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Rebuilding Equity Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6467
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2012-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Consumer credit
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Housing finance and home ownership
Legal fees and court costs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: 
Rebuilding Equity Act of 2012 - Requires the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (government sponsored enterprises or GSEs) each to establish a voluntary program for eligible borrowers who qualify for the Home Affordable Refinance Program carried out by the GSEs, under which the GSEs shall pay up to $1,000 of the closing costs associated with applying for and receiving refinancing when the borrower agrees to refinance a 30-year mortgage loan into a fully amortizing loan with a term of not longer than 20 years. Requires the subject property to have a loan-to-value ratio of not less than 105%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that tar sands are crude oil for purposes of the Federal excise tax on petroleum.

Bill: 112-hr-6468
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2012-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Oil and gas
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include tar sands in the definition of &quot;crude oil&quot; for purposes of the excise tax on petroleum.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Soledad Canyon Mine Mitigation and Relocation Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6469
Sponsor: Rep. McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [R-CA-25]
Introduced: 2012-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Congressional oversight
Foreign and international corporations
Government liability
Government studies and investigations
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
Mining
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: 
Soledad Canyon Mine Mitigation and Relocation Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to begin a study of the legal and administrative steps, including obtaining sufficient funding, necessary to carry out the goals of the Soledad Canyon High Desert, California Public Lands Conservation and Management Act of 2009. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-10-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2012-10-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
PESTT Act

Bill: 112-hr-6470
Sponsor: Rep. Mulvaney, Mick [R-SC-5]
Introduced: 2012-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Mammals
Pest management
Public contracts and procurement
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: 
Pest Elimination Services Transparency and Terminology or the PESTT Act - Amends the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1988, with respect to nuisance animal control activities and agreements of the Department of Agriculture (USDA), to define &quot;urban rodent control&quot; (excepted from such activities) as efforts to directly control any mammal in the order Rodentia in a location that is not an airport or in a rural area.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to submit a report to Congress on activities carried out by the Wildlife Services program of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service that: (1) identifies activities that can be carried out by private sector entities, (2) prioritizes those vital to the protection of public health and safety and agricultural production and that can be performed by such entities, and (3) recommends ways to avoid duplication by the Wildlife Services program and the private sector.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Horticulture .
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the employment of an additional instructor for units of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps in which a large percentage of the student population is enrolled.

Bill: 112-hr-6471
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2012-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Military education and training
National Guard and reserves
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned, if more than 15% of the qualified students at a secondary educational institution are enrolled in its Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) unit and the institution has fewer than three program instructors, to detail additional active-duty officers and employ additional retired members of the Armed Forces to serve as an instructor.
 
Requires the Secretary concerned to cover the entire cost of employment of any additional instructors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-10-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Savings for American Families' Future Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6472
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2012-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: 
Savings for American Families' Future Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the rate of the tax credit for retirement savings contributions, (2) make such credit refundable, and (3) direct the Secretary of the Treasury to pay matching credit amounts into taxpayer retirement accounts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 500 North Brevard Avenue in Cocoa Beach, Florida, as the "Richard K. Salick Post Office".

Bill: 112-hr-6473
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2012-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Florida
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 500 North Brevard Avenue in Cocoa Beach, Florida, as the "Richard K. Salick Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Digital Coast Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6475
Sponsor: Rep. Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch [D-MD-2]
Introduced: 2012-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Department of Commerce
Earth sciences
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
State and local government operations
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: 
Digital Coast Act of 2012 - Defines &quot;Digital Coast&quot; as a constituent-driven effort led by the Secretary of Commerce, through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to provide an enabling platform integrating geospatial data, decision support tools, training, and best practices to address coastal and emergency management issues and enhance coastal economies and ecosystem services by helping communities with cost-effective and participatory solutions.
 
Directs NOAA to establish and implement the Digital Coast to: (1) collect data concerning coastal elevations, land use and cover, habitat and submerged aquatic vegetation, parcels, planimetrics, socioeconomics, and human use; and (2) integrate other data sources for the broadest measure of coastal resource management constituents and applications.
 
