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Strengthening Economic Development Through Affordable Housing Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4144
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2012-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Housing and community development funding
Low- and moderate-income housing

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: 
Strengthening Economic Development Through Affordable Housing Act of 2012 - Amends the State Small Business Credit Initiative Act of 2010 to allow states participating in the state small business credit initiative to provide funds to community housing development organizations to be used: (1) to develop, acquire, rehabilitate, maintain, operate, or manage housing projects for low- or moderate-income households; (2) to cover any matching, non-federal contribution required in connection with any other federal grant or assistance program providing such housing; or (3) to purchase foreclosed properties and property being sold by a state or local government in order to provide such housing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Section 8 Reform, Responsibility, and Accountability Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4145
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2012-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Criminal justice information and records
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Housing and community development funding
Low- and moderate-income housing
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public housing
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: 
Section 8 Reform, Responsibility, and Accountability Act of 2012 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 (USHA) to prohibit section 8 rental assistance (including tenant- and project-based assistance) from being provided to any family that includes a convicted felon or illegal alien.
 
Places a five-year limitation on section 8 rental assistance, disregarding any month during which such individual was a member of a disabled or elderly family so assisted.
 
Prohibits such assistance on behalf of any family, unless each member of the family who is 18 years of age or older performs at least 20 hours of work activities per week.
 
Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to exempt from such prohibition any individual family member who meets certain requirements.
 
Requires a public housing agency (PHA), in providing such housing assistance, to give preference to families that include a member who is a veteran that will reside in the dwelling unit.
 
Declares that requirements relating to termination of housing assistance and termination of tenancy shall apply to any section 8 housing assistance provided, any housing assistance payments contract, and any tenant of a unit assisted.
 
Prohibits any requirement of USHA, or of any housing assistance payments contract under USHA, from being construed to annul, alter, affect, or exempt any person or housing assisted under it or under such a contract from complying with the laws of any state or local government. 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the HUD Moving to Work demonstration program under the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 should be expanded to include significantly more PHAs.
 
Authorizes the use of unspent section 8 housing assistance payments for section 8 compliance measures.
 
Requires approved PHA plans, including modifications and amendments, to be made public at the PHA's office and in electronic form on the World Wide Web.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Upper Mississippi CARP Act

Bill: 112-hr-4146
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2012-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Congressional oversight
Dams and canals
Fishes
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations
Minnesota
Mississippi River
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: 
Upper Mississippi Conservation and River Protection Act of 2012 or the Upper Mississippi CARP Act - Directs the Chief of Engineers to: (1) study the feasibility of temporarily closing the lock at the Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam, or implementing control measures at the lock, including permanently closing the lock, modifying lock operations, or using an alternative technology barrier, to manage the threat of Asian carp traveling up the Mississippi River in Minnesota; and (2) assess the potential impacts, including environmental and economic impacts, of temporarily closing the lock or continuing to operate it and of implementing the control measures or not implementing such measures.
 
Authorizes the Chief to close the lock upon determining that closure is justified based on the assessment of potential impacts. Requires the Chief to close the lock upon determining that a live adult Asian carp has been captured above Lock and Dam 2 or that a juvenile Asian carp has been captured above Lock and Dam 4. Allows the Chief to reopen the lock upon determining that adequate measures are in place to manage the threat.
 
Directs the Council on Environmental Quality to incorporate the Upper Mississippi River and tributaries, the Minnesota River, and the St. Croix River into the Asian Carp Control Strategy Framework of the Council.
 
 Expresses the sense of Congress that federal agencies researching Asian carp control technologies should partner with state and local shareholders, giving priority to collaborative partnerships in which such shareholders contribute to the cost of the research.
 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Introduced in House
ChiPACC Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-4147
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2012-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Comprehensive health care
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: 
ChiPACC Act of 2011 [
sic
] - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to give states the option of covering a children's program of all-inclusive coordinated care (ChiPACC).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E321)
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Fox-Wisconsin Heritage Parkway National Heritage Area Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4148
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2012-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Land use and conservation
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: 
 Fox-Wisconsin Heritage Parkway National Heritage Area Act of 2012 - Establishes the Fox-Wisconsin Heritage Parkway National Heritage Area in Wisconsin. 
 
Designates the Fox-Wisconsin Heritage Parkway as the local coordinating entity for the Heritage Area.
 
Requires the Fox-Wisconsin Heritage Parkway to prepare and submit a management plan for the Heritage Area.
 
Sets forth requirements for the approval or disapproval of the management plan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E319)
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to clarify that the value of certain funeral and burial arrangements are not to be considered available resources under the supplemental security income program.

Bill: 112-hr-4149
Sponsor: Rep. Southerland, Steve II [R-FL-2]
Introduced: 2012-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: 
Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act to provide that the value of certain funeral and burial arrangements involving an irrevocable trust whose named beneficiary is the funeral provider are not to be considered, under the SSI program, as resources available to the individual. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-06
text: Introduced in House
To remove from the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System the areas included in Indian Peninsula Unit FL–92 and Cape San Blas Unit P–30 in Florida.

Bill: 112-hr-4150
Sponsor: Rep. Southerland, Steve II [R-FL-2]
Introduced: 2012-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Florida
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: 
Amends the Coastal Barrier Resources Act to remove from the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System and related maps the areas comprising Indian Peninsula Unit FL-92 and Cape San Blas Unit P-30 in Florida.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the conveyance of a small parcel of Bureau of Prisons land in Leon County, Florida.

Bill: 112-hr-4151
Sponsor: Rep. Southerland, Steve II [R-FL-2]
Introduced: 2012-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Florida
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: 
Directs the Attorney General to convey, without consideration, to Leon County, Florida, all interest of the United States in a parcel of Bureau of Prisons land in the county comprising approximately 9.1 acres of specified undeveloped land. 
 
Subjects such conveyance to the condition that Leon County accept such real property in its &quot;as is&quot; condition at the time of conveyance. 
 
Requires: (1) the exact acreage and legal description of the property to be conveyed to be determined by a survey that is satisfactory to the Attorney General, and (2) the cost of such survey to be borne by Leon County. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Introduced in House
Hatch Act Modernization Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4152
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2012-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative remedies
District of Columbia
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Merit Systems Protection Board
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: 
Hatch Act Modernization Act of 2012 - Amends the Hatch Act to: (1) eliminate the prohibition against state and local employees seeking partisan elective office; (2) make employees of the District of Columbia subject to the provisions applicable to state and local employees (currently, District employees are subject to the provisions applicable to federal employees); and (3) revise penalties for violations to allow penalties other than termination of employment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Introduced in House
EXPERRT Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4156
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2012-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Genetics
Medical research
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: 
Expanding and Promoting Expertise in Review of Rare Treatments Act of 2012 or EXPERRT Act of 2012 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a program for consultation with external experts to inform and strengthen the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) review of drugs and biologic products for rare diseases and drugs and biologic products that are genetically targeted.
 
Requires, under such program, each review division within the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research to seek the opinion of external experts on topics that may include: (1) rare diseases; (2) the severity of rare diseases; (3) the unmet medical need associated with rare diseases; (4) the willingness and ability of individuals with a rare disease to participate in clinical trials; (5) an assessment of the benefits and risks, including side effects, of current and investigational therapies; (6) the design of clinical trials for rare disease populations and subpopulations; and (7) demographics and the clinical description of patient populations. Allows external experts to request the opportunity to meet with a review division regarding any such topic. Authorizes the Secretary to determine the timing of each consultation, which may occur prior to, or following, the filing of an investigational new drug application, a new drug application, or a biologies license application.
 
 Requires the experts consulted to be considered special government employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Introduced in House
Preserving America's Family Farms Act

Bill: 112-hr-4157
Sponsor: Rep. Latham, Tom [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2012-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Agricultural practices and innovations
Congressional oversight
Department of Labor
Labor standards
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: 
Preserving America's Family Farms Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Labor from finalizing or enforcing proposed rule &quot;Child Labor Regulations, Orders and Statements of Interpretation; Child Labor Violations-Civil Money Penalties&quot; (relating to child labor in agricultural and nonagricultural occupations) issued pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act and published on September 2, 2011.

action_date: 2012-07-24
text: 
Preserving America's Family Farms Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Labor from reissuing in substantially the same form, or issuing a new rule that is substantially the same as, the proposed rule &quot;Child Labor Regulations, Orders and Statements of Interpretation; Child Labor Violations-Civil Money Penalties&quot; (relating to child labor in agricultural and nonagricultural occupations) issued pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act and published on September 2, 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-25
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5162)
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5162)
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4157.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5162-5167)
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Mr. Walberg moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Introduced in House
American Jobs in American Forests Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4159
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2012-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Employee hiring
Foreign labor
State and local government operations
Temporary and part-time employment
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: 
American Jobs in American Forests Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Labor, as a component of the H-2B (temporary nonagricultural workers) labor certification process, to take specified actions to recruit U.S. workers before petitioning to hire H-2B workers. 
 
 Requires a prospective H-2B employer to submit a separate petition for each state in which the employer plans to employ H-2B non-immigrants for a period of at least seven days. 
Prohibits the Secretary from granting a temporary labor certification to a prospective H-2B employer until the Director of the state workforce agency has determined that: (1) employer recruitment requirements have been met, and (2) U.S. nationals are not qualified or available to fill such employment opportunities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Introduced in House
Defending Quality Postal Delivery for the Future Act

Bill: 112-hr-4161
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2012-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Postal service
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: 
Defending Quality Postal Delivery for the Future Act - Prohibits the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from closing or consolidating any post office or other postal facility that is located in a ZIP code that has a high rate of population growth.
 
Directs the Postmaster General to determine annually whether a ZIP code has a high rate of population growth using population data available from the Bureau of the Census.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Introduced in House
Great Lakes Assurance Program Verification Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4162
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Candice S. [R-MI-10]
Introduced: 2012-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Great Lakes
Illinois
Indiana
Lakes and rivers
Michigan
Minnesota
New York State
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Water quality
Watersheds
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: 
Great Lakes Assurance Program Verification Act of 2012 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to require the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), in consultation with the Great Lakes States, to establish a Great Lakes basin initiative for agricultural non-point source pollution prevention.
 
Defines &quot;Great Lakes State&quot; as Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Introduced in House
Preserving Consumers' Mortgage Origination Choices Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4163
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Gary G. [R-CA-42]
Introduced: 2012-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Housing finance and home ownership
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: 
Preserving Consumer's Mortgage Origination Choices Act of 2012 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act with respect to the prohibitions against: (1) steering incentives in connection with residential mortgage loan origination; and (2) the restructuring of a financing origination fee, except in certain circumstances.
 
Declares that nothing in such prohibitions shall be construed as prohibiting a mortgage originator who receives compensation directly from a consumer from compensating another mortgage originator employee, mortgage originator agent, or mortgage originator contractor based on the principal amount of the loan, provided that the amount of compensation received by such employee, agent, or contractor may not vary based on any other terms of the loan.
 
Allows a mortgage originator, at the consumer's request, to reduce the amount of compensation the originator is receiving to offset permitted settlement charges (other than those the originator controls) that exceed the amounts previously disclosed on the good faith estimate of the settlement charges given to that consumer, provided that the originator's compensation may not increase.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Introduced in House