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Prioritize Spending Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-149
Sponsor: Rep. Webster, Daniel [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2013-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Coast guard
Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Medicare
Military personnel and dependents
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: 
Prioritize Spending Act of 2013 - Requires amounts necessary for incurred federal obligations, in the event that the public debt reaches the statutory limit, to be made available to certain obligations, in prioritized order, before all other obligations. 
 
Prioritizes such obligations in the following descending order: (1) amounts necessary to carry out the authority of the Department of the Treasury to pay with legal tender the principal and interest on public debt; (2) amounts determined by the Secretary of Defense (DOD) (and the Secretary of Homeland Security [DHS] in the case of the Coast Guard) to be necessary to continue to provide pay and allowances (without interruption) to members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including their reserve components, who perform active service; (3) amounts certified to Congress by the President as necessary to carry out vital national security priorities; (4) amounts necessary to carry out the authority of the Commissioner of Social Security to pay monthly old-age, survivors', and disability insurance benefits under title II of the Social Security Act (SSA); and (5) amounts necessary to make payments under the Medicare program under SSA title XVIII.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Congressional Pay Reduction Act

Bill: 113-hr-150
Sponsor: Rep. Yoder, Kevin [R-KS-3]
Introduced: 2013-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Inflation and prices
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: 
Congressional Pay Reduction Act - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to: (1) eliminate automatic cost of living adjustments for Members of Congress, and (2) reduce Members' annual rate of pay to 95% of the annual rate for the most recent pay period preceding the regularly scheduled federal general election held in November 2014.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Termination of Lifelong Pensions for Members of Congress Act

Bill: 113-hr-151
Sponsor: Rep. Yoder, Kevin [R-KS-3]
Introduced: 2013-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: 
Termination of Lifelong Pensions for Members of Congress Act - Amends the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) to exclude Members of Congress, except the Vice President, from further CSRS and FERS retirement coverage.
 
Prohibits further government contributions or deductions from such Member's basic pay for deposit in the Treasury to the credit of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund.
 
States that nothing in this Act shall: (1) be considered to nullify, modify, or otherwise affect any right, entitlement, or benefit under CSRS or FERS for any Member covering any period before the enactment of this Act; or (2) affect the eligibility of a Member to participate in the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) in accordance with otherwise applicable law.
 
Allows Members covered by such exclusion, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to elect to remain subject to CSRS or FERS, as the case may be.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Outreach Improvement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-153
Sponsor: Rep. McIntyre, Mike [D-NC-7]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Performance measurement
Public contracts and procurement
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Veterans Outreach Improvement Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish, maintain, and modify as necessary procedures for ensuring the effective coordination of outreach activities of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) between and among the Office of the Secretary, the Office of Public Affairs, the Veterans Health Administration, the Veterans Benefits Administration, and the National Cemetery Administration.
 
Directs the Secretary to give priority to state and county outreach assistance in locations that: (1) have relatively large concentrations of veterans; or (2) are experiencing growth in veteran populations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to state or county veterans agencies for state and local outreach services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a Department of Veterans Affairs Medal for Distinguished Public Service to honor veterans who make remarkable and distinguished contributions to their communities.

Bill: 113-hr-154
Sponsor: Rep. McIntyre, Mike [D-NC-7]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to award a decoration called the Department of Veterans Affairs Medal for Distinguished Public Service to a veteran who, during the period after the date of the veteran's discharge or release from the active military, naval, or air service, has: (1) made remarkable and distinguished contributions to the community of the veteran; and (2) exemplified the virtues of honor, duty, and commitment to service that originally led the veteran to service in the Armed Forces.
 
Allows the Secretary to award such medal posthumously to such a veteran who is deceased.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Notch Fairness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-155
Sponsor: Rep. McIntyre, Mike [D-NC-7]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Inflation and prices
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Notch Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to revise the formula for the computation of minimum Old Age Insurance benefits for individuals who reached age 65 in or after 1979, and to whom applies the 15-year transition period for the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security Amendments of 1977.
 
(&quot;Notch&quot; refers to birth in the United States between 1917 and 1921, as a result of which a retiree born between those years received lower cost-of-living increases in Social Security than others after Congress readjusted Social Security benefits in 1977.)
 
Sets forth a schedule of additional benefit increases for such beneficiaries (and related beneficiaries), with percentages declining from 55% to 5% and keyed to the year an individual became eligible for such benefits between 1979 and 1988. 
 
Allows such beneficiaries, in the alternative, to receive lump sum payments over four years totaling $5,000.
 

 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the withdrawal of the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Bill: 113-hr-156
Sponsor: Rep. McIntyre, Mike [D-NC-7]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Canada
Congressional oversight
Free trade and trade barriers
Latin America
Mexico
North America
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Withdraws Congress's approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
 
Directs the President to provide written notice of the withdrawal to the governments of Canada and Mexico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To authorize a project for hurricane and storm damage reduction, West Onslow Beach and New River Inlet (Topsail Beach), North Carolina.

Bill: 113-hr-157
Sponsor: Rep. McIntyre, Mike [D-NC-7]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Floods and storm protection
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
North Carolina
Seashores and lakeshores
Water resources funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to carry out a project for hurricane and storm damage reduction at West Onslow Beach and New River Inlet (Topsail Beach), North Carolina, substantially in accordance with the plans described in the West Onslow Beach and New River Inlet (Topsail Beach), North Carolina: Report of the Chief of Engineers dated September 28, 2009, for periodic beach nourishment and monitoring over the 50-year economic life of the project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To authorize a project for hurricane and storm damage reduction, Surf City and North Topsail Beach, North Carolina.

