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Stop Taxing American Assistance to Afghanistan Act

To prohibit United States assistance for Afghanistan unless the United States and Afghanistan enter into a bilateral agreement which provides that work performed in Afghanistan by United States contractors is exempt from taxation by the Government of Afghanistan. 1. Short Title This Act may be cited as the Stop Taxing American Assistance to Afghanistan Act 2. Prohibition on United States assistance for Afghanistan unless work performed in Afghanistan by United States contractors is exempt from taxation (a) Prohibition No funds made available to carry out the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq. (b) Waiver The President may waive the prohibition on assistance under subsection (a) on a case-by-case basis if the President determines and certifies to Congress that it is in the national interests of the United States to do so. (c) Definitions In this section: (1) Contract in Afghanistan The term contract in Afghanistan contract in Iraq or Afghanistan Public Law 110–181 10 U.S.C. 2302 or Iraq (2) Government of Afghanistan (A) In general The term Government of Afghanistan (B) Agency or instrumentality For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term agency or instrumentality of the Government of Afghanistan a foreign state Afghanistan (d) Effective date This section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply with respect to funds made available to carry out the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or any other Act for fiscal year 2014 and subsequent fiscal years.

Summary: Stop Taxing American Assistance to Afghanistan Act - Prohibits U.S. assistance for Afghanistan unless the United States and Afghanistan enter into a bilateral agreement which provides that work performed in Afghanistan by U.S. contractors is exempt from taxation by the government of Afghanistan. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition if in the U.S. national interest. Makes such prohibition inapplicable to a contract: (1) under which the contractor or subcontractor is not a U.S. national, or (2) involving commercial operations of U.S. diplomatic missions in Afghanistan.
Live by the Laws You Write Act

To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to apply to Delegates and Resident Commissioners to the Congress, and to employees of committees and leadership offices of Congress, the requirement of such Act that the only health plans that the Federal Government may make available to Members of Congress and congressional staff are plans created or offered through an Exchange established under such Act. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Live by the Laws You Write Act 2. Treatment of delegates, committee staff, and leadership office staff under patient protection and affordable care act (a) Application of Same Requirements Applicable to Members and Employees of Member Offices Section 1312(d)(3)(D) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( 42 U.S.C. 18032(d)(3)(D) (ii) Treatment of delegates and resident commissioner In this subparagraph, the term Member of Congress (iii) Congressional staff defined In this subparagraph, the term Congressional staff (I) The office of any Member of Congress. (II) The office of any standing, select, or joint committee of Congress. (III) An office of the House of Representatives for which the appropriation for salaries and expenses of the office for the year involved is provided under the heading House Leadership Offices (IV) The offices of the President pro tempore, Majority and Minority Leaders, Majority and Minority Whips, Conferences of the Majority and of the Minority, and Majority and Minority Policy Committees of the Senate (in addition to any office of a Member of Congress referred to in subclause (I)). . (b) Effective date The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if included in the enactment of subtitle D of title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Summary: Live by the Laws You Write Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to apply to the following persons the requirement that the the only health plans that the federal government may make available to Members of Congress and congressional staff with respect to their service shall be health plans created, or offered through a Health Benefit Exchange established, under such Act: (1) Delegates and Resident Commissioners to Congress, (2) congressional committee staff, and (3) House and Senate leadership office staff.
Veterans' Advisory Committee on Education Improvement Act of 2013

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for a two-year extension of the Veterans’ Advisory Committee on Education. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Veterans' Advisory Committee on Education Improvement Act of 2013 2. Two-year extension of Veterans’ Advisory Committee on Education Section 3692 (1) in subsection (a)— (A) by inserting 31, 30, (B) by striking and the Persian Gulf War the Persian Gulf War, and the post-9/11 operations in Iraq and Afghanistan (2) in subsection (c), by striking December 31, 2013 December 31, 2015 September 17, 2013 Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

Summary: Veterans' Advisory Committee on Education Improvement Act of 2013 - Extends through the end of 2015 the Veterans' Advisory Committee on Education. Requires the Committee to include veterans representative of the post-9/11 operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Davis-Bacon Repeal Act

To repeal the wage rate requirements commonly known as the Davis-Bacon Act. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Davis-Bacon Repeal Act 2. Repeal of Davis-Bacon wage requirements (a) In general Subchapter IV of chapter 31 (b) Reference Any reference in any law to a wage requirement of subchapter IV of chapter 31 3. Effective date and limitation The amendment made by section 2 shall take effect 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act but shall not affect any contract in existence on such date of enactment or made pursuant to invitation for bids outstanding on such date of enactment.

