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LTC Todd J. Clark Hero Flight Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3337
Sponsor: Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20]
Introduced: 2013-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Military personnel and dependents
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: 
LTC Todd J. Clark Hero Flight Act of 2013 - Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay the expenses of one stopover (either by direct or indirect routing), if requested, during the transportation of the remains of certain military decedents to the place selected by the person designated to direct disposition of such remains.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Introduced in House
Fairness In Failed Federal Exchange Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3338
Sponsor: Rep. Ellmers, Renee L. [R-NC-2]
Introduced: 2013-10-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: 
Fairness In Failed Federal Exchange Act of 2013 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to deem an individual not covered by minimum essential coverage and who is eligible to enroll through a health care exchange under a qualified health plan: (1) for a month in 2014, to have had a certification by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) exempting the individual from the individual mandate and the associated penalty on the basis of the hardship exemption; and (2) for a month in a subsequent year to have had a certification of hardship exemption upon an attestation that the individual has been unable to enroll in such a plan through such exchange for a month in such year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: Introduced in House
One Size Does Not Fit All in Education Act

Bill: 113-hr-3339
Sponsor: Rep. Kingston, Jack [R-GA-1]
Introduced: 2013-10-24 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Department of Education
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: 
One Size Does Not Fit All in Education Act - Prohibits the Department of Education from using funds to: (1) develop, implement, or evaluate any set of multistate academic content standards or any assessments aligned with such standards; or (2) award any grant, contract, or cooperative agreement that requires or authorizes those activities.
 
Prohibits the Secretary of Education from requiring states to adopt such standards or assessments as: (1) an eligibility requirement in an application for federal funds, or (2) a condition for receiving a waiver of statutory or regulatory requirements under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: Introduced in House
Fannie-Freddie Debt Elimination Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3340
Sponsor: Rep. Kingston, Jack [R-GA-1]
Introduced: 2013-10-24 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Business investment and capital
Corporate finance and management
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: 
Fannie-Freddie Debt Elimination Act of 2013 - Requires any amounts paid or repaid to the Secretary of the Treasury by the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) to be transferred to the special Treasury account into which money received as gifts and proceeds from the sale or redemption of gifts is deposited for reduction of the national debt.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from entering into any agreement to further alter, amend, or change any provision of the Amended and Restated Senior Preferred Stock Purchase Agreements referred to by this Act that relates to dividend payment dates, dividend periods, dividend rates, or dividend amounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: Introduced in House
VALUE Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3341
Sponsor: Rep. Kingston, Jack [R-GA-1]
Introduced: 2013-10-24 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Government studies and investigations
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: 
Verifying Agencies' Lasting Use of Expenditures Act of 2013 or the VALUE Act of 2013 - Requires a federal agency, when making a rule, to: (1) clearly identify the nature and source of the problem that the proposed rule is designed to address, (2) assess the costs and benefits of the rule, and (3) identify and assess available alternatives to the rule. 
 
Allows a rule that does not meet such requirements to take effect temporarily only if the President makes a determination by executive order that such rule is: (1) necessary because of an imminent threat to health or safety or other emergency, (2) necessary for the enforcement of criminal laws, (3) necessary for national security, or (4) issued to implement an international trade agreement. 
 
Requires the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), every five years, to: (1) review the rules of each agency; (2) assess the costs and benefits of such rules to determine whether any such rules are outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome; and (3) report to the head of each agency on such review. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: Introduced in House
Practice What You Preach Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3342
Sponsor: Rep. Kingston, Jack [R-GA-1]
Introduced: 2013-10-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: 
Practice What You Preach Act of 2013 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to restrict the health plans that the federal government may make available to the President to only those health plans that are created under PPACA or offered through an American Health Benefit Exchange (a state health insurance exchange established under PPACA). (Currently, this restriction applies to Members of Congress and congressional staff.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2013-10-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2013-10-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: Introduced in House
Buy American Improvement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3346
Sponsor: Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3]
Introduced: 2013-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Buy American requirements
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Public contracts and procurement
Trade agreements and negotiations
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: 
Buy American Improvement Act of 2013 - Requires the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy: (1) to promulgate regulations to standardize and simplify federal agency compliance with, and reporting on, Buy American requirements; (2) in developing Buy American guidelines, to consider any significant decrease in U.S. employment resulting from the granting of waivers of Buy American requirements to be inconsistent with the public interest; and (3) to impose certain notice requirements on federal agency heads after receiving a request for a waiver and to require publication of the determination for why a waiver was granted.
 
Revises Buy American reporting requirements to require: (1) federal agencies to report to the Administrator, for the period FY2013-FY2018, on the amount of their acquisitions of articles, materials, or supplies purchased from entities outside the United States; and (2) the Administrator to submit to Congress a consolidated report on all agency reports received and make such report publicly available on a website.
 
Imposes limits on waiver determinations, including that a project cost determination will not be deemed unreasonable unless compliance with Buy American requirements causes an increase of overall project costs by more than 25%. Defines "substantially all" for purposes of Buy American requirements to mean that articles, materials, or supplies shall be treated as made substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States if the cost of the domestic components of such items exceeds 75% of the total cost of all such items.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to report on the extent to which, in FY2009-FY2013, articles, materials, or supplies acquired by the federal government were manufactured, mined, or produced outside of the United States. 
 
Requires this Act to be applied consistently with U.S. obligations under international agreements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in House
DATA Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3347
Sponsor: Rep. Rothfus, Keith J. [R-PA-12]
Introduced: 2013-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disaster relief and insurance
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: 
Disaster Assistance Transparency and Accountability Act of 2013 or the DATA Act of 2013 - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to submit to Congress a report that specifies: (1) the amount obligated by the federal government for disaster assistance, by each agency and program thereof, for each of the preceding 10 fiscal years; and (2) the amount projected to be obligated for disaster assistance by each agency and program for the fiscal year in which the report is submitted.
 
