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GREEN Jobs Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2863
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M., Jr. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2013-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Ecology
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Housing and community development funding
Small business
Water use and supply
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-30
text: 
Growing Responsible Energy Efficient Neighborhoods Jobs Act of 2013 or the GREEN Jobs Act of 2013 - Amends the Community Development Banking and Financial Institutions Act of 1994 to allow financial and technical assistance provided under such Act to be used by community development financial institutions to develop or support small businesses that provide green jobs to low-income individuals in low-income communities. Limits such assistance to $2 million in financial assistance and $100,000 in technical assistance.
 
Defines &quot;green jobs&quot; as jobs that: (1) aim to protect or restore ecosystems and biodiversity; (2) reduce energy, materials, and water consumption through high efficiency strategies; (3) reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants; (4) minimize or altogether avoid generation of all forms of waste and pollution; or (5) increase the use of energy generation systems such as solar, fuel cells, natural gas, and micro turbines.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Nursing Home Patient Protection and Standards Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2864
Sponsor: Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-40]
Introduced: 2013-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Advisory bodies
Department of Health and Human Services
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medical ethics
Medicare
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-30
text: 
Nursing Home Patient Protection and Standards Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require testing programs in skilled nursing facility (SNF) survey and certification techniques to be sufficiently rigorous to ensure that surveyors are adequately prepared to survey and certify SNFs in a consistent and accurate manner.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish requirements: (1) for the qualification and compensation of members of a survey team, and (2) that a state employs an adequate number of individuals as members of survey teams to ensure adequate oversight of SNFs. Requires the Secretary, in addition to the training and testing program, to require that state and federal surveyors regularly complete an adequate number of continuing education courses meeting certain requirements for content and rigor of material.
 
Requires covered individuals to report to the Secretary instances where surveys fail to report or under report an issue in a facility that could impact the safety or quality of care of its residents. Adds whistleblower protections for such individuals.
 
Adds penalties for inappropriately influencing a surveyor.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish an advisory committee on surveys.
 
Requires survey team supervisors to review each conducted survey to ensure that any identified issues affecting quality of care are consistently and appropriately described and rated.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2013-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2013-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2865
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2013-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Justice
Personnel records

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-30
text: 
Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act of 2013 - Requires the Attorney General to: (1) establish and enforce procedures to ensure the prompt release of accurate federal criminal background records and information exchanged for employment-related purposes; and (2) report to Congress on the exchange of records or information for employment-related purposes under this Act and on all federal statutes, regulations, and policies providing employment restrictions and disqualifications based on criminal records.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Hospice Care Access Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2867
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2013-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-30
text: 
Medicare Hospice Care Access Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to recognize attending physician assistants as attending physicians to serve hospice patients. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2013-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2013-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Patient Access to Cancer Treatment Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2869
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike J. [R-MI-8]
Introduced: 2013-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Home and outpatient care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: 
Medicare Patient Access to Cancer Treatment Act of 2013 - Expresses the sense of Congress that, to ensure the future of community cancer care, Medicare reimbursement should be equal for the same service provided to a cancer patient regardless of whether the service is delivered in the hospital outpatient department (OPD) or physician's office.
 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to the prospective payment system (PPS) for OPD services to require that the payment amount under PPS and physician fee schedules for covered OPD cancer services be a budget neutral combination of the amount otherwise payable under the PPS and the amount otherwise payable under the physician fee schedule for such services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Real Estate Investment and Jobs Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2870
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2013-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Financial services and investments
Real estate business
Securities
Taxation of foreign income
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: 
Real Estate Investment and Jobs Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from 5% to 10% the allowable ownership interest in real estate investment trust (REIT) stock for purposes of tax exemptions allowed by the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act relating to foreign investment in United States real property interests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Fairness for America's Heroes Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2876
Sponsor: Rep. Flores, Bill [R-TX-17]
Introduced: 2013-07-31 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
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: 
Fairness for America's Heroes Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to exempt veterans, until January 1, 2015, from the penalty for failure to maintain minimum essential health care coverage. Defines a &quot;veteran,&quot; for purposes of this Act, as an individual who served on active duty (other than active duty for training) and who has been discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
To prevent certain discriminatory taxation of natural gas pipeline property.

Bill: 113-hr-2877
Sponsor: Rep. Flores, Bill [R-TX-17]
Introduced: 2013-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Federal district courts
Government liability
Industrial facilities
Intergovernmental relations
Jurisdiction and venue
Oil and gas
Pipelines
Property tax
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: 
Describes the following as acts that unreasonably burden and discriminate against interstate commerce, and prohibits states, political subdivisions, and any other taxing authority from: (1) assessing natural gas pipeline property at a value that has a higher ratio to its true market value than the ratio used to assess other commercial and industrial property in the same assessment jurisdiction, (2) levying or collecting a tax on such an assessment, (3) levying or collecting an ad valorem property tax on natural gas pipeline property at a rate that exceeds the rate applicable to commercial and industrial property in the same assessment jurisdiction, or (4) imposing any other tax that discriminates against a natural gas pipeline providing transportation subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
 
 Grants jurisdiction to U.S. District Courts for claims involving discriminatory taxation of natural gas pipeline property and provides for relief for such claims.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Keep Teachers Teaching Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2878
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2013-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: 
Keep Teachers Teaching Act of 2013 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive, renewable grants to local educational agencies (LEAs), states, and partnerships of LEAs, nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education for the development and implementation of innovative teacher retention programs that include: (1) professional development; (2) teacher mentoring; (3) advanced certification or credentialing; (4) research, travel, or fellowship opportunities; and (5) pairing teachers with research or industry professionals.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) identify the most promising teacher retention strategies, and (2) make information about those strategies publicly available and easily accessible to states and LEAs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1175)
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of Education to use the excess revenue generated from the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program to carry out the Federal Pell Grant Program.

Bill: 113-hr-2880
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2013-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Education to use any excess revenue generated by the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan program during a fiscal year to carry out the Federal Pell Grant program in the next fiscal year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
SERVE Act

Bill: 113-hr-2881
Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1]
Introduced: 2013-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: 
Support Educators and Reinvest in Valuable Education Act or the SERVE Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase, from $5,000 to $17,500, the amount of loan forgiveness available under the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) and Direct Loan (DL) programs to highly qualified teachers who have been employed at a low income school in the same local educational agency (LEA) for five consecutive complete school years.
 
Requires those low income schools to be schools: (1) at which more than 30% of the students are impoverished, and (2) located within the school district of an LEA that is eligible for school improvement funds under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
 
 Excepts PLUS loans under the FFEL and DL programs that are provided to the parents of dependent undergraduate students from that loan forgiveness program.
 
Includes consolidation loans in that loan forgiveness program, but only to the extent they are used to repay eligible FFELs or DLs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Defense Flexibility Act

Bill: 113-hr-2883
Sponsor: Rep. Cooper, Jim [D-TN-5]
Introduced: 2013-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: 
Defense Flexibility Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer amounts appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) in any of FY2014-FY2021 that are subject to reduction under a sequestration order issued pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 between such appropriations to address an urgent national priority or the consequences of a national emergency resulting from such sequestration.
 
Limits the amount transferred to an appropriation under this Act to the amount by which such appropriation is reduced under the sequestration order. Prohibits obligation of transferred amounts unless the Secretary notifies the House and Senate Armed Services Committees at least 30 days in advance of such transfer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Witness Security and Protection Grant Program Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2884
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2013-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Evidence and witnesses
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Organized crime
Performance measurement
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: 
Witness Security and Protection Grant Program Act of 2013 - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) make competitive grants to state, tribal, and local governments to establish or maintain programs that provide protection or assistance to witnesses in court proceedings involving a homicide, a serious violent felony, a serious drug offense, gangs, or organized crime; (2) evaluate grant applicants based on specified criteria, including the prevalence of witness intimidation and the number of such crimes per capita in the applicant's jurisdiction; (3) provide technical assistance to applicants for establishing or maintaining such programs; and (4) develop and disseminate best practice models to assist such governments in addressing witness safety, short-term and permanent witness relocation, financial and housing assistance, and other necessary witness protection or assistance services. Urges such governments to use such models to evaluate, improve, and develop witness protection or witness assistance programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Growing Jobs Through Capital Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2885
Sponsor: Rep. Fleischmann, Charles J. "Chuck" [R-TN-3]
Introduced: 2013-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: 
Growing Jobs Through Capital Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude gain from the sale or exchange of a capital asset from gross income for income tax purposes. Terminates such tax exclusion two years after the enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Social Cost of Carbon Transparency Enhancement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2886
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan D. [R-CA-50]
Introduced: 2013-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: 
Social Cost of Carbon Transparency Enhancement Act of 2013 - Prohibits the head of a federal agency from using an estimate for the social cost of carbon until the completion of the rulemaking notice period and the receipt of public comment on such estimate. 
 
Requires an agency head, after the completion of any cost-benefit or regulatory impact analysis used to promulgate rules or guidelines or to determine administrative actions, to: (1) submit to relevant congressional committees a report on the result of, and methods (including any method that determines the social cost of carbon) used to calculate, the cost-benefits or regulatory impact analysis; and (2) publish such report in the Federal Register. Prohibits the finalization of any cost-benefit or regulatory impact analysis for 60 days after the submission of such report and requires an agency head, during such 60-day period, to evaluate the potential benefits of each cost-benefit or regulatory impact analysis using specified criteria. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2013-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Introduced in House