Directs NOAA to: (1) make such data and resulting products accessible via the Digital Coast and other related Internet technologies, (2) provide training on decision support tools developed under this Act, (3) document data to Federal Geographic Data Committee standards, and (4) archive the raw data at appropriate NOAA or federal data centers.
 
Requires coordination and data sharing with states, U.S. territories, local governments, nongovernmental entities, and other federal efforts.
 
Requires the establishment of NOAA Coastal Services Centers to facilitate the development of products and services addressing the needs of local, state, and regional entities involved with coastal and ocean decisionmaking and to lead development and maintenance of the Digital Coast.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-10-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Adult Day Services Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6476
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2012-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Adult day care
Health care coverage and access
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: 
Medicare Adult Day Services Act of 2012 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) cover certified adult day services furnished in a certified adult day services center and meeting specified requirements; and (2) require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to increase by 3% the payment amount otherwise effective for such services furnished in a rural area on or after January 1, 2011, and before January 1, 2016. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-09-20
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: 2012-09-20
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: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Denali Commission Reauthorization Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6478
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2012-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Alaska
Denali Commission
Economic development
Executive agency funding and structure
Infrastructure development
Intergovernmental relations
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: 
Denali Commission Reauthorization Act of 2012 - Amends the Denali Commission Act of 1998 (the Act) to revise requirements concerning the composition of the membership of the Denali Commission. Appoints Commission members to four-year terms.
 
 Directs the Commission, in carrying out construction projects or activities under the Act, to require a cost share of: (1) up to 50% of the total cost of the project or activity; or (2) up to 20% of the total cost of a project or activity carried out in a distressed community. Exempts preconstruction procedures from such cost share requirements. 
 
Requires the Commission to seek comments from rural Alaska communities and other stakeholder groups regarding rural development needs. 
 
Rewrites the duties of the Commission. Instructs Commission members to: (1) advise the Commission regarding coordinated infrastructure planning among and for rural Alaskan communities, the state of Alaska, federal agencies, and other governmental and nongovernmental entities; (2) annually establish a list of priorities of the Commission for such communities; and (3) review ongoing and completed Commission-funded projects and programs. Makes the Cochairperson responsible for Commission operational matters, including budgetary matters. 
 
Revises requirements regarding demonstration health projects. Authorizes appropriations. 
 
Rewrites provisions concerning the powers of the Commission. 
 
 Requires the Commission to use the services of the Inspector General of the Department of Commerce. 
 
Makes permanent the authorization of appropriations for the Commission to carry out the Act. 
 
Repeals provisions regarding: (1) the exemption of the Commission from the Federal Advisory Committee Act, and (2) the Economic Development Committee. 
 
Requires the federal Cochairperson to establish a Budget Committee to serve the Commission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Humaira Khalid Lateef, Muhammad Nadeem Aslam, Maheen Nadeem, and Daniyal Muhammad Nadeem.

Bill: 112-hr-6479
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2012-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Provides for the relief of Humaira Khalid Lateef, Muhammad Nadeem Aslam, Maheen Nadeem, and Daniyal Muhammad Nadeem.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-11-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Introduced in House
School Food Modernization Act

Bill: 112-hr-6481
Sponsor: Rep. Latham, Tom [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Government lending and loan guarantees
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
School Food Modernization Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to issue loan guarantees to local educational agencies, tribal organizations, or consortia of such entities to finance the construction, remodeling, or expansion of infrastructure or the purchase of durable equipment that will facilitate their provision of healthy meals through the school breakfast and lunch programs.
 
Favors loan guarantee applicants that demonstrate a substantial or disproportionate need (as compared with other applicants) for food service infrastructure or durable equipment.
 
Prohibits a loan guarantee from covering more than 90% of a loan's principal.
 
