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State-Run Federal Lands Act

Bill: 113-hr-3294
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-10-15 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
General public lands matters
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-15
text: 
State-Run Federal Lands Act - Authorizes a state to petition the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to National Park Service (NPS) or U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service land, or to the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), with respect to Forest Service land, to enter into a cooperative agreement for state management of such federal land located in the state. 
 
Sets forth requirements for the approval or denial of petitions. 
 
Prescribes the contents of such cooperative agreements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
action_date: 2013-11-21
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2013-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-10-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2013-10-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2013-10-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-15
text: Introduced in House
Eliminating Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3295
Sponsor: Rep. Castor, Kathy [D-FL-14]
Introduced: 2013-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Medicare
Performance measurement
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-16
text: 
Eliminating Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a breast cancer treatment quality performance system to: (1) assess and disclose publicly, through the use of quality measures, the quality of care provided for the treatment of breast cancer by specified health care providers; and (2) base payment to such providers for such treatment on their performance with respect to such measures.
 
Requires reduced payments to providers that either do not submit data in accordance with the reporting process in the system, or furnish low quality care for treatment of breast cancer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-10-16
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: 2013-10-16
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: 2013-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-16
text: Introduced in House
Pay America First Act

Bill: 113-hr-3296
Sponsor: Rep. Gallego, Pete P. [D-TX-23]
Introduced: 2013-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Disaster relief and insurance
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government trust funds
Medicare
Military personnel and dependents
Securities
Social security and elderly assistance
U.S. and foreign investments
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-16
text: 
Pay America First Act - Makes this Act effective if the federal government defaults on its legal obligations for the first time in its history, as evidenced by one or more of certain actions taken by the Secretary of the Treasury.
 
Counts among such actions withholding from making payments of debt obligations to foreign bond holders, including those in China, Iran, and the Cayman Islands, before:
 
 
making a payment of a debt obligation to the Social Security and Medicare trust funds or redeeming a debt obligation held by those trust funds;
 
redeeming a debt obligation held by a trust fund providing veterans benefits, including the Veterans Special Life Insurance Fund, the Veterans Reopened Insurance Fund, the Armed Forces Retirement Home Fund, and the Court of Veteran Appeals Retirement Fund;
 
redeeming a debt obligation held by an intragovernmental fund to assist Americans during a natural disaster, including reserves for the National Flood Insurance Program and other disaster relief funds appropriated to the President; or
 
making a payment of debt obligations to the Department of Defense (DOD), including civilian and uniformed personnel (Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force), military active pay and military retirement benefits, and military benefits to their families.
 
 
Requires the Secretary, after exercising such authority, to report each week to Congress on the payments issued and amount of revenues incoming and remaining reserves for upcoming payments issued.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-16
text: Introduced in House
Teen Dating Violence Education Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3297
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2]
Introduced: 2013-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Civil actions and liability
Crime victims
Crimes against children
Crimes against women
Domestic violence and child abuse
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Sex offenses
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-16
text: 
Teen Dating Violence Education Act of 2013 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require the inclusion of information regarding the legal rights available to teenage victims of dating violence in the education programs created with grants to combat the impact on students of domestic violence. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6695)
action_date: 2013-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-16
text: Introduced in House
Disaster Savings Accounts Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3298
Sponsor: Rep. Ross, Dennis A. [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2013-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Emergency planning and evacuation
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Natural disasters

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-16
text: 
Disaster Savings Accounts Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish tax-exempt disaster savings accounts to pay the expenses of homeowners for equipment and materials for mitigating the effects of a natural disaster, (2) allow a deduction from gross income (above-the-line deduction) up to $5,000 (adjusted annually for inflation) in a taxable year for cash contributions to such accounts, and (3) set forth tax rules for account distributions and failure to report on disaster savings accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-16
text: Introduced in House
SOFTWARE Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3303
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2013-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Computers and information technology
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-22
text: 
Sensible Oversight for Technology which Advances Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2013 or the SOFTWARE Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) to apply it to medical software to the same extent and in the same manner as it applies to devices. Defines &quot;medical software&quot; as software that is intended to be marketed:
 
 
to directly change the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals; or
 
for use by consumers and makes recommendations for clinical action that includes the use of a drug, device, or procedure to cure or treat a disease or other condition without requiring the involvement of a health care provider and which, if followed, would change the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals. Excludes from such definition software whose primary purpose is integral to the functioning of a drug or device and is not a component of a device.
 