Requires the Director to submit to Congress, in conjunction with the President's annual budget submission, a report that specifies: (1) the amount projected to be obligated in the upcoming fiscal year for disaster assistance by each federal agency and program, (2) the amount obligated during the most-recently concluded fiscal year for disaster assistance by each federal agency and program, and (3) any corrections to previous reports.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to report to the House and Senate appropriations and budget committees every two years on: (1) an evaluation of federal disaster assistance spending, including the identification of areas of potential duplication, waste, fraud, or abuse; (2) recommendations on how federal agencies can improve transparency in, and better account for, disaster assistance spending to ensure that funds are spent in an effective and efficient manner; and (3) an evaluation of the effectiveness and equity of the current system of cost-sharing with respect to disaster assistance spending, including the system's effectiveness in reducing the federal cost of disaster assistance and promoting non-federal investment in disaster recovery, mitigation, and preparedness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in House
Obamacare Choice Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3348
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2013-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: 
Obamacare Choice Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to delay until 2015 the requirement that individuals maintain minimal essential health care coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6811)
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in House
Innovation Protection Act

Bill: 113-hr-3349
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2013-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Department of Commerce
Government trust funds
Intellectual property
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: 
Innovation Protection Act - Establishes in the Treasury the United States Patent and Trademark Office Public Enterprise Fund (Public Enterprise Fund) to be used as a revolving fund by the Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) without fiscal year limitation. 
 
Requires to be credited to or deposited in the Public Enterprise Fund: (1) appropriations for defraying the costs of USPTO activities; (2) fees collected under federal patent and trademark laws; and (3) any unobligated balances remaining in the Patent and Trademark Office Appropriation Account and in the Patent and Trademark Fee Reserve Fund. (Thus, replaces the Patent and Trademark Office Appropriation Account, eliminates the Patent and Trademark Fee Reserve Fund, and provides a source of permanent funding for the USPTO.)
 
Requires fees collected by the Director to remain available to the Director until expended. 
 
Makes the Public Enterprise Fund available to cover: (1) ordinary and reasonable administrative, operating, and other expenses incurred by the Director for the continued operation of USPTO services, programs, activities, and duties relating to patents and trademarks; and (2) expenses incurred pursuant to obligations, representations, or other commitments of the USPTO. 
 
Requires the Director, on an annual basis, to: (1) report to Congress with operation and spending plans, including financial details and staff levels broken down by each major activity; (2) provide for an independent audit of USPTO financial statements; and (3) submit a budget to the President. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in House
Return to Work Awareness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3351
Sponsor: Rep. Beatty, Joyce [D-OH-3]
Introduced: 2013-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Neurological disorders
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: 
Return to Work Awareness Act of 2013 - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor, acting through the Job Accommodation Network, to disseminate information and promote awareness among survivors of stroke and other debilitating health occurrences, such as traumatic brain injury and heart attack, and survivors' families, as well as among employers, government agencies, employee representatives, and service providers in order to: (1) assist survivors of stroke and such other debilitating health occurrences in returning to work, (2) improve a survivor's employability and demonstrate to employers ways to capitalize on the value and talent that survivors add to the workplace, and (3) enhance self-employment and entrepreneurship options for survivors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Honoring the Families of Fallen Soldiers Act to provide a permanent appropriation of funds for the payment of death gratuities and related benefits for survivors of deceased military service members in event of any future period of lapsed appropriations.

Bill: 113-hr-3352
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2013-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: 
Amends the Department of Defense Survivor Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014 (also known as the Honoring the Families of Fallen Soldiers Act) to appropriate funds for fiscal years after FY2014 during any period of lapsed appropriations for the payment of death gratuities and related benefits for survivors of deceased servicemembers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in House
Extend Not Cut SNAP Benefits Act

Bill: 113-hr-3353
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2013-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: American Samoa
Caribbean area
Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance
Puerto Rico
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: 
Extend Not Cut SNAP Benefits Act - Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to extend through FY2014 the benefit calculation of 113.6 % of the June 2008 value of the thrifty food plan for the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) as well as the consolidated block grants for Puerto Rico and American Samoa.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, and Nutrition.
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in House
Dry Cask Storage Act

Bill: 113-hr-3354
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2013-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Nuclear power
Radioactive wastes and releases

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: 
Dry Cask Storage Act - Directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to establish a procedure to require the designation of spent nuclear fuel contained in storage pools as qualified to be placed in dry cask storage when the fuel has cooled sufficiently to permit it.
 
Requires all spent nuclear fuel that is contained in storage pools and qualified to be placed in dry cask storage to be moved, within 15 years of enactment of this Act, to dry casks certified by the NRC. 
 
Requires the fuel, within one year after being designated as qualified to be placed in dry cask storage, to be moved from storage pools and placed in certified dry casks. Requires such casks, to the extent appropriate after a cost-benefit analysis, to be stored temporarily in hardened onsite storage facilities. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to determine compliance costs for the owner of the spent nuclear fuel, and to reduce by that amount the amount due from the owner to the Nuclear Waste Fund pursuant to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in House
Clean Campaign Contributions Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3356
Sponsor: Rep. Harris, Andy [R-MD-1]
Introduced: 2013-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: 
Clean Campaign Contributions Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 with respect to the use of campaign contributions to: (1) apply the prohibition against the conversion to personal use of contributions accepted by candidates also to contributions accepted by political committees; and (2) allow the use of contributions accepted by political committees for authorized expenditures in connection with political activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in House