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SCORE Act

Bill: 113-hr-5100
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2014-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Advisory bodies
Athletes
Education programs funding
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
School athletics
Sports and recreation facilities
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: 
Standardization of Collegiate Oversight of Revenues and Expenditures Act or the SCORE Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require each coeducational institution of higher education (IHE) that is participating in a title IV program and has an intercollegiate athletic program to include in its annual report on its intercollegiate athletic program: (1) the amount of revenue generated by each item on a list of categorized sources, disaggregated by each sports team; and (2) the expenses attributable to each item on a list of categorized activities or obligations, disaggregated by each sports team.
 
Prohibits an IHE from being a member of any intercollegiate athletic association or participating in any national intercollegiate athletics competition organized by any person, unless such association or person annually reports and disaggregates by sport, athletic event, or contract, as applicable: (1) the total generated revenue and amount of revenue generated by each item on a list of categorized sources, (2) the amount of expenses attributable to each item on a list of categorized activities or obligations, and (3) executive compensation schedules.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) define the categories of information that must be reported pursuant to this Act; and (2) biannually review and, as necessary, update each definition in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles or significant changes in the national system of intercollegiate athletics. 
 
Directs the Secretary to appoint a task force, made up of representatives from division I, II, and III schools in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), with which the Secretary is to consult in defining or redefining each category.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: Introduced in House
National Freight Network Trust Fund Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5101
Sponsor: Rep. Hahn, Janice [D-CA-44]
Introduced: 2014-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Government trust funds
Motor carriers
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Railroads
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: 
National Freight Network Trust Fund Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish the National Freight Network Trust Fund, from which expenditures shall be made to fund awards under the National Freight Network Grant Program. Appropriates to the Fund amounts equivalent to 5% of the import duties imposed under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States.
 
Establishes such Program in the Department of Transportation (DOT), under which the Secretary of Transportation shall make grants to states, regional or local transportation organizations, or port authorities to assist projects that improve the performance of the national freight network. Directs the Secretary to evaluate and select projects on a competitive basis by considering their potential to:
 
 
 generate national economic benefits,
 
 improve the performance of key corridors and gateways,
 
 reduce congestion,
 
 improve transportation safety, and
 
 enhance the network. 
 
 
Requires the Secretary to update the national freight network every five years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2014-07-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2014-07-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1149-1150)
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Employer Relief Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5102
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2014-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Medicare
Personnel records

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: 
Medicare Employer Relief Act of 2014 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to Medicare as secondary payer to repeal requirements for identification of secondary payer situations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-07-14
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: 2014-07-14
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: 2014-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Chinese Communist Economic Espionage Sanctions Act

Bill: 113-hr-5103
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2014-07-14 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
China
Computer security and identity theft
Corporate finance and management
Foreign property
Immigration status and procedures
Trade secrets and economic espionage
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: 
Chinese Communist Economic Espionage Sanctions Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that the Chinese Communist Party and the government of China should be condemned for conducting cyber and economic espionage against the United States.
 
Directs the President to prohibit transactions in property and property interests of a covered Chinese state-owned enterprise or a person who is a member of the board of directors, an executive officer, or a senior official of a covered Chinese state-owned enterprise if such property and property interests are in the United States, come within the United States, or are within the possession or control of a U.S. person. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to require each financial institution that is a U.S. person and has within its possession or control such assets that are in the United States to certify to the Secretary that the financial institution has frozen these assets. 
 
Makes an alien who is a member of the board of directors, an executive officer, or a senior official of a covered Chinese state-owned enterprise ineligible for U.S. admission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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: 2014-07-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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: 2014-07-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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: 2014-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Pay For Success Affordable Housing Energy Modernization Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5104
Sponsor: Rep. Ross, Dennis A. [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2014-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Housing and community development funding
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Low- and moderate-income housing
Public housing
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: 
Pay For Success Affordable Housing Energy Modernization Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to establish a demonstration program under which, between enactment of this Act and September 30, 2017, the Secretary may enter into budget-neutral, performance-based agreements (for up to 12 years each) that result in a reduction in energy or water costs with appropriate entities to carry out projects for energy or water conservation improvements at up to 20,000 residential units in multifamily buildings participating in:
 
 
Section 8 project-based rental assistance programs under the United States Housing Act of 1937, other than Section 8 (voucher program) assistance;
 
supportive housing for the elderly programs under the Housing Act of 1959; or
 
supportive housing for persons with disabilities programs under the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act.
 
 
Specifies requirements for payment under an agreement, which shall be contingent on documented utility savings, as well as for eligibility, geographical diversity, and funding for the program.
 
Requires the Secretary to submit to specified congressional committees a detailed plan for the implementation of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Report of Alien Children's Safety Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5105
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2014-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Crimes against children
Human trafficking
Immigration status and procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: 
Report of Alien Children's Safety Act of 2014 - Directs the Attorney General to report monthly to Congress through March 30, 2017, on: 
 
 
the number of aliens unlawfully present in the United States who have appeared before an immigration judge pursuant to removal proceedings; 
 
a state-by-state breakdown of the number of aliens unlawfully present in the United States who have appeared before an immigration judge for removal proceedings, who, in the case of unaccompanied alien children, have been placed in each state pending such proceedings, who have failed to appear after receiving written notice of a required appearance at such proceedings, and who are under 18 years old and have failed to appear after receiving written notice of a required appearance at such proceedings; and
 
a state-by-state breakdown of the number of aliens unlawfully present in the United States who have failed to appear after receiving written notice of a required appearance at such proceedings, and who have failed to make two or more such appearances.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Fuel Choice for American Prosperity and Security Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5107
Sponsor: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-27]
Introduced: 2014-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Energy efficiency and conservation
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Manufacturing
Motor fuels
Motor vehicles
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: 
Fuel Choice for American Prosperity and Security Act of 2014 - Revises requirements for calculating the average fuel economy for automobile manufacturers.
 
