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WIRED Act

Bill: 113-hr-4823
Sponsor: Rep. Swalwell, Eric [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2014-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Labor
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: 
Widening Internet Readiness for Employment Development Act or WIRED Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to revise one-stop delivery system requirements.
 
Requires the Secretary of Labor to establish certain standards and best practices for the provision of employment and training services for adults and dislocated workers on Internet websites maintained by one-stop delivery systems.
 
Requires the one-stop delivery system, at a minimum, to make those services accessible through an Internet website that: (1) is unique to the particular one-stop system, and (2) meets and incorporates those standards and best practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
WORC Grant Program Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4824
Sponsor: Rep. Enyart, William L. [D-IL-12]
Introduced: 2014-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Manufacturing
Student aid and college costs
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: 
Workers Opportunity and Retraining Competitive Grant Program Act of 2014 or the WORC Grant Program Act of 2014 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to direct the Secretary of Labor to establish a manufacturing worker scholarship program to award competitive grants to states to provide scholarships of up to $2,000 per year (not to exceed two years) to dislocated workers or unemployed individuals through state and local boards to support their transition into manufacturing positions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Presidential Make it in America Awards Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4825
Sponsor: Rep. Nolan, Richard M. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2014-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Commemorative events and holidays
Congressional oversight
Corporate finance and management
Employee hiring
Government information and archives
Manufacturing
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: 
Presidential Make it in America Awards Act of 2014 - Establishes the following presidential awards:
 
 
the Presidential Reshoring Award, for the best example of a U.S. company that returns manufacturing jobs and operations from overseas to the United States;
 
the Presidential Invest in America Award, for the best example of a U.S. company that invests in significant new domestic manufacturing jobs and operations, and
 
the Presidential Foreign Direct Investment Award, for the best example of a foreign company that invests in U.S. manufacturing jobs and operations.
 
 
Authorizes the awards, subject to modification, in the categories of: (1) small business, (2) company or its subsidiary, (3) company which primarily provides services, (4) health care provider, (5) education provider, and (6) nonprofit organization.
 
Limits the awards to one of each in any year to a qualified organization in each eligible category.
 
Requires the Secretary of Commerce to publish on the departmental website information on the successful strategies and programs of organizations that receive these awards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
SMART Jobs Act

Bill: 113-hr-4826
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Sean Patrick [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2014-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Air quality
Building construction
Buy American requirements
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Disability and paralysis
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Indian social and development programs
Metals
Natural disasters
Noise pollution
Preschool education
Public contracts and procurement
Vocational and technical education
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: 
School Modernization and Revitalization Through Jobs Act, the SMART Jobs Act, or the 21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Facilities Act - Requires the Secretary of Education to make grants to states for the modernization, renovation, or repair of public schools, including early learning facilities and charter schools, to make them safe, healthy, high-performing, and technologically up-to-date. 
 
Allocates grant funds among states on the basis of the relative portion of school improvement funds provided to local educational agencies (LEAs) in each state under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Reserves 1% of the grant funds for assistance to outlying areas and Indian schools.
 
Requires states to reallocate such grant funds to LEAs on the basis of each LEA's share of school improvement funds received by LEAs in the state for the previous fiscal year.
 
Directs the Secretary to make grants to LEAs that serve areas in which the President, during the preceding 10 fiscal years, has determined that a major disaster exists for the construction, modernization, renovation, or repair of public schools, including early learning facilities and charter schools, to make them safe, healthy, high-performing, and technologically up-to-date. 
 
Allocates grant funds among such LEAs on the basis of each LEA's share of infrastructure damage inflicted on public school facilities in such areas.
 
Requires the iron, steel, and manufactured goods used in projects funded under this Act to have been produced in this country, subject to specified exceptions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Youth Access to American Jobs Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4827
Sponsor: Rep. Horsford, Steven [D-NV-4]
Introduced: 2014-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Manufacturing
Science and engineering education
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: 
Youth Access to American Jobs Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Education to award grants to 10 eligible entities (partnerships among a local educational agency (LEA), a community college, and a state apprentice program or a joint-labor management training program) to carry out a program for students to: (1) take science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses and other courses during grades 11 and 12 at a secondary school served by the LEA that prepare them for community college; (2) enroll in a course of study related to the manufacturing field at the community college upon graduating from the secondary school; and (3) enroll, for a two-year period, in the state apprenticeship program or the joint-labor management training program upon receiving an associate's degree from the community college.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
I-STEM Act

Bill: 113-hr-4828
Sponsor: Rep. Garcia, Joe [D-FL-26]
Introduced: 2014-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Public-private cooperation
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: 
Innovative STEM Networks Act or the I-STEM Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states or local educational agencies (LEAs) to establish STEM (science, technology, engineering, or mathematics) innovation networks in partnership with nonprofit organizations, businesses, institutions of higher education (IHEs), educational service agencies, or other entities to prepare students for postsecondary education and careers in the STEM fields.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) award no less than 5 and no more than 10 of those grants each fiscal year, and (2) give priority to grantees that include or serve a high-need LEA.
 
Requires the grants to be used to: 
 
 
 increase student awareness about STEM career pathways that reflect STEM workforce needs in the area, 
 
 develop statewide plans that integrate and align workforce needs with STEM education and training programs that provide students with STEM-specific skills and credentials, and 
 
 identify the strengths and weaknesses in state STEM education efforts and prioritize strategies to address those weaknesses.
 
 
Authorizes the grants to be used to:
 
 
promote and develop in-school and out-of-school curricular tools and professional development for STEM educators at the elementary and secondary school level;
 
provide induction and mentoring services to new teachers in STEM subjects;
 
promote and develop rigorous undergraduate pre-service teacher programs at IHEs that emphasize STEM content;
 
support the participation of elementary and secondary school students in STEM-related competitions, out-of-school activities, and field experiences;
 
assist in the implementation and assessment of rigorous career and college ready standards in STEM education for students in prekindergarten through grade 12; and
 
develop STEM-related education and workforce training programs in secondary schools and community colleges that reflect local community needs.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2014-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6634-6635)
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
ROAD Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4829
Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1]
Introduced: 2014-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: North Carolina
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: 
Route to Opportunity And Development Act of 2014 or the ROAD Act of 2014 - Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, as amended, to revise the high priority Raleigh-Norfolk Corridor of the National Highway System between Raleigh, North Carolina, and Norfolk, Virginia, to include Rocky Mount, Williamston, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Midshipmen Education Certainty Act

Bill: 113-hr-4830
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3]
Introduced: 2014-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Department of Transportation
Education programs funding
Executive agency funding and structure
Marine and inland water transportation
Military education and training

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: 
Midshipmen Education Certainty Act - Makes appropriations available each fiscal year for operations of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for the Academy are not in effect.
 
Requires funds made available for a fiscal year under this Act to remain available until the enactment of: (1) an appropriation for such fiscal year (including a continuing appropriation) for such operations; or (2) an applicable regular appropriation for the Maritime Administration for such fiscal year, or continuing appropriations resolution for such fiscal year, without any appropriation for such operations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces.
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Twenty-First Century Manufacturing Skills and Jobs Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4831
Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Daniel T. [D-MI-5]
Introduced: 2014-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Income tax credits
Licensing and registrations
Manufacturing
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: 
Twenty-First Century Manufacturing Skills and Jobs Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, on a quarterly basis, to make payments to an eligible community college in an amount equal to the aggregate new manufacturing job withholding matches for qualified training provided to job trainees who are U.S. citizens. Defines "qualified training" as education or training to provide an individual with the education or skills necessary to perform the job for which such individual will be employed or with licenses or certificates necessary for such employment. Requires that any job for which a trainee is hired be a new job. 
 
Defines "eligible community college" as a public institution of higher education: (1) at which the majority of degrees awarded are two-year associate's degrees that are acceptable for full credit toward a baccalaureate degree, (2) that is located in a state that has a state new manufacturing jobs tax credit program in effect, and (3) that participates in such program by having in effect a contract that meets requirements of such program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-06-10
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: 2014-06-10
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: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Education for Jobs Act

Bill: 113-hr-4832
Sponsor: Rep. Lujan Grisham, Michelle [D-NM-1]
Introduced: 2014-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: 
Education for Jobs Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to make an individual eligible to apply for a loan under the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan program if that individual: (1) is carrying at least three credit hours or the equivalent coursework for the course of study the individual is pursuing, (2) is enrolled in an educational program leading to a degree or certificate, and (3) was employed on a full-time basis for at least 10 years.
 
Makes those students eligible for interest subsidies. Requires the repayment period for such a loan to begin the day after six months after the student ceases to meet the loan eligibility requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Women and Minorities in STEM Booster Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4833
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2014-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Minority education
Minority employment
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Women's education
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: 
 Women and Minorities in STEM Booster Act of 2014 - Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), acting through the Human Resources Directorate and not less than one research directorate of the NSF, to award competitive grants to eligible entities to enable them to carry out the activities specified below in order to increase the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
 
Requires an eligible entity that receives a grant to use those grant funds to carry out the following activities designed to increase the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM fields: (1) online workshops, (2) mentoring programs that partner STEM professionals with students, (3) internships for undergraduate and graduate students in STEM, and (4) conducting outreach programs providing elementary and secondary school students with opportunities to increase their exposure to STEM. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E943)
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Stopping Abusive Student Loan Collection Practices in Bankruptcy Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4835
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2014-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-11
text: 
Stopping Abusive Student Loan Collection Practices in Bankruptcy Act of 2014 - Amends federal bankruptcy law to allow an individual whose student loan debt is discharged due to undue hardship to recover the costs of, and a reasonable attorney's fee for, the discharge proceeding if the court finds that the position of the creditor was not substantially justified.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2014-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-11
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the transfer of unprivileged enemy belligerents to the United States, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-4836
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2014-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Caribbean area
Conflicts and wars
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Cuba
Latin America
Military facilities and property
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-11
text: 
Prohibits the transfer to, or release in, the United States of any unprivileged enemy belligerent who is in the custody or under the effective control of the Department of Defense (DOD) or any other federal entity.
 
Specifies that an &quot;unprivileged enemy belligerent&quot;: (1) includes any individual (other than a member of the Armed Forces) under detention at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and (2) excludes any U.S. citizen who has engaged in hostilities within the United States and/or its territories.
 
Terminates this Act on December 31, 2017.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5732)
action_date: 2014-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2014-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Promotion and Expansion of Private Employee Ownership Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4837
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2014-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Department of the Treasury
Employee benefits and pensions
Executive agency funding and structure
Income tax deductions
Income tax deferral
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Securities
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-11
text: 
Promotion and Expansion of Private Employee Ownership Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend to all domestic corporations, including S corporations, provisions allowing deferral of tax on gain from the sale of employer securities to an S corporation-sponsored employer stock ownership plan (ESOP); and (2) allow a tax deduction for 50% of the interest incurred on loans to S corporation-sponsored ESOPs for the purchase of employer securities.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish the S Corporation Employee Ownership Assistance Office to foster increased employee ownership of S corporations.
 
Amends the Small Business Act to define "ESOP business concern" and allow such a concern to continue to qualify for loans, preferences, and other programs under such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-06-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Small Business, 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: 2014-06-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Small Business, 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: 2014-06-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Small Business, 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: 2014-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-11
text: Introduced in House