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Elko Motocross and Tribal Conveyance Act

Bill: 112-hr-3815
Sponsor: Rep. Amodei, Mark E. [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2012-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Gambling
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Motor vehicles
Nevada
Pedestrians and bicycling
Sports and recreation facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: 
Elko Motocross and Tribal Conveyance Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to Elko County, Nevada, without consideration, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to approximately 275 acres of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Elko District, Nevada, as depicted on the map as &quot;Elko Motocross Park.&quot; Requires the land conveyed to be used only: (1) as a motocross, bicycle, off-highway vehicle, or stock car racing area; or (2) for any other public purpose consistent with the Recreation and Public Purposes Act.
 
Holds 373 acres of BLM administered land in trust for the Te-moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada. Makes such land part of the Tribe's reservation. Prohibits class II or III gaming on such land. Limits the use of such land to: (1) traditional and customary uses, (2) stewardship conservation for the benefit of the Tribe, and (3) residential or recreational development. Requires the Tribe to pay the Secretary of the Interior the fair market value of any portion of such land used for another purpose.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2012-01-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Pilot's Bill of Rights

Bill: 112-hr-3816
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2012-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Advisory bodies
Aviation and airports
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Judicial review and appeals
Licensing and registrations
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
Transportation employees
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: 
Pilot's Bill of Rights - Requires National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) proceedings for the review of decisions of the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to deny, amend, modify, suspend, or revoke an airman's certificate to be conducted, to the extent practicable, in accordance with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Federal Rules of Evidence.
 
Requires the Administrator to: (1) advise the subject of an investigation involving the approval, denial, suspension, modification, or revocation of an airman certificate of specified information pertinent to the investigation; and (2) provide him or her with access to relevant air traffic data.
 
Allows an individual to elect to file an appeal of a certificate denial, a punitive civil action, or an emergency order of revocation in the U.S. district court in which individual resides, in which the action in question occurred, or the district court for the District of Columbia. Allows an adversely affected individual who elects not to file an appeal in a federal district court to file such appeal with the NTSB.
 
Directs the Administrator to begin a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) Improvement Program to improve the system of providing airmen with pertinent and timely information before a flight in the national airspace system.
 
Makes Flight Service Station briefings and other air traffic services performed by any government contractor available to airmen under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
 
Requires the Administrator to review the FAA system for the medical certification of airmen in order to: (1) revise the medical application form, (2) align medical qualification policies with present-day qualified medical judgment and practices, and (3) publish objective medical standards to advise the public of the criteria determining an airman's medical certificate eligibility.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to improve the energy efficiency of electric instantaneous water heaters, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-3817
Sponsor: Rep. Himes, James A. [D-CT-4]
Introduced: 2012-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Energy
Energy efficiency and conservation
Lighting, heating, cooling
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: 
Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to include within the meaning of &quot;water heater&quot; an electric instantaneous water heater with an input of 25 kilowatts or less. (Current law includes an electric instantaneous water heater with an input of 12 kilowatts or less within the meaning of &quot;water heater.&quot;)
 
Establishes the minimum required energy factor for such water heaters manufactured on or after January 1, 2012.
 
Requires the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to prescribe test procedures under such Act for such water heaters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Battlefields Commemorative Coin Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-3818
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2012-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Social Sciences and History
Subjects: Commemorative events and holidays
Conflicts and wars
Currency
Europe
Military history
U.S. history
United Kingdom

Summary:
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: 
Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Battlefields Commemorative Coin Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue five-dollar gold coins, one-dollar silver coins, and half-dollar clad coins emblematic of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology.
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Health Freedom for Seniors Act

Bill: 112-hr-3819
Sponsor: Rep. Huizenga, Bill [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2012-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: 
Health Freedom for Seniors Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax-free transfers of required distributions after age 70 1/2 from an individual retirement account (IRA) and other tax-exempt retirement accounts to a health savings account. Exempts such transfers from the excise tax on excess contributions to tax-favored accounts and annuities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Elder Care Tax Credit Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-3820
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2012-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Tax treatment of families

