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A bill to extend and modify the temporary suspension of duty on preparations based on ethanediamide, N-(2-ethoxyphenyl)- N'-(4-isodecylphenyl)-.

Bill: 112-s-3169
Sponsor: Sen. Hagan, Kay R. [D-NC]
Introduced: 2012-05-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-10
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend temporarily the suspension of duty on preparations based on ethanediamide, N-(2-ethoxyphenyl)- N'-(4-isodecylphenyl)-.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2012-05-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Hostavin 3055.

Bill: 112-s-3170
Sponsor: Sen. Hagan, Kay R. [D-NC]
Introduced: 2012-05-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-10
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Hostavin 3055.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2012-05-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Nylostab seed.

Bill: 112-s-3171
Sponsor: Sen. Hagan, Kay R. [D-NC]
Introduced: 2012-05-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-10
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Nylostab seed.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2012-05-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to renew the temporary suspension of duty on Ethanoyl chloride.

Bill: 112-s-3172
Sponsor: Sen. Hagan, Kay R. [D-NC]
Introduced: 2012-05-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-10
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend temporarily the suspension of duty on Ethanoyl chloride. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2012-05-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to allow funds under title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to be used to provide training to school personnel regarding how to recognize child sexual abuse.

Bill: 112-s-3173
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2012-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Crimes against children
Domestic violence and child abuse
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
School administration
Sex offenses
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-14
text: 
Helping Schools Protect Our Children Act of 2012 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to include training of school personnel to recognize child sexual abuse among the uses of grants to states and subgrants to local educational agencies and partnerships under part A (Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting Fund) of title II.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3131)
action_date: 2012-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3131)
action_date: 2012-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Vocational and Technical Entrepreneurship Development Act of 2012

Bill: 112-s-3174
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2012-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Small business
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-14
text: 
Vocational and Technical Entrepreneurship Development Act of 2012 - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish a program to make grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements with, state small business development centers to provide, on a statewide basis, technical assistance to secondary schools, post-secondary vocational or technical schools, or nonprofit organizations that serve youth and young adults for the development and implementation of curricula designed to promote vocational and technical entrepreneurship. Prohibits the Administrator from requiring matching funds as a grant condition.
 
 
Requires: (1) grant recipients to report to the Administrator on their use of funds, and (2) the Administrator to submit to Congress a program evaluation. 
Directs the association of small business development centers to act as an information clearinghouse regarding vocational and technical entrepreneurship education programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2012-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3131)
action_date: 2012-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Save More Tomorrow Act of 2012

Bill: 112-s-3175
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2012-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-14
text: 
Save More Tomorrow Act of 2012 - Directs the Executive Director of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board to provide by regulation for federal employees to be automatically enrolled to increase their contributions to their Thrift Savings Plan accounts over the default contribution percentage amount (i.e., 3% of basic pay) by 1% in each of at least the two years following the first year of enrollment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3132)
action_date: 2012-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3131-3132)
action_date: 2012-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Humanitarian Operations Act of 2012

Bill: 112-s-3176
Sponsor: Sen. Webb, Jim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2012-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Foreign aid and international relief
Human rights
International organizations and cooperation
Legislative rules and procedure
Military operations and strategy
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
United Nations
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-14
text: 
Military Humanitarian Operations Act of 2012 - Prohibits the President from deploying members of the Armed Forces into the territory, airspace, or waters of a foreign country for a military humanitarian operation unless: (1) the President submits to Congress a formal authorization request, and (2) Congress enacts a specific authorization.
 
Defines a "military humanitarian operation" as a military operation involving the deployment of members or weapons systems of the Armed Forces where hostile activities are reasonably anticipated and with the aim of preventing or responding to a humanitarian catastrophe, including its regional consequences, or addressing a threat posed to international peace and security. 
 
