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Breast Cancer Patient Education Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-5937
Sponsor: Rep. Lance, Leonard [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2012-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Surgery and anesthesia
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: 
Breast Cancer Patient Education Act of 2012 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide for the planning and implementation of an education campaign to inform breast cancer patients anticipating surgery regarding the availability and coverage of breast reconstruction, prostheses, and other options.
 
Requires such campaign to include dissemination of the following information: (1) breast reconstruction is possible at the time of breast cancer surgery or in a delayed fashion; (2) prostheses or breast forms may be available; (3) federal law mandates that both public and private health plans include coverage of breast reconstruction and prostheses; (4) the patient has a right to choose the provider of reconstructive care, including the potential transfer of care to a surgeon that provides breast reconstructive care; and (5) the patient may opt to undergo breast reconstruction in a delayed fashion for personal reasons or after completion of all other breast cancer treatments.
 
Prohibits such campaign from specifying, or being designed to serve as a tool to limit, the health care providers available to patients.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Child Care Flex Spending Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-5938
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2012-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adult day care
Child care and development
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: 
Child Care Flex Spending Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $5,000 to $10,000 the limitation on the tax exclusion for employer-provided dependent care assistance for taxpayers whose modified adjusted gross income is less than $100,000. Provides for an annual inflation adjustment beginning after 2013 for the increased limitation amount and the modified adjusted gross income amount. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 North Taylor Lane in Patagonia, Arizona, as the "Jim Kolbe Post Office".

Bill: 112-hr-5939
Sponsor: Rep. Pastor, Ed [D-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2012-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Arizona
Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 North Taylor Lane in Patagonia, Arizona, as the "Jim Kolbe Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Preserving American Homeownership Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-5940
Sponsor: Rep. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI-9]
Introduced: 2012-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Financial services and investments
Government studies and investigations
Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Real estate business

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: 
Preserving American Homeownership Act of 2012 - Requires the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Federal Housing Commissioner each to establish a pilot program to encourage, through assistance provided under the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) under the Secretary of the Treasury's Making Home Affordable initiative, the use of shared appreciation mortgage modifications that: (1) are designed to return greater cash flow to investors than other loss-mitigation activities, including foreclosure; and (2) result in positive net present value for the investor.
 
Requires a shared appreciation mortgage modification to: (1) reduce by specified action the loan-to-value ratio of a covered mortgage to 115% immediately upon modification and to 95% within 3 years; (2) reduce the interest rate if such a principal reduction would not result in an affordable reduced monthly payment; (3) reduce to a specified amount any periodic payment the homeowner is required to make; (4) require the homeowner to pay the investor, after refinancing or selling the real property securing a covered mortgage, up to 50% of the amount of any increase in the value of the real property during a specified period; and (5) result in a positive net present value for the investor after taking into account the principal reduction and, if necessary, any interest rate reduction.
 
Requires the Director to: (1) provide that an enterprise may negotiate regarding a shared appreciation mortgage modification of a covered mortgage with any mortgage insurance provider for a mortgage on the subject property, and (2) allow advanced claim agreements with respect to such mortgage insurance policies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Introduced in House
DART Act

Bill: 112-hr-5941
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2012-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: 
DHS Audit Requirement Target Act of 2012 or the DART Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to take steps to ensure that the full set of consolidated financial statements of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for FY2013 and each fiscal year thereafter are ready in a timely manner and in preparation for an audit as part of preparing the required performance and accountability reports, in order to obtain an unqualified opinion.
 
Requires each annual report submitted by DHS's Chief Financial Officer to include a plan: (1) to obtain such unqualified opinion; (2) that addresses how DHS will eliminate material weaknesses and significant deficiencies in internal controls over financial reporting; and (3) to modernize the financial management systems of DHS, including consideration of alternative approaches that include modernizing existing, and establishing new, financial management systems and associated financial controls.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Management.
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2012-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2012-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Quality Improvement Organization Program Restoration Act

Bill: 112-hr-5942
Sponsor: Rep. Price, Tom [R-GA-6]
Introduced: 2012-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health programs administration and funding
Medicare
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: 
Quality Improvement Organization Program Restoration Act - Amends the Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2011 to repeal its revisions to requirements for contracts with Medicare Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs).
 
Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to specify expenditures or funding for: (1) 3-year QIO contracts for contract periods beginning on or after August 1, 2014, and ending on or before July 31, 2021, but with a certain reduction in aggregate funds payable after October 1, 2014; and (2) contracts with utilization and quality control peer review organizations for any contract period beginning on or after August 1, 2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2012-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2012-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Rural Hospital Access Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-5943
Sponsor: Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-29]
Introduced: 2012-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: 
Rural Hospital Access Act of 2012 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend through FY2013: (1) the current methodology for payment to subsection (d) hospitals for inpatient hospital services furnished to individuals under the Medicare-dependent, small rural hospital (MDH) program, and (2) increased payments under the Medicare program for low-volume hospitals (with under 1,600 annual discharges). 
 
(Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system [IPPS] when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study such programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Jing Roberts.

Bill: 112-hr-5945
Sponsor: Rep. Huizenga, Bill [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2012-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Provides for the relief of Jing Roberts.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Military Savings Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-5946
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2012-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Congressional oversight
Consumer credit
Financial literacy
Financial services and investments
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-12
text: 
Military Savings Act of 2012 - Directs the Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller) to carry out a five-year pilot program to develop innovative consumer financial products that encourage savings and wealth-creation among active-duty servicemembers. Requires the program to be carried out in such a way that it does not exacerbate the incidence of servicemember credit overextension. Directs the Undersecretary to choose at least 10 military installations at which to implement the program.
 
Directs the Undersecretary to contract for an annual independent program evaluation until its termination.
 
