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Public Laws Electronic Notification Service (PENS)


January 3, 2013



The Office of the Federal Register has assigned law numbers to the following bill(s) approved by the President:

H.R. 3477 / Public Law 112-219
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 133 Hare Road in Crosby, Texas, as the Army First Sergeant David McNerney
Post Office Building.
(Dec. 28, 2012; 126 Stat. 1595; 1 page)

H.R. 3783 / Public Law 112-220
Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act of 2012
(Dec. 28, 2012; 126 Stat. 1596; 5 pages)

H.R. 3870 / Public Law 112-221
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6083 Highway 36 West in Rose Bud, Arkansas, as the ``Nicky `Nick' Daniel Bacon Post Office''.
(Dec. 28, 2012; 126 Stat. 1601; 1 page)

H.R. 3912 / Public Law 112-222
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 110 Mastic Road in Mastic Beach, New York, as the ``Brigadier General Nathaniel Woodhull Post Office Building''.
(Dec. 28, 2012; 126 Stat. 1602; 1 page)

H.R. 5738 / Public Law 112-223
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 15285 Samohin Drive in Macomb, Michigan, as the ``Lance Cpl. Anthony A. DiLisio Clinton-Macomb Carrier Annex''.
(Dec. 28, 2012; 126 Stat. 1603; 1 page)

H.R. 5837 / Public Law 112-224
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 26 East Genesee Street in Baldwinsville, New York, as the ``Corporal Kyle Schneider Post Office Building''.
(Dec. 28, 2012; 126 Stat. 1604; 1 page)

H.R. 5954 / Public Law 112-225
To designate 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''.
(Dec. 28, 2012; 126 Stat. 1605; 1 page)

H.R. 6116 / Public Law 112-226
To amend the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands to provide for direct review by the United States Supreme Court of decisions of the Virgin Islands Supreme Court, and for other purposes.
(Dec. 28, 2012; 126 Stat. 1606; 2 pages)

H.R. 6223 / Public Law 112-227
To amend section 1059(e) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006 to clarify that a period of employment abroad by the Chief of Mission or United States Armed Forces as a translator, interpreter, or in a security-related position in an executive or managerial capacity is to be counted as a period of residence and physical presence in the United States for purposes of qualifying for naturalization, and for other purposes.
(Dec. 28, 2012; 126 Stat. 1608; 2 pages)

H.J. Res. 122 / Public Law 112-228
Establishing the date for the counting of the electoral votes for President and Vice President cast by the electors in December 2012.
(Dec. 28, 2012; 126 Stat. 1610; 1 page)

S. 1379 / Public Law 112-229
D.C. Courts and Public Defender Service Act of 2011
(Dec. 28, 2012; 126 Stat. 1611; 5 pages)

S. 2170 / Public Law 112-230
Hatch Act Modernization Act of 2012
(Dec. 28, 2012; 126 Stat. 1616; 3 pages)

S. 2367 / Public Law 112-231
21st Century Language Act of 2012
(Dec. 28, 2012; 126 Stat. 1619; 2 pages)

S. 3193 / Public Law 112-232
Barona Band of Mission Indians Land Transfer Clarification Act of 2012
(Dec. 28, 2012; 126 Stat. 1621; 2 pages)

S. 3311 / Public Law 112-233
To designate the United States courthouse located at 2601 2nd Avenue North, Billings, Montana, as the ``James F. Battin United States Courthouse''. (Dec. 28, 2012; 126 Stat. 1623; 1 page)

S. 3315 / Public Law 112-234
GAO Mandates Revision Act of 2012
(Dec. 28, 2012; 126 Stat. 1624; 2 pages)

S. 3564 / Public Law 112-235
Public Interest Declassification Board Reauthorization Act of 2012
(Dec. 28, 2012; 126 Stat. 1626; 1 page)

S. 3642 / Public Law 112-236
Theft of Trade Secrets Clarification Act of 2012
(Dec. 28, 2012; 126 Stat. 1627; 1 page)

S. 3687 / Public Law 112-237
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program, to designate certain Federal buildings, and for other purposes.
(Dec. 28, 2012; 126 Stat. 1628; 3 pages)

H.R. 5949 / Public Law 112-238
FISA Amendments Act Reauthorization Act of 2012
(Dec. 30, 2012; 126 Stat. 1631; 1 page)

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