 
Excludes clinical software and health software (defined as follows) from FDCA regulation.
 
Defines &quot;clinical software&quot; as software that: (1) captures, analyzes, changes, or presents patient or population clinical data or information and may recommend courses of clinical action, but does not directly change the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals; and (2) is intended for use only by a health care provider in a health care setting.
 
Defines &quot;health software&quot; as software that is not medical software or clinical software and that: (1) captures, analyzes, changes, or presents patient or population clinical data or information or supports administrative or operational aspects of health care and is not used in the direct delivery of care; or (2) has as its primary purpose to act as a platform for a secondary software, to run or act as a mechanism for connectivity, or to store data.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress concerning the value of clinical software and health software to health care quality and efficacy and the need for legislation that establishes a risk-based regulatory framework that reduces regulatory burdens, promotes patient safety, and fosters innovation.
 
Excludes medical software, clinical software, and health software from the FDCA definition of &quot;device.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Currency Optimization, Innovation, and National Savings Act

Bill: 113-hr-3305
Sponsor: Rep. Fitzpatrick, Michael G. [R-PA-8]
Introduced: 2013-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Currency
General Native American affairs matters
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-22
text: 
Currency Optimization, Innovation, and National Savings Act - Requires the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve Board) to sequester all $1 coins bearing the design common to those $1 coins minted and issued from 1979-1981 and again in 1999. 
 
Allows the release of such sequestered coins to collectible coin dealers and countries that have adopted the U.S. dollar as their base unit of exchange.
 
Directs the Federal Reserve Board to: (1) undertake efforts to improve, and remove barriers to, the circulation of all other $1 coins; and (2) work with the U.S. Mint, consumer groups, media outlets, and schools to publicize the Presidential $1 Coin Program. 
 
Requires the Federal Reserve Board to report to Congress on the Board's efforts to improve the circulation of, and remove barriers to, the circulation of $1 coins bearing Native American designs.
 
Declares it is U.S. policy that after consumers and retailers are comfortable using and able to obtain adequate supplies of $1 coins, such $1 coins should replace $1 Federal Reserve notes as the only $1 monetary unit issued and circulated by the Federal Reserve System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Solar Villages Initiative Act

Bill: 113-hr-3307
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3]
Introduced: 2013-10-22 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Business investment and capital
Foreign aid and international relief
Small business
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-22
text: 
Solar Villages Initiative Act - Authorizes the President, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), to provide assistance for renewable energy projects in developing countries to increase the availability of credit, savings, and other services to microfinance and microenterprise clients lacking full access to capital, training, technical assistance, and business development services. 
 
 Gives priority to female-owned businesses.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2013-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-22
text: Introduced in House
PARC Act

Bill: 113-hr-3311
Sponsor: Rep. Stewart, Chris [R-UT-2]
Introduced: 2013-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Forests, forestry, trees
General public lands matters
Government liability
Intergovernmental relations
Mining
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: 
Provide Access and Retain Continuity Act or the PARC Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to enter into agreements with, and provide reimbursement to, states to conduct activities determined to have a direct economic impact on tourism, mining, timber, or general transportation in the state that are otherwise not being conducted by the federal government during a partial shutdown of the federal government due to a lapse in appropriations. 
 
Requires the Secretary to approve or deny a petition for such an agreement not later than 90 days after receiving it and deems such petition approved if the Secretary does not act on it within the 90-day period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-21
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Introduced in House
Homeowners Flood Insurance Relief Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3312
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2013-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: 
Homeowners Flood Insurance Relief Act of 2013 - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide certain policy holders the option of paying their premiums monthly (or annually or in more frequent installments, as under current law).
 
