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Personal Financial Information Protection Act

Bill: 113-hr-3764
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2013-12-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Civil actions and liability
Federal officials
Financial services and investments
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Legal fees and court costs
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: 
Personal Financial Information Protection Act - Makes it unlawful for any officer or employee of the federal government to: (1) willfully make an unauthorized disclosure of personally identifiable covered information, or (2) conspire to make such an unauthorized disclosure. Defines "personally identifiable covered information" as any information contained in a financial record if such information includes the name, social security number, street address, telephone number, or electronic mail address of, or other personally identifiable information concerning, a consumer. 
 
Makes any person who violates this Act or who willfully aids, abets, counsels, induces, or procures such a violation liable to any person whose personally identifiable covered information has been disclosed. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2014-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-12-12
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: 2013-12-12
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: 2013-12-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Introduced in House
Shield Act

Bill: 113-hr-3767
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2013-12-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Crime victims
Crimes against women
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Evidence and witnesses
Lawyers and legal services
Military law
Military personnel and dependents
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: 
Shield Act - Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) to permit a Special Victims' Counsel who is representing an alleged victim of a rape, sexual assault, or forcible sodomy offense to speak on behalf of such victim in a preliminary criminal investigation (Article 32 Investigation) of any such offense when the victim has the right to be heard. Prohibits: (1) questions during such investigation about the sexual behavior of an alleged victim that is not directly related to the charge or specification being investigated, or (2) the admission of any evidence to prove or show a sexual predisposition on the part of an alleged victim.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Introduced in House
Promoting Tourism to Enhance our Economy Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3768
Sponsor: Rep. Sires, Albio [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2013-12-12 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Canada
Immigration status and procedures
Travel and tourism
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: 
Promoting Tourism to Enhance our Economy Act of 2013 - Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to admit into the United States as a visitor for pleasure a qualifying Canadian citizen over 55 years old and spouse (who is not required to be over 55 years old) for a period not to exceed 240 days if the person maintains a Canadian residence and owns a U.S. residence or has rented a U.S. accommodation for the duration of such stay. 
 
Requires such visitor also to be not inadmissible or described in any ground of deportability, and requires him or her not to: (1) engage in employment or labor for hire in the United States, or (2) seek any form of assistance or benefit under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2013-12-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2013-12-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Introduced in House
To extend the nonenforcement instruction for the Medicare direct supervision requirement for therapeutic hospital outpatient services insofar as it applies to critical access hospitals and rural hospitals, to require a study of the impact on critical access hospitals and rural hospitals of a failure to extend such instruction, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-3769
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adrian [R-NE-3]
Introduced: 2013-12-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Government studies and investigations
Health facilities and institutions
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), during a specified extension period, to extend the therapy supervision nonenforcement instruction (the enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals, as extended for calendar year 2013 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services).
 
Directs the Secretary to study the impact (including the economic impact and the impact upon hospital staffing needs, if any) on critical access hospitals and small rural hospitals of not extending the therapy supervision nonenforcement instruction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-12-12
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: 2013-12-12
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: 2013-12-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Introduced in House
CFPB-IG Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3770
Sponsor: Rep. Stivers, Steve [R-OH-15]
Introduced: 2013-12-12 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: 
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection-Inspector General Reform Act of 2013 or CFPB-IG Act of 2013 - Amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to repeal the authority of the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) to appoint the Inspector General of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
 
 
Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to create an Inspector General for the CFPB.
 
Requires the President, within 60 days after enactment of this Act, to appoint a CFPB Inspector General. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-11
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 39 - 20.
action_date: 2014-06-11
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Prior to Referral.
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Introduced in House
Home Heating and Cooling Efficiently Act

Bill: 113-hr-3772
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-12-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Income tax credits
Lighting, heating, cooling

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: 
Home Heating and Cooling Efficiently Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt electric heat pumps and water heaters from the $300 limitation on residential energy property expenditures for purposes of the tax credit for nonbusiness energy efficiency expenditures (thus making the maximum $500 limitation on energy efficiency improvements applicable to such heat pumps and water heaters). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Introduced in House
Unemployed Jobhunters Protection and Assistance Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3773
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2013-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional operations and organization
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: 
Unemployment Benefits Extension Act of 2013 or Unemployed Jobhunters Protection and Assistance Act of 2013 - Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to extend emergency unemployment compensation (EUC) payments for eligible individuals to weeks of employment ending on or before January 1, 2015.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the House of Representatives and the Senate should reconvene on or before December 18, 2013, to take appropriate action to enact this legislation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Introduced in House
Repealing Ineffective and Incomplete Abstinence-Only Program Funding Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3774
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2013-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Appropriations
Child health
Family planning and birth control
HIV/AIDS
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Sexually transmitted diseases
Teenage pregnancy