Summary: Davis-Bacon Repeal Act - Repeals the Davis-Bacon Act (which requires that the locally prevailing wage rate be paid to various classes of laborers and mechanics working under federally-financed or federally-assisted contracts for construction, alteration, and repair of public buildings or public works). States that references in any law to a wage requirement of the Davis-Bacon Act after the enactment of this Act shall be null and void.
Telephone Records Protection Act

To repeal section 2703(c)(2)(C) 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Telephone Records Protection Act 2. Repeal Subparagraph (C) of section 2703(c)(2) of title 18, United States Code, is repealed.

Summary: Telephone Records Protection Act - Repeals a provision of the federal criminal code requiring a provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service to disclose to a governmental entity local and long distance telephone connection records, or records of session times and durations, of a subscriber to or customer of such service when such entity uses an administrative subpoena authorized by a federal or state statute or federal or state grand jury or trial subpoena.
Honor Those Who Served Act of 2013

To amend title 38, United States Code, to identify the persons who are eligible to request headstones or markers furnished by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and or other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Honor Those Who Served Act of 2013 2. Persons eligible to request headstones or markers furnished by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (a) In general Section 2306 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsections: (h) A person may request a headstone or marker to commemorate a decedent under this section if the person is— (1) the decedent’s next of kin; (2) a person authorized in writing by the decedent’s next of kin to make such request; (3) a personal representative authorized in writing by the decedent to make such request; (4) in the case of a decedent for whom no person described in paragraphs (1), (2), or (3) may be identified, a State veterans service agency, a military researcher, a local historian, or a genealogist or other person familiar with the research sources and methods necessary to prove the identity of the decedent; or (5) in the case of a decedent who is a veteran who served on active duty in the Armed Forces at least 62 years before the date on which the headstone or marker is requested, any person. (i) In the case of a request for a headstone or marker under this section for a decedent for whom insufficient information exists regarding the religious beliefs of the individual to select an appropriate emblem of belief for the headstone or marker of the decedent, the person requesting the headstone or marker may request a headstone or marker without an emblem of belief. . (b) Effective date The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to a request for a headstone or marker submitted after the date of the enactment of this Act.

Summary: Honor Those Who Served Act of 2013 - Revises veterans' burial benefits provisions to allow a person to request a headstone or marker from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to commemorate an eligible individual if such person is: (1) the decedent's next of kin; (2) a person authorized by the next of kin to make such request; (3) a personal representative authorized by the decedent to make such request; (4) in the case of a decedent for whom there is no person under (1) through (3) identified, a state veterans agency, a military researcher, a local historian, a genealogist, or other person familiar with methods necessary to prove the identity of the decedent; or (5) in the case of a veteran who served on active duty at least 62 years before the date on which the headstone or marker is requested, any person. Allows for the request of a headstone or marker without an emblem of religious belief.
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require certain institutions of higher education to provide notice of tuition levels for students.

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require certain institutions of higher education to provide notice of tuition levels for students. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Truth in Tuition Act of 2013 2. Notice of tuition levels (a) Amendment Section 487(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1094(a) (30) (A) The institution will provide to each student admitted to an undergraduate or graduate program— (i) a multi-year tuition and fee schedule; or (ii) a single-year tuition and fee schedule, and a nonbinding, multi-year estimate of net costs after all financial aid is awarded, assuming constant family and student income, assets, and relevant circumstances. (B) Multi-year schedules and estimates required by subparagraph (A) (i) may include a percentage or dollar increase or decrease of any size the institution determines to be appropriate from one year to the next; and (ii) shall indicate, on a year-by-year basis, costs for the normal duration of such student's undergraduate or graduate program. (C) Institutions that elect a single-year tuition and fee schedule under subparagraph (A)(ii) (D) The Secretary shall waive the requirements of subparagraph (A) subparagraph (A) . (b) Effective date The amendment made by subsection (a)