Prescribes requirements to calculate the average fuel economy for a manufacturer of a fuel choice enabling vehicle to be the average fuel economy determined for an automobile manufacturer, plus 4 miles per gallon.
 
Defines &quot;fuel choice enabling vehicle&quot; to mean an automobile that:
 
 
 operates on natural gas, hydrogen, propane, or biodiesel;
 
is a flexible fuel vehicle;
 
is a plug-in electric drive vehicle;
 
is propelled solely by a fuel cell that produces power without the use of petroleum or petroleum-based fuel; or
 
is propelled solely by something other than an internal combustion engine that operates on something other than petroleum-based fuel.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1048 West Robinhood Drive in Stockton, California, as the "W. Ronald Coale Memorial Post Office Building".

Bill: 113-hr-5109
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2014-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: California
Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1048 West Robinhood Drive in Stockton, California, as the "W. Ronald Coale Memorial Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Introduced in House
To improve the response to victims of child sex trafficking.

Bill: 113-hr-5111
Sponsor: Rep. Beatty, Joyce [D-OH-3]
Introduced: 2014-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Crime prevention
Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Human trafficking
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Law enforcement administration and funding
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: 
Amends the Missing Children's Assistance Act to include among the required uses of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's annual grant to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children operation of a cyber tipline to provide online users and electronic service providers an effective means of reporting Internet-related child sexual exploitation in the area of child sex trafficking (currently, child prostitution).

action_date: 2014-07-24
text: 
Amends the Missing Children's Assistance Act to include among the required uses of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's annual grant to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children operation of a cyber tipline to provide online users and electronic service providers an effective means of reporting Internet-related child sexual exploitation in the area of child sex trafficking, including child prostitution (currently, in the area of child prostitution).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-28
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-07-24
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 409 - 0 (Roll no. 447). (text: CR 7/24/2014 H6709)
action_date: 2014-07-24
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 409 - 0 (Roll no. 447).(text: CR 7/24/2014 H6709)
action_date: 2014-07-24
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6778-6779)
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5111.
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6709-6711)
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Mr. Walberg moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Introduced in House
To provide eligibility for veterans benefits for individuals who served in the United States merchant marine in the Southeast Asia theater of operations during the Vietnam Era.

Bill: 113-hr-5112
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. [D-GA-2]
Introduced: 2014-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Asia
Conflicts and wars
Marine and inland water transportation
Transportation employees
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation
Vietnam

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: 
Requires service in the United States Merchant Marine of an individual who served as a crew member of a vessel that was in oceangoing service during the Vietnam Era in the Southeast Asia theater of operations and who receives a certificate of honorable discharge under this Act to be considered to be active duty in determining the individual's eligibility for veterans benefits.
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD), upon application, to issue a certificate of honorable discharge to such an individual who engaged in service of a nature and duration that warrants such certificate in accordance with standards under the GI Bill Improvement Act of 1977.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-08-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Seniors' Medicare Choices from Obamacare Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5113
Sponsor: Rep. Coffman, Mike [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2014-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: 
Protecting Seniors' Medicare Choices from Obamacare Act of 2014 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to eliminate the increased Medicaid federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP, or federal matching amount) for prisoners with respect to their hospital care under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
 
Amends SSA title XVIII (Medicare) part C (Medicare+Choice) to establish a Medicare Advantage (MA) stabilization program under which the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) shall distribute a stabilization funding amount to each eligible MA plan for plan year 2015 to address any beneficiary plan inadequacies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-07-15
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: 2014-07-15
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: 2014-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Introduced in House
Rural Veteran Access to Care Act

Bill: 113-hr-5115
Sponsor: Rep. McAllister, Vance M. [R-LA-5]
Introduced: 2014-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Health care coverage and access
Transportation costs
Travel and tourism
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: 
Rural Veteran Access to Care Act - Provides for the reimbursement of the travel expenses a veteran with a service-connected disability incurs for the examination, treatment, or care for which the veteran is eligible. (Currently, that disability must be rated at 30% or more, unless the travel is in connection with the treatment or care of the disability or the veteran qualifies for such reimbursement on other grounds.)
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-08-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Introduced in House
Estuary Urgent Needs Priority Program Act

Bill: 113-hr-5117
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2014-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Lakes and rivers
Mammals
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Pest management
Water quality
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: 
Estuary Urgent Needs Priority Program Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to revise the National Estuary Program by requiring the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make competitive awards to address urgent and challenging issues that threaten the economic and ecological well-being of coastal areas, including extensive seagrass habitat losses, recurring harmful algae blooms, unusual marine mammal mortalities, invasive exotic species, and jellyfish proliferation limiting community access to water during peak tourism seasons.
 
Requires the EPA to give priority to national estuary programs that are not part of the Geographic Programs as described in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Introduced in House