Summary:
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: 
Elder Care Tax Credit Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the tax credit for dependent care expenses for parents (or ancestors of such parents) of the taxpayer who are physically or mentally incapable of self-care, regardless of whether such a parent has the same principal place of abode as the taxpayer for more than one-half of the taxable year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Introduced in House
After School for America's Children Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-3821
Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Dale E. [D-MI-5]
Introduced: 2012-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Child health
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Family relationships
Indian social and development programs
Language arts
Minority education
Nutrition and diet
Physical fitness and lifestyle
School administration
Science and engineering education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: 
After School for America's Children Act of 2012 - Amends the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program under part B of title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). (21st Century Community Learning Centers provide students with before and afterschool programs to improve their academic performance.)
 
Requires the Centers to provide: (1) students with activities that are targeted to their academic needs and aligned with the instruction they receive during the school day, and (2) students' families with opportunities for active and meaningful engagement in their children's education.
 
Includes Indian tribes or organizations among the local public or private entities that are eligible for grants from states to establish the Centers.
 
Requires states to use at least 93% (currently 95%) of their allotment from the Secretary of Education to provide grants to those entities. 
 
Allows states to use up to 5% (currently, 3%) of their allotment for certain state activities.
 
Requires states to use a rigorous peer review process in reviewing grant applications.
 
Allows states to renew a grant under part B based on the grantee's performance during the original grant period.
 
Prohibits the Secretary or states from giving funding priority to applicants that propose to use the funds to extend the regular school day.
 
Includes among the activities grants may fund: (1) core academic subject education activities, including those that allow students to recover or attain credits; (2) literacy education programs; (3) programs that support a healthy, active lifestyle; (4) services for the disabled; (5) programs that support global education and competence; (6) social and emotional learning programming; and (7) programs that build science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills and support innovative STEM teaching methods.
 
Reauthorizes the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program through FY2017.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Introduced in House
To require the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to retain and redistribute certain amounts collected as fines.

Bill: 112-hr-3822
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2012-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Emergency planning and evacuation
Executive agency funding and structure
Intergovernmental relations
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Nuclear power
Radioactive wastes and releases
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: 
Requires the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to retain amounts collected for safety-related fines and to distribute them to counties for maintaining radiological emergency preparedness plans required in connection with the nuclear facility with respect to which the fines were collected.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Airline First Responder Workplace Fairness Act

Bill: 112-hr-3824
Sponsor: Rep. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2012-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
Labor standards
Transportation employees
Transportation safety and security
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: 
Airline First Responder Workplace Fairness Act - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to establish an Aviation Rulemaking Committee to develop recommendations for the Administrator to include in a final rule to minimize flight attendant fatigue.
 
Requires the Committee to comprise aviation safety experts, labor representatives, and industry stakeholders.
 
Directs the Administrator to issue regulations to minimize flight attendant fatigue.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E76)
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Introduced in House
Work Force Housing Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3825
Sponsor: Rep. Pompeo, Mike [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2012-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership
Low- and moderate-income housing

Summary:
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: 
Work Force Housing Act of 2011 - Amends the National Housing Act to exempt a work force residential housing property from the prohibition against the use of multifamily housing under a federally insured mortgage for transient or hotel purposes (thus authorizing such use).
 
 Defines &quot;work force residential housing property&quot; as multifamily housing: (1) whose dwelling units are rented for a minimum stay of seven days, and (2) that does not provide retail hotel amenities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend the reduced interest rate for Federal Direct Stafford Loans.

Bill: 112-hr-3826
Sponsor: Rep. Courtney, Joe [D-CT-2]
Introduced: 2012-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: 
Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to make the 3.4% interest rate on Direct Stafford loans first disbursed to undergraduate students between July 1, 2011, and July 1, 2012, applicable to Direct Stafford loans first disbursed to undergraduate students on or after July 1, 2012. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research program and comparative effectiveness research funding.

