association and whether such Association petitions to become a Board; and (2) provide for the administration and oversight of such Boards, including by establishing staffing and communications policies and performance standards for Board staff.
 
Requires each Board to: (1) serve as an instrument of outreach for the national headquarters of agencies relating to agency activities in the geographic area; (2) provide a forum for the exchange of information relating to programs and management methods and problems between the national headquarters of agencies and the field; (3) develop local coordinated approaches to the development and operation of programs that have common characteristics; (4) communicate management initiatives and other concerns from federal officers and employees in the Washington, D.C. area to federal officers and employees in the geographic area to achieve better mutual understanding and support; (5) develop relationships with state and local governments and nongovernmental organizations to help fulfill the roles and responsibilities of that Board; and (6) facilitate communication, collaboration, and training to prepare the federal workforce for emergencies and continuity of operations.
 
Requires the Director to: (1) establish a fund within OPM for financing essential Board functions, into which contributions from the headquarters of each participating agency shall be deposited; (2) submit annual reports to Congress and agencies on Board program outcomes and budget matters; and (3) report to specified congressional committees on essential Board functions, staffing requirements, and staffing and operating expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act

Bill: 112-hr-6306
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2012-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
General public lands matters
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Temporary and part-time employment

Summary:
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: 
 Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act - Makes an employee of a land management agency who served under a time-limited appointment in the competitive service eligible to compete for a permanent appointment in the agency if the original appointment was competitive, totaled a period of at least 24 months, and the employee's performance was satisfactory. Requires such an employee's appointment to a full-time position, if such a position is offered and the employee agrees to such employment, if the original position stated that there was the potential for the position to become permanent.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
GSP UPDATE Act

Bill: 112-hr-6307
Sponsor: Rep. Crenshaw, Ander [R-FL-4]
Introduced: 2012-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: 
GSP Update for Production Diversification and Trade Enhancement Act or GSP UPDATE Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize the President to designate certain luggage and travel articles as eligible for duty-free treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-08-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Transparency for Lethal Control Act

Bill: 112-hr-6308
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2012-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Animal and plant health
Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Pest management

Summary:
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: 
Transparency for Lethal Control Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), through the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, to submit an annual report to Congress (and make such report publicly available on the Internet) on the animals killed during the preceding year under the wildlife services program or by a state or local entity acting in cooperation with or on behalf of such program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2012-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1396)
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the special diabetes programs for Type I diabetes and Indians under that Act.

Bill: 112-hr-6309
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2012-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Digestive and metabolic diseases
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Indian social and development programs
Medical research
Minority health
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize for FY2014-FY2018: (1) a research program for the prevention and cure of Type I diabetes, and (2) a program to provide services through Indian health facilities for the prevention and treatment of diabetes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Restoring Confidence in Our Democracy Act

Bill: 112-hr-6310
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2012-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Corporate finance and management
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Labor-management relations
Political advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: 
Restoring Confidence in Our Democracy Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to set forth special rules for electioneering communications, especially targeted communications, which national banks, corporations, and labor organizations are prohibited from paying for.
 
Defines &quot;targeted communications&quot; as electioneering communications distributed from a television or radio broadcast station or provider of cable or satellite television service and, in the case of a communication which refers to a candidate for an office other than President or Vice President, is targeted to the relevant electorate.
 
Prohibits independent expenditures by national banks, corporations, and labor organizations.
 
Applies certain limitations on contributions made by any person to a political committee to any contribution to a political committee which accepts donations or contributions that do not comply with contribution or source prohibitions (or made to any account of a political committee established to accept such noncompliant donations or contributions). 
 
 

 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5687)
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
S.O.S Act

Bill: 112-hr-6311
Sponsor: Rep. Edwards, Donna F. [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2012-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Emergency medical services and trauma care
First responders and emergency personnel
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical education
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: 
Stop Overdose Stat Act or the S.O.S. Act - Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to: (1) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements to enable eligible entities to reduce deaths occurring from drug overdoses, and (2) give priority to eligible public health agencies or community-based organizations that have expertise in preventing deaths occurring from overdoses in high risk populations.
 
