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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an increased credit for development and to extend and simplify the credit for increasing research.

Bill: 113-hr-3428
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business expenses
Income tax credits
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow through 2018 a new business-related tax credit for an increase in expenditures for qualified development expenses (defined as the sum of any in-house and contract development expenses incurred in the trade or business of a taxpayer), (2) increase to 20% the rate of the alternative simplified research tax credit, and (3) extend through 2018 the tax credit for increasing research activities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
To protect personal and financial information by requiring certain certifications by entities awarded funds under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for the operation of a Navigator program or certain other Exchange activities.

Bill: 113-hr-3429
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Employee hiring
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Public contracts and procurement
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to require an entity designated by or awarded funds by a health care exchange for the operation of a Navigator program under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to facilitate enrollment in health plans, or to advocate for enrolling certain populations to certify (and periodically recertify) that it has in place appropriate policies and safeguards: (1) to protect any personally identifiable information and financial information, and (2) prohibiting employment of individuals who have been convicted of identity fraud or theft offenses or a dishonesty or breach of trust felony involving insurance.
 
 Requires the Secretary to disqualify an entity in violation of such policies from eligibility for designation and receipt of funds under the exchange assistance provisions and to certify compliance with this Act to Congress annually. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Relief and Job Creation Act

Bill: 113-hr-3430
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee hiring
Income tax credits
Small business
Unemployment
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Small Business Relief and Job Creation Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow small business employers whose gross receipts in the preceding taxable year did not exceed $20 million or who did not employ more than 100 full-time employees during the preceding taxable year a work opportunity tax credit for hiring unemployed individuals as full-time employees (at least 30 hours per week) during 2014 or 2015. Doubles the rate of such credit for employers located in counties with high unemployment rates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
American Families United Act

Bill: 113-hr-3431
Sponsor: Rep. O'Rourke, Beto [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Border security and unlawful immigration
Citizenship and naturalization
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Justice
Family relationships
Foreign labor
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Higher education
Immigration status and procedures
Judicial review and appeals
Temporary and part-time employment
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
American Families United Act - States that nothing in this Act shall be construed to enable the Attorney General (DOJ) or the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to expand his or her discretionary authority beyond a case-by-case basis, or to provide legalization or nationalization of persons covered under this Act. 
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to revise waiver of inadmissibility requirements, among other things waiving inadmissibility for: (1) certain persons who entered the United States before age 16 who have earned a degree from a U.S. institution of higher education, (2) false claims of U.S. citizenship by persons under age 18 or lacking mental competence to knowingly misrepresent a claim, and (3) false claims of U.S. citizenship if inadmissibility would create family separation hardship for the alien (including a self-petitioner under the Violence Against Women Act) or for a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident family member.
 
Authorizes parents of U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents to apply for a waiver of inadmissibility for unlawful presence. 
Places a three-year limit on immigration-related misrepresentations rendering aliens inadmissible. 
Revises the definition &quot;conviction&quot; for INA purposes.
 
Authorizes an immigration judge in specified circumstances, including family separation hardship, but with certain exceptions, to decline to order an alien removed, deported, or excluded and terminate related proceedings or grant permission to reapply for admission or for relief from removal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
New Mexico Wildland Fire Emergency Salvage Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3432
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
New Mexico
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
New Mexico Wildland Fire Emergency Salvage Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), with respect to affected National Forest System lands, and the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to affected Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands, as part of the restoration and rehabilitation activities undertaken on lands within the Gila National Forest and Lincoln National Forest and on BLM lands adversely impacted by the 2012 Little Bear and Whitewater-Baldy Complex Fires and the 2013 Silver Fire in New Mexico, to promptly plan and implement salvage timber sales of dead, damaged, or downed timber resulting from such wildfires. 
 
Requires such salvage timber sales to proceed immediately and to completion.
 
Declares the such sales shall not be subject to administrative or judicial review in any U.S. court. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
action_date: 2013-11-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Investing in Innovation for Education Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3433
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Minority education
Performance measurement
Rural conditions and development
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Investing in Innovation for Education Act of 2013 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to local educational agencies (LEAs), educational service agencies, and nonprofit organizations that partner with an LEA or consortium of schools to support school innovations. 
 
Requires at least 25% of the grant funds to be awarded for projects in rural areas. 
 
Requires each grant applicant to demonstrate that it has partnered with at least one private entity that will provide matching funds. Allows the Secretary to waive the matching funds requirement upon a showing of exceptional circumstances.
 
