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Ban the Box Act

Bill: 112-hr-6220
Sponsor: Rep. Clarke, Hansen [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2012-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Criminal justice information and records
Employee hiring
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: 
Ban the Box Act - Makes it an unlawful employment practice for certain employers to seek information concerning a job applicant's conviction for a criminal offense.
 
Sets forth exceptions authorizing an employer to seek such information: (1) after a conditional offer for employment has been extended to an applicant, or (2) where the granting of employment may involve an unreasonable risk to the safety of specific individuals or the general public. 
 
Directs the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to issue rules indentifying factors to be considered by employers in assessing whether an individual's past criminal history poses such an unreasonable risk within defined categories of employment.
 
Sets forth enforcement procedures and remedies under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Congressional Accountability Act of 1995, Government Employee Rights Act of 1991, and the rights and protections extended to presidential offices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2012-08-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform, and 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: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform, and 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: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform, and 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: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform, and 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: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Identifying Cybersecurity Risks to Critical Infrastructure Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6221
Sponsor: Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2012-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Homeland security

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: 
Identifying Cybersecurity Risks to Critical Infrastructure Act of 2012 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to conduct continuous, sector-by-sector research, identification, and evaluation of cybersecurity risks to critical infrastructure in coordination with: (1) the heads of sector-specific agencies, (2) owners and operators of critical infrastructure, and (3) any private sector entity engaged in ensuring the security or resilience of critical infrastructure.
 
Directs the Secretary to ensure that information relating to such risks is: (1) disseminated, to the maximum extent possible, in an unclassified version, to owners and operators of critical infrastructure within each such sector; or (2) if the information in whole or in part should be classified, share such information with owners and operators who possess the appropriate security clearances.
 
Requires the Secretary to report to Congress at least semiannually on cybersecurity risks to critical infrastructure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-08-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1338)
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Clean Heating Oil Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6222
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2012-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Air quality
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Lighting, heating, cooling
Manufacturing
Oil and gas
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: 
Clean Heating Oil Act of 2012 - Amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit, effective June 1, 2016, any person from manufacturing, selling, supplying, offering for sale or supply, dispensing, transporting, or introducing into commerce heating oil which contains a concentration of sulfur in excess of: (1) 15 parts per million, or (2) a lesser concentration that may be established by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (but not below the concentration of sulfur in diesel fuel permissible under renewable fuel standards) to ensure that such concentration is not reasonably anticipated to endanger the public health or welfare. 
 
Allows the Administrator to: (1) provide for the issuance of credits to refiners and importers for amounts of heating oil manufactured or imported before June 1, 2016, in accordance with such limitation; and (2) allow a refiner or importer to use such credits, or transfer such credits to another refiner or importer for use, for the purpose of complying with this Act. Terminates such credits on June 1, 2019.
 
Defines "heating oil" to mean any number 1 distillate, number 2 dyed distillate, or non-petroleum diesel blend that is: (1) sold for use in furnaces, boilers, stationary diesel engines, or similar applications; and (2) commonly or commercially known or sold as heating oil or fuel oil or using a similar trade name.
 
Allows the Administrator to: (1) temporarily waive the requirements of this Act if the Administrator determines, and the Secretary of Energy (DOE) concurs, that the criteria for fuels and fuel additives is met with respect to heating oil; and (2) waive requirements of this Act with respect to any heating oil manufactured by a small refinery until June 1, 2019. 
 
 Applies penalty and injunction provisions for violations of fuel regulations under the Clean Air Act to violations of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Providing Assistance with the Paperwork from Excessive Regulations Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6224
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Austin [R-GA-8]
Introduced: 2012-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business records
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Government information and archives
Small business
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: 
Providing Assistance with the Paperwork from Excessive Regulations Act of 2012 - Amends the Paperwork Reduction Act to direct agency heads not to impose a civil fine for a first-time paperwork violation by a small business concern unless: (1) there is potential for serious harm to the public interest; (2) the detection of criminal activity would be impaired; (3) the violation is a violation of an internal revenue law or a law concerning the assessment or collection of any tax, debt, revenue, or receipt; (4) the small business concern fails to correct such violation within six months after receiving notice of the violation; or (5) the violation presents a danger to the public health or safety. 
 
Permits an agency to determine that a fine should not be imposed for a violation that presents a danger to public health or safety if the violation is corrected within five days after receipt by the small business concern of notification of the violation in writing.
 
Makes this Act inapplicable to any violation by a small business concern of a requirement regarding the collection of information by an agency if the small business concern previously violated any requirement regarding the collection of information by that agency. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for economic growth and personal financial liberty, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-6225
Sponsor: Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2012-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Capital gains tax
General taxation matters
Higher education
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Inflation and prices
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Marriage and family status
Small business
State and local taxation
Student aid and college costs
Taxation of foreign income
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: 
Makes permanent: (1) the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, and (2) provisions of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 that reduce tax rates on dividend and capital gain income.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent: (1) the tax deduction for tuition and related expenses, and (2) the increased expensing allowance for small business assets.
 
Repeals the estate tax and the tax on generation-skipping transfers. Modifies tax gift tax rates and allows an increased lifetime gift tax exemption. 
 
