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A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude payments received under the Work Colleges Program from gross income, including payments made from institutional funds.

Bill: 113-s-2525
Sponsor: Sen. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL]
Introduced: 2014-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax exclusion
Student aid and college costs
Wages and earnings
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income payments received by a student under a comprehensive work-learning-service program operated by a work college. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Commonsense Legislative Exceptional Events Reforms Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2526
Sponsor: Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2014-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Atmospheric science and weather
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: 
Commonsense Legislative Exceptional Events Reforms Act of 2014 - Amends the Clean Air Act to revise the requirements for regulations that govern the review and handling of air quality monitoring data influenced by exceptional events. (The Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] may exclude monitored exceedances of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards from consideration when designating an area as nonattainment, redesignating an area as nonattainment, or reclassifying an existing nonattainment area to a higher classification if a state demonstrates that an exceptional event caused the exceedances.)
 
 Requires the criteria used to determine if an exceptional event was demonstrated to be specific in order to minimize the discretion of the EPA in approving or disapproving the demonstration.
 
 Requires the EPA to make a determination within 90 days after the submission of a petition by a state of an exceptional event demonstration. Considers the demonstration approved if the EPA does not make a determination by that deadline.
 
 Requires a determination to be based on a preponderance of the evidence and to accord substantial deference to the findings of the state exceptional event demonstration. Establishes an appeal process for reviewing a disapproval of a demonstration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3900-3901)
Summer Meals Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2527
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2014-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: 
Summer Meals Act of 2014 - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to redefine &quot;areas in which poor economic conditions exist,&quot; where the summer food service program for children may operate, as areas in which at least 40% (currently, 50%) of the children have been determined to be eligible for free or reduced price school meals under the school lunch and breakfast programs.
 
Reimburses service institutions (other than school food authorities) for up to one meal and one snack per child each day during after-school hours, weekends, and school holidays during the regular school calendar. (Currently, such institutions are reimbursed for meals and snacks served to children over the summer months or to children who are on vacation under a continuous school calendar.)
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to award competitive grants to service institutions to increase participation in the summer food service program for children at congregate feeding sites through innovative approaches to limited transportation and mobile meal trucks.
 
Allows service institutions that are participating in the summer food service program for children to serve up to three meals, or two meals and one snack, during each day of operation. (Currently, this option is reserved for camps and service institutions that serve meals primarily to migrant children.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Strengthening Investigations of Missing Children Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2528
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2014-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: 
Strengthening Investigations of Missing Children Act of 2014 - Amends the federal judicial code to authorize the United States Marshals Service to assist state, local, and other federal law enforcement agencies, upon request, in locating and recovering missing children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
PLAQ Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2530
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2014-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Lakes and rivers
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: 
Protecting Lakes Against Quaggas Act of 2014 or the PLAQ Act of 2014 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit the importation into or shipment within the United States of the species of mussels of the genus Dreissena (thus covering quagga mussels). (Currently, the prohibition applies to only the zebra mussel of the species Dreissena polymorpha.) 
 
Makes this Act inapplicable to: (1) the importation or transportation of prohibited species through the operation of a public water system or a related facility, or (2) the possession or conveyance of water supplies containing such species by a public water system operator.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-16
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works Senate Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-772.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Better Options for Kids Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2531
Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2014-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Elementary and secondary education
Health programs administration and funding
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Mental health
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: 
Better Options for Kids Act of 2014 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, in awarding priority mental health needs grants to programs for youth involved in, or at risk of becoming involved in, the criminal justice system, to give preference to states that: (1) demonstrate greater educational continuity, lower rates of juvenile court involvement, and reduced recidivism through implementation of certain evidence-based policies; (2) demonstrate partnerships through which the state will establish a coordinated process for service delivery and develop the ability to share information and which involve interagency agreements or strategic plans; and (3) have certified a commitment to such partnerships and to the state's responsibility for the desired results. Terminates such grant preference five years after enactment of this Act.
 
Requires a state, to receive such preference, to demonstrate that it has implemented, or will use grant funds to implement, evidence-based policies under which the state:
 
 
 provides or funds training for local educational agencies (LEAs) in the use of discipline and positive school climate strategies that minