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Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

Bill: 113-s-942
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2013-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child care and development
Civil actions and liability
Employee hiring
Employee leave
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Sex and reproductive health
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Women's employment
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: 
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Declares it an unlawful employment practice for employers, employment agencies, labor organizations, and other specified entities to: (1) fail to make reasonable accommodations to known limitations related to the pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions of job applicants or employees, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on such an entity's business operation; (2) deny employment opportunities based on the need of the entity to make such reasonable accommodations; (3) require such job applicants or employees to accept an accommodation that they choose not to accept; or (4) require such employees to take leave if another reasonable accommodation can be provided to their known limitations. 
 
Sets forth enforcement procedures and remedies under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Congressional Accountability Act of 1995, Government Employee Rights Act of 1991, and the rights and protections extended to presidential offices.
 
Directs the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to issue regulations to carry out this Act, including the identification of reasonable accommodations addressing known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Growth to Excellence Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-943
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Mark [D-CO]
Introduced: 2013-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: 
Growth to Excellence Act of 2013 - Amends part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow states to measure student progress toward academic achievement standards using adaptive assessments that are computerized, aligned with grade-level academic content standards, and measure student growth above and below grade level.
 
Allows states, upon the Secretary of Education's approval, to adopt an alternative accountability model requiring their local educational agencies and public elementary and secondary schools to achieve adequate student growth toward college and career readiness standards.
 
Requires such states to: (1) adopt college and career ready academic content standards; (2) adopt college and career ready assessments that measure annual student growth in mathematics and reading or the language arts; (3) measure secondary school graduation rates; (4) assess at least two additional indicators of students' college or career readiness; and (5) provide a comprehensive system of accountability for schools that do not meet annual progress targets, which shall categorize schools based on student performance, include supports and consequences based on such categorization, and provide incentives for schools that consistently exceed such targets.
 
Requires an alternative accountability model to establish annual progress targets for each school that: (1) aim to reduce by half, in less than six years, the difference between the percentage of students (overall and in specified student subgroups) at the top performing schools who meet the college and career readiness standards or make adequate student growth, and the percentage of such students at each school that is not a top performing school; or (2) are calculated in another manner, but result in ambitious and achievable targets for students overall and in specified student subgroups.
 
Requires annual progress targets for secondary schools that aim to reduce by half, in less than six years, the difference between the percentage of students who graduate and 90%.
 
Describes what shall be considered adequate student growth toward college and career readiness standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Access to Quality Diabetes Education Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-945
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2013-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Drug therapy
Health promotion and preventive care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: 
Access to Quality Diabetes Education Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to recognize state-licensed or -registered certified diabetes educators or state-licensed or -registered health care professionals who specialize in teaching individuals with diabetes to develop the necessary skills and knowledge to manage the individual's diabetic condition and are certified as a diabetes educator by a recognized certifying body.
 
Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to study the barriers that exist for Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes in accessing diabetes self-management training services under the Medicare program.
 
Requires the Director of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop a series of recommendations on effective outreach methods to educate primary care physicians and other health care providers as well as the public about the benefits of diabetes self-management training. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
SAFE Act Confidentiality and Privilege Enhancement Act

Bill: 113-s-947
Sponsor: Sen. Hagan, Kay R. [D-NC]
Introduced: 2013-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Financial services and investments
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: 
SAFE Act Confidentiality and Privilege Enhancement Act - Amends the S.A.F.E. Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 to extend to state and federal regulatory officials having financial services oversight authority (currently only those having mortgage oversight authority) access to any information provided to the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry (or any system established by the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [CFPB]) without the loss of privilege or confidentiality protections provided by federal and state laws.
 

action_date: 2013-12-17
text: 

