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HHEATT Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2085
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2014-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Labor standards
Lighting, heating, cooling
Motor carriers
Oil and gas
Roads and highways
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-05
text: 
Home Heating Emergency Assistance Through Transportation Act of 2014 or HHEATT Act of 2014 - Declares that a covered emergency exemption from federal motor carrier safety regulations issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) shall remain in effect until May 31, 2014, unless the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) determines that the emergency for which the exemption was provided ended before that date.
 
Defines &quot;covered emergency exemption&quot; as one issued or extended between February 5, 2014, and the date of enactment of this Act to effect regulatory relief for commercial motor vehicle operations directly assisting the delivery of propane and home heating fuels.
 
States that nothing in this Act may be construed to prohibit the FMCSA from issuing or extending a covered emergency exemption beyond May 31, 2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2014-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Protection Act

Bill: 113-s-2087
Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2014-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Budget process
Legislative rules and procedure
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: 
Medicare Protection Act - Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the eligibility age under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act should not be increased, and (2) the Medicare program should not be privatized or turned into a voucher system.
 
Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, with respect to extraneous matter in reconciliation legislation, to require a provision to be considered extraneous if it eliminates or reduces guaranteed benefits for individuals entitled to, or enrolled for, benefits under Medicare or restricts the eligibility for such program. (Thus subjects such a provision to a point of order and stricken from the bill.)
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1504)
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
American Natural Gas Security and Consumer Protection Act

Bill: 113-s-2088
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2014-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Department of Energy
Economic performance and conditions
Energy prices
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
General public lands matters
Licensing and registrations
Oil and gas
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: 
American Natural Gas Security and Consumer Protection Act - Amends the Natural Gas Act to prohibit any person from exporting any natural gas from the United States to a foreign country without first having secured an order of the Secretary of Energy (DOE) authorizing such person to do so. Allows the Secretary to issue an order authorizing such exportation, upon application, if the Secretary determines that the proposed exportation will be consistent with the public interest.
 
Requires the Secretary to issue an environmental impact statement (EIS) under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 on such an order, including by analyzing the impacts of extraction of exported natural gas on the environment in communities where the natural gas is extracted.
 
Directs the Secretary to issue final regulations for determining whether an export of natural gas from the United States to a foreign country is in the public interest.
 
Exempts any export authorization order from such EIS and public interest requirements if the natural gas would be exported solely to meet certain requirements of: (1) the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (regarding presidential foreign exchange transaction authorities), (2) the Trading with the Enemy Act (regarding such transaction authorities in wartime), or (3) the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (regarding the International Energy Program). 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to issue such an order upon application in such cases without modification or delay.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Supplemental Security Income Restoration Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2089
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2014-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Government information and archives
Inflation and prices
Medicaid
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: 
Supplemental Security Income Restoration Act of 2014 - Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act to increase from $240 to $1,320 (increased for inflation each calendar year after 2015) the first amount of general income per year excluded in determining SSI program eligibility.
 
Increases from: (1) $780 to $4,284 (similarly increased) the first amount of earned income similarly excluded (including for a blind or disabled individual [or spouse] under age 65), (2) $3,000 to $15,000 in calendar year 2015 (increased for inflation) the resource limit for couples, and (3) $2,000 to $10,000 in calendar year 2015 (similarly increased) for individuals without a spouse.
 
Prescribes an inflation adjustment in benefits in any calendar year after 2015.
 
Removes support and maintenance furnished in kind from determination of unearned income.
 
Repeals the administrative penalty that renders individuals (and spouses) ineligible for SSI for a certain period of time if after the look-back date (usually 36 months preceding their application for SSI) they dispose of their resources for less than market value.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Responsible Electronics Recycling Act

Bill: 113-s-2090
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2014-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Business records
Computers and information technology
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Licensing and registrations
Materials
Metals
Research administration and funding
Solid waste and recycling
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: 
Responsible Electronics Recycling Act - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to: (1) prohibit the export of restricted electronic waste to countries that are not members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) or the European Union (EU), or Liechtenstein; (2) require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and promulgate procedures for identifying certain electronic equipment as well as additional restricted toxic materials contained in such equipment which poses a potential hazard to human health or the environment; and (3) establish criminal penalties for knowingly exporting restricted electronic waste in violation of this Act. Allows certain exceptions to such export ban. 
 
