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Benefits Fairness for Filipino Veterans Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1559
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2013-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Asia
Immigration status and procedures
Philippines
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: 
Benefits Fairness for Filipino Veterans Act of 2013 - Provides that, with respect to eligibility for benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of Filipino veterans who are lawful U.S. residents, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs may not determine that such a person is not an individual residing in the United States solely because the person is outside the United States for any period of less than one year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-280.
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7008)
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Deficit Neutral Disaster Relief Act

Bill: 113-s-1560
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Mark [D-CO]
Introduced: 2013-09-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Appropriations
Colorado
Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: 
Deficit Neutral Disaster Relief Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to obligate up to $450 million of the amounts made available to carry out federal-aid highways emergency relief under the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 (division A, title X, chapter 9 of P.L. 113-2) under the heading &quot;Federal Highway Administration--Federal-Aid Highways--Emergency Relief Program&quot; for emergency relief projects in Colorado arising from damage caused by flooding events in 2013.

action_date: 2013-09-30
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Deficit Neutral Disaster Relief Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to obligate up to $450 million of the amounts made available to carry out federal-aid highways emergency relief under the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 (division A, title X, chapter 9 of P.L. 113-2) under the heading &quot;Federal Highway Administration--Federal-Aid Highways--Emergency Relief Program&quot; for emergency relief projects in Colorado arising from damage caused by flooding events in 2013.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7014; text as passed Senate: CR S7014)
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S7014; text as passed Senate: CR S7014)
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Those Who Protected Us Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1564
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2013-09-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Cemeteries and funerals
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Executive agency funding and structure
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Military personnel and dependents
Motor vehicles
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: 
Protecting Those Who Protected Us Act of 2013 - Appropriates for FY2014, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for FY2014 are not in effect, such sums as are necessary to administer and provide benefits and services to veterans, dependents, and survivors under specified veterans' benefits laws, including those concerning:
 
 
 compensation for service-connected disability or death, 
 
dependency and indemnity compensation for service-connected deaths, 
 
pension for non-service-connected disability or death or for service, 
 
benefits for children of certain veterans, 
 
specially adapted housing for disabled veterans, 
 
burial benefits,
 
certain educational assistance programs, 
 
training and rehabilitation for veterans with service-connected disabilities, and 
 
automobiles and adaptive equipment for certain disabled veterans and members of the Armed Forces. 
 
 
 Makes appropriations and funds made available and authority granted pursuant to this Act available until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) enactment of an appropriation (including a continuing appropriation) for any purpose for which amounts are made available by this Act, (2) enactment of the applicable regular or continuing appropriations resolution or other Act without any appropriation for such purpose, or (3) January 1, 2015. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Introduced in Senate
United States Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1565
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2013-09-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Consumer affairs
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public contracts and procurement
Telephone and wireless communication
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: 
United States Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act of 2013 - Requires a business enterprise that employs 50 or more employees, excluding part-time employees, or 50 or more employees who in the aggregate work at least 1,500 hours per week, exclusive of overtime, in a call center to notify the Secretary of Labor at least 120 days before relocating such center outside of the United States. Subjects violators to a civil penalty of up to $10,000 a day. Directs the Secretary to establish, maintain, and make publicly available a list of all such employers that relocate a call center. Authorizes the Secretary to remove from the list an employer that has relocated the call center from a location outside the United States to a location inside the United States.
 
Requires such an employer to remain on the list for up to three years after each relocation. Makes such an employer ineligible for federal grants or federal guaranteed loans for five years after being added to the list, except where the employer demonstrates that a lack of such loan or grant would threaten national security, result in substantial job loss in the United States, or harm the environment. Requires the head of federal or state executive agency or military department, when awarding a civilian or defense-related contract, to give preference to a U.S. employer that does not appear on the list.
 
