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Wildland Firefighters Health Protection Act

Bill: 112-hr-6092
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2012-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Forests, forestry, trees
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: 
Wildland Firefighters Health Protection Act - Defines &quot;wildland firefighter&quot; as an employee of a federal land management agency who performs work directly related to the prevention, control, suppression, and management of wildfires, including an employee who is assigned to support wildland fire suppression activities and an employee who is transferred to a supervisory or administrative position.
 
Directs the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in cooperation with such agencies, to commence development of a separate wildland firefighter occupational series that will more accurately reflect the variety of duties performed.
 
Requires a wildland firefighter's hours of work officially ordered or approved in excess of 40 hours per week or 8 hours per day to be considered overtime work. Makes time the firefighter is away from his or her official duty station assigned to an emergency incident, in support of an emergency incident, or pre-positioned for emergency response compensable as work time. Includes hazardous duty differentials as basic pay for retirement purposes.
 
Prohibits OPM from excluding wildland firefighters from federal employees' group life insurance (FEGLI) and from federal health care benefits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: Introduced in House
To establish a moratorium on aerial surveillance conducted by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.

Bill: 112-hr-6093
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adrian [R-NE-3]
Introduced: 2012-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Aviation and airports
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Spacecraft and satellites
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: 
Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from conducting aerial surveillance in exercising any authority under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) for one year after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Raechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6094
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2012-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Department of Transportation
Lease and rental services
Motor vehicles
Product safety and quality
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: 
Raechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act of 2012 - Requires a rental company that receives a Secretary of Transportation (DOT) ordered notification from the manufacturer of a covered rental vehicle of equipment defect, or noncompliance with federal motor vehicle safety standards, during the vehicle rental period to contact the renter and any authorized driver of the vehicle about the defect or noncompliance.
 
Covers a rental vehicle: (1) rated at 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight or less, (2) rented without a driver for an initial term of under 4 months, and (3) that is part of a motor vehicle fleet of 5 or more motor vehicles used for rental purposes by a rental company.
 
Authorizes a rental company that receives notification of a defect or the noncompliance of a new vehicle or new replacement vehicle equipment in the company's possession to rent such vehicle or equipment only if the defect or noncompliance is remedied.
 
Prohibits a rental company from knowingly making inoperable any safety devices or elements of design installed on or in a compliant motor vehicle or vehicle equipment unless the company reasonably believes such vehicle or equipment will not be used when the devices or elements are inoperable.
 
Authorizes the Secretary, upon request, to inspect records of a rental company with respect to a safety investigation. Authorizes the Secretary to require a rental company to keep records or make reports for purposes of compliance with federal motor vehicle safety orders or regulations.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to study the effectiveness of the amendments made by this Act and of other activities of rental companies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Morris Soskil Path to the Purple Heart Act

Bill: 112-hr-6095
Sponsor: Rep. Deutch, Theodore E. [D-FL-19]
Introduced: 2012-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Defense
Evidence and witnesses
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: 
Morris Soskil Path to the Purple Heart Act - Requires the Secretary of the military department concerned, in the case of an individual who served as a member of the Armed Forces during World War II and whose service records are incomplete because of damage while in the possession of the Department of Defense (DOD), to provide an exception to the standards for awarding the Purple Heart and consider unofficial sources of information, including eyewitness statements, to determine whether the individual is so eligible as a member killed or wounded in action as the result of an enemy act.
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to make such an award based upon a positive determination by the Secretary concerned.
 
Allows such an award to be made posthumously.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Atlantic Fisheries Statutes Reauthorization Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6096
Sponsor: Rep. Runyan, Jon [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2012-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Atlantic Ocean
Congressional oversight
Department of Commerce
Department of the Interior
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Executive agency funding and structure
Fishes
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: 
Atlantic Fisheries Statutes Reauthorization Act of 2012 - Reauthorizes appropriations through FY2017 for the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act, Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act, Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act of 1986, and Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Convention Act of 1995.
 
Directs the National Marine Fisheries Service to conduct: (1) a survey and stock assessment, a cooperative research program, and analyses of genetic samples to determine the stock structure of Atlantic sturgeon distinct population segments along the U.S. Atlantic Coast, report the results to Congress, and use such results to inform Atlantic sturgeon biological opinion, measures, and alternatives; and (2) an analysis of striped bass feeding habits in the New York Bight and report the results to Congress and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-19
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Religious Freedom Tax Repeal Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6097
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2012-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Comprehensive health care
Employee benefits and pensions
First Amendment rights
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health promotion and preventive care
Religion
Sales and excise taxes
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: 
Religious Freedom Tax Repeal Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt an employer opposed by reason of adherence to a religious belief or moral conviction from the tax penalty imposed for failure of a group health plan to cover required women's preventive care and screenings.
 
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to prohibit the Secretary of Labor from bringing an action against a plan to enforce any requirement to provide such coverage to which an employer is opposed by reason of adherence to a religious belief or moral conviction. 
Exempts group health plans from penalties under state and federal enforcement provisions of the Public Health Service Act for failure to meet such women's health requirements insofar as they concern coverage to which an employer is opposed on the basis of religious belief or moral conviction.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2012-07-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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: 2012-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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: 2012-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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: 2012-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Crop Insurance Subsidy Reduction Act

Bill: 112-hr-6098
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2012-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural insurance
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: 
Crop Insurance Subsidy Reduction Act - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to reduce crop insurance premium subsidy rates. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Introduced in House
SEED Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6099
Sponsor: Rep. Carnahan, Russ [D-MO-3]
Introduced: 2012-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Business investment and capital
Economic development
Small business
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: 
Supporting Entrepreneurial Economic Development Act of 2012 or the SEED Act of 2012 - Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to prohibit a recipient of an economic adjustment grant from making, but permits a venture development organization to make, a grant, equity investment, or convertible loan to a private for-profit entity. 
 