Defines &quot;restricted electronic waste&quot; to include electronic equipment (excluding parts of a motor vehicle), such as computers, televisions, printers, copiers, video game systems, telephones, and similar used electronic products, that contain cathode ray tubes, batteries, switches, and other parts containing lead, cadmium, mercury, organic solvents, hexavalent chromium, beryllium, or other toxic ingredients.
 
Requires persons who handle restricted electronic wastes to permit appropriate EPA and state officials access to such wastes upon request.
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a competitive research application program to provide grants for research in the recovering and recycling of critical minerals and rare earth elements found in electronic devices.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Opioid Overdose Reduction Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2092
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2014-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Federal preemption
Health personnel
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: 
Opioid Overdose Reduction Act of 2014 - Exempts from liability for harm caused by the emergency administration of an opioid overdose drug: 
 
 
a health care professional who prescribes or provides such a drug to an individual at risk of experiencing an opioid overdose, or to another person in a position to assist such individual, if the individual has been educated about opioid overdose prevention and treatment by the health care professional or as part of a government opioid overdose program; 
 
a person who provides such a drug for emergency administration to an individual authorized to receive it as part of an opioid overdose program; and 
 
a person who provides for emergency administration of such a drug to an individual who reasonably appears to have suffered an overdose from heroin or another opioid if such person obtained such drug from a health care professional or as part of an opioid overdose program and was educated by such professional or program in the proper administration of such drug.
 
 
Makes such exemptions inapplicable if the harm was caused by gross negligence or reckless misconduct.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-14
text: Committee on United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. Hearings held.
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Health Care Access Received Closer to Home Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2095
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2014-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Public contracts and procurement
Rural conditions and development
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: 
Veterans Health Care Access Received Closer to Home Act of 2014 - Expresses the sense of Congress in support of veteran-centric health care coordination between the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and community providers, as well as cost-effective VA purchase of veterans' care from the private sector.
 
Amends the Veterans' Mental Health and Other Care Improvements Act of 2008 to reauthorize a VA pilot program of contract care authority within specified Veterans Integrated Service Networks for the health care needs of veterans in highly rural areas who are enrolled in the VA annual patient enrollment system. Requires: (1) that medical appointments for veterans, under the pilot program, occur during the 30-day period beginning on the date that is 15 days after the appointment is requested, and (2) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that eligible veterans are informed of the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Yellowstone Community Education Fairness Act

Bill: 113-s-2098
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2014-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Idaho
Montana
Parks, recreation areas, trails
State and local finance
User charges and fees
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: 
Yellowstone Community Education Fairness Act - Ratifies and approves all payments made to the school districts serving Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming between the beginning of FY1976 and the enactment of this Act as reimbursement for educational facilities furnished by those districts to certain students who are dependents of persons engaged in the administration, operation, and maintenance of the Park and living at or near it.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Sound Regulation Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2099
Sponsor: Sen. Coats, Daniel [R-IN]
Introduced: 2014-03-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Government studies and investigations
Property rights

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-10
text: 
Sound Regulation Act of 2014 - Establishes additional requirements for rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), including: 
 
 
identification by a federal agency, in the context of a coherent conceptual framework and supported with objective data, of the nature and significance of the market failure, regulatory failure, or other problem that necessitates regulatory action and why other alternatives, such as market forces or state or local regulations, could not address the problem better than federal regulation; 
 
establishment by an agency of an achievable objective for its regulatory action; 
 
development of at not less than three regulatory options, in addition to not regulating, that the agency estimates will provide the greatest benefits for the least cost in meeting the regulatory objective; 
 
an estimate by each agency of the costs and benefits of each regulatory option developed, at least to the extent the agency is able to exclude options whose costs exceed their benefits, and rank such options by cost from lowest to highest; 
 
publication for public comment of all analyses, documentation, and data relating to the requirements of this Act for a public comment period of not less than 30 days; 
 
establishment, by rule, of the specific cost-benefit analysis methodology appropriate to the functions and responsibilities of the agency and establishment of an appropriate period for review of new rules to assess their cost-effectiveness; 
 
justification of why the agency does not select the least-cost regulatory option as its proposed rule, and 
 
agency review, every four years, of all rules of the agency that are in effect and a determination, based on objective data, of whether the rules are working as intended, furthering their objectives, imposing unanticipated costs, or generating a net benefit. 

