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To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a registry of certain veterans who were stationed at or underwent training at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-1372
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Canada
Congressional oversight
Disability assistance
Environmental health
Government information and archives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Military facilities and property
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
 Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), within one year after the enactment of this Act, to establish and maintain a special record to be known as the Canadian Forces Base Gagetown Health Registry containing the name of each individual who, while serving in the Armed Forces, was stationed at or underwent training at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada (Gagetown), during the period beginning on January 1, 1956, and ending on December 31, 2006, and who: (1) applies for care or services from the VA; (2) files a claim for compensation on the basis of any disability which may be associated with such service; (3) dies and is survived by a spouse, child, or parent who files a claim for dependency and indemnity compensation on the basis of such service; (4) requests a health examination from the VA; or (5) receives such health examination and requests inclusion in the Registry. Requires the Secretary, upon request, to provide such health examination, as well as consultation and counseling with respect to examination results. 
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) notify individuals in the Registry of significant developments in research on the health consequences of potential exposure to a toxic substance or environmental hazard related to service at Gagetown; and (2) carry out appropriate outreach activities with respect to such health examinations, consultation, and counseling.
 
Requires an annual Registry report from the Secretary to the congressional veterans committees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Enhancement and Protection Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1374
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Employment taxes
Family relationships
Higher education
Social security and elderly assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Social Security Enhancement and Protection Act of 2013 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to revise the formula for computation of the primary insurance amount (PIA, or the monthly benefit amount payable to a worker upon retirement at full retirement age or upon entitlement to disability benefits), increasing the special minimum benefit for certain earners based on years in the workforce and a specified percentage of 1/12th of the poverty guideline for the previous calendar year.
 
Prescribes a formula for an increase in OASDI benefit amounts for beneficiaries on account of long-term eligibility (counting from at least 16 years after the individual's applicable date of eligibility).
 
Extends a child's benefit for certain full-time post-secondary students under age 22.
 
Amends both SSA title II and the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to add an applicable percentage of a certain part of remuneration to the formula for determining taxable wages and the net earning from taxable self-employment income above the contribution and benefit base for Federal Insurance Contribution ACT (FICA, or Social Security) tax purposes beginning in 2015.
 
Amends SSA title II, with respect to the formula for computation of the PIA, to establish a new bend point, for individuals becoming eligible in 2015, involving the contribution and benefit base. (Bend points are dollar amounts defining brackets of average indexed monthly earnings used in the formula for determining the PIA.) Prescribes another formula for computation of the PIA, based on the new bend point, for those becoming eligible after 2015.
 
Amends the IRC to increase the FICA tax rates on a graduated basis beginning in 2015.
 
Disregards any increase in monthly OASDI benefits as a result of this Act from income or resources for any month after December 2014 for the purpose of determining the eligibility of a recipient (or the recipient's spouse or family) for benefits or assistance, or the amount or extent of benefits or assistance, under any federal, state, or local program financed in whole or in part with federal funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Mescalero Apache Tribe Leasing Authorization Act

Bill: 113-hr-1377
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Indian lands and resources rights
New Mexico
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Mescalero Apache Tribe Leasing Authorization Act - Authorizes the Mescalero Apache Tribe to lease or transfer water rights that were adjudicated to the Tribe in 
State v. Lewis
, provided the lease or transfer is for no more than 99 years and complies with the laws of New Mexico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Subcommittee on Water and Power Discharged.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Puerto Rico Hospital HITECH Amendments Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1379
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Pierluisi, Pedro R. [D-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Caribbean area
Computers and information technology
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicare
Puerto Rico
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Puerto Rico Hospital HITECH Amendments Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to apply Medicare HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act) payments to subsection (d) hospitals in Puerto Rico to allow them to qualify for incentives for adoption and meaningful use of certified electronic health record (EHR) Technology.
 
(Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system [IPPS] when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act

Bill: 113-hr-1380
Sponsor: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act - Requires the Public Printer to establish and maintain a website accessible by the public for obtaining electronic copies of all congressionally mandated reports in one place. 
 
Requires each federal agency to provide the Public Printer with electronic copies of its congressionally mandated reports for publication on the website. Prohibits an agency head from changing or removing a report published on the website, except for technical changes, without the express, written consent of the chairman of each congressional committee to which the report is submitted.
 
Exempts information or records that are exempt from public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) from publication on the website. Requires each agency head to redact from congressionally mandated reports any information that may not be publicly released under FOIA before submission for publication on the website. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-22
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2013-05-22
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Educational Opportunities Act

Bill: 113-hr-1381
Sponsor: Rep. Rokita, Todd [R-IN-4]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Elementary and secondary education
Income tax credits
Sales and excise taxes
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Educational Opportunities Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a tax credit for charitable contributions to a scholarship granting organization. Allows a maximum credit amount of $4,500 ($2,250 for a married individual filing a separate return). Defines &quot;scholarship granting organization&quot; as a tax-exempt entity whose exclusive purpose is to provide scholarships for the tuition and other expenses of elementary and secondary school students from low income households (i.e., household income not exceeding 250% of federal poverty guidelines).
 
