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Streamlining Support for Veterans and Military Caregivers Act

Bill: 113-hr-3443
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Adult day care
Disability assistance
Income tax exclusion
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Streamlining Support for Veterans and Military Caregivers Act - Expands the program of assistance and support services for caregivers of veterans to include all caregivers (currently allowed for family caregivers). 
 
Modifies the program of special compensation to members of the uniformed services for injuries and illness to allow such compensation for a serious injury or illness (currently allowed for a catastrophic injury or illness). Exempts payments of such compensation from taxation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Critical Access Hospital Flexibility Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3444
Sponsor: Rep. Walden, Greg [R-OR-2]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Critical Access Hospital Flexibility Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to the Medicare rural hospital flexibility program and criteria for designation of critical access hospitals, specifically the requirement to provide not more than 25 acute care inpatient beds for inpatient care for up to 96 hours per patient as an annual average.
 
Permits a facility that was designated a critical access hospital before enactment of this Act, in the alternative, to satisfy such requirement by providing not more than 20 acute care inpatient beds.
 
Requires all beds to be occupied for the bed count to meet this critical access hospital criterion.


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
Stop Deducting Damages Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3445
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Life, casualty, property insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Stop Deducting Damages Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) deny a tax deduction for any amount paid or incurred for compensatory or punitive damages in connection with any judgment in, or settlement of, any action against a government; and (2) include in gross income any amount paid as insurance or otherwise due to liability for punitive damages.


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
FAFSA Fairness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3446
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2013-11-12 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: 
FAFSA Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to disclose, on the form notifying students of their expected family contribution, the special circumstances under which students may qualify as independent for purposes of the determination regarding their need and eligibility for title IV assistance. 
 
Allows students who may qualify as independent on the basis of those special circumstances to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) as independent students for purposes of the initial determination of their title IV assistance by a financial aid administrator at an institution of higher education to which they are applying.
 
Requires the financial aid administrators to: (1) provide those students with an initial determination regarding their title IV assistance in the same manner as, and by no later than the date that, they provide other independent students with that determination; and (2) use, in making a final determination regarding that assistance, the discretion provided to them under title IV to verify whether such students meet the special circumstances to qualify as independent students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Introduced in House
Furloughed Federal Employee Double Dip Elimination Act

Bill: 113-hr-3447
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2013-11-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Labor
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: 
Furloughed Federal Employee Double Dip Elimination Act - Requires regulations pertaining to the compensation of any federal employees who receive back pay for any period in which such employee was furloughed due to a lapse in appropriations to require such back pay to be treated in the same way as federal wages attributable to such employee, and the period to which such back pay relates to be treated in the same way as a period of federal service attributable to such employee (thereby disqualifying such employee for receipt of state unemployment compensation).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Introduced in House
Health Insurance Freedom Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3450
Sponsor: Rep. Ellmers, Renee L. [R-NC-2]
Introduced: 2013-11-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: 
Health Insurance Freedom Act of 2013 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), with respect to the definition of a qualified health plan, to allow a health insurance issuer to offer coverage that: (1) provides the essential health benefits package required of a qualified health plan other than the minimum benefits required under the essential benefits and level of coverage requirements, and (2) meets federal and state benefit requirements as otherwise applied as of October 1, 2013, in the state in which the coverage is offered.
 
Makes such coverage ineligible: (1) for the premium assistance income tax credit or PPACA cost-sharing reductions; and (2) to be treated as a bronze, silver, gold, or platinum plan or be taken into account for purposes of determining the applicable second lowest cost silver plan.
 
Makes this Act's amendments effective as if they were included in the enactment of PPACA.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Introduced in House
FANS Act

Bill: 113-hr-3452
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-26]
Introduced: 2013-11-12 in the House
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Competition and antitrust
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Professional sports
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: 
Furthering Access and Networks for Sports Act or the FANS Act - Amends the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 to deny the antitrust exemption for joint agreements covering the telecasting of sports contests to any league of clubs participating in professional football, baseball, basketball, or hockey contests that does not: (1) expressly prohibit sponsored telecast licensees of such league, and any agreement with any video licensee, from intentionally removing the live content of such league from a multichannel video programming distributor when such removal occurs during, or is related to a negotiation regarding, carriage of the league's games by such distributor; or (2) make a sponsored telecast of a game that is played in the home territory of a member club available to consumers, using an Internet platform, in any territory in which the game is not available for private viewing through a local television broadcast station or any available multichannel video programming distributor. Repeals the exception that allows the antitrust exemption for such a joint agreement that prohibits televising games within the home territory of a member club on a day when such club is playing at home.
 
