Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011

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• Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011
  • Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011
  • Act Details
    • Sponsor
    • Act Overview
    • Text of the Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011
    • Bill Notes
  • Analysis
  • Further Reading

Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011

Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011

Act Details

Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011 was a proposal (now, a piece of legislation) introduced on 2011-12-23 in the House of Commons and Senate respectively of the 112 United States Congress by Dave Camp in relation with: Canada, Congressional oversight, Economics and public finance, Emergency medical services and trauma care, Employment taxes, Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises, Government lending and loan guarantees, Health care costs and insurance, Health personnel, Home and outpatient care, Hospital care, Housing finance and home ownership, Legislative rules and procedure, Licensing and registrations, Medicaid, Medical tests and diagnostic methods, Medicare, Mental health, Nebraska, Oil and gas, Pipelines, Poverty and welfare assistance, Railroads, Rural conditions and development, Self-employed, Senate, Social security and elderly assistance, Transportation employees, Unemployment, User charges and fees, Wages and earnings.

Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011 became law (1) in the United States on 2011-12-23. It was referred to the following Committee(s): (2)

House Ways and Means (HSWM)
House Energy and Commerce (HSIF)
sub Subcommittee on Health (sub 14)
House Transportation and Infrastructure (HSPW)
House Natural Resources (HSII)
House Foreign Affairs (HSFA)
House Financial Services (HSBA)

Dave Camp, Representative from Michigan, district 4

The proposal had the following cosponsors:

Lamar Seeligson Smith, Republican, Representative, from Texas, district 21

Act Overview

• Number: 3765 (3)
• Official Title as Introduced: To extend the payroll tax holiday, unemployment compensation, Medicare physician payment, provide for the consideration of the Keystone XL pipeline, and for other purposes (4)
• Short Title: Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011
• Date First Introduced: 2011-12-23
• Sponsor Name: Dave Camp
• Assignment Process: See Committe Assignments (5)
• Latest Major Activity/Action: Enacted
• Date Enacted (signed, in general (6), by President): 2011-12-23
• Type: hr (7)
• Main Topic: Economics and public finance
• Related Bills: (8)

  hr3630-112, Reason: related, Type: bill
  hr3743-112, Reason: related, Type: bill
  hr3811-112, Reason: related, Type: bill
  hr6142-112, Reason: related, Type: bill

• Summary of Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011: Govtrack. Authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress.
• Primary Source: Congress Website

Text of the Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011 – Title I: Temporary Payroll Tax Relief – (Sec. 101) Amends the Tax Relief Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010 to extend: (1) the reduction in the rate of the self-employment tax on self-employed individuals through 2012; and (2) the reduction in the rate of the employment tax on employees until February 29 2012. Makes the reduction in the tax rate for self-employed individuals applicable to self-employment income not exceeding the excess of $18350 over the amount of other wages and compensation received by such self-employed individuals for taxable years beginning in 2012.

Title II: Temporary Extension of Unemployment Compensation Provisions – (Sec. 201) Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act 2008 with respect to the state-established individual emergency unemployment compensation account (EUCA). Extends the final date for entering a federal-state agreement under the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program through March 6 2012. Postpones the termination of the program until August 15 2012.

Amends the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act to extend until March 7 2012 requirements that federal payments to states cover 100% of EUC.

Amends the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 to exempt weeks of unemployment between enactment of this Act and August 15 2012 from the prohibition in the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (FSEUCA of 1970) against federal matching payments to a state for the first week in an individual's eligibility period for which extended compensation or sharable regular compensation is paid if the state law provides for payment of regular compensation to an individual for his or her first week of otherwise compensable unemployment. (Thus allows temporary federal matching for the first week of extended benefits for states with no waiting period.)

Amends the FSEUCA of 1970 to postpone similarly from December 31 2011 to February 29 2012 termination of the period during which a state may determine its "on" and "off" indicators according to specified temporary substitutions in its formula.