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

 
SAFE Act Confidentiality and Privilege Enhancement Act - Amends the S.A.F.E. Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 to extend to state and federal regulatory officials having financial services oversight authority (currently only those having mortgage oversight authority) access to any information provided to the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry (or any system established by the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [CFPB]) without the loss of privilege or confidentiality protections provided by federal and state laws.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-12-19
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2013-12-18
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2013-12-17
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S8917)
action_date: 2013-12-17
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S8917)
action_date: 2013-12-17
text: Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8817)
action_date: 2013-12-17
text: Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S8817)
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-948
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2013-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability and paralysis
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Government information and archives
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health technology, devices, supplies
Licensing and registrations
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases
Neurological disorders
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: 
Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover, as medical and other health services, complex rehabilitation technology items designed and configured for a specific qualified individual to meet that individual's unique: (1) medical, physical, and functional needs related to a medical condition; and (2) capacities for basic activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental ADLs.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) designate complex rehabilitation technology items (excluding adaptive equipment to operate motor vehicles or certain prosthetic devices and orthotics), and (2) establish eligibility criteria for them. 
 
Prescribes requirements for payments for CRT items. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish standards for clinical conditions for CRT item payment as well as quality standards for suppliers of such items.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a Healthcare Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) coding subset that uses specified HCPCS codes for CRT items.
 
Requires payment for replacement of a CRT item (or any part of one), without regard to certain continuous use or useful lifetime restrictions established for items of durable medical equipment (DME), if a qualified ordering practitioner determines that a replacement item (or part) is necessary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterinary Medicine Mobility Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-950
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2013-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Licensing and registrations
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: 
Veterinary Medicine Mobility Act of 2013 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to prohibit a veterinarian who is registered to manufacture or distribute controlled substances from being required to have a separate registration in order to transport and dispense controlled substances in the usual course of veterinary practice at a site other than such veterinarian's principal place of business or professional practice, as long as the dispensing site is located in a state where the veterinarian is licensed to practice.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
State Mineral Revenue Protection Act

Bill: 113-s-951
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2013-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alaska
Energy revenues and royalties
Intergovernmental relations
Mining
Oil and gas
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: 
State Mineral Revenue Protection Act - Amends the the Mineral Leasing Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior, on the request of a state (other than Alaska) and in lieu of any payments to the state under the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982, to convey to the state all right, title, and interest in and to 50% of all amounts otherwise required to be paid into the Treasury from sales, bonuses, royalties (including interest charges), and rentals for all public land or deposits located in the state. (Current law requires payment to a state of 50% of all money derived from such sales, bonuses, royalties, and rentals.)
 
Requires the Secretary to convey to Alaska, upon its request, all right, title, and interest in and to 90% of all such amounts otherwise required to be paid into the Treasury from sales, bonuses, royalties (including interest charges), and rentals for all public land or deposits located in Alaska.
 
Requires any person, after a conveyance under this Act, to pay directly to the state any amount the person owes for which the right, title, and interest has been conveyed to the state.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide prompt notice of any such conveyance, and the duty to make direct payments to the state involved, to each holder of a lease of public land to which this Act applies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Church Plan Clarification Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-952
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2013-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Federal preemption
Financial services and investments
Income tax deferral
Religion
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: 
Church Plan Clarification Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to declare that an organization otherwise eligible to participate in a church plan shall not be aggregated with another such organization and treated as a single employer with it unless: (1) one organization provides directly or indirectly at least 80% of the operating funds for the other one during the recipient organization's preceding tax year, and (2) there is a degree of common management or supervision between the organizations.
 
Preempts any state law relating to wage, salary, or payroll payment, collection, deduction, garnishment, assignment, or withholding which would directly or indirectly prohibit or restrict the inclusion in any church plan of an automatic contribution arrangement. 
 
Excludes from gross income for income tax purposes amounts attributable to transfers of and mergers of church plans that are maintained by the same church or convention or association of churches.
 