Provides for the consideration of a joint resolution of approval of such use.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2012-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
SOLD Act

Bill: 112-s-3177
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2012-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: 
Stopping Ongoing Lender Delays Act or SOLD Act - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require each servicer of a home mortgage to respond in writing within 30 days to a mortgagor of a residential mortgage loan who hasrequested in writing a short sale of the dwelling or residential real property that is subject to the mortgage, deed of trust, or other security interest securing the mortgage loan.
 
Authorizes an aggrieved individual to bring a civil action for damages and equitable relief for any violation of this Act.
 
Declares this Act inapplicable to certain residential mortgages entered into before its enactment whose mortgage agreements explicitly provide a procedure or terms for a short sale approval.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Freedom From Union Violence Act of 2012

Bill: 112-s-3178
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2012-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against property
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Labor-management relations
Organized crime
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Freedom From Union Violence Act of 2012 - Amends the Hobbs Act to authorize imposition of a fine of up to $100,000, 20 years' imprisonment, or both for: (1) obstructing, delaying, or affecting commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce by robbery or extortion (or attempting or conspiring to do so); and (2) threatening physical violence to any person or property in furtherance of a plan or purpose to interfere with commerce by threats or violence. 
Makes provisions regarding any such interference inapplicable to conduct that: (1) is incidental to otherwise peaceful picketing during the course of a labor dispute; (2) consists solely of minor bodily injury, or minor damage to property, or threat or fear of such minor injury or damage; and (3) is not part of a pattern of violent conduct or of coordinated violent activity. Subjects such conduct to prosecution only by the appropriate state and local authorities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Servicemember Housing Protection Act of 2012

Bill: 112-s-3179
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2012-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Housing finance and home ownership
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: 
Servicemember Housing Protection Act of 2012 - Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to protect against a mortgage foreclosure or residential lease termination the surviving spouse who is the successor in interest to a servicemember who dies while in military service from a service-connected cause. Extends such protection for the nine-month period following the death of the servicemember.
 
Allows the termination of an existing lease by the lessee, without penalties, when the lessee is assigned to or otherwise relocates to federal quarters or military housing. Requires, in such case, the lessee to notify the lessor, which shall include a letter from the servicemember's commanding officer indicating such relocation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-13
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 112-567.
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3175-3176)
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Department of Defense to develop a plan to track and respond to incidents of hazing in the Armed Forces.

Bill: 112-s-3180
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2012-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Military education and training
Military law
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing and plan that outlines Department of Defense (DOD) efforts to: (1) prevent the hazing of members of the Armed Forces (members) by other members; (2) provide hazing prevention training to members; (3) improve methods of reporting hazing incidents, including anonymous procedures; and (4) respond to and resolve alleged hazing incidents, including prosecution through the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
 
Requires the plan to include the establishment of a database for improving DOD ability to: (1) determine the extent to which hazing incidents are occurring and their nature; and (2) track, respond to, and resolve such incidents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to require a plan to ensure the military leadership of the Armed Forces reflects the diversity of the population of the United States, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-s-3181
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2012-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Military personnel and dependents
Minority employment
Performance measurement
Racial and ethnic relations
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to develop and implement a plan to measure Department of Defense (DOD) efforts to achieve a dynamic, sustainable level of members of the Armed Forces that will reflect the diverse population of the United States eligible to serve, including gender-specific, racial, and ethnic populations. Requires the Secretary, in developing and implementing the plan, to develop a standard set of metrics and collection procedures that are uniform across the military departments.
 
Requires progress made in implementing such plan to be included in currently-required annual DOD manpower requirements reports.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Gender Equality in Combat Act

Bill: 112-s-3182
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2012-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Military operations and strategy
Military personnel and dependents
Military readiness
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: 
Gender Equality in Combat Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to report to the congressional defense committees on the implementation of a termination of the ground combat exclusion policy for female members of the Armed Forces (DOD policy under which female members are excluded from units and positions below brigade level whose primary mission is to engage in direct combat on the ground).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require the use of domestic property to be eligible for certain tax incentives for solar energy.

