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Every Child Deserves a Family Act

Bill: 113-hr-2028
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Congressional oversight
Marriage and family status
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
Every Child Deserves a Family Act - Prohibits an entity that receives federal assistance and is involved in adoption or foster care placements from discriminating against prospective adoptive or foster parents solely on the basis of their sexual orientation, gender identification, or marital status or on the basis of the sexual orientation or gender identity of the child involved.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in order to ensure compliance with, and ensure understanding of the legal, practice, and culture changes required by this Act in making foster care and adoption placement decisions, to provide specified technical assistance to all entities covered by this Act.
 
Requires a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study of whether states have substantially complied with this Act in eliminating policies, practices, or statutes that deny adoption rights on the basis of these criteria.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E679)
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Community College Energy Training Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2029
Sponsor: Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Agricultural education
Agricultural practices and innovations
Alternative and renewable resources
Building construction
Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Higher education
Solid waste and recycling
Vocational and technical education
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
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.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women's Services Act

Bill: 113-hr-2030
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Abortion
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Marketing and advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
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 &quot;abortion services&quot; 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. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E683)
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
TEST Act

Bill: 113-hr-2031
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical research

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
 Trial and Experimental Studies Transparency Act of 2012 [
sic
] or TEST Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the clinical trials that must be reported to the clinical trial registry data bank to include: (1) any interventional study of a drug, device, or biological product conducted outside of the United States the results of which are submitted to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) as support for approval of an application; and (2) postmarket surveillance of a class II or class III device that involves data collection from human subjects. Defines &quot;interventional study&quot; to mean a study in human beings in which individuals are assigned by an investigator, based on a protocol, to receive specific interventions to evaluate their effects on biomedical health-related outcomes.
 
Requires submission to the data bank of supporting documents, including protocol documents and consent documents used to enroll subjects into the trial. Requires the responsible party for a clinical trial to submit clinical trial information to the data bank before the first patient is enrolled in the trial.
 
Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to post the information submitted to the data bank within 30 days after the submission is determined to meet the quality criteria established by the Director.
 
Revises time frames for the reporting of results data to the clinical trial registry.
 
Requires the Director and the Commissioner of Food and Drugs (FDA) to report on the number of clinical trials with information submitted to the registry and steps taken to enforce compliance with such reporting requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Ban All Radioactive Recycling Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2032
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Metals
Radioactive wastes and releases
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
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.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Native American Psychiatric and Mental Health Care Improvement Act

Bill: 113-hr-2037
Sponsor: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Education programs funding
Government lending and loan guarantees
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Indian social and development programs
Medical education
Mental health
Minority health
Student aid and college costs
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
Native American Psychiatric and Mental Health Care Improvement Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award a five-year grant to one department of psychiatry in, or one non-profit entity affiliated with, an accredited medical school in this country to carry out a demonstration program to recruit, train, deploy, and professionally support psychiatric physicians who agree to provide primary and specialty health care services in Indian health programs for at least two years.
 
Requires the grantee to: (1) create a nationally-replicable workforce model that identifies and incorporates best practices for carrying out such activities, and (2) provide participating psychiatric physicians with up to one year of supplemental clinical and cultural competency training that enables them to provide primary and specialty health care services in Indian health programs.
 
Requires participating psychiatric physicians to: (1) be licensed or eligible for licensure to practice in the state to which they will be deployed; and (2) demonstrate a commitment, beyond the one year of training and two years of deployment, to a career as a specialty care or primary care physician providing mental health services in Indian health programs. Gives a preference to psychiatric physicians who are American Indians or Alaska Natives.
 
Directs the Secretary to make a repayment, under the Indian Health Service Loan Repayment Program, of the educational loans of participating psychiatric physicians for each year of their deployment to an Indian health program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Veterans Nutrition Fairness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2038
Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Disability assistance
Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
Disabled Veterans Nutrition Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to expand eligibility for supplemental nutrition assistance (SNAP, formerly food stamp) benefits to include certain veterans with pending service-connected disability claims.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, and Nutrition.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish headstones and markers for certain deceased veterans buried in veterans' cemeteries of Indian tribes.

