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Restoring Storey County Act

Bill: 113-hr-1167
Sponsor: Rep. Amodei, Mark E. [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Nevada

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Restoring Storey County Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to convey to Storey County, Nevada, all surface rights of the United States in specified federal land, including any improvements.
 
Makes the BLM responsible for all costs associated with such conveyance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-03
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Naval Air Station Fallon Housing and Safety Development Act

Bill: 113-hr-1169
Sponsor: Rep. Amodei, Mark E. [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Military facilities and property
Nevada

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Naval Air Station Fallon Housing and Safety Development Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer to the Secretary of the Navy, without consideration, approximately 400 acres of federal land that is adjacent to Naval Air Station Fallon in Churchill County, Nevada, and that was withdrawn under a specified public land order. 

action_date: 2013-06-17
text: 
Naval Air Station Fallon Housing and Safety Development Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer to the Secretary of the Navy, without consideration, approximately 400 acres of federal land that is adjacent to Naval Air Station Fallon in Churchill County, Nevada, and that was withdrawn under a specified public land order. 
 
Prohibits anything in this Act from being construed as: (1) establishing a reservation that favors the United States respecting any water or water right on lands transferred by this Act, or (2) authorizing the appropriation of water on such lands except in accordance with applicable state law.
 
Withdraws the federal land to be transferred under this Act from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including the mining laws and geothermal leasing laws, so long as such land remains under the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-17
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 79.
action_date: 2013-06-17
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-111.
action_date: 2013-06-17
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-111.
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Discharged.
action_date: 2013-04-26
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent the payment of unemployment compensation to individuals discharged for drug or alcohol use.

Bill: 113-hr-1172
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny payment of unemployment compensation to employees who are discharged from employment for: (1) being under the influence of, or consuming or otherwise using, alcohol or any controlled substance while performing services for an employer; (2) possessing any controlled substance on the premises of an employer; (3) refusing a request to take a drug test; or (4) testing positive for illegal use of a controlled substance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E305)
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Personalize Your Care Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1173
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Personalize Your Care Act of 2013 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to cover a Voluntary Advance Care Planning Consultation.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to eligible entities to: (1) establish statewide programs for physician orders for life-sustaining treatment, or (2) expand or enhance existing programs for physician orders for life-sustaining treatment. 
 
Directs the Secretary to adopt, by rule, standards for a qualified electronic health record, with respect to patient communications with a health care provider about values and goals of care, to adequately display the patient's current: (1) advance directive, and/or (2) physician order for life-sustaining treatment.
 
Requires under Medicare and Medicaid that an advance directive validly executed outside the state in which the directive is presented must be given effect by a service provider or an organization to the same extent as an advance directive validly executed under the law of the state in which it is presented. Requires that, in the absence of a validly executed advance directive, any authentic expression of a person's wishes with respect to health care be honored.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-03-14
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: 2013-03-14
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: 2013-03-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E300)
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
FRESHER Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1175
Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural practices and innovations
Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Licensing and registrations
Oil and gas
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Focused Reduction of Effluence and Stormwater runoff through Hydrofracking Environmental Regulation Act of 2013 or the FRESHER Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to repeal provisions prohibiting the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from requiring or directing a state to require a permit under the national pollutant discharge elimination system for discharges of stormwater runoff from mining, oil, and gas operations or transmission facilities composed entirely of flows from conveyances used for collecting and conveying precipitation runoff that are not contaminated by contact with any overburden, raw material, intermediate products, finished product, byproduct, or waste products located on the site of such operations. 
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to study and report on stormwater impacts with respect to any area that may be contaminated by stormwater runoff associated with oil or gas operations, including an analysis of: (1) measurable contamination in such area, (2) ground water resources in such area, and (3) the susceptibility of aquifers in such area to contamination from stormwater runoff associated with such operations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Centennial Monetary Commission Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1176
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Federal Reserve System
Government studies and investigations
Inflation and prices
Monetary policy

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Centennial Monetary Commission Act of 2013 - Establishes the Centennial Monetary Commission to: (1) examine how U.S. monetary policy since the creation of the Federal Reserve Board in 1913 has affected the performance of the U.S. economy in terms of output, employment, prices, and financial stability over time; (2) evaluate various operational regimes under which the Board and the Federal Open Market Committee may conduct monetary policy in terms achieving the maximum sustainable level of output and employment and price stability over the long term; and (3) recommend a course for U.S. monetary policy going forward.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act

Bill: 113-hr-1177
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-24]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Crime prevention
Crimes against women
Domestic violence and child abuse
Evidence and witnesses
Firearms and explosives

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to modify the definition of: (1) &quot;intimate partner&quot; to include a dating partner or former dating partner of a person (replacing language including an individual who cohabitates or has cohabitated with the person); and (2) &quot;misdemeanor crime of domestic violence&quot; to include an offense that has, as an element, the use of physical force or a deadly weapon by a dating partner or former dating partner.
 