Allows church plans and their supporting organizations to invest plan assets in a group trust (as defined by Internal Revenue Service Revenue Rulings).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3433-3434)
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3433)
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Student Loan Affordability Act

Bill: 113-s-953
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2013-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Employee benefits and pensions
Foreign and international corporations
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government trust funds
Higher education
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Oil and gas
Pollution liability
Sales and excise taxes
Student aid and college costs
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: 
Student Loan Affordability Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend until June 30, 2015, existing interest rates for loans made to undergraduate students under the Federal Direct Stafford Loan program.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify rules for required distributions from tax-exempt pension plans to an employee who dies before such employee's entire interest is distributed to require such interest to be distributed within five years after the death of such employee, subject to exceptions for an eligible designated beneficiary and surviving spouse of such employee. Defines "eligible designated beneficiary" to include a disabled or chronically-ill individual. Exempts from such modification a binding annuity contract in effect on the enactment date of this Act.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) limit the deductibility of interest payments made by a corporation which is an expatriated entity to a related person; (2) expand the definition of "crude oil" for purposes of the excise tax on petroleum to include crude oil condensates, natural gasoline, any bitumen or bituminous mixture, and any oil derived from a bitumen or bituminous mixture; (3) eliminate the requirement that such crude oil be produced in a well located in the United States; and (4) make permanent the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund financing rate. 
 
Exempts the budgetary effects of this Act from the requirements of specified PAYGO scorecards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Cloture on the motion to proceed to measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 46. Record Vote Number: 143. (consideration: CR S3977-3978)
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to measure presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S3949; text: CR S3949)
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure, by unanimous consent, made in Senate. (consideration: CR S3949)
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 74.
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Family Health Care Accessibility Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-955
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2013-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Government liability
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: 
Family Health Care Accessibility Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to deem a health professional volunteer providing primary health care to an individual at a community health center to be an employee of the Public Health Service for purposes of any civil action that may arise from providing services to patients. Sets forth conditions for such liability protection, including: (1) the service is provided to the individual at a community health center or through offsite programs or events carried out by such center; and (2) the health care practitioner does not receive any compensation for providing the service, except repayment for reasonable expenses.
 
Considers an entity as sponsoring the health care practitioner if the entity submits an application to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Secretary determines that the health care practitioner is deemed to be an employee of the Public Health Service.
 
Requires the Attorney General to submit to Congress an estimate of the amount of claims (together with related fees and expenses of witnesses) that, by reason of the actions or omissions of health professional volunteers, will be paid pursuant to this Act annually. Requires the Secretary to transfer such estimated amount from the claims fund to the appropriate accounts in the Treasury, subject to the extent of amounts in the fund.
 
Makes this Act effective on October 1, 2013. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to permanently suspend application of certain agricultural price support authority.

Bill: 113-s-956
Sponsor: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2013-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: 
Suspends specified agricultural price support authorities under: (1) the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 with regard to covered commodities, peanuts, sugar, and milk; (2) the Agricultural Act of 1949 with regard to covered commodities, peanuts, sugar, and milk; and (3) a certain quota resolution with regard to wheat.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
BEER Act

Bill: 113-s-958
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Mark [D-CO]
Introduced: 2013-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alcoholic beverages
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: 
Brewers Excise and Economic Relief Act of 2013 or the BEER Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) reduce from $18 to $9 (the pre-1991 level) the per-barrel tax on beer; and (2) further reduce the rate of such tax on brewers who produce not more than 2 million barrels of beer during the calendar year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-961
Sponsor: Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO]
Introduced: 2013-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: 
Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to deem a hospital or an emergency department and a physician or physician group of such hospital or emergency department to be an employee of the Public Health Service for purposes of any civil action that may arise due to providing emergency and post-stabilization services on or after January 1, 2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
IRS Accountability Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-962
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2013-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Appropriations
Comprehensive health care
Department of the Treasury
Executive agency funding and structure
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: 
IRS Accountability Act of 2013 - Amends the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 to prohibit any amounts made available in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 from being appropriated to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for purposes of carrying out such Acts. 
 
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) none of the amounts made available in PPACA or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 should be appropriated to the IRS to carry out any provisions of such Acts in FY2014 or thereafter; and (2) no amounts appropriated to the IRS, from whatever source, for FY2014 or thereafter should be used to implement, enforce, or carry out the provisions of such Acts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate