United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012 [HB-4133]
United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should take specified actions to assist in Israel's defense. States that is U.S. policy to: (1) help Israel preserve its qualitative military edge amid regional political transformation, and (2) encourage further development of advanced technology programs between the United States and Israel. Directs the President to report to Congress on: (1) the status of Israel's qualitative military edge in light of current regional trends
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HB-4133: United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012
Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Foreign Relations. on 05/10/2012
Women's Procurement Program Improvement Act of 2012 [HB-4203]
Women's Procurement Program Improvement Act of 2012 - Amends the Small Business Act with respect to the procurement program for women-owned small businesses (providing a federal procurement contracting preference to such businesses) to remove current contract award price limits. Allow a contracting officer to award a sole source contract to any economically disadvantaged women-owned small business if: (1) the small business is determined to be responsible and the contracting officer does not expect two or more of such businesses to submit offers;
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HB-4203: Women's Procurement Program Improvement Act of 2012
Sponsored by: Rep. David Cicilline
Reported By The Committee On Small Business. H. Rept. 112-732. on 12/27/2012
Stabilizing Affordable Housing for the Future Act [HB-4218]
Stabilizing Affordable Housing for the Future Act - Amends the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 and the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 to: (1) repeal certain conditions on the authority of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to manage multifamily projects, and (2) authorize the Secretary to provide grants (including up-front grants) and loans from the General Insurance Fund when managing and disposing of such properties. Instructs
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HB-4218: Stabilizing Affordable Housing for the Future Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Nydia Velazquez
Referred To The Subcommittee On Insurance, Housing And Community Opportunity. on 04/26/2012
Consumer Protection Home Inspection Counseling Act of 2012 [HB-4219]
Consumer Protection Home Inspection Counseling Act of 2012 - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to publish a Mortgagee Letter informing mortgagees of their obligation to provide prospective homebuyers with specified HUD public outreach publications concerning the importance of obtaining independent home inspections. Requires persons providing housing counseling for HUD-approved counseling agencies to: (1) be trained through a certain voluntary home
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HB-4219: Consumer Protection Home Inspection Counseling Act of 2012
Sponsored by: Rep. Nydia Velazquez
Referred To The Subcommittee On Insurance, Housing And Community Opportunity. on 04/26/2012
Mutual Community Bank Competitive Equality Act [HB-4220]
Home-Based Health Services Training and Employment Act of 2012 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to establish a pilot program to make grants on a competitive basis to eligible entities for the training of public housing residents as home health aides and providers of home-based health services to enable them to provide covered home-based health services (i.e., services for which medical assistance is available under a state Medicaid plan or for which financial assistance
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HB-4220: Mutual Community Bank Competitive Equality Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Nydia Velazquez
Referred To The Subcommittee On Insurance, Housing And Community Opportunity. on 04/26/2012
Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2012 [HB-4271]
Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2012 - Amends the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) to add or expand definitions of several terms for purposes of such Act, including : (1) "culturally specific services" to mean community-based services that offer culturally relevant and linguistically specific services and resources to culturally specific communities; (2) "personally identifying information or personal information" with respect to a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking; and (3) "youth" to
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HB-4271: Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2012
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee
Referred To The Subcommittee On Early Childhood, Elementary, And Secondary Education. on 09/26/2012
STOP Identity Theft Act of 2012 [HB-4362]
Stopping Tax Offenders and Prosecuting Identity Theft Act of 2012 or the STOP Identity Theft Act of 2012 - Calls for the Attorney General to: (1) make use of all existing resources of the Department of Justice (DOJ), including task forces, to bring more perpetrators of tax return identity theft to justice; and (2) take into account the need to concentrate efforts in areas of the country where the crime is most frequently reported, to coordinate with state and local authorities to prosecute and prevent such crime, and to protect vulnerable groups
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HB-4362: STOP Identity Theft Act of 2012
Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Quigley
S.amdt.3343 Referred To The Committee On The Judiciary. on 12/17/2012
Routine HIV Screening Coverage Act of 2012 [HB-4470]
Routine HIV Screening Coverage Act of 2012 - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to require group health plans and health insurance issuers offering group or individual health insurance coverage to provide coverage for routine HIV screening under terms and conditions no less favorable than for other routine preventive health services. Prohibits such a plan from taking specified actions to avoid the requirements of this Act. Requires inclusion of a notice of such
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HB-4470: Routine HIV Screening Coverage Act of 2012
Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health, Employment, Labor, And Pensions. on 09/26/2012
Social Security Equality Act of 2012 [HB-4609]
Social Security Equality Act of 2012 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to authorize the treatment of permanent partnerships between individuals of the same gender as marriage for purposes of determining entitlement to OASDI benefits.
HB-4609: Social Security Equality Act of 2012
Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On Social Security. on 05/02/2012
Service Member Anti-Hazing Act [HB-5638]
Service Member Anti-Hazing Act - Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to: (1) develop and implement a policy to prevent and respond to hazing of members of that military department; (2) develop and implement a program to train such members on the dangers of, and need to, avoid hazing and a program of training on issues of diversity, which each member shall attend at least annually; (3) expand any policies for reporting incidents to include a phone service for the anonymous reporting of such incidents; and (4) develop and implement
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HB-5638: Service Member Anti-Hazing Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Janice Schakowsky
Referred To The Subcommittee On Military Personnel. on 07/10/2012