(Sec. 202) Amends the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act as amended by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 the Worker Homeownership and Business Assistance Act of 2009 and the Tax Relief Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010 to extend through February 29 2012 the temporary increase in extended unemployment benefits for employees with 10 or more years of service as well as for those with less than 10.

Title III: Temporary Extension of Health Provisions – (Sec. 301) Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to set the update to the single conversion factor in the formula for the physicians' fee schedule for the first two months of 2012 at zero (thus freezing the physician payment update for the first two months of 2012). Requires the conversion factor for the remaining portion of 2012 and subsequent years to be computed as if the zero update for the first two months of 2012 had never applied.

(Sec. 302) Amends the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 as modified by other federal law to extend section 508 hospital reclassifications for two months through November 30 2011. ("Section 508" refers to Section 508 of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 [MMA] which allows the temporary reclassification of a hospital with a low Medicare area wage index for reimbursement purposes to a nearby location with a higher Medicare area wage index so that the "Section 508 hospital" will receive the higher Medicare reimbursement rate.)

(Sec. 303) Extends through February 29 2012 the 1.0 floor on geographic indexing adjustments to the work portion of the physician fee schedule.

(Sec. 304) Extends through February 29 2012 the process allowing exceptions to limitations on medically necessary therapy caps.

(Sec. 305) Amends the Medicare Medicaid and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 to extend until February 29 2012 an exception to a payment rule that permits laboratories to receive direct Medicare reimbursement when providing the technical component of certain physician pathology services that had been outsourced by certain (rural) hospitals.

(Sec. 306) Amends SSA title XVIII to extend the bonus and increased payments for ground ambulance services until March 1 2012.

Amends the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA) to extend the payment of certain urban air ambulance services until February 29 2012.

Extends increased payments for super rural ambulance services until March 1 2012.

(Sec. 307) Amends MIPPA to extend the physician fee schedule mental health add-on payment provision through February 29 2012.

(Sec. 308) Extends through February 29 2012 hold harmless provisions under the prospective payment system (PPS) for hospital outpatient department (OPD) services.

(Sec. 309) Extends the minimum payment for bone mass measurement through the first two months of 2012.

(Sec. 310) Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to extend the Qualifying Individual (QI) Program through February 29 2012 at specified allocations.

(Sec. 311) Extends the Transitional Medical Assistance (TMA) Program through February 29 2012.

(Sec. 312) Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of SSA title IV to extend the TANF program through February 29 2012.

Title IV: Mortgage Fees and Premiums – (Sec. 401) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to require the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to require each government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) (the Federal National Mortgage Association [Fannie Mae] and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation [Freddie Mac]) to charge a guarantee fee in connection with any guarantee of the timely payment of principal and interest on securities notes and other obligations based on or backed by mortgages on residential real properties designed principally for the occupancy of from one to four families.

Requires the FHFA Director to prohibit a GSE from consummating any offer for a guarantee to a lender for mortgage-backed securities if: (1) the guarantee is inconsistent with the requirements of this Act; or (2) the risk of loss is allowed to increase through the lowering of the underwriting standards or other means for the primary purpose of meeting the requirements of this Act.

Requires direct deposit into the Treasury of any amounts received from fee increases imposed by this Act that are necessary to comply with the minimum increase required by this Act.

Requires the Director to require each GSE as part of its annual report to: (1) describe changes made to up-front fees and annual fees as part of the guarantee fees negotiated with lenders changes to the riskiness of the new borrowers compared to previous origination years or book years and any adjustments required to improve for future origination years or book years in order to be in complete compliance with guarantee fee requirements; and (2) assess how the changes in such guarantee fees met the requirements of this title.

(Sec. 402) Amends the National Housing Act with respect to requirements for each mortgage secured by a 1- to 4-family dwelling that is an obligation of the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund. Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in addition to other required or authorized premiums to establish and collect through FY2021 annual premium payments of up to 10 basis points of the remaining insured principal balance for any mortgage for which the Secretary collects an annual premium on the remaining insured principal balance.