Summary: Truth in Tuition Act of 2013 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education (IHEs) to provide each student admitted to an undergraduate or graduate program: (1) a multi-year tuition and fee schedule; or (2) a single-year tuition and fee schedule, and a nonbinding, multi-year estimate of net costs after all financial aid is awarded. Requires IHEs that choose the second option to include with each multi-year estimate the average deviation, in percentage terms, between previous year estimates and actual net costs for their students. Directs the Secretary of Education to waive the application of these requirements to IHEs for which the requirements are not practicable due to events that cause them severe economic distress, a dramatic reduction in state or federal aid, or any other circumstance the Secretary determines to be appropriate.
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require the termination of employment of IRS employees for discrimination against any taxpayer on basis of political affiliation, and for other purposes.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require the termination of employment of IRS employees for discrimination against any taxpayer on basis of political affiliation, and for other purposes. 1. Termination of employment for discrimination against any taxpayer on basis of political affiliation (a) In general Subsection (b) of section 1203 of the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 ( 26 U.S.C. 7804 and ; and (11) discriminating against any taxpayer on the basis of political affiliation. . (b) Discrimination on the basis of political affiliation defined Section 1203 of such Act is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: (e) Discrimination on the basis of political affiliation For purposes of subsection (b), discrimination on the basis of political affiliation . (c) Effective date The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to any action taken after the date of the enactment of this Act. 2. Termination of employment for misuse of government resources (a) In general Paragraph (10) of section 1203(b) of the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 ( 26 U.S.C. 7804 or out of arbitrary or capricious or politically motivated reasons (b) Effective date The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to any action taken after the date of the enactment of this Act. 3. Awarding of costs and fees to taxpayers wrongfully discriminated against (a) In general Subsection (a) of section 7430 or wrongfully discriminated against, title, (b) Wrongful discrimination defined Subsection (c) of section 7430 of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following: (8) Wrongful discrimination Wrongful discrimination occurs if a final determination is made in an administrative or judicial proceeding that there has been a violation of a right specified in section 1203(b)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 (26 U.S.C. 7804 note). . (c) Effective date The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to civil actions or proceedings commenced after the date of the enactment of this Act.

Summary: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to terminate the employment of any IRS employee for discrimination against any taxpayer on the basis of political affiliation or for threatening to audit a taxpayer for arbitrary or capricious politically-motivated reasons, and (2) award administrative and litigation costs to taxpayers who prevail against the IRS in any legal or administrative proceeding for wrongful discrimination.
Silviculture Regulatory Consistency Act of 2013

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to exempt certain silvicultural activities from national pollutant discharge elimination system permitting requirements, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Silviculture Regulatory Consistency Act of 2013 2. Silvicultural activities Section 402(l) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1342(l) (3) Silvicultural activities (A) NPDES permit requirements for silvicultural activities The Administrator shall not require a permit or otherwise promulgate regulations under this section or directly or indirectly require any State to require a permit under this section for a discharge of stormwater runoff resulting from the conduct of the following silviculture activities: nursery operations, site preparation, reforestation and subsequent cultural treatment, thinning, prescribed burning, pest and fire control, harvesting operations, surface drainage, and road use, construction, and maintenance. (B) Permits for dredged or fill material Nothing in this paragraph exempts a silvicultural activity resulting in the discharge of dredged or fill material from any permitting requirement under section 404. . November 12, 2014 Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

Summary: Silviculture Regulatory Consistency Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from requiring, or from promulgating regulations that direct a state to require, a permit under the national pollutant discharge elimination system for a discharge of stormwater runoff resulting from the conduct of the following silviculture activities: nursery operations, site preparation, reforestation, thinning, prescribed burning, pest and fire control, harvesting operations, surface drainage, and road use, construction, and maintenance. Specifies that nothing in this Act exempts a silvicultural activity resulting in the discharge of dredged of fill material from permit requirements for discharges into navigable waters.
Community College Energy Training Act of 2013

To require the Secretary of Energy, in coordination with the Secretary of Labor, to establish a program to provide for workforce training and education, at community colleges, in sustainable energy. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Community College Energy Training Act of 2013 2. Sustainable energy training program for community colleges (a) Workforce training and education in sustainable energy From funds made available under subsection (c) (1) alternative energy, including wind and solar energy; (2) high-performance green building construction, design and redevelopment; (3) sustainable energy technologies, including chemical technology, nanotechnology, and electrical technology; (4) water, energy and resource conservation; (5) recycling and waste reduction; and (6) sustainable agriculture and farming. (b) Award considerations Of the funds made available under subsection (c) subsection (a) (c) Authorization of appropriations There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $100,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2014 through 2018. (d) Definitions In this Act: (1) Community college The term community college 20 U.S.C. 1001(a) (A) provides a 2-year program of instruction for which the institution awards an associate degree; and (B) primarily awards associate degrees. (2) High-performance green building The term high-performance green building 42 U.S.C. 17061