Requires a business entity that initiates or receives a customer service communication to require each of its employees or agents participating in the communication to disclose their physical location at the beginning of each such communication unless all involved employees or agents are located in the United States. Exempts any communication: (1) initiated by a consumer if the consumer knows or reasonably should know that the employee or agent is located outside the United States, or (2) related to the provision of emergency services. Requires such a business entity, upon request, to transfer a customer to a customer service agent who is physically located in the United States.
 
Authorizes the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to exclude certain classes or types of business entities or customer services communications from the requirements of this Act under exceptionally compelling circumstances. Sets forth enforcement provisions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the period during which Iraqis who were employed by the United States Government in Iraq may be granted special immigrant status and to temporarily increase the fee or surcharge for processing machine-readable nonimmigrant visas.

Bill: 113-s-1566
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2013-09-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Iraq
Middle East
User charges and fees
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: 
Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 to provide that the total number of aliens eligible for special immigrant status (Iraqis who were employed by or on behalf of the U.S. government in Iraq) during the first three months of FY2014 shall be the sum of: (1) the number of such aliens whose applications were pending on September 30, 2013, and (2) 2000. Imposes a deadline of December 15, 2013, for applications for special immigrant status. 
 
Directs the Secretary of State to increase the fee or surcharge authorized under the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 by $1 for processing machine-readable nonimmigrant visas and machine-readable combined border crossing identification cards and nonimmigrant visas. Requires amounts collected as a result of the fee increase to be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury. 

action_date: 2013-09-30
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 to provide that the total number of aliens eligible for special immigrant status (Iraqis who were employed by or on behalf of the U.S. government in Iraq) during the first three months of FY2014 shall be the sum of: (1) the number of such aliens whose applications were pending on September 30, 2013, and (2) 2000. Imposes a deadline of December 15, 2013, for applications for special immigrant status. 
 
Directs the Secretary of State to increase the fee or surcharge authorized under the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 by $1 for processing machine-readable nonimmigrant visas and machine-readable combined border crossing identification cards and nonimmigrant visas. Requires amounts collected as a result of the fee increase to be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7049-7050; text as passed Senate: CR S7050)
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S7049-7050; text as passed Senate: CR S7050)
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act

Bill: 113-s-1567
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2013-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: 
Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act - Provides for compensation of federal employees furloughed due to any lapse in appropriations that begins on or about October 1, 2013, for the period of such lapse in appropriations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7101-7102)
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Pay Our Military Technical Corrections Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1568
Sponsor: Sen. Boozman, John [R-AR]
Introduced: 2013-10-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Coast guard
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Transportation
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Marine and inland water transportation
Military education and training
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-07
text: 
Pay Our Military Technical Corrections Act of 2013 - Amends the Pay Our Military Act (P.L. 113-39) to specify that FY2014 continuing appropriations provided for pay and allowances to members of the Armed Forces, including reserve components, is to include cadets in the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy appointed as midshipmen in Navy Reserve (including the Merchant Marine Reserve, Navy Reserve) who perform active service for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for FY2014 are not in effect. 
 
Makes continuing appropriations for pay and allowances to civilian personnel of the Department of Transportation (DOT) whom the Secretary of Transportation determines are providing support to such members of the Armed Forces, including reserve components, performing active service during such period (under such Act only civilian personnel and contractors of the Department of Defense [DOD], and the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] in the case of the Coast Guard, whom the Secretary concerned determines are providing such support).
 
Provides for pay and allowances to DOD, DHS, and DOT civilian personnel providing support to those in training for such service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2013-10-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Default Prevention Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1569
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2013-10-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-08
text: 
Default Prevention Act of 2013 - Amends the No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013 (P.L. 113-3) to suspend the public debt limit through December 31, 2014. 
 
Revises the special rule relating to obligations issued during the suspension period to provide for an increase in the debt limit, effective January 1, 2015, to the extent that: (1) the face amount of obligations issued and the face amount of obligations whose principal and interest are guaranteed by the federal government (except guaranteed obligations held by the Secretary of the Treasury) outstanding on January 1, 2015, exceeds (2) the face amount of such obligations outstanding on the date of enactment of this Act. 
 