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: 
Repealing Ineffective and Incomplete Abstinence-Only Program Funding Act of 2013 - Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) eliminate the abstinence-only education program, (2) rescind unobligated FY 2014 program appropriations, and (3) reprogram such rescinded appropriations for the personal responsibility education program (PREP) for FY2014.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Introduced in House
Military Sexual Assault Victims Empowerment Act

Bill: 113-hr-3775
Sponsor: Rep. Barr, Andy [R-KY-6]
Introduced: 2013-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Crime victims
Crimes against women
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care coverage and access
Mental health
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
Sex offenses
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: 
Military Sexual Assault Victims Empowerment Act or the Military SAVE Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to each operate a program that ensures that veterans and members of the armed forces may receive treatment from private providers for military sexual trauma. 
 
Requires the Secretaries: (1) after receiving from a veteran or member electing such treatment a notification that includes a written affidavit stating that the individual is a victim of military sexual trauma, to assign a voucher that such individual may use to receive such treatment; and (2) to require such individual to make a reelection during each 120-day period in which such a voucher is used following the initial 120-day period the voucher is valid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2014-01-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Introduced in House
Stark Administrative Simplification Act

Bill: 113-hr-3776
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2013-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Competition and antitrust
Health personnel
Medical ethics
Medicare
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: 
Stark Administrative Simplification Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to prescribe a single civil monetary penalty as an alternative sanction to those already established for compensation arrangements between a physician (or an immediate family member) and a person or entity that is in violation of the limitation on certain physician referrals (Stark Law) solely due to technical noncompliance.
 
(The Stark law, or Stark Rule, prohibits physician referrals of certain health services for Medicare and Medicaid patients to a specified entity if the physician, or an immediate family member, has a financial relationship with that entity.)
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to accept the voluntary disclosure of a technically noncomplaint compensation arrangement by a person or entity in violation of the Stark Law under certain circumstances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-12-16
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: 2013-12-16
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: 2013-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Jobs for Students Act

Bill: 113-hr-3777
Sponsor: Rep. Daines, Steve [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Employee benefits and pensions
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Higher education
Sales and excise taxes
Student aid and college costs
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Vocational and technical education
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: 
Protecting Jobs for Students Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that a student who is enrolled at an institution of higher education and is participating in a federal work-study program under the Higher Education Act of 1965 shall not be counted in determining the number of full-time employees of an employer for the purpose of shared responsibility requirements with respect to health coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Introduced in House
EARLY Act

Bill: 113-hr-3778
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2013-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Family relationships
Preschool education
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: 
Expanded Access to Real Learning for our Young Act or the EARLY Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states to carry out full-day prekindergarten programs.
 
Requires those programs to: 
 
 
be located at public schools, if practicable, or otherwise carried out by private or other community providers;
 
permit parents, regardless of income, to voluntary enroll their four-year old children in the programs and do so at no cost if their combined income does not exceed 400% of the poverty line;
 
be full-day programs that run the length of the regular school year;
 
maintain a maximum class size of 20 children, with at least 1 prekindergarten teacher per classroom;
 
ensure that the ratio of children to prekindergarten teachers and teacher aides does not exceed 10 to 1;
 
be taught by teachers who are paid a salary comparable to kindergarten through grade 12 teachers at the state's public schools; and
 
meet a minimum level of parental engagement set by the state. 

 
Requires the Secretary to give grant priority to states that carry out such programs at public schools.
 
Prohibits the federal share of a grant from exceeding 75% of the prekindergarten program's costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Introduced in House
To require the Director of National Intelligence to annually submit reports on violations of law or executive order by personnel of the intelligence community, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-3779
Sponsor: Rep. Himes, James A. [D-CT-4]
Introduced: 2013-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: 
Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to require the Director of National Intelligence to report annually to the congressional intelligence committees on violations of law or executive order by personnel of an element of the intelligence community and on actions taken in response.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select).
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Introduced in House
Ocean Energy Safety and Technology Improvement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3780
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2013-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Environmental technology
Licensing and registrations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Oil and gas
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Small business
Technology transfer and commercialization
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: 
Ocean Energy Safety and Technology Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, with respect to the consideration of permits for geological explorations and development and production, to allow the Secretary of the Interior to give priority to reviewing and processing plans and applications that use, develop, or demonstrate new safety-enhancing technologies.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a small business innovation research program or technology transfer program, or both, to broaden participation in the development of safer technologies for offshore oil and gas exploration and development; and (2) an Ocean Energy Safety Institute, as a collaborative federally funded research and development center or university-affiliated research center, to enhance safe and responsible operations across the offshore oil and gas industry. Funds operations of the Institute through an annual fee applicable to areas of the outer Continental Shelf subject to an oil or gas lease under which production is not occurring.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2013-12-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1877-1878)
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Introduced in House