Allows corporate taxpayers a tax credit, up to $100,000, for contributions to a scholarship granting organization. 
 
Imposes a penalty on scholarship granting organizations that fail to distribute at least 90% of their total receipts for elementary and secondary school expenses in a taxable year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Digital Coast Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1382
Sponsor: Rep. Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch [D-MD-2]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Department of Commerce
Earth sciences
Executive agency funding and structure
Geography and mapping
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
State and local government operations
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Digital Coast Act of 2013 - Defines &quot;Digital Coast&quot; as a constituent-driven effort led by the Secretary of Commerce, through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to provide an enabling platform integrating geospatial data, decision support tools, training, and best practices to address coastal and emergency management issues and enhance coastal economies and ecosystem services by helping communities with cost-effective and participatory solutions.
 
Directs NOAA to establish and implement the Digital Coast to: (1) collect data concerning coastal elevations, land use and cover, habitat and submerged aquatic vegetation, parcels, planimetrics, socioeconomics, and human use; and (2) integrate other data sources for the broadest measure of coastal resource management constituents and applications.
 
Directs NOAA to: (1) make such data and resulting products accessible via the Digital Coast and other related Internet technologies, (2) provide training on decision support tools developed under this Act, (3) document data to Federal Geographic Data Committee standards, and (4) archive the raw data at appropriate NOAA or federal data centers.
 
Requires coordination and data sharing with states, U.S. territories, local governments, nongovernmental entities, and other federal efforts.
 
Requires the establishment of NOAA Coastal Services Centers to facilitate the development of products and services addressing the needs of local, state, and regional entities involved with coastal and ocean decisionmaking and to lead development and maintenance of the Digital Coast.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XIV of division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to equalize the treatment of States and outlying areas.

Bill: 113-hr-1383
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to allocate and award funds to outlying areas under the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund program on the same basis as those funds are allocated and awarded to states. (The State Fiscal Stabilization Fund program allocates and awards funds to states to support their funding of elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education and other governmental services.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt certain perishable agricultural commodities from the goods whose sale or distribution in commerce may be prohibited subsequent to a violation of such Act.

Bill: 113-hr-1387
Sponsor: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Food industry and services
Fruit and vegetables
Labor standards
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt certain perishable agricultural commodities (fresh fruits and vegetables, including cherries in brine, whether or not frozen or packed in ice) from the prohibition against the transporting or selling of any goods produced by an employee who was employed in violation of minimum wage or maximum hours requirements, or specified related orders of the Secretary of Labor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on bitolylene diisocyanate (TODI).

Bill: 113-hr-1388
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on bitolylene diisocyanate (TODI).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
MARCH for Military Women Act

Bill: 113-hr-1389
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-25]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Abortion
Health facilities and institutions
Military facilities and property
Military medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Military Access to Reproductive Care and Health for Military Women Act or MARCH for Military Women Act - Repeals a statutory restriction on using a medical treatment facility or other facility of the Department of Defense (DOD) to perform an abortion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E360)
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Urban Medicare-Dependent Hospitals Preservation Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1390
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicare
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Urban Medicare-Dependent Hospitals Preservation Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 2013, and before October 1, 2016, to revise the criteria and payment formula for "subsection (d) hospitals" which are urban Medicare-dependent hospitals.
 
(Generally a subsection (d) hospital is an acute care hospital particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2539 Dartmoor Road in Grove City, Ohio, as the "Master Sergeant Shawn T. Hannon and Veterans Memorial Post Office Building".

Bill: 113-hr-1392
Sponsor: Rep. Stivers, Steve [R-OH-15]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Military personnel and dependents
Ohio
Postal service
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2539 Dartmoor Road in Grove City, Ohio, as the "Master Sergeant Shawn T. Hannon and Veterans Memorial Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3700 Riverside Drive in Columbus, Ohio, as the "Master Sergeant Jeffery J. Rieck and Veterans Memorial Post Office".

Bill: 113-hr-1393
Sponsor: Rep. Stivers, Steve [R-OH-15]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Military personnel and dependents
Ohio
Postal service
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3700 Riverside Drive in Columbus, Ohio, as the "Master Sergeant Jeffery J. Rieck and Veterans Memorial Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Weekends Without Hunger Act

Bill: 113-hr-1395
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Weekends Without Hunger Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), subject to the availability of appropriations, to implement a pilot program providing commodities, on a competitive basis, to nonprofits for the provision of nutritious food to at-risk school children on weekends and during extended school holidays during the school year. (At-risk school children are those who participate in the school lunch program and reside in an area served by a school in which at least 50% of the students receive free or reduced price meals under the school lunch or breakfast programs.)
 
Includes elementary and secondary schools, school food authorities, food banks or pantries, homeless shelters, and other Secretary-approved emergency feeding agencies as eligible nonprofit recipients of such commodities.
 
Requires commodity recipients to satisfy safe food storage, handling, and delivery standards established by the Secretary.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) complete an interim evaluation of the pilot program by November 30, 2016, and (2) submit a final report to Congress by December 31, 2018, that contains an evaluation of such program and any recommendations the Secretary may have for legislative action.
 
Authorizes appropriations for the pilot program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House