Amends the Clayton Act to: (1) subject the conduct, acts, practices, or agreements of persons in the business of organized professional major league baseball (currently, only such conduct, acts, practices, or agreements directly relating to or affecting employment of major league baseball players at the major league level) to the antitrust laws to the same extent that such conduct, acts, practices, or agreements engaged in by persons in any other professional sports business affecting interstate commerce are subject to such laws; and (2) repeal provisions granting only a major league baseball player standing to sue. Eliminates provisions specifying that such Act does not create, permit, or imply a cause of action by which to challenge under the antitrust laws: (1) the relationship between the Office of the Commissioner and franchise owners, the marketing or sales of the entertainment product of organized professional baseball, and the licensing of intellectual property rights owned or held by organized professional baseball teams; or (2) any conduct, acts, practices, or agreements protected by the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7062)
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Quality in the Unemployment Insurance Program (EQUIP) Act

Bill: 113-hr-3454
Sponsor: Rep. Kingston, Jack [R-GA-1]
Introduced: 2013-11-12 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: 
Ensuring Quality in the Unemployment Insurance Program (EQUIP) Act - Amends title III (Grants to States for Unemployment Compensation Administration) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require state unemployment compensation (UC) laws to require, as a condition of UC eligibility for a benefit year, an applicant, before receiving any UC, to: (1) complete a substance abuse risk assessment; and (2) test negative for controlled substances within one week after the results of such assessment if the state determines that the applicant is a high-risk. Prescribes retesting requirements and UC payment suspensions for applicants who test positive.
 
Amends SSA title XVIII (Medicare) and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide funding for such substance abuse testing out of current funds appropriated for the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) and, after application of those funds, for the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-11-12
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: 2013-11-12
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: 2013-11-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 201 East Pikes Peak Avenue in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as the "Chaplain (Capt.) Dale Goetz Memorial Post Office Building".

Bill: 113-hr-3455
Sponsor: Rep. Lamborn, Doug [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2013-11-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Colorado
Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Military personnel and dependents
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 201 East Pikes Peak Avenue in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as the "Chaplain (Capt.) Dale Goetz Memorial Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the enrollment of veterans in certain courses of education, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-3456
Sponsor: Rep. Schwartz, Allyson Y. [D-PA-13]
Introduced: 2013-11-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Higher education
National Guard and reserves
School administration
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) or a state approving agency from approving a program of education offered by an educational institution for purposes of an educational assistance program for veterans or members of the Selected Reserve or the Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces unless any such institution that administers a priority enrollment system allows an eligible veteran, member, or dependent to enroll in courses at the earliest possible time.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2013-11-12
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: 2013-11-12
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: 2013-11-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Introduced in House
To authorize an additional district judgeship for the district of Idaho.

Bill: 113-hr-3457
Sponsor: Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2]
Introduced: 2013-11-12 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Federal district courts
Idaho
Judges

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: 
Requires the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, one additional district judge for the district of Idaho.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Introduced in House
Article 32 Reform Act

Bill: 113-hr-3459
Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2013-11-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Evidence and witnesses
Military law

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: 
Article 32 Reform Act - Revises requirements relating to an Article 32 investigative hearing under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) to require a judge advocate to conduct a preliminary hearing prior to referring a charge or specification to a general court-martial for trial. Requires such judge advocate to have a grade equal to or higher than the grade of the trial counsel and any defense counsel who is representing the accused at the preliminary hearing. Limits the preliminary hearing to the purpose of determining whether there is probable cause to believe an offense has been committed and whether the accused committed it. 
 
Requires the judge advocate conducting the preliminary hearing to prepare a report which shall include: (1) determinations as to the court-martial jurisdiction over the offense and the accused and as to probable cause, (2) a consideration of the form of charges, and (3) a recommendation as to the disposition of the case.
 
Allows a victim of the alleged offense to decline to testify at the preliminary hearing. Requires the preliminary hearing to be recorded by a court reporter or by a suitable recording device. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7059-7060)
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Introduced in House
Education and Energy Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3460
Sponsor: Rep. Tipton, Scott  R. [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2013-11-12 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Energy revenues and royalties
Higher education
Mining

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: 
Education and Energy Act of 2013 - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to require a portion of the revenue deposited into the general fund of the Treasury from new mineral and geothermal leases to be provided to the states to supplement the education of students in kindergarten through grade 12 and to supplement public support of institutions of higher education.
 
Restricts the revenue from which that portion is to be derived to the revenue from new leases that is in excess of the Congressional Budget Office's previous estimate of the revenue that those leases would yield in a fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2013-11-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2013-11-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Introduced in House
Self-Insurance Protection Act

Bill: 113-hr-3462
Sponsor: Rep. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2013-11-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-13
text: 
Self-Insurance Protection Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the definition of &quot;health insurance coverage&quot; a stop loss policy obtained by a self-insured health plan or a plan sponsor of a group health plan that self-insures the health risks of its plan participants to reimburse the plan or sponsor for losses incurred in providing health or medical benefits to such plan participants in excess of a predetermined level set forth in the stop loss policy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-11-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-11-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-11-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-11-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-11-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-13
text: Introduced in House