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Rilya Wilson Act

Bill: 113-hr-680
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Frederica S. [D-FL-24]
Introduced: 2013-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Child care and development
Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Government information and archives
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: 
Riya Wilson Act - Amends title IV (Grants to States for Aid and Services to Needy Families with Children and for Child-Welfare Services) of the Social Security Act to require an approved state plan that is required in order to be eligible for federal payments for foster care and adoption assistance to provide that such state has in effect procedures that require the state child welfare agency to promptly report information on missing or abducted children to law enforcement authorities for entry into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database.
 
Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to require a state reporting a missing child under the age of 21 to the NCIC to: (1) require the state law enforcement agency that entered the report to include a recent photograph in information updating a record, and (2) notify the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children of each report received relating to a child reported missing from a foster care family home or childcare institution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.
action_date: 2013-02-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that Washington's Birthday be observed on February 22, rather than the third Monday in February, of each year.

Bill: 113-hr-681
Sponsor: Rep. Wolf, Frank R. [R-VA-10]
Introduced: 2013-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commemorative events and holidays
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: 
Changes the date of the observance of the birthday of President George Washington to February 22 of each year (currently, the third Monday in February).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E137-138)
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Ibrahim Parlak.

Bill: 113-hr-682
Sponsor: Rep. Upton, Fred [R-MI-6]
Introduced: 2013-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: Provides for the relief of Ibrahim Parlak.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Military Spouses Equal Treatment Act

Bill: 113-hr-683
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Marriage and family status
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Military Spouses Equal Treatment Act - Considers a person a spouse, for purposes of military personnel policies and military and veterans' benefits, if the marriage of the individual is valid in the state in which the marriage was entered into or, in the case of a marriage entered into outside any state, if the marriage is valid in the place in which the marriage was entered into and the marriage could have been entered into in a state. Includes as a state the District of Columbia, the Commonwealths of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands, and U.S. territories and possessions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-02-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-684
Sponsor: Rep. Womack, Steve [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Retail and wholesale trades
Sales and excise taxes
State and local government operations
State and local taxation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013 - Authorizes each member state under the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (the multistate agreement for the administration and collection of sales and use taxes adopted on November 12, 2002) to require all sellers not qualifying for a small-seller exception (applicable to sellers with annual gross receipts in total U.S. remote sales not exceeding $1 million) to collect and remit sales and use taxes with respect to remote sales under provisions of the Agreement, but only if such Agreement includes minimum simplification requirements relating to the administration of the tax, audits, and streamlined filing. Defines "remote sale" as a sale of goods or services into a state in which the seller would not legally be required to pay, collect, or remit state or local sales and use taxes unless provided by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Protect our Prairies Act

Bill: 113-hr-686
Sponsor: Rep. Noem, Kristi L. [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural insurance
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Disaster relief and insurance
Land use and conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Protect our Prairies Act - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to reduce crop insurance assistance and noninsured crop disaster assistance for crops grown on native sod acreage converted to cropland for the first four years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Credit Union Small Business Jobs Creation Act

Bill: 113-hr-688
Sponsor: Rep. Royce, Edward R. [R-CA-39]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Congressional oversight
Credit and credit markets
National Credit Union Administration

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
 Credit Union Small Business Jobs Creation Act - Amends the Federal Credit Union Act to prohibit an insured credit union from making any member business loan that would result in the total amount of such loans outstanding at that credit union at any one time exceeding either: (1) 1.75 times the actual net worth of the credit union, or (2) 12.25% of the total assets of the credit union.
 
Authorizes the National Credit Union Administration Board to approve an application by an insured credit union to make one or more member business loans that would result in a total amount of such loans outstanding at any one time of up to 27.5 % of the total assets of the credit union, if the credit union meets specified safety and soundness criteria. Prohibits an insured credit union that has made such a member business loan but that is not well capitalized from making any new member business loans until it becomes well capitalized and obtains Board approval.
 
Directs the Board to develop a tiered approval process, including lending standards, under which an insured credit union gradually increases the amount of member business lending in a manner consistent with safe and sound operations.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study the status of member business lending by insured credit unions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Reserve Retirement Deployment Credit Correction Act

Bill: 113-hr-690
Sponsor: Rep. Latham, Tom [R-IA-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Reserve Retirement Deployment Credit Correction Act - Requires the days of active duty or active service used to reduce the minimum age at which a member of the reserves may retire for non-regular (reserve) service to occur in in any two consecutive fiscal years (under current law, in the same fiscal year).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Worker Protection Against Combustible Dust Explosions and Fires Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-691
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-11]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Department of Labor
Fires
Labor standards
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Worker Protection Against Combustible Dust Explosions and Fires Act of 2013 - Requires the Secretary of Labor to promulgate an interim final standard regulating occupational exposure to combustible dust hazards, which shall apply to manufacturing, processing, blending, conveying, repackaging, and handling of combustible particulate solids and their dusts (including organic dusts, plastics, sulfur, wood, rubber, furniture, textiles, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, fibers, dyes, coal, metals, and fossil fuels), but shall not apply to processes already covered by the occupational safety and health standard on grain facilities.
 
Requires such standard to be based on portions of the National Fire Protection Association Standards in effect upon enactment of this Act that: (1) apply to existing facilities, or (2) call for source and dust emission control technologies.
 