Bill: 113-hr-2039
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Indian lands and resources rights
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), upon request, to furnish headstones or markers for certain veterans buried in a veterans' cemetery on land owned by or held in trust for a tribal organization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Student Financial Aid Simplification Act

Bill: 113-hr-2040
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
Student Financial Aid Simplification Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to determine students' need and eligibility for title IV assistance, unless they qualify for the simplified needs test or expect no family contribution, by using tax return information regarding those students or their parents that this Act authorizes the Secretary of Education to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Requires those students to submit to the Secretary certain supplementary information not available from the IRS.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide institutions of higher education and states with that tax return information, without charge, for the purposes of processing loan applications and determining need and eligibility for institutional and state financial aid.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to disclose tax return information to the Department of Education regarding taxpayers or their dependents whose need and eligibility for assistance under title IV of the HEA is based in whole or part on their income or their parents' income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
To modify the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to exclude appraisers of employee stock ownership plans.

Bill: 113-hr-2041
Sponsor: Rep. Guthrie, Brett [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2013-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Employee benefits and pensions
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: 
Amends the Employee Retirement Income and Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to exclude appraisers of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) from the meaning of a fiduciary subject to ERISA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Introduced in House
Preserving America's Downtowns and Heritage Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2042
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2013-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Building construction
Historical and cultural resources
Income tax credits
Industrial facilities
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: 
Preserving America's Downtowns and Heritage Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the rate of the rehabilitation tax credit for commercial buildings and for certified historic structures, and (2) allow a new 20% rehabilitation tax credit for certified historic buildings used by a taxpayer as a principal residence. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Introduced in House
SEEED Commission Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2043
Sponsor: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2013-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Economic development
Government studies and investigations
Policy sciences
Public-private cooperation
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: 
Social Enterprise Ecosystem and Economic Development Commission Act of 2013 or the SEEED Commission Act of 2013 - Establishes the Commission on the Advancement of Social Enterprise to examine and make recommendations on ways the federal government can support and utilize social enterprises. Requires the Commission to: (1) establish criteria for identifying social enterprises for purposes of federal programs, and (2) identify opportunities for the federal government to engage social enterprises in creating jobs and strengthening local economies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the use, production, sale, importation, or exportation of any pesticide containing atrazine.

Bill: 113-hr-2044
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2013-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Pest management
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: 
Prohibits the use, production, sale, importation, or exportation of atrazine (pesticide) or an atrazine product.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2013-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Foreign 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: 2013-05-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Foreign 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: 2013-05-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Foreign 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: 2013-05-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Foreign 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: 2013-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Introduced in House
HALT the IRS Act

Bill: 113-hr-2045
Sponsor: Rep. Fleming, John [R-LA-4]
Introduced: 2013-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: 
HALT the IRS Act - Prohibits officers or employees of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from initiating any new audit of any taxpayer for 180 days after enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Introduced in House
Recreational Lands Self-Defense Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2046
Sponsor: Rep. Gibbs, Bob [R-OH-7]
Introduced: 2013-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Army Corps of Engineers
Firearms and explosives
Lakes and rivers
Outdoor recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: 
Recreational Lands Self-Defense Act of 2013 - Prohibits the Secretary of the Army from promulgating or enforcing any regulation that prohibits an individual from possessing a firearm at a water resources development project administered by the Chief of Engineers if: (1) the individual is not otherwise prohibited by law from possessing the firearm, and (2) the possession of the firearm is in compliance with the law of the state in which the project is located.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: For Further Action See H.R.3590.
action_date: 2013-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Disability Insurance for the Terminally Ill Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2047
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3]
Introduced: 2013-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability assistance
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: 
Social Security Disability Insurance for the Terminally Ill Act of 2013 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the waiting period for disability insurance benefits for terminally ill individuals with a life expectancy of 12 months or less.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Introduced in House