Allows the Undersecretary, under certain conditions, to expand the program to a nationwide program and to extend its duration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2012-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2012-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Justice Exists for All of Us Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-5947
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2012-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime prevention
Firearms and explosives
Law enforcement administration and funding
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-12
text: 
Justice Exists for All of Us Act of 2012 - Prohibits a state, for each fiscal year beginning after three years after enactment of this Act, from having in effect a law or policy that: (1) allows a person to use deadly force when such person is threatened and that does not, except where the person is a victim of domestic violence, impose a duty to retreat before using such force in any place where that person is lawfully present (commonly known as a &quot;stand your ground law&quot;); or (2) allows the establishment, organization, or operation of, or participation in, a Neighborhood Watch program that is not registered with the local law enforcement agency and the Department of Justice (DOJ). Allows the Attorney General to authorize up to two one-year extensions of such deadline.
 
Provides that a state that fails to substantially implement this Act for any fiscal year shall not receive 20% of the funds that would otherwise be allocated to it under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program. Provides for alternative procedures for compliance by a state that is unable to substantially implement this Act because of a conflict with the state's constitution. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2012-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-12
text: Introduced in House
NADA Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-5950
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2012-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Aviation and airports
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-15
text: 
No Armed Drones Act of 2012 or NADA Act of 2012 - Amends the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 to prohibit the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) from authorizing any person to: (1) operate an unmanned aircraft system (drone) in the national airspace system as a weapon or to deliver a weapon against a person or property; or (2) manufacture, sell, or distribute a drone (or a component of one) for such a use.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2012-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2012-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5, United States Code, to restore to Members of the House of Representatives an election to decline coverage under the Federal Employees' Retirement System.

Bill: 112-hr-5951
Sponsor: Rep. Heck, Joseph J. [R-NV-3]
Introduced: 2012-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
House of Representatives
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-15
text: 
Redefines &quot;Member of Congress&quot; under the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) with respect to the exclusion from the meaning of &quot;Member&quot; as any Member of the House of Representatives, including a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to Congress, who opts out of FERS, but only if he or she served as a Member before the enactment of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2004. Repeals the requirement of service before enactment of such Act. (Thus, allows Members to opt out of FERS benefits regardless of when they have been elected.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-15
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: 2012-06-15
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: 2012-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-15
text: Introduced in House
To require each Federal agency to submit and obtain approval from the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy of guidelines for ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of scientific information relied upon by the agency.

Bill: 112-hr-5952
Sponsor: Rep. Manzullo, Donald A. [R-IL-16]
Introduced: 2012-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Medical research
Policy sciences
Product safety and quality
Public participation and lobbying
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-18
text: 
Requires federal agencies, by January 1, 2013, to have in effect guidelines to ensure and maximize the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of the scientific information upon which the agencies rely. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2012-06-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1062)
action_date: 2012-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Prohibiting Back-door Amnesty Act

Bill: 112-hr-5953
Sponsor: Rep. Quayle, Benjamin [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2012-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional oversight
Department of Homeland Security
Immigration status and procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-18
text: 
Prohibiting Back-door Amnesty Act - Disapproves and nullifies: (1) the June 17, 2011, memorandum from the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regarding the exercise of prosecutorial discretion consistent with ICE's civil immigration enforcement priorities for the apprehension, detention, and removal of aliens; (2) the June 15, 2012, memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) regarding the exercise of prosecutorial discretion with respect to individuals who came to the United States as children; and (3) the draft directive developed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) containing guidance on when to pursue enforcement actions and factors CBP personnel should consider when exercising discretion.
 
Prohibits the President, the Secretary, or any DHS personnel from promulgating, implementing, administering, or enforcing any executive order, proposed or final rule, other provision of law, guidance, or policy that is the same as, or similar in effect to, any of such documents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2012-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-18
text: Introduced in House
State Secrets Protection Act

Bill: 112-hr-5956
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2012-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Evidence and witnesses
Government information and archives
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Judicial procedure and administration
Judicial review and appeals

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-18
text: 
State Secrets Protection Act - Amends the Federal Rules of Evidence to declare that, in any civil action brought in federal or state court, the government has a privilege to refuse to give information and to prevent any person from giving information only if the government shows that public disclosure of the information that the government seeks to protect would be reasonably likely to cause significant harm to the national defense or the diplomatic relations of the United States. 
 
Requires the court to take steps, which may include in camera and ex parte hearings and other security procedures, to protect sensitive information that comes before it.
 
Sets forth the court's authority regarding the participation of counsel, appointment of a guardian ad litem to represent an absent litigant's interests, and the disclosure of information when it presents a risk of harm. Provides for court-ordered presentation of adequate or nonprivileged substitutes (redacted copies, summary of information, stipulation of facts) for privileged information.
 
Allows the government to: (1) assert the privilege in connection with any claim in a civil action to which it is a party, or (2) intervene in a civil action to which it is not a party in order to do so.
 
Provides that once the government has asserted the privilege, and before the court makes any determinations, the court shall: (1) undertake a preliminary review of the information in question, and (2) provide the government an opportunity to seek protective measures under this Act.
 
Establishes procedures and a standard for assessing the privilege claim.
 
Requires the court, if it determines that the privilege is not validly asserted, to issue appropriate orders regarding the disclosure of the information to a nongovernmental party and its admission at trial, with the right to an interlocutory appeal for any such orders. Prohibits such disclosure or admission if the privilege is determined valid.
 
Grants the courts of appeal jurisdiction of an appeal from a decision or order of a district court determining that the state secrets privilege is not validly asserted, sanctioning a refusal to provide an adequate or nonprivileged substitute, or refusing protective steps sought by the government pending the resolution of the claim of state secrets privilege.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2012-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-18
text: Introduced in House