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To amend the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to provide whistleblower protection for union employees.

Bill: 113-hr-3637
Sponsor: Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2013-12-03 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Labor
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Evidence and witnesses
Government studies and investigations
Judicial review and appeals
Labor-management relations
Legal fees and court costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: 
Amends the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to prescribe whistleblower protections that prohibit a labor organization from discriminating against any of its employees who has: (1) provided information to the labor organization, the Department of Labor, or any other state, local, or federal government authority or law enforcement agency regarding any violation of the Act or any Department or National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) order; (2) testified in any Department or NLRB administrative or enforcement proceeding; (3) filed or instituted any such proceeding; or (4) refused to perform an assigned task that the employee reasonably believed to be in violation of any law, order, or prohibition enforced by the Department or the NLRB.
 
Prescribes procedures for filing and processing complaints for violations of this Act.
 
Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to: (1) limit employees to remove elected or appointed union officials through a democratic election; or (2) preempt a state or local government from providing additional protections to such employees who allege a violation, provided such protections do not limit the ability of those employees to remove such officials through a democratic ballot.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Introduced in House
Road Usage Fee Pilot Program Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3638
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2013-12-03 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Government studies and investigations
Motor vehicles
Regional and metropolitan planning
Right of privacy
Roads and highways
State and local finance
Technology assessment
Transportation programs funding
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: 
Road Usage Fee Pilot Program Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish the Road Usage Fee Pilot Program to make competitive grants to state or local governments, or metropolitan planning, regional transportation planning, or tribal organizations to conduct pilot studies on implementing mileage-based fee systems as a method for funding transportation highway projects.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a technology and privacy working group, (2) a transportation system and equity working group, and (3) an environmental working group.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2013-12-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2013-12-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2013-12-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1781)
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Introduced in House
Innovation, Research, and Manufacturing Act

Bill: 113-hr-3640
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2013-12-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business expenses
Employment taxes
Income tax credits
Research and development
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: 
Innovation, Research, and Manufacturing Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for increasing research activities, to: (1) increase such credit (from the sum of 20% of the excess of qualified research expenses for the taxable year over the base amount, 20% of the basic research payments, and 20% of the amounts paid by the taxpayer in carrying on any trade or business during the taxable year to an energy research consortium for energy research to the sum of 30% of each of those); (2) make such credit permanent; and (3) allow such credit to offset the employment taxes of an eligible small employer, as defined by the Small Business Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Introduced in House
EPA Maximum Achievable Contraction of Technocrats Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3641
Sponsor: Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9]
Introduced: 2013-12-03 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: 
EPA Maximum Achievable Contraction of Technocrats Act of 2013 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take actions necessary to ensure that the total number of EPA employees 3 years after the last day of the second month beginning on or after the date of enactment of this Act does not exceed the total number of employees on that earlier date, reduced by 15%.
 
Sets forth reporting requirements concerning compliance with such reductions, including extensions of deadlines, if any.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-12-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
action_date: 2013-12-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2013-12-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2013-12-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2013-12-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2013-12-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Introduced in House
National Commission on Employment and Economic Security Act

Bill: 113-hr-3642
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20]
Introduced: 2013-12-03 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Medical research
Mental health
Unemployment
Violent crime
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: 
National Commission on Employment and Economic Security Act - Establishes the National Commission on Employment and Economic Security to: (1) examine the effects of economic and psychological insecurity caused by employment displacement and the decreasing number of well-paid jobs on U.S. workers and their families; and (2) recommend to the President and Congress potential solutions, including legislative and administrative action, to alleviate such problems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1775)
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Introduced in House
Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3643
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3]
Introduced: 2013-12-03 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Firearms and explosives
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: 
Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act of 2013 - Amends the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 to extend such Act for 10 years.
 
Revises what are prohibited firearms to include any firearm: (1) that, after removal of all parts other than major components (currently, of grips, stocks, and magazines), is not as detectable by walk-through metal detectors as the Security Exemplar; or (2) any major component of which, if subjected to inspection by the types of detection devices (currently, x-ray machines) commonly used at airports for security screening, would not generate an image that accurately depicts the shape of the component.
 
Modifies the definition of: (1) "major component" to include the barrel of a firearm only in the case of a rifle or shotgun; and (2) "Security Exemplar" to repeal the requirement that it be fabricated within 12 months after enactment of such Act.
 
Exempts from undetectable firearms provisions: (1) a prototype firearm for detectability testing; (2) any firearm received by, in the possession of, or under the control of the United States; or (3) the manufacture, importation, possession, transfer, receipt, shipment, or delivery of a firearm by a licensed manufacturer or licensed importer pursuant to an existing contract with the United States. (Replaces the exemption of any firearm that has been certified by the Secretary of Defense [DOD] or the Director of Central Intelligence [CIA] as necessary for military or intelligence applications or that is manufactured and sold exclusively to U.S. military or intelligence agencies.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Introduced in House
Eliminate Preventable Waste Act

Bill: 113-hr-3644
Sponsor: Rep. Kingston, Jack [R-GA-1]
Introduced: 2013-12-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Appropriations
Budget process
Child care and development
Congressional oversight
Department of Agriculture
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Labor
Department of Veterans Affairs
Department of the Treasury
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Food assistance and relief
Government studies and investigations
Medicaid
Medicare
Poverty and welfare assistance
Prescription drugs
Social Security Administration
Social security and elderly assistance
Unemployment
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: 
Eliminate Preventable Waste Act - Directs the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to: (1) conduct reviews of specified programs they administer to identify improper payments, and (2) report on such reviews in their budget submissions to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and to Congress. Requires such reports to OMB to be included in the President's annual budget submission to Congress. 
 
Requires a rescission of funds for such an agency if its report does not show a decrease in the improper payment rate from the preceding fiscal year for the relevant program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Appropriations, 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: 2013-12-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Appropriations, 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: 2013-12-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Appropriations, 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: 2013-12-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Introduced in House
EASE Act

Bill: 113-hr-3645
Sponsor: Rep. Kuster, Ann M. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2013-12-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: 
Executive Agency Simplification and Efficiency Act or the EASE Act - Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to submit one legislative proposal to Congress, with a copy to the President at the same time, to reorganize executive branch agencies to: (1) decrease the total number of agencies that promote American competitiveness, exports, and businesses in order to improve and simplify support and services for American businesses; and (2) achieve cost savings in the performance of support and services for American businesses by the federal government. Provides for expedited consideration of such proposal by the House of Representatives and the Senate. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2013-12-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2013-12-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-03
text: Introduced in House
Extreme Weather Mitigation Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3646
Sponsor: Rep. Jeffries, Hakeem S. [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2013-12-04 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Emergency planning and evacuation
Floods and storm protection
Government studies and investigations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Natural disasters
Water resources funding
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: 
Extreme Weather Mitigation Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of the Army to give funding priority to authorized projects and studies with a primary purpose of hurricane and storm damage risk reduction that: (1) address an imminent threat to life and property, (2) prevent storm surge from inundating populated areas, (3) prevent the loss of coastal wetlands that help reduce the impact of storm surge, (4) protect emergency hurricane evacuation routes or shelters, (5) prevent adverse impacts to publicly-owned or funded infrastructure and assets, (6) minimize federal disaster relief costs, and (7) address hurricane and storm damage risk reduction in presidentially-declared major disaster areas. 
 
Provides for expedited consideration of previously authorized water resources projects that meet such criteria.
 
 Sets forth criteria for prioritizing new studies for hurricane and storm damage reduction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2013-12-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the provision of guide dogs to veterans blinded by a service-connected injury.

Bill: 113-hr-3647
Sponsor: Rep. Amodei, Mark E. [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2013-12-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Service animals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: 
 Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide trained guide dogs to veterans who are blind by reason of a service-connected disability, are enrolled for VA hospital care and medical services, and elect to receive such a dog.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: Introduced in House
Hire A Hero Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3648
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2013-12-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee hiring
Income tax credits
National Guard and reserves
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: 
Hire A Hero Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow employers a work opportunity tax credit for hiring a member of the Ready Reserve or the National Guard, and (2) make such credit with respect to the hiring of qualified veterans and members of the Ready Reserve and National Guard permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: Introduced in House
Jobs for Heroes Act

Bill: 113-hr-3649
Sponsor: Rep. Bustos, Cheri [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2013-12-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee hiring
Income tax credits
National Guard and reserves
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: 
Jobs for Heroes Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the work opportunity tax credit, to: (1) revise the definition of "qualified veteran" to expand the eligibility of veterans for such credit, (2) allow such credit for the hiring of a qualified member of the Ready Reserve or National Guard, and (3) make such credit permanent. 
 
Revises the tax credit for differential wage payments made by employers on behalf of Members of the Uniformed Services to: (1) extend eligibility for such credit to an employer without regard to the size of such employer's workforce, and (2) make such credit permanent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7456)
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: Introduced in House
Silent Skies Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3650
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2013-12-04 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
International law and treaties
Noise pollution
Research administration and funding
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: 
Silent Skies Act of 2013 - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to enter into a competitive cooperative agreement with an institution, entity, or consortium to carry out a program for the development of aircraft technology that will assist in-service and in-production civil turbojets not meeting stage 4 noise standards to comply with them or with more stringent noise standards.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to issue regulations to establish minimum standards to ensure that graduated percentages of civil turbojets weighing over 75,000 pounds comply with the stage 4 noise levels by specified dates.
 
Requires the Secretary to request the International Civil Aviation Organization to add to its Work Programme the consideration of international standards for the phase-out of aircraft not complying with stage 4 noise levels.
 
Declares that the requirements of this Act shall not apply to civil turbojet aircraft that operate outside of the 48 contiguous states.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: Introduced in House