 
Requires the Comptroller General (GAO), for purposes of congressional review, to: (1) examine each agency cost-benefit analysis for compliance with the requirements of this Act, including the agency methodology for such analysis; (2) examine risk analysis pertaining to the cost-benefit analysis; and (3) examine and report on agency quadrennial regulatory reviews for consistency with the requirements of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2014-03-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Clean Cookstoves and Fuels Support Act

Bill: 113-s-2100
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2014-03-10 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Child health
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Health and Human Services
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Disaster relief and insurance
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy research
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Environmental technology
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign aid and international relief
International organizations and cooperation
Lighting, heating, cooling
Manufacturing
Materials
Medical research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Science Foundation
Peace Corps
Public-private cooperation
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Small business
Women in business
Women's health
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-10
text: 
Clean Cookstoves and Fuels Support Act - Directs the Secretary of State to work to advance the goals of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.
 
Authorizes appropriations for the Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Agriculture (USDA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Peace Corps to work with the Alliance.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that such departments and agencies should be provided sufficient future funding to work with the Alliance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2014-03-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1418)
action_date: 2014-03-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act to clarify how the Act applies to condominiums.

Bill: 113-s-2101
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2014-03-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Cooperative and condominium housing
Housing finance and home ownership
Real estate business

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-10
text: 
Amends the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act to exempt from certain registration and disclosure requirements the sale or lease of a condominium unit not already exempt from coverage under such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2014-03-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to clarify the application of certain leverage and risk-based requirements under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

Bill: 113-s-2102
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2014-03-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Foreign and international corporations
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-10
text: 
Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act with respect to establishment of minimum leverage and minimum risk-based capital requirements on a consolidated basis for a depository institution holding company or a nonbank financial company supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
 
Declares that the appropriate federal banking agencies shall not be required to subject to such minimum requirements any person, to the extent that person acts in its capacity as a regulated insurance entity, if it is regulated by a state insurance regulator or is a regulated foreign subsidiary (or a regulated foreign affiliate of such subsidiary) engaged in the business of insurance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-11
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection. Hearings held.
action_date: 2014-03-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2014-03-10
text: Introduced in Senate
General Aviation Pilot Protection Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2103
Sponsor: Sen. Boozman, John [R-AR]
Introduced: 2014-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
Licensing and registrations
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Transportation employees
Transportation safety and security
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-11
text: 
General Aviation Pilot Protection Act of 2014 - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to issue or revise FAA medical certification regulations to ensure that an individual may operate as a pilot of a covered aircraft without regard to any medical certification or proof of health requirement otherwise applicable under federal law if the flight meets certain criteria and the individual: (1) possesses a valid state driver's license, (2) complies with applicable medical requirements associated with that license, (3) is transporting five or fewer passengers, and (4) is operating under visual flight rules.
 
Defines &quot;covered aircraft&quot; as an aircraft that: (1) is not authorized under federal law to carry more than six occupants, and (2) has a maximum certificated takeoff weight of no more than 6,000 pounds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2014-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate
National Park Access Act

Bill: 113-s-2104
Sponsor: Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2014-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Appropriations
Department of the Interior
Executive agency funding and structure
Intergovernmental relations
Parks, recreation areas, trails
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-11
text: 
National Park Access Act - Requires the Director of the National Park Service to refund to each state all of the funds that it used to reopen and temporarily operate a unit of the National Park System during the period in October 2013 in which there was a lapse in appropriations for that unit.

action_date: 2014-12-10
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
National Park Access Act - Requires the National Park Service to refund to each state all of the funds that it used to reopen and temporarily operate a unit of the National Park System during the government shutdown in October 2013 in which there was a lapse in appropriations for that unit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 638.
action_date: 2014-12-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Landrieu without amendment. With written report No. 113-298.
action_date: 2014-12-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Landrieu without amendment. With written report No. 113-298.
action_date: 2014-11-13
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-493.
action_date: 2014-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate