United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2012
Healthcare Tax Relief and Mandate Repeal Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) terminate the requirement, added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), that individuals maintain minimum essential health insurance coverage for themselves and dependents; and (2) repeal provisions added by PPACA requiring certain employers who have a workforce of 50 or more full-time employees to provide health insurance coverage for their employees.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 2012
Behavioral Health Information Technology Act of 2012 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to include as a health care provider behavioral and mental health professionals, substance abuse professionals, psychiatric hospitals, certain community mental health centers, and residential or outpatient mental health or substance abuse treatment facilities. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA), with respect to incentives for meaningful use of certified electronic health records (EHR) technology under the pay schedule for physician's services, to include as eligible professionals clinical psychologists providing qualified psychologist services. Makes inpatient psychiatric hospitals eligible for payment for inpatient hospital services. Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to treat as Medicaid providers: (1) public and certain private hospitals that are principally psychiatric hospitals, (2) certain community mental health centers, and (3) certain residential or outpatient mental health or substance abuse treatment facilities. Makes eligible professionals under the Medicaid program certain clinical psychologists providing qualified psychologist services. Authorizes a covered entity to submit to a Patient Safety Organization information on electronic health record (EHR)-related adverse events with respect to certified EHR technology the entity has used or provided. Specifies covered entities as certain EHR users, health information exchange entities, and health care professionals who use EHR technology. Defines an EHR-related adverse event as a defect, malfunction, or error in the certified health information technology or electronic health record used by a provider, or in the input or output of data maintained through such technology or record, that results or could reasonably result in harm to a patient. Limits electronic discovery (e-discovery) in any health care lawsuit against a covered entity relating to an Reallotted adverse event involving certified EHR technology to information: (1) related to that event, and (2) from the period in which the event occurred. Prohibits a claimant from commencing a lawsuit more than three years after the manifestation of injury or one year after the claimant discovers, or should have discovered, the injury, whichever occurs first. Requires tolling of this limitation, however, to the extent that the claimant is able to prove: (1) fraud; (2) intentional concealment; or (3) the presence of a foreign body, with no therapeutic or diagnostic purpose or effect, in the injured person. Subjects each party to such a lawsuit which is not a covered entity to proportionate liability only. Allows punitive damages against a covered entity only upon proof by clear and convincing evidence that the entity acted with reckless disregard for the claimant's health or safety. Shields covered entities, employees, agents, and representatives from civil liability for libel or slander arising from information or entries made in certified EHR technology, or transferred to another eligible provider, if the information, entries, or transfer were made in good faith and without malice.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 2012
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 320 7th Street in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, as the "Sergeant Leslie H. Sabo, Jr. Post Office Building."
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 2012
National Park Service 100th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue gold, silver, and half-dollar clad coins in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the National Park Service (NPS). Authorizes the issuance of coins under this Act only for a one-year period, beginning on January 1, 2016. Requires all sales of coins minted under this Act to include a surcharge of $35 per gold coin, $10 per silver coin, and $5 per half-dollar clad coin. Requires all of the surcharges received from the sale of such coins to be paid to the National Park Foundation for projects and programs to help preserve and protect resources under the stewardship of the NPS and to promote public enjoyment and appreciation of those resources. Prohibits the surcharges paid to the Foundation from being used for land acquisition.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 2012
Update and Streamline REIT Act of 2012 or US REIT Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax treatment of real estate investment trusts (REITs), to: (1) modify safe harbor rules for avoiding penalties for prohibited sales of rental and timber properties by REITs by allowing three-year averaging of sales proceeds for such properties, (2) repeal the preferential dividend rule for dividend payments to shareholders of publicly-offered REITs, (3) revise REIT income and assets tests to allow treatment of publicly-offered REIT debt instruments and personal property leased or mortgaged in connection with REIT real property as real estate assets, (4) make permanent the treatment of gain from sales of timber property and mineral royalties as qualifying REIT income, and (5) revise the calculation of REIT earnings and profits to avoid duplicate taxation of REIT shareholders.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 2012
Student Loan Interest Deduction Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the maximum tax deduction for interest paid on any qualified education loan to $5,000 ($10,000 for married couples filing a joint tax return), and (2) repeal the limitation on such deduction based upon modified adjusted gross income. Makes permanent the elimination of the five-year limitation on such tax deduction.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 2012
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on S-(2-benzothiazolyl)-2-(2-amino-thiazol-4-yl)-2-acetoxyimino thioacetate (Thioester).
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 2012
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce temporarily the duty on certain AC electric motors of an output exceeding 74.6 W equipped with a capacitor rated over 4 microfarads.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 2012
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce temporarily the duty on certain AC electric motors of an output exceeding 37.5 W but not exceeding 72 W.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 2012
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on AC electric motors of an output exceeding 74.6 W but not exceeding 95 W.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 2012
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to temporarily suspend the duty on N-[(4-methoxymethyl)-1-phenylmethyl-4-piperidinyl]N-phenylpropanamide-ethanedioate.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 2012
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to temporarily suspend the duty on 1-Benzyl-4-phenyl-4-piperidine carboxylic acid ethyl ester HCl.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 2012
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on AC electric motors of an output exceeding 74.6 W but not exceeding 85 W.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 2012
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce temporarily the duty on certain AC electric motors of an output exceeding 74.6 W equipped with a capacitor rated not over 4 microfarads.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 2012
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension of duty on macroporous ion-exchange resin comprising a copolymer of styrene crosslinked with divinylbenzene, thiol functionalized.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 2012
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on ion-exchange resin-Methanamine, N Methyl reaction products with chloromethylated divinylbenzene-styrene polymer.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 2012
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on asulam sodium salt and mixed application adjuvants.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 2012
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension of duty on ion-exchange resin powder comprised of a copolymer of methacrylic acid cross-linked with divinylbenzene, in the potassium ionic form, of a nominal particle size between 0.025 mm and 0.150 mm, dried to less than 10% moisture.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 2012
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on ion-exchange resin of Benzene, diethenyl, polymer with ethenylbenzene and ethenylethylbenzene, chloromethylated, trimethylaminoquaternized.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 2012
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension of duty on styrene, ar-ethyl-, polymer with divinylbenzene and styrene beads having low ash content and specifically manufactured for use as a specialty filler in lost wax mold casting applications in a variety of other specialty filler applications.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 2012
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce temporarily the duty on certain AC electric motors of an output exceeding 37.5 W but not exceeding 72 W designed to be operated by means of an infrared remote control.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 2012
Small Business Tax Simplification Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt certain small business taxpayers from the requirements of using the accrual method of accounting and of using inventories. Allows such taxpayers to use a cash method of accounting if they meet the gross receipts test and are not engaged in farming as a corporation. Increases the amount of the gross receipts test to $10 million (currently, $5 million) and permits an annual inflation adjustment of that amount.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 2012
Expresses the sense of Congress that the tax exemption of fraternal benefit societies continues to generate significant returns to society and the work of fraternals should continue to be promoted.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 2012
Farm Service Accountability Act - Amends the the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) from closing or relocating a Farm Service Agency county or field office in a state if the Secretary determines that the office has a high workload volume compared with other county offices in the state.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 2012
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2013 the exclusion from gross income of income attributable to the discharge of indebtedness on a principal residence.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 2012
Heavy Truck Tax Fairness Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the excise tax on heavy trucks and trailers sold at retail, (2) increase the rate of tax on diesel fuel or kerosene to 30.7 cents per gallon, and (3) impose a floor stocks tax with respect to certain taxable fuels.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 2012
Medicare Pharmacy Transparency and Fair Auditing Act - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require each contract entered into with a prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsor for the offering of a prescription drug plan to prohibit the PDP sponsor from contracting with any pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) to manage the prescription drug coverage under such plan, or to control the costs of such coverage, unless the manager satisfies specified PBM audit and disclosure requirements.
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