Bill: 113-hr-158
Sponsor: Rep. McIntyre, Mike [D-NC-7]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Floods and storm protection
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
North Carolina
Seashores and lakeshores
Water resources funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to carry out a project for hurricane and storm damage reduction at Surf City and North Topsail Beach, North Carolina, substantially in accordance with the Surf City and North Topsail Beach, North Carolina Coastal Storm Damage Reduction Report dated December 30, 2010, for periodic beach nourishment and monitoring over the 50-year economic life of the project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To modify the project for the improvement of the Shallotte River, North Carolina, to change the authorized depth to 8 feet.

Bill: 113-hr-159
Sponsor: Rep. McIntyre, Mike [D-NC-7]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Lakes and rivers
Marine and inland water transportation
Navigation, waterways, harbors
North Carolina

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Modifies the project for the improvement of the Shallotte River, North Carolina, to change the authorized maintenance depth to eight feet. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Disability Benefit Fairness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-160
Sponsor: Rep. McIntyre, Mike [D-NC-7]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability assistance
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Disability Benefit Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to eliminate: (1) the five-month waiting period for an individual (including a disabled widow or widower) to be eligible for benefits based on disability, and (2) any intervening reconsideration from the review process governing decisions on benefit entitlement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Bringing Economic Advancement and Coastal Health Act

Bill: 113-hr-161
Sponsor: Rep. McIntyre, Mike [D-NC-7]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Floods and storm protection
Government studies and investigations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Seashores and lakeshores
Water resources funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Bringing Economic Advancement and Coastal Health Act - Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1976 to: (1) authorize the Chief of Engineers to provide periodic authorized beach nourishment for a water resources development project for such additional period as he or she determines necessary, but not beyond the 50th year that begins after the date of initiation of construction (current law) or after the date of the last estimated periodic nourishment as contemplated in the Chief's Report, whichever is later; and (2) require the Chief of Engineers, before the end of such 50-year period, to evaluate the feasibility of continuing federal participation in the beach nourishment project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-162
Sponsor: Rep. Bachmann, Michele [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Business records
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Medicaid
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act with respect to a state's option to use Medicaid managed care organizations and primary care case managers.
 
Requires a state, acting through the state medical assistance agency or another state entity, in order to receive federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) payments for expenditures under a contract with a managed care entity, to contract with an independent auditor to conduct biannual financial and performance-compliance audits of the entity.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to set uniform audit standards according to specified requirements.
 
Requires the state to document for the Secretary its response to deficiencies reported in such audits.
 
Requires contracts between the state and managed care entities to require the managed care entity to give the independent auditor access to all necessary information.
 
Establishes sanctions for misrepresentation or falsification of information.
 
Prescribes requirements a state must meet to be allowed to enter into an agreement with an actuary with respect to the state's administration of a contract with a managed care entity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Conservation and Recreation Act

Bill: 113-hr-163
Sponsor: Rep. Benishek, Dan [R-MI-1]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Great Lakes
Michigan
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Seashores and lakeshores
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Conservation and Recreation Act - Designates specified land and inland water within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan, to be known as the Sleeping Bear Dunes Wilderness, as wilderness and as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. 

action_date: 2014-02-28
text: 
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Conservation and Recreation Act - Designates specified land and inland water within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan, to be known as the Sleeping Bear Dunes Wilderness, as wilderness and as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. 
 
Requires the boundary of the Wilderness to be: (1) 100 feet from the centerline of adjacent county roads, and (2) 300 feet from the centerline of adjacent state highways.
 
Declares that nothing in this Act creates protective perimeters or buffer zones around any areas designated as wilderness.
 
Declares that this Act shall have no effect on: (1) the maintenance and improvement of roads located outside the boundary of the Wilderness; (2) Michigan's jurisdiction with respect to the management of fish and wildlife, including hunting and fishing, within the National Lakeshore; (3) overflights of military aircraft; or (4) any treaty rights or any existing valid private property rights. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-28
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 272.
action_date: 2014-02-28
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-366.
action_date: 2014-02-28
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-366.
action_date: 2014-01-28
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2014-01-28
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2014-01-28
text: Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Discharged.
action_date: 2013-07-23
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-01-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to permit veterans who have a service-connected, permanent disability rated as total to travel on military aircraft in the same manner and to the same extent as retired members of the Armed Forces entitled to such travel.

Bill: 113-hr-164
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to provide transportation on scheduled and unscheduled military flights within the United States and on scheduled overseas flights on a space-available basis for veterans with a service-connected, permanent disability rated as total.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Man in the Sea Memorial Act

Bill: 113-hr-165
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: District of Columbia
Military facilities and property
Military personnel and dependents
Monuments and memorials
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Man in the Sea Memorial Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to permit a third party to establish and maintain, at a suitable location at the former Navy Dive School at the Washington Navy Yard (District of Columbia) a memorial to honor members of the Armed Forces who have served as divers and whose service in defense of the United States has been carried out beneath the waters of the world.
 
Prohibits the use of federal funds for designing, procuring, preparing, installing, or maintaining the memorial.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-01-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House