Requires each grant to be used to address at least one of the following areas of school innovation: 
 
 
 improving the effectiveness and distribution of teachers or principals,
 
 strengthening the use of data to improve teaching and learning, 
 
 providing high-quality instruction that is based on rigorous standards and measuring students' proficiency using high-quality assessments that are aligned to those standards, 
 
 turning around the lowest-performing schools, 
 
 supporting the effective use of technology to improve teaching or principals and learning, and 
 
 any other area of school innovation the Secretary chooses.
 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish performance measures for tracking each grantee's progress in: (1) improving the academic performance of public elementary and secondary school students, and specified subgroups of those students; and (2) implementing its project in rural schools, as applicable. Requires grantees to use grant funds to develop or expand strategies to improve high-need students' showing on those performance measures. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Parental Accountability for Reducing Child Poverty Act

Bill: 113-hr-3434
Sponsor: Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Elementary and secondary education
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Parental Accountability for Reducing Child Poverty Act - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to prohibit a state receiving a TANF grant from using any part of it to provide assistance to a parent, caretaker relative, or legal guardian of a child age 6 to 19 who is not attending school for at least the state-required number of days per year. Makes a similar requirement for home schooled children.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to reduce the grant to a state which fails to comply with this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Put School Counselors Where They're Needed Act

Bill: 113-hr-3435
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-38]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational guidance
Elementary and secondary education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Put School Counselors Where They're Needed Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to implement a demonstration project providing competitive, 4-year grants to at least 10 secondary schools that have a 4-year adjusted cohort graduation rate of 60% or lower, for the provision of additional school counselors and counselor resources.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that grantees should provide one additional counselor for every 250 students at risk.
 
Requires the additional school counselors to serve primarily students identified as being at risk of not graduating in four years.
 
Makes grantees that demonstrate progress in improving their graduation rates eligible for subsequent grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
To require the Director of the National Security Agency and the Inspector General of the National Security Agency to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-3436
Sponsor: Rep. Sanford, Mark [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Federal officials
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
National Security Agency

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Amends the National Security Agency Act of 1959 and the Inspector General Act of 1978 to require the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Inspector General of NSA to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
College Affordability Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3437
Sponsor: Rep. Schwartz, Allyson Y. [D-PA-13]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Government information and archives
Higher education
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
College Affordability Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning tax credits with a new American Opportunity Tax Credit that allows: (1) a 100% income tax credit, up to $2,500 in a taxable year, of the qualified tuition and related expenses (i.e., tuition, fees, and course materials) of a student at an institution of higher education who is carrying at least one half of a normal full-time work load; (2) a life-time aggregate credit amount of up to $10,000; and (3) refundability of a portion of such credit. Denies such credit to students who are convicted of a federal or state felony offense involving the possession or distribution of a controlled substance. 
 
Allows an exclusion from gross income of any amount received as a Federal Pell Grant. 
 
Establishes programs for: (1) periodic payments to students as qualified expenses are incurred during the taxable year, and (2) informing the public of the availability of the American Opportunity Tax Credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-30
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: 2013-10-30
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: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
National Laboratories Mean National Security Act

Bill: 113-hr-3438
Sponsor: Rep. Swalwell, Eric [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Homeland security
Law enforcement administration and funding
Research administration and funding
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
National Laboratories Mean National Security Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize recipients of grants under the Urban Area Security Initiative and the State Homeland Security Grant Program to work in conjunction with a National Laboratory to achieve target capabilities related to preventing, preparing for, protecting against, and responding to acts of terrorism.

action_date: 2014-12-01
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
National Laboratories Mean National Security Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize recipients of grants under the Urban Area Security Initiative and the State Homeland Security Grant Program to work in conjunction with a National Laboratory to achieve target capabilities related to preventing, preparing for, protecting against, and responding to acts of terrorism.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-02
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 386 - 0 (Roll no. 533). (text: CR H8196-8197)
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 386 - 0 (Roll no. 533).(text: CR H8196-8197)
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H8199)
action_date: 2014-12-01
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: 2014-12-01
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3438.
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8196-8198)
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Mrs. Brooks (IN) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
NMTC Military Installation Act

Bill: 113-hr-3439
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Economic development
Income tax credits
Military facilities and property

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
New Markets Tax Credit Military Installation Act of 2013 or the NMTC Military Installation Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the new markets tax credit, to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to allocate in 2014 and thereafter funds in the limitation amount for such credit among qualified community development entities to make qualified low-income community investments within the former boundaries of military installations realigned or closed due to a base closure law. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
To designate a peak in the State of Nevada as Maude Frazier Mountain.

Bill: 113-hr-3440
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Nevada
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Designates the peak of Frenchman Mountain in Nevada as the &quot;Maude Frazier Mountain.&quot; 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Spouses of Heroes Education Act

Bill: 113-hr-3441
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Spouses of Heroes Education Act - Entitles to post-9/11 veterans' educational assistance the spouse (under current law, only the child) of a person who, on or after September 11, 2001, dies in the line of duty while serving on active duty as a member of the Armed Forces. Terminates such spouse's entitlement on the earlier of: (1) the date that is 15 years after the date on which the member died, and (2) the date of the spouse's remarriage.
 
Requires an individual entitled to such assistance and also to veterans' educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill to elect a single coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make grants to eligible non-profit entities to establish clearinghouses for local information about employment opportunities and services for veterans.

Bill: 113-hr-3442
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to make grants to non-profit organizations in the 75 U.S. cities with the largest populations of veterans to establish clearinghouses for veterans to receive information about available employment opportunities and services.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House