Extends for one year the increased exemption from the alternative minimum tax (AMT) for individual taxpayers and the offset against the AMT for certain nonrefundable personal tax credits. 
 
Provides for an inflation adjustment to the basis of certain assets held for more than three years for purposes of determining gain or loss from the disposition of such assets. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the nonbusiness energy property credit to include the insulation component of insulated siding.

Bill: 112-hr-6226
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2012-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Building construction
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Income tax credits
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonbusiness energy tax credit for the insulation portion of any building cladding system (including vinyl siding with integral insulating material) that has a minium thermal resistance of R-2.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Niblack Mining Area Road Authorization Act

Bill: 112-hr-6227
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2012-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Forests, forestry, trees
Licensing and registrations
Mining
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: 
Niblack Mining Area Road Authorization Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, to establish a road corridor that follows 1 of the 2 routes identified as &quot;Niblack Route 1&quot; or &quot;Niblack Route 2&quot; on the map entitled &quot;Road to Niblack Mine,&quot; numbered 1, and dated June 21, 2012, to connect the Prince of Wales Island road system in Alaska to the area of the Niblack patented mineral claims on the southeast side of Prince of Wales Island.
 
Sets forth requirements for such road corridor.
 
Authorizes Alaska and the Prince of Wales Community Advisory Council to participate as cooperating agencies during the preparation of any environmental impact statement prepared with respect to the road corridor. 
 
Expresses the intent of Congress that any federal permit required for such road construction be issued or denied within one year after the date of the permit application.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-08-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Introduced in House
To provide a one-year extension of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, with certain modifications and exceptions, to make supplemental agricultural disaster assistance available for fiscal years 2012 and 2013, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-6228
Sponsor: Rep. Lucas, Frank D. [R-OK-3]
Introduced: 2012-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural practices and innovations
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Agricultural research
Alternative and renewable resources
Appropriations
Aquaculture
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief and insurance
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Energy research
Executive agency funding and structure
Fires
Food assistance and relief
Forests, forestry, trees
Government lending and loan guarantees
Horticulture and plants
Livestock
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Poverty and welfare assistance
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Rural conditions and development
Small business
Water quality
Watersheds
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-30
text: 
Extends through September 30, 2013, with specified exceptions, programs under the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008.
 
Suspends specified price support authorities.
 
Extends specified: (1) commodity programs, (2) conservation programs, (3) employment and training programs, (4) research programs, (5) energy programs, and (6) horticulture and organic agriculture programs.
 
 Extends the program of outreach and technical assistance for socially disadvantaged farmers or ranchers.
 
Provides assistance for livestock losses caused by: (1) adverse weather or attacks by federally reintroduced animals, and (2) drought or fire.
 
Provides assistance for orchardists and nursery tree growers for commercial losses caused by natural disasters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2012-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-30
text: Introduced in House
United States Fire Administration Reauthorization Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6229
Sponsor: Rep. Biggert, Judy [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2012-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Federal officials
Fires

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-30
text: 
United States Fire Administration Reauthorization Act of 2012 - Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to: (1) authorize the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) Administrator to appoint a Deputy Administrator (current law requires the Deputy Administrator to be appointed by the President), (2) authorize the USFA Administrator to take such steps as the Administrator considers appropriate to educate the public and overcome public indifference as to individual preparedness (as well as to fire and fire prevention), and (3) authorize appropriations to carry out such Act through FY2017.
 
Repeals a provision that placed a cap on amounts made available to update the National Fire Incident Reporting System during FY2009-FY2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2012-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Grow Your Own Teacher Act

Bill: 112-hr-6230
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2012-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Language arts
Racial and ethnic relations
Science and engineering education
Special education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-30
text: 
Grow Your Own Teacher Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to establish a Grow Your Own Teacher program making competitive grants to eligible entities to train and employ certain individuals in hard-to-staff schools or teaching positions.
 
Defines an &quot;eligible entity&quot; as a consortium consisting of a local educational agency (LEA) that receives school improvement funds under part A of title I of the Act and an institution of higher education that offers a state-accredited teacher certificate program.
 
Requires the grant to be used to: (1) train certain individuals who received a high school diploma from a participating LEA to be teachers, including by having them observe and work with a veteran teacher in a classroom for at least one year; (2) employ such individuals in hard-to-staff schools and teaching positions in such LEA, with priority given to teaching positions in mathematics, science, special education, world languages, and English as a second language; and (3) employ such individuals in a manner that reduces the divergence between the racial diversity of teachers and of students.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to forgive the student loans incurred by training program participants who have been employed as teachers in hard-to-staff schools or teaching positions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2012-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2012-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-30
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to use funds derived from conservation-related programs executed on National Forest System lands to utilize the Agriculture Conservation Experienced Services Program.

Bill: 112-hr-6231
Sponsor: Rep. Ribble, Reid J. [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2012-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Aging
Agricultural conservation and pollution
Forests, forestry, trees
National and community service
Temporary and part-time employment

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-30
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), through the Forest Service, to use funds derived from conservation-related programs executed on National Forest System lands to utilize the Agriculture Conservation Experienced Services Program to provide technical services for conservation-related programs and authorities carried out by the Secretary on such lands. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
action_date: 2012-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2012-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2012-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2012-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-30
text: Introduced in House