Summary: Community College Energy Training Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Energy (DOE), in coordination with the Secretary of Labor, to create a program awarding grants to community colleges to provide workforce training and education in sustainable energy industries and practices, such as: (1) alternative energy; (2) high-performance green building construction, design, and redevelopment; (3) sustainable energy technologies; (4) water, energy, and resource conservation; (5) recycling and waste reduction; and (6) sustainable agriculture and farming. Requires at least one-half of the grant funds to be awarded to community colleges with existing sustainability programs leading to certificates, credentials, or degrees in one or more of these industries or practices.
Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women's Services Act

To direct the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe rules prohibiting deceptive advertising of abortion services. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women’s Services Act 2. Prohibition of deceptive advertising of abortion services (a) Conduct prohibited Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Trade Commission shall, in accordance with section 553 of title 5, United States Code, promulgate rules to prohibit, as an unfair and deceptive act or practice, any person from advertising with the intent to deceptively create the impression that— (1) such person is a provider of abortion services if such person does not provide abortion services; and (2) such person is not a provider of abortion services if such person does provide abortion services. (b) Enforcement A violation of a rule promulgated under subsection (a) shall be treated as a violation of a rule defining an unfair or deceptive act or practice under section 18(a)(1)(B) of the Federal Trade Commission Act ( 15 U.S.C. 57a(a)(1)(B) (c) Nonprofit organizations The Federal Trade Commission shall enforce this Act with respect to an organization that is not organized to carry on business for its own profit or that of its members as if such organization were a person over which the Commission has authority pursuant to section 5(a)(2) of the Federal Trade Commission Act ( 15 U.S.C. 45(a)(2) 3. Definitions For purposes of the rules prescribed under section 2, the following definitions apply: (1) Advertise The term advertise (2) Abortion services The term abortion services (3) Person The term person

Summary: Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women's Services Act - Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to promulgate rules to prohibit, as an unfair and deceptive act or practice, a person from advertising with the intent to deceptively create the impression that: (1) such person is a provider of abortion services if such person does not provide such services, or (2) such person is not a provider of abortion services if such person does provide such services. Defines "abortion services" as providing surgical and non-surgical procedures to terminate a pregnancy, or providing referrals for such procedures. Sets forth the enforcement authority of the FTC, including with respect to nonprofit organizations.
Ban All Radioactive Recycling Act of 2013

To prohibit certain transfers of radioactive metal by the Department of Energy, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ban All Radioactive Recycling Act of 2013 2. Radioactive metal (a) Amendment Subtitle D of title I of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 ( 42 U.S.C. 10171 152. Radioactive metal (a) Prohibition The Department of Energy shall not plan or undertake sales, trades, barters, or transfers of any metal that has been used or stored in a radiological area other than for the purposes of storage pursuant to subsection (b). (b) Storage Such metal shall, when removed from the radiological area in which it was used or stored, be stored or disposed of at a site— (1) specifically licensed by the Commission for the storage or disposal of radioactive waste; (2) specifically licensed by a State pursuant to section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 ( 42 U.S.C. 2021 (3) at a site on property owned by the Department of Energy that has been approved by the Secretary for the storage or disposal of radioactive waste. . (b) Conforming amendment The table of contents of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 is amended by adding after the item relating to section 151 the following new item: Sec. 152. Radioactive metal. .

Summary: Ban All Radioactive Recycling Act of 2013 - Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to prohibit the Department of Energy (DOE) from planning or undertaking sales, trades, barters, or transfers of any metal that has been used or stored in a radiological area other than for certain storage purposes. Requires storage or disposal of such metal, when removed from the radiological area in which it was used or stored, at a site: (1) specifically licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for the storage or disposal of radioactive waste, (2) specifically licensed by a state pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 for the storage or disposal of radioactive waste, or (3) at a site on DOE property that has been approved by the Secretary of Energy for storage or disposal of radioactive waste.