Bill: 112-s-3183
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2012-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Buy American requirements
Energy efficiency and conservation
Income tax credits
Manufacturing
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credits for residential energy efficient property and for investment in energy property, to require that either: (1) more than 70% of the components of property using solar energy either to heat, illuminate, or generate electricity for a taxpayer's residence for which a credit is claimed are made in the United States, or (2) more than 50% of the components of such property are made in the United States and the final point of manufacture of such property is in the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain fitness equipment.

Bill: 112-s-3184
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2012-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain fitness equipment.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
STAR Act of 2012

Bill: 112-s-3185
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2012-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Foreign labor
Higher education
Immigration status and procedures
Science and engineering education
User charges and fees
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: 
Securing the Talent America Requires for the 21st Century Act of 2012 or the STAR Act of 2012 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to allocate 55,000 annual immigrant visas for eligible STEM field (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) advanced degree graduates of qualifying U.S. research institutions who have job offers in related fields. 
 
Exempts from regular labor certification requirements an alien who holds a master's degree in a STEM field from a U.S. research institution if the alien will be employed by an employer who engages in a competitive recruitment and selection process and determines that the alien is more qualified than any U.S. worker who applied for the job.
 
Deems as a shortage occupation a job described in an employment-based immigrant preference petition filed on behalf of an alien who holds a doctorate degree from a U.S. research institution in a STEM field. Permits the petitioner to apply for a certification directly with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
 
Includes among employment-based immigrant preferences aliens who graduate from a U.S. research institution with a doctorate or master's degree in a STEM field and intend to work in a related field. 
 
Excludes an alien student who intends to pursue an advanced STEM field degree in a U.S. research institution from the foreign student visa requirement that an alien student has a foreign residence which he or she has no intention of abandoning.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Mobile Device Theft Deterrence Act of 2012

Bill: 112-s-3186
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2012-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against property
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: 
Mobile Device Theft Deterrence Act of 2012 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit knowingly: (1) removing, obliterating, tampering with, or altering a mobile device identification number; or (2) using, producing, trafficking in, having control or custody of, or possessing hardware or software, knowing it has been configured to engage in such conduct.
 
Subjects any person who violates such prohibition to a fine, not more than five years' imprisonment, or both.
 
Exempts the manufacturer of a mobile device or a person who repairs or refurbishes a mobile device unless the manufacturer or person knows that the device or part involved is stolen.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to increase the authorized number of Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams.

Bill: 112-s-3188
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2012-05-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Chemical and biological weapons
Emergency planning and evacuation
Military civil functions
National Guard and reserves
Nuclear weapons
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-16
text: 
Amends the Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year to establish a minimum of 25 (under current law, 23) Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams for a total of 57 (under current law, 55) Teams.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2012-05-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2012

Bill: 112-s-3189
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2012-05-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-16
text: 
Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2012 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to add as schedule I controlled substances: (1) any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains specified cannabimimetic agents (or the salts, isomers, or salts of isomers thereof); and (2) specified additional hallucinogenic substances (or the salts, isomers, or salts of isomers thereof).
 
Extends the period for which the Attorney General may temporarily schedule a substance in schedule I to avoid an imminent hazard to public safety to two years with a one-year extension (currently, one year with a six-month extension).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-05-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 2012

Bill: 112-s-3190
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2012-05-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Summary:
action_date: 2012-05-16
text: 
Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 2012- Amends the Controlled Substances Act to add as schedule I controlled substances: (1) any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains specified cannabimimetic agents (or the salts, isomers, or salts of isomers thereof); and (2) specified additional hallucinogenic substances (or the salts, isomers, or salts of isomers thereof).
 
Extends the period for which the Attorney General may temporarily schedule a substance in schedule I to avoid an imminent hazard to public safety to two years with a one-year extension (currently, one year with a six-month extension).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-05-16
text: Introduced in Senate