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Protecting Pregnant Women and Children From Hexavalent Chromium Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4266
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2012-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child health
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental health
Environmental regulatory procedures
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Metals
Water quality
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: 
Protecting Pregnant Women and Children From Hexavalent Chromium Act of 2012 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) publish a health advisory for hexavalent chromium that is fully protective of the health of vulnerable individuals (including pregnant women, infants, and children), taking into consideration body weight, exposure patterns, and all routes of exposure; and (2) establish a national primary drinking water regulation for hexavalent chromium that is protective of vulnerable individuals and the maximum contaminant level of which is as close to the maximum contaminant level goal for hexavalent chromium, and as protective of vulnerable individuals, as is feasible.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Wasatch Wilderness and Watershed Protection Act

Bill: 112-hr-4267
Sponsor: Rep. Matheson, Jim [D-UT-2]
Introduced: 2012-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Outdoor recreation
Utah
Water use and supply
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: 
 Wasatch Wilderness and Watershed Protection Act - Designates specified federal lands in the vicinity of the Lone Peak Wilderness and the Mount Olympus Wilderness, and specified federal lands comprising the Wayne Owens Grandeur Peaks/Mount Aire Wilderness within the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forests in Salt Lake County, Utah, as wilderness and as either a new component or as an addition to an existing component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. 
 
Establishes specified federal lands within the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forests as the Mt. Aire, Mt. Olympus, Twin Peaks, and Lone Peak Special Management Areas. 
 
Requires the Special Management Areas to be managed to maintain their presently existing wilderness character and potential for inclusion in the System.
 
 Allows the commercial helicopter-assisted skiing and snowboarding activities (known as heliskiing) that have been authorized on the federal lands included within the Special Management Areas to continue. Permits the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), except as provided below, upon the expiration of such an authorization that was in effect for heliskiing, to reissue such authorizations in accordance with Forest Service procedures. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, within one year from the time in which all heliskiing activities within any special management area are no longer authorized or have otherwise been terminated, to publish a notice in the Federal Register to that effect. Designates the federal lands included within such an Area for which such a notice has been published as wilderness and adds them to the System as described in this Act. 
 
Requires a land exchange involving certain federal and non-federal lands concerning the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forests. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Export-Import Bank Termination Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4268
Sponsor: Rep. Amash, Justin [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2012-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Department of the Treasury
Executive agency funding and structure
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Government lending and loan guarantees

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: 
Export-Import Bank Termination Act of 2012 - Abolishes the Export-Import Bank of the United States three years after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade.
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to more comprehensively address the interstate transportation of firearms or ammunition.

Bill: 112-hr-4269
Sponsor: Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9]
Introduced: 2012-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Firearms and explosives
Legal fees and court costs
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: 
Amends provisions of the federal criminal code governing interstate transportation of firearms or ammunition to require that whenever transported by any means other than a motor vehicle: (1) a firearm shall be in a locked container or secured by a secure gun storage or safety device, and (2) ammunition shall be in a locked container. 
 
Excludes from permitted transport of a firearm or ammunition any transportation: (1) with the intent to commit a crime punishable by imprisonment for more than one year that involves the use or threatened use of force against another; or (2) with knowledge or reasonable cause to believe that such a crime is to be committed in the course of, or arising from, the transportation.
 
Prohibits the arrest or detention of a person for a violation of any state or local law or regulation related to the possession, transportation, or carrying of firearms unless there is probable cause to believe that the person is doing so in a manner not provided for under federal law. Provides that when a person asserts this as a defense in a criminal proceeding: (1) the prosecution shall bear the burden of proving, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the person's conduct did not satisfy federal conditions; and (2) the court shall award the prevailing defendant a reasonable attorney's fee.
 
Authorizes a private right of action (and attorney fees) for deprivation of any right, privilege or immunity secured by federal firearms provisions under color of any state or local law or regulation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Postal Executive Accountability Act

Bill: 112-hr-4270
Sponsor: Rep. Hochul, Kathleen C. [D-NY-26]
Introduced: 2012-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Federal officials
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Postal service
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: 
Postal Executive Accountability Act - Prohibits bonuses or other rewards to the Postmaster General or any other officer of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) in a senior executive position in any year in which any postal retail facility or mail processing facility is closed.
 
Repeals exceptions to the limit on total compensation for USPS officers and employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Freight Rail Economic Development Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4272
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2012-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Railroads
Transportation employees
Transportation programs funding
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: 
Freight Rail Economic Development Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to make capital grants to a class I, class II, or class III railroad or a state or local government for freight rail economic development projects, particularly projects to construct freight rail switches and sidings.
 
Prescribes prevailing wage rate requirements for such projects in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-27
text: Introduced in House
BPCA and PREA Reauthorization Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4274
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike J. [R-MI-8]
Introduced: 2012-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Cancer
Child health
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug therapy
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government information and archives
Intellectual property
Medical research
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: 
BPCA and PREA Reauthorization Act of 2012 - Makes permanent the provisions of the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act (BPCA) and the Pediatric Research Equity Act of 2003 (PREA).
 
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise provisions concerning pediatric research requirements and the granting of exclusivity. 
 
Extends the period for mandatory reporting of adverse events to the Office of Pediatric Therapeutics to 18 months after an approved label change.
 
Requires a product sponsor to submit an Initial Pediatric Plan as part of the drug application process and sets forth the process for such submission. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) grant a deferral extension, and sets forth the conditions for such deferral; and (2) issue a non-compliance letter to a product sponsor failing to meet post-marketing requirements, and requires the product sponsor to respond in writing.
 
 Authorizes the Pediatric Review Committee to review deferral extensions.
 