Requires such standard also to provide requirements for: (1) a hazard assessment to identify, evaluate, and control combustible dust hazards; (2) a written program that includes provisions for hazardous dust inspection, testing, hot work, ignition control, and housekeeping; (3) engineering controls, administrative controls, and operating procedures; (4) workplace inspection and housekeeping to prevent accumulation of combustible dust in places of employment in depths that can present explosion, deflagration, or other fire hazards, including safe methods of dust removal; (5) participation of employees and their representatives in hazard assessment, development of and compliance with the written program, incident investigation, and other elements of hazard management; and (6) providing safety and health information and annual training to managers and employees and their representatives.
 
Requires the interim final standard to take effect 30 days after its issuance, and remain in effect until a final standard becomes effective, except that it may include a reasonable phase-in period for implementation of required engineering controls.
 
Requires the Secretary to issue: (1) a proposed rule for regulating combustible dust explosions that includes the major elements contained in the interim final standard, and (2) a final rule three years after issuance of a proposed rule.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Department of Homeland Security Personnel Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-692
Sponsor: Rep. Barletta, Lou [R-PA-11]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Department of Homeland Security
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Immigration status and procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Protecting Department of Homeland Security Personnel Act of 2013 - Prohibits any adverse personnel action, including termination, against any employee of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) who refuses to carry out a provision of the DHS memorandum issued on June 15, 2012, regarding the exercise of prosecutorial discretion with respect to individuals who came to the United States as children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Sugar Reform Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-693
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Agricultural trade
Alternative and renewable resources
Tariffs
Trade agreements and negotiations
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Sugar Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to make loans available to processors of domestically grown sugarcane (18 cents per pound) and sugar beet processors through FY2017.
 
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to make specified sugarcane and sugar beet quantity estimates through crop year 2017. 
 
Requires that sugar allotments be appropriate to maintain adequate supplies at reasonable prices, taking into account all domestic supply sources, including imports.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to suspend or modify marketing allotments, taking into account: (1) the interests of consumers, food industry workers, businesses, and agricultural producers; and (2) the competitiveness of domestically produced and imported foods containing sugar. 
 
Revises sugar tariff-rate quota adjustment provisions to direct the Secretary to: (1) adjust tariff-rates to provide adequate domestic sugar supplies at reasonable prices, (2) establish and adjust tariff-rate quotas so that the ratio of sugar stocks to total sugar use at the end of the quota year will be approximately 15.5%, and (3) promulgate regulations that permit any country that has been allocated a quota share to temporarily transfer all or part of the share to any other country that has also been allocated a quota share.
 
Extends flexible marketing sugar allotment authority through crop year 2017.
 
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to repeal the feedstock flexibility program for bioenergy producers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Corporate Tax Fairness Act

Bill: 113-hr-694
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Foreign and international corporations
Income tax credits
Income tax deferral
Oil and gas
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Corporate Tax Fairness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the taxation of the foreign-source income of domestic corporations, to: (1) eliminate the deferral of tax on the foreign-source income of U.S. corporations for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2013, (2) deny the foreign tax credit to large integrated oil companies that are dual capacity taxpayers, (3) limit the offset of the foreign tax credit to income that is subject to U.S. tax, and (4) treat foreign corporations managed and controlled in the United States as domestic corporations for U.S. tax purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Lyon County Economic Development and Conservation Act

Bill: 113-hr-696
Sponsor: Rep. Horsford, Steven [D-NV-4]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Nevada
Water use and supply
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Lyon County Economic Development and Conservation Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the city of Yerington, Nevada, identified federal land in Lyon and Mineral Counties.
 
Designates identified federal land in Nevada managed by the Forest Service, to be known as the Wovoka Wilderness, as wilderness and as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
ARPA-ED Act

Bill: 113-hr-700
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-11]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Department of Education
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Higher education
Performance measurement
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Technology assessment

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
ARPA-ED Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to reserve up to 30% of amounts appropriated for the Investing in Innovation Fund under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to establish and carry out the objectives of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Education (ARPA-ED). 
 
Requires the Secretary to appoint to the ARPA-ED, for terms of up to four years, individuals who have expertise in carrying out the Agency's objectives.
 
Requires the ARPA-ED to: (1) identify and promote advances in learning, fundamental and applied sciences, and engineering that may be translated into new learning technologies; (2) develop, test, and evaluate new learning technologies and related processes; and (3) accelerate transformational technological advances in education.
 
Directs the Secretary to award grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, or cash prizes to, or enter into other transactions with, public or private entities in pursuit of these objectives.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) convene an advisory panel to provide the Secretary and the ARPA-ED with advice in making those awards or entering into those transactions; (2) obtain independent, periodic, and rigorous evaluations of the ARPA-ED's effectiveness; and (3) disseminate information to education practitioners on effective practices and technologies developed through the ARPA-ED.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Access to Frontline Health Care Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-702
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Access to Frontline Health Care Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish and carry out a Frontline Providers Loan Repayment Program under which the Secretary agrees to make student loan repayments in exchange for a health professional providing frontline care services for two years in a frontline care scarcity area.
 
Defines "frontline care services" as health care services in the fields of general surgery, optometry, ophthalmology, chiropractic, physical therapy, audiology, speech language pathology, pharmacies, public health, podiatric medicine, dietetics, occupational therapy, general pediatrics, respiratory therapy, medical technology, otolaryngology, or radiologic technology.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House