Declares the maximum annual chargeable premium rate for a property to be the total appraised value of all structures located on it at the time of its purchase by the current owner of the property divided by 30.
 
Sets forth a ten-year phase-in period for risk premium rate increases resulting from enactment of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012, at the rate of 10% for each year following the effective date of such Act.
 
Directs FEMA to refund or provide credit to insureds for any flood insurance premiums collected in excess of the mandatory phase-in of rates prescribed by this Act.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1554-1555)
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Introduced in House
Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians Land Transfer Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3313
Sponsor: Rep. LaMalfa, Doug [R-CA-1]
Introduced: 2013-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: California
Federal-Indian relations
Gambling
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: 
Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians Land Transfer Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to take specified lands in Santa Barbara County, California, into trust for the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians if the Tribe transfers title to that land to the United States. (Placing that land into trust removes certain restrictions on the property under California law.)
 
Makes that land part of the Santa Ynez Indian Reservation.
 
Prohibits gambling on the land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Introduced in House
Military Retired Pay Fairness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3314
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2013-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: 
Military Retired Pay Fairness Act of 2013 - Provides limitations on the recoupment of separation pay, special separation benefits, and voluntary separation incentive payments from members of the Armed Forces subsequently receiving military retired or retainer pay. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense or Homeland Security, as applicable, to waive such recoupments in cases of financial hardship.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Introduced in House
Agricultural Structures Building Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3315
Sponsor: Rep. LaMalfa, Doug [R-CA-1]
Introduced: 2013-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Building construction
Disaster relief and insurance
Farmland
Floods and storm protection
Land use and conservation
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: 
Agricultural Structures Building Act of 2013 - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to allow local variances for certain agricultural structures (such as any agricultural product processing facility, agricultural product storage facility, shed, farmhouse, barn, or other structure which has as its primary purpose supporting the agricultural industry).
 
Prohibits certain land use and control measures from being deemed inadequate or inconsistent with land management criteria for participation in the flood insurance program because such measures authorize granting a variance for an agricultural structure located in an area having special flood hazards.
 
Prohibits the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from either suspending a community from participation in the national flood insurance program, or placing it on probation, because its land use and control measures provide for such a variance. 
 
Defines such variance as one granted by an appropriate official of the community from compliance with such land use and control measures and permits repair and restoration of such structure to its pre-damaged condition without elevation of the structure. 
 
Requires the official to have made specified determinations as a prerequisite to granting such a variance, including that: (1) in the case of new construction, the agricultural structure is subject to base flood elevations of at least three feet; and (2) in the case of existing structures, it is not practicable to elevate the repaired or expanded structure to the base flood elevation. 
 
Requires the chargeable flood insurance premium rates for an agricultural structure granted such a variance to be the rates that otherwise would apply to such structure if it had been repaired, expanded, or constructed before the establishment of the special flood hazard area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Introduced in House
GRANT Act

Bill: 113-hr-3316
Sponsor: Rep. Lankford, James [R-OK-5]
Introduced: 2013-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Education programs funding
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Health programs administration and funding
Housing and community development funding
Humanities programs funding
Law enforcement administration and funding
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Research administration and funding
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: 
Grant Reform and New Transparency Act of 2013 or the GRANT Act - Establishes new standards for awarding federal grants. Requires executive agencies to use merit-based selection procedures in awarding grants and to conduct an evaluation of the ability of a prospective grantee to successfully carry out a grant before awarding it.
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to: (1) upgrade any public website for finding federal grant opportunities so that such website serves as a central point of information for competitive grants, (2) issue and disseminate guidance to aid agencies in establishing merit-based selection procedures for grant programs and in identifying amounts of undisbursed funding remaining in grant accounts, and (3) submit a plan to improve the single audit process for auditing the financial statements and federal awards of a non-federal entity. Sets forth the information required to be included in the public grant website, including grant funds availability and grant award information. Requires agencies to explain to grant applicants the basis for award decisions involving grants exceeding $100,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 19 - 15.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-23
text: Introduced in House