Extends the prohibition against the shipment, transport, possession, or receipt of a firearm or ammunition in interstate or foreign commerce to: (1) a person who is subject to a court order issued after a hearing (eliminating the requirements that the person received actual notice of and had an opportunity to participate in the hearing) with respect to a court order restraining the person from harassing, stalking, threatening, or placing in reasonable fear of bodily injury an intimate partner, a child of such intimate partner or person, a family member even if such member had never cohabited with such person, an individual who cohabitates or has cohabitated with the person, or an elderly or dependent adult; (2) a person restrained by a court order issued at the request of an employer on behalf of its employee or at the request of an institution of higher education on behalf of its student; and (3) a court order that restrains such a person from intimidating or dissuading a witness from testifying in court.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Creating Access to Residency Education Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1178
Sponsor: Rep. Castor, Kathy [D-FL-14]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Creating Access to Residency Education Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to make grants to or contracts with eligible partnerships between state or local governments and private entities to support the creation of new medical residency training programs or slots within existing programs in underserved states in which there is a low physician-resident-to-general-population ratio.
 
Requires any partnership to consist of: (1) a state with fewer than 25 medical residents per 100,000 population or a local government within such a state, and (2) a public or nonprofit teaching hospital or an accredited graduate medical education (GME) training program.
 
Directs the Administrator in any grant or contract to require matching funds consisting of: (1) a public or private entity contribution of one-third of the cost of the medical residency program or new slots in an existing program, (2) a state or local government contribution of one-third, and (3) a CMS contribution of one-third.
 
Requires the Administrator in awarding grants and contracts to give preference to eligible partnerships: (1) in which the participating state has 20 or fewer medical residents per 100,000 population or the participating local government is within such a state, (2) in which the state involved has a population over 15 million and less than 10% percent of the nation's residency slots, or (3) which fund new GME programs or slots within existing programs in the field of family medicine, internal medicine and its subspecialties, geriatrics, or pediatrics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1179
Sponsor: Rep. Courtney, Joe [D-CT-2]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to deem an individual receiving outpatient observation services in a hospital to be an inpatient with respect to satisfying the three-day inpatient hospital requirement in order to entitle the individual to Medicare coverage of any post-hospital extended care services in a skilled nursing facility (SNF).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1180
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Hospital care
Medical education
Medicare
Minority employment
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to distribution of additional resident positions as they affect calculation of payments for direct graduate medical education (DGME) costs.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), for each of FY2015-FY2019 (and each succeeding fiscal year if additional residency positions are available to distribute), to increase the otherwise applicable resident limit for each qualifying hospital.
 
Directs the Secretary to determine the total number of additional residency positions available for distribution, in accordance with guidelines for allocating 33% to hospitals already operating over the resident limit, and generally setting the aggregate number of increases in the resident limit to 3,000 in each year.
 
Specifies the process for distributing positions.
 
Declares that, for discharges occurring on or after July 1, 2015, the indirect teaching adjustment factor, with respect to additional payments for subsection (d) hospitals with indirect costs of medical education (IME), insofar as those additional payments are attributable to resident positions distributed to a hospital according to such process, shall be computed in a specified manner with respect to those resident positions.
 
(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.) 
Directs the National Health Care Workforce Commission established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to study the physician workforce.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study strategies for increasing the diversity of the health profession workforce.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Sequestration of Pay for Members of Congress Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1181
Sponsor: Rep. DeSantis, Ron [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Sequestration of Pay for Members of Congress Act of 2013 - Reduces the annual rate of pay for each Member of Congress for pay periods after the November 2014 federal general election by 8.2% of the applicable rate in effect for the most recent pay period before such election.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2013-03-14
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Stopping Needless Additional Performance Bonuses (SNAP) Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1182
Sponsor: Rep. DesJarlais, Scott [R-TN-4]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food assistance and relief
Intergovernmental relations
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Stopping Needless Additional Performance Bonuses (SNAP) Act of 2013 - Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to repeal the authority to make performance-based bonus payments to states under the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, and Nutrition.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Southern Arizona Public Lands Protection Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1183
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Land use and conservation
Mining

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Southern Arizona Public Lands Protection Act of 2013 - Withdraws federal lands and interests located in Pima and Santa Cruz Counties, Arizona, as well as all federally owned subsurface interests under the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in lands in Pima County, from: (1) all forms of entry, appropriation, and disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) operation of the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws, and the mineral materials laws.
 
Withdraws all federally owned interests in BLM lands in Pima County from entry, location, or patent under the general mining laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House