Directs the Secretary to award competitive matching grants to experienced third-party training institutions to provide school food service personnel with the training and technical assistance they need to meet updated school lunch program nutrition standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 respecting the scoring of preventive health savings.

Bill: 112-hr-6482
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Health care costs and insurance
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), upon a request by the chairman or ranking minority member of either congressional budget committee, to determine if a proposed measure would result in reductions in budget outlays in budgetary outyears through the use of preventive health and preventive health services.
 
Requires CBO, if the measure would result in such substantial reductions, to include in any CBO projection a description and estimate of such reductions and a description of the basis for such conclusions.
 
Authorizes CBO to prepare a budget projection that includes some or all of the budgetary outyears.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
SAFE Lending Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6483
Sponsor: Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer credit
Government studies and investigations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Jurisdiction and venue

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Stopping Abuse and Fraud in Electronic Lending Act of 2012 or SAFE Lending Act of 2012 - Amends the Electronic Fund Transfer Act to authorize the issuance of remotely created checks only if the consumer has designated in writing a person to issue them.
 
Defines a &quot;remotely created check&quot; as one that: (1) is not created by the financial institution that holds the customer account from which the check is to be paid; and (2) does not bear a signature applied, or purported to be applied, by the person from whose account the check is to be paid. 
 
 Treats as a preauthorized electronic fund transfer (EFT) subject to the protections of such Act any voluntary repayment by a consumer of an extension of a small-dollar ($5,000 or less) consumer credit transaction by means of an EFT.
 
Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require any small-dollar consumer credit transaction made over the Internet, telephone, FAX, mail, electronic mail, or other electronic communication, as well as any conducted by an insured depository institution, to comply with the laws of the state in which the consumer resides with respect to annual percentage rates, interest, fees, charges, and such other matters as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) may determine.
 
Prohibits persons engaged in the business of facilitating, brokering, arranging, gathering applications for, distributing sensitive personal financial information, or extending credit in connection with a small-dollar consumer credit transaction unless that person is directly extending the small-dollar consumer credit to the consumer. 
 
Subjects violators of this Act to civil liability. Empowers the CFPB to investigate violations of this Act. Sets forth investigative and cease-and-desist enforcement procedures, particularly with respect to offshore persons conducting business directed to U.S. residents but from a location outside any U.S. judicial district.
 
Directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to study the availability of capital on Indian reservations and the impact that small-dollar consumer credit extended through Internet and non-Internet means to members of Indian tribes has had upon economic opportunity and wealth for tribal members. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
SAFE Levee Act

Bill: 112-hr-6484
Sponsor: Rep. Garamendi, John [D-CA-10]
Introduced: 2012-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Congressional oversight
Dams and canals
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Floods and storm protection
Government studies and investigations
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: 
Shielding Against Flood Emergencies Levee Act or SAFE Levee Act - Amends the Calfed Bay-Delta Authorization Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) establish a program to provide assistance to non-federal interests for stability maintenance and improvement on levees within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta that facilitate Bureau of Reclamation water deliveries to Central Valley Project (CVP) contractors, and (2) prioritize projects based on the extent to which the levees covered are necessary for Bureau water deliveries.
 
Permits: (1) assistance to be in the form of grants or reimbursements of project costs for water-supply reliability related levee maintenance and improvements within the Delta, (2) the Secretary to provide assistance for a levee stability maintenance and improvement project only if the levee directly facilitates deliveries of water for the CVP and is publicly owned, and (3) costs associated with program implementation to be considered a reimbursable federal expenditure allocable to and repayable by CVP sub-units south of the Delta that receive and benefit from water conveyed through the Delta. Limits the federal share from exceeding 50% of the total costs of a project. 
 
Directs the Secretary to carry out an analysis and evaluation of the costs and benefits of options for facilitating conveyance of water deliveries to CVP contractors being considered in the Bay Delta Conservation Planning process, including at least one option that does not require the construction of one or more water conveyance tunnels. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-10-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-09-21
text: Introduced in House