Bill: 112-hr-3827
Sponsor: Rep. Guthrie, Brett [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2012-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Health care quality
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Research administration and funding
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: 
Repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Internal Revenue Code, and rescinds all unobligated funds, that provide for the establishment and funding of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to identify priorities for, and establish, update, and carry out, a national comparative outcomes research project agenda, as well as that provide for the dissemination of the research findings published by the Institute and other government-funded research that are relevant to comparative clinical effectiveness research.
 
Rescinds all remaining unobligated balances available to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for purposes of comparative effectiveness research.
 
Requires the total amount rescinded by this Act to be deposited in the Treasury to pay down the national debt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Appropriations, the Budget, and 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: 2012-01-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Appropriations, the Budget, and 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: 2012-01-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Appropriations, the Budget, and 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: 2012-01-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Appropriations, the Budget, and 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: 2012-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Introduced in House
Military Religious Freedom Protection Act

Bill: 112-hr-3828
Sponsor: Rep. Huelskamp, Tim [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2012-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Defense
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Marriage and family status
Military facilities and property
Military personnel and dependents
Religion
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: 
Military Religious Freedom Protection Act - Requires the sincerely held religious or moral beliefs of a member of the Armed Forces concerning the appropriate and inappropriate expression of human sexuality to be accommodated and not the basis of any adverse personnel action, discrimination, or denial of promotion, schooling, training, or assignment (adverse actions).
 
Prohibits a military chaplain from being directed, ordered, or required to perform any duty, rite, ritual, ceremony, service, or function (ceremony) that is contrary to the conscience, moral principles, or religious beliefs (beliefs) of the chaplain or the chaplain's faith group. Prohibits the refusal of a chaplain to perform a ceremony that is contrary to such beliefs from being the basis of any adverse actions.
 
Requires the Secretary of Defense to issue regulations setting forth guidance to implement such requirements and prohibitions.
 
Prohibits a military installation or other property owned, rented, or otherwise under the jurisdiction or control of the Department of Defense (DOD) from being used to officiate, solemnize, or perform a marriage or marriage-like ceremony involving anything other than the union of one man with one woman.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Introduced in House
CARE for Kids Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-3829
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2012-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Child care and development
Child safety and welfare
Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Domestic violence and child abuse
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Government information and archives
Sex offenses
State and local government operations
User charges and fees
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: 
Childcare Accountability and Responsibility Act of 2012 or the CARE for Kids Act of 2012 - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to require a national criminal background check for an individual who is a child care staff member, a family child care provider, or an adult who resides in the home of a family child care provider in any state that receives funds from the Child Care and Development Block Grant Program. Requires that such background check include: (1) a search of the national Sex Offender Registry, the National Crime Information Center, state criminal registries, and state-based abuse and neglect registries and databases; and (2) a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) fingerprint check. 
 
Makes a child care provider ineligible for Program funds if the criminal background check reveals an adult felony conviction of any such individual for: (1) child abuse or neglect; (2) spousal abuse; (3) a crime against children (including child pornography); (4) a violent crime; or (5) distribution, possession with intent to distribute, or importation of a controlled substance committed within the previous five years.
 
Allows: (1) a child care provider or an individual subject to a background check to appeal the results to the appropriate designated state agency, and (2) a state to collect a fee from providers for such background checks to defray costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Introduced in House
To restrict the provision of defense articles and defense services to the Government of Iraq, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-3830
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2012-01-25 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Congressional oversight
Human rights
Iraq
Middle East
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: 
Prohibits defense articles or services from being provided to Iraq unless the President certifies to Congress that Iraq agrees to not use such articles or services or any other U.S.-provided defense articles of defense services within the Kurdistan region of Iraq without the consent of the Kurdistan Regional Government.
 
States that if the President determines that Iraq has used defense articles or defense services in violation of such restrictions no further defense articles or defense services may be provided to Iraq unless the President certifies to Congress that: (1) Iraq has withdrawn such articles or services from Kurdistan, and (2) the Kurdistan Regional Government has approved the provision to Iraq of such further defense articles or services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-01-25
text: Introduced in House