Requires such an organization that assists a private for-profit entity with funds made available from an economic adjustment grant and that receives funds from such entity at any time as a result of such assistance to use such funds only to assist other private for-profit entities.
 
Defines a &quot;venture development organization&quot; as a public entity or private, nonprofit entity that provides to an early-stage technology business, to promote the growth of that business: (1) financial investment or assistance acquiring financial investment, (2) expert mentoring, and (3) assistance to speed the commercialization of technology.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2012-07-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2012-07-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2012-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Introduced in House
Middle Class Tax Cut Protection Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6100
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2012-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Family relationships
Higher education
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Marriage and family status
Poverty and welfare assistance
Student aid and college costs
Transfer and inheritance taxes
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: 
Middle Class Tax Cut Protection Act of 2012 - Extends through 2014: (1) the general terminating date of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, and (2) the reduction in the tax rate for dividend and capital gain income enacted by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2014: (1) the increased American Opportunity tax credit, (2) the increase in the refundable portion of the child tax credit, and (3) the increased earned income tax credit percentage for three or more qualifying children.
 
Disqualifies taxpayers whose income exceeds $250,000 for such extended tax benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Introduced in House
America's Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6102
Sponsor: Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6]
Introduced: 2012-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Business investment and capital
Capital gains tax
Contracts and agency
Employee benefits and pensions
Employment taxes
Financial services and investments
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Securities
Self-employed
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: 
America's Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent: (1) the 100% exclusion from gross income of gain from the sale of certain small business stock, (2) carrybacks and alternative minimum tax rules relating to small business tax credits, (3) the reduction in the recognition period for the built-in gains from the sale of S corporation stock, (4) the increased limitation for the expensing of depreciable business assets, (5) the use of the percentage of completion accounting method for long-term contracts, (6) the increased tax deduction for business start-up expenditures, and (7) the allowance of a deduction for health insurance premiums in computing net earnings from self-employment income.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Introduced in House
Stop Medicare Fraud Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6103
Sponsor: Rep. Hochul, Kathleen C. [D-NY-26]
Introduced: 2012-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: 
Stop Medicare Fraud Act of 2012 - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act (SSA) to increase the civil and criminal penalty levels for fraud under SSA title XVIII (Medicare).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-07-11
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: 2012-07-11
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: 2012-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Introduced in House
Working Families Tax Protection Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6104
Sponsor: Rep. Richmond, Cedric L. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2012-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Family relationships
Higher education
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Marriage and family status
Poverty and welfare assistance
Student aid and college costs
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: 
Working Families Tax Protection Act of 2012 - Extends through 2013 the terminating date for provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 relating to: (1) individual income tax rate reductions, (2) tax benefits related to children and adoption, (3) reduction of the marriage penalty, and (4) education assistance. Denies such extension to taxpayers whose income exceeds $500,000. 
 
Extends through 2013 the terminating date for provisions of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 relating to reductions in the tax rate for dividend and capital gain income. Denies such extension to taxpayers whose income is taxed at the maximum income tax rate.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2013: (1) the increased American Opportunity tax credit, (2) the increase in the refundable portion of the child tax credit, and (3) the increased earned income tax credit percentage for three or more qualifying children. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to allow non-Federally insured credit unions to become members of a Federal Home Loan Bank.

Bill: 112-hr-6105
Sponsor: Rep. Stivers, Steve [R-OH-15]
Introduced: 2012-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Credit and credit markets
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: 
Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to make a state credit union eligible for membership in the Federal Home Loan Bank system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-10-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-11
text: Introduced in House
VETS Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-6107
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2012-07-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Licensing and registrations
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-12
text: 
Veterans E-Health & Telemedicine Support Act of 2012 or VETS Act of 2012 - Allows a health care professional who is authorized to provide health care through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and who is a licensed professional to practice at any location in any state, the District of Columbia, or U.S. commonwealth, territory, or possession, regardless of where the professional or patient is located, if the professional is using telemedicine to provide treatment. Allows such treatment regardless of whether such professional or patient is located in a facility owned by the federal government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-07-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2012-07-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-12
text: Introduced in House
To reduce the pay of Members of Congress who miss votes because of campaigning for election to another office.

Bill: 112-hr-6108
Sponsor: Rep. Flores, Bill [R-TX-17]
Introduced: 2012-07-12 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2012-07-12
text: 
Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to reduce the rate of pay otherwise applicable to Members of Congress for any month, during a Congress, by the Member's missed vote percentage for the most recent month before such month if the individual missed votes because of campaigning for election to another office.
 
Applies this requirement to a vote taken in the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union unless the Member of the House of Representatives did not engage in any campaign-related activity on the date of the vote.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer from the general fund of the Treasury to a specified mandatory account to reduce the public debt the difference between the aggregate amount expended for pay of Members of Congress for the fiscal year and the aggregate amount that would have been expended but for the reduction in pay.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-12
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2012-07-12
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2012-07-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-07-12
text: Introduced in House