Conditions receipt of a grant or agreement on an entity agreeing to use the grant or agreement for: (1) purchasing and distributing the drug naloxone; (2) educating physicians and pharmacists about overdose prevention and naloxone prescription; (3) training first responders, other individuals in a position to respond to an overdose, and law enforcement and corrections officials on the effective response; (4) implementing and enhancing programs to provide overdose prevention, recognition, treatment, and response to individuals in need; and (5) expanding such programs.
 
Requires the Director to: (1) compile and publish, annually, data on fatal and nonfatal drug overdoses for the preceding year; and (2) award grants to state, local, or tribal governments, or the National Poison Data System working in conjunction with such governments, to improve drug overdose surveillance and reporting capabilities.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and submit to Congress a plan to reduce the number of deaths occurring from overdoses.
 
Requires the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to: (1) prioritize and conduct or support research on drug overdose and overdose prevention, and (2) support research on the development of dosage forms of naloxone for the prehospital treatment of unintentional drug overdose.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Synthetic Cathinones Control Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6312
Sponsor: Rep. Emerson, Jo Ann [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2012-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Summary:
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: 
Synthetic Cathinones Control Act of 2012 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to add as schedule I controlled substances specified additional hallucinogenic substances (or the salts, isomers, or salts of isomers thereof).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2012-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-08-02
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: 2012-08-02
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: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
To promote peaceful and collaborative resolution of maritime territorial disputes in the South China Sea and its environs and other maritime areas adjacent to the East Asian mainland.

Bill: 112-hr-6313
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2012-08-02 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: ASEAN countries
Asia
Aviation and airports
China
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
International law and treaties
International organizations and cooperation
Japan
Marine and inland water transportation
Military operations and strategy
Navigation, waterways, harbors
North Korea
South Korea
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Taiwan

Summary:
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of State should: (1) reaffirm U.S. support for the peaceful resolution of maritime territorial disputes in the South China Sea, the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, and the Yellow Sea; (2) condemn the use of force by China in the South China and East China Seas and by China's North Korean ally in the Yellow Sea; (3) call on all parties to these territorial disputes to refrain from threatening force or using force to assert territorial claims; (4) welcome the diplomatic efforts of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and U.S. allies and partners in Taiwan, Japan, and the Republic of Korea to resolve these outstanding disputes; and (5) support U.S. Armed Forces operations in support of freedom of navigation rights in international waters and air space in the South China Sea, the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, and the Yellow Sea.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-12
text: Committee Agreed to Seek Consideration Under Suspension of the Rules, (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2012-09-12
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2012-08-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
American Energy Independence and Domestic Refining Capacity Act

Bill: 112-hr-6314
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2012-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Education programs funding
Energy prices
Energy research
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Government studies and investigations
Industrial facilities
Oil and gas
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Science and engineering education

Summary:
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: 
American Energy Independence and Domestic Refining Capacity Act - Establishes the Commission on Energy Independence and Domestic Refining Capacity, which shall, at the request of the President, conduct a study to determine whether the consolidation or closing of a refinery will result in an adverse decline in the nation's domestic refining capacity.
 
Requires that such study examine: (1) the state of the domestic refining industry, including the effect of the consolidation or refinery closure on overall production, domestic economic growth, and national gas prices; (2) the possibilities for the federal government to form public-private partnerships that would lead to increased domestic refining capacity; (3) the potential positive and adverse consequences of federal partnerships and incentives on growth within the industry; (4) the potential benefits of reinvesting a portion of revenues from public-private partnerships into energy related science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education, and seeding future federally funded energy research; and (5) the types of federal incentives that could be used to maintain domestic refining capacity.
 
Requires the Commission to report the results of such study within three months after it is requested. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy (DOE), if the study finds that a plant consolidation or closure will have an adverse effect on the nation's domestic refining capacity, to offer federal incentives to prevent the diminishment of refining capacity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Introduced in House