Requires the Office of Pediatric Therapeutics to include a neonatologist and pediatric epidemiologist.
 
Reauthorizes the Pediatric Advisory Committee and the Pediatric Subcommittee of the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act

Bill: 112-hr-4275
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2012-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
Evidence and witnesses
Judicial procedure and administration

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: 
Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to remove a provision excluding from application of the Act any disparate impact case filed before March 1, 1975, and decided after October 30, 1983. (
Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio
, 1989, held that, in cases brought under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the burden is on the plaintiff to prove an employer had no business necessity for a practice with discriminatory effects.) Applies the amendments made by the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to a case that is subject to the removed provision in the same way such amendments apply to any other case brought under the employment discrimination provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2012-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2012-03-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E472)
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Humphrey-Hawkins 21st Century Full Employment and Training Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4277
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2012-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Employment and training programs
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
Government trust funds
Labor standards
Labor-management relations
Licensing and registrations
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Sales and excise taxes
Securities
Unemployment
Wages and earnings
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: 
Humphrey-Hawkins 21st Century Full Employment and Training Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a Full Employment National Trust Fund with two separate accounts for: (1) Employment Opportunity Grants to states, local governments, and Indian tribes for job-creating activities in communities whose economy is not at a level of full employment; and (2) Workforce Investment programs.
 
Establishes arbitration procedures for resolution of disputes for grant recipients. Requires the Secretary of Labor to post a whistleblower hotline on the Department of Labor's website for the public to report noncompliance with the Act's requirements.
 
Directs the Secretary to convene a national employment conference to bring together leaders of small, medium, and large businesses, labor, government, and other parties to discuss employment, with particular attention to structural unemployment and the plight of disadvantaged youth.
 
Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to revise member composition requirements for state and local workforce investment boards to include at least 25% of the chief executive officers of minority-serving, community-based organizations.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on certain covered securities transactions, payable by trading facilities or purchasers that deal in such transactions.
 
Requires a transferor with respect to any outbound securities transaction to deduct and withhold a tax equal to the tax imposed on covered securities transactions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Preserving Rural Resources Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4278
Sponsor: Rep. Hurt, Robert [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2012-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Licensing and registrations
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Solid waste and recycling
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: 
Preserving Rural Resources Act of 2012 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to replace a requirement that a permit be obtained for any discharge of dredged or fill material into the navigable waters incidental to any activity having as its purpose bringing an area of such waters into a use to which it was not previously subject and where the flow or circulation of such waters may be impaired or the reach of such waters may be reduced with a requirement that a permit be obtained for any such discharge that is not currently exempted from permit requirements.

action_date: 2012-09-20
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Preserving Rural Resources Act of 2012 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to replace a requirement that a permit be obtained for any discharge of dredged or fill material into the navigable waters incidental to any activity having as its purpose bringing an area of such waters into a use to which it was not previously subject and where the flow or circulation of such waters may be impaired or the reach of such waters may be reduced with a requirement that a permit be obtained for any such discharge that is not currently exempted from permit requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 494.
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 112-683.
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 112-683.
action_date: 2012-08-01
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 30 - 19.
action_date: 2012-08-01
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Veteran Self Relief Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4279
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Todd [R-IN-9]
Introduced: 2012-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Sales and excise taxes
Unemployment
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: 
Veteran Self Relief Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an unemployed veteran to withdraw amounts from an individual retirement account (IRA) or thrift savings account without incurring the 10% penalty for premature distributions from pension plans if such veteran has received unemployment compensation for 12 consecutive weeks during a 1-year uninterrupted period of unemployment beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Puerto Rico Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Restoration Act of 2012

Bill: 112-hr-4280
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Pierluisi, Pedro R. [D-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2012-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Caribbean area
Congressional oversight
Food assistance and relief
Licensing and registrations
Poverty and welfare assistance
Puerto Rico
Retail and wholesale trades
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: 
Puerto Rico Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Restoration Act of 2012 - Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (formerly known as the Food Stamp Act of 1977) to: (1) include Puerto Rico in the definition of state for purposes of supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP, formerly food stamp) eligibility, and (2) remove Puerto Rico from the consolidated block grant program upon the effective date of the amendments made by this Act.
 
Provides for the application by, and approval of, retail food stores in Puerto Rico for program participation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Horticulture .
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1644)
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Anthony DeJuan Boatwright Act

Bill: 112-hr-4283
Sponsor: Rep. Barrow, John [D-GA-12]
Introduced: 2012-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Business records
Child care and development
Consumer affairs
Licensing and registrations
Life, casualty, property insurance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: 
Anthony DeJuan Boatwright Act - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to require a state to include, as part of its regulatory process for issuance and renewal of licenses to providers of child care services, a recommendation to each provider that it carry current liability insurance.
 
Requires state plans for the use of child care and development block grant funds to certify that there are in effect state or local health and safety requirements that each child care provider: (1) post publicly and conspicuously in the service area of its premises a notice specifying whether it carries current liability insurance; and (2) give written notice to parents about whether it carries such insurance, obtain the signature of at least one parent per child acknowledging receipt of such notice, and maintain records of such signed notice while a child receives services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 to make it unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter.

Bill: 112-hr-4284
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2012-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Livestock
Meat

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 to prohibit livestock packers from owning, controlling, or feeding livestock to such an extent that the producer no longer materially participates in the management of the operation, with exceptions for: (1) animals held for not more than seven days before slaughter; (2) certain cooperatives that own, control, or feed livestock and provide such livestock for slaughter; (3) packers that are not required to report price and quantity information on each reporting day; or (4) packers that own one livestock processing plant.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-03-28
text: Introduced in House