Title V: Other Provisions – Subtitle A: Keystone XL Pipeline – (Sec. 501) Directs the President acting through the Secretary of State to grant a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline project application filed on September 19 2008.

Waives such requirement if the President determines that the Keystone XL pipeline would not serve the national interest. Requires the President in that case to report to certain congressional committees and officials a justification for his determination including consideration of economic employment energy security foreign policy trade and environmental factors.

Declares that a permit for such pipeline shall take effect by operation of law if after 60 days following enactment of this Act the President fails to: (1) determine that the Keystone XL pipeline would not serve the national interest or (2) grant the permit.

Subtitle B: Budgetary Provisions – (Sec. 511) Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it out of order in the Senate to consider a bill resolution amendment motion or conference report that includes an emergency designation.

Permits waiver or suspension of such prohibition or successful appeals from a ruling of the Chair only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.

(Sec. 512) Prohibits the budgetary effects of this Act from being entered on either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.

Bill Notes

• [Note 1] An Act (like Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011) or a resolution cannot become a law in the United States until it has been approved (passed) in identical form by both the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as signed by the President (but see (5)). If the two bodys of the Congress versions of a bill are not identical, one of the bodies might decide to take a further vote to adopt the bill (see more about the Congress process here). An Act may be pass in identical form with or without amendments and with or without conference. (see more about Enrollment).
• [Note 2] Proposals are referred to committees for preliminary consideration, then debated, amended, and passed (or rejected) by the full House or Senate. To prevent endless shuttling of bills between the House and Senate, bills like Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011 are referred to joint committees made up of members of both houses.
• [Note 3] For more information regarding this legislative proposal, go to THOMAS, select "Bill Number," search on (Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011)
• [Note 4] To extend the payroll tax holiday, unemployment compensation, Medicare physician payment, provide for the consideration of the Keystone XL pipeline, and for other purposes. The current official title of a bill is always present, assigned at introduction (for example, in this case, on 2011-12-23) and can be revised any time. This type of titles are sentences.
• [Note 5] The Act is referred to the appropriate committee by the Speaker of any of the two Houses. Bills are placed on the calendar of the committee to which they have been assigned. See Assignment Process.
• [Note 6] Regarding exceptions to President´s approval, a bill that is not signed (returned unsigned) by the President can still become law if at lest two thirds of each of the two bodys of the Congress votes to pass it, which is an infrequent case. See also Presidential Veto.
• [Note 7] Legislative Proposal types can be: hr, hres, hjres, hconres, s, sres, sjres, sconres. An Act originating in the Senate is designated by the letter "S", and a bill originating from the House of Representatives begins with "H.R.", followed, in both cases, by its individual number which it retains throughout all its parliamentary process.
• [Note 8] For information regarding related bill/s to Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011, go to THOMAS.

Analysis

No analysis (criticism, advocacy, etc.) about Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011 submitted yet.

Canada
Congressional oversight
Economics and public finance
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employment taxes
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government lending and loan guarantees
Health care costs and insurance
Health personnel
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Housing finance and home ownership
Legislative rules and procedure
Licensing and registrations
Medicaid
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Mental health
Nebraska
Oil and gas
Pipelines
Poverty and welfare assistance
Railroads
Rural conditions and development
Self-employed
Senate
Social security and elderly assistance
Transportation employees
Unemployment
User charges and fees
Wages and earnings

Further Reading

• "How our laws are made", Edward F Willett; Jack Brooks, Washington, U.S. G.P.O.
• "To make all laws : the Congress of the United States, 1789-1989", James H Hutson- Washington, Library of Congress.
• "Bills introduced and laws enacted: selected legislative statistics, 1947-1990", Rozanne M Barry; Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

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