Prohibits an obligation from being taken into account unless its issuance was necessary to fund a commitment incurred by the federal government that required payment before January 1, 2015. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-16
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S7503-7531)
action_date: 2013-10-15
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S7475-7485, S7485-7499)
action_date: 2013-10-14
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S7455-7471)
action_date: 2013-10-13
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S7433-7454)
action_date: 2013-10-12
text: Motion by Senator Reid to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to the measure (Record Vote no. 216) entered in Senate. (consideration: CR S7425-7426)
action_date: 2013-10-12
text: Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 53 - 45. Record Vote Number: 216. (consideration: CR S7419-7426, S7427-7430; text: CR S7425)
action_date: 2013-10-12
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S7455-7471)
action_date: 2013-10-11
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S7389-7390, S7390-7391; text: CR S7389)
action_date: 2013-10-10
text: Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S7384-7385; text: CR S7385)
action_date: 2013-10-10
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S7357, S7371-7385)
action_date: 2013-10-09
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 211.
action_date: 2013-10-08
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7308)
action_date: 2013-10-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Indian Health Service Advance Appropriations Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1570
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2013-10-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Appropriations
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Indian social and development programs
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-10
text: 
Indian Health Service Advance Appropriations Act of 2013 - Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to require that for each fiscal year, beginning with FY2015, discretionary new budget authority for the Indian Health Services and Indian Health Facilities accounts of the Indian Health Service includes advance discretionary new budget authority for the following fiscal year.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to include in documents submitted to Congress in support of the President's budget for each of those fiscal years detailed estimates of the funds needed for such accounts for the fiscal year following the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted.
 
Requires the President's budget to include information on estimates of those advanced appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-02
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-324.
action_date: 2013-10-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7534)
action_date: 2013-10-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2013-10-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to permit the District of Columbia to obligate and expend local funds in accordance with the local budget adopted by the Council of the District of Columbia during any period of fiscal year 2014 in which no Federal law appropriating such local funds is in effect, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-1571
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2013-10-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
District of Columbia
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-12
text: 
Authorizes the District of Columbia, during any period of FY2014 in which no Act of Congress is in effect to approve the obligation or expenditure of local funds by the District government, to obligate and expend local funds for programs and activities at the rate set forth under &quot;District of Columbia Funds--Summary of Expenses&quot; as included in the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Request Act of 2013 (D.C. Act 20-127), as modified as of the date of the enactment of this Act, except that the obligation or expenditure of such local funds for a program or activity remains subject to any terms and conditions imposed pursuant to the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-6). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-10-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting States, Opening National Parks Act

Bill: 113-s-1572
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2013-10-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Appropriations
Executive agency funding and structure
Parks, recreation areas, trails
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-15
text: 
Protecting States, Opening National Parks Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to reimburse any state for state funds expended for an activity conducted in FY2014 during the federal government shutdown that was necessary to operate and open to the public a National Park located, in whole or in part, within the state. Requires any such activity to have been: (1) authorized under federal law, (2) conducted in a manner and at a level not substantially greater in scope or cost than how the activity would have been conducted by the federal government, and (3) not a settlement of or defense against a claim of liability on the part of the state. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-10-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Family Relief Act

Bill: 113-s-1573
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2013-10-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-16
text: 
Military Family Relief Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to pay temporary (not to exceed six months) dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) to the surviving spouse of a veteran if, at the time of death, the veteran was in receipt of or entitled to receive compensation for a service-connected disability rated as total for at least one year preceding the veteran's death. 
 
Authorizes the payment to such survivor, for the same period, of any veteran's pension that the deceased was receiving at the time of death, without regard to the annual income and net worth of the surviving spouse.
 
Allows a surviving spouse who is entitled to pension or DIC under any other VA provision to be paid the amount by which such pension or DIC exceeds the amount of pension paid under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-280.
action_date: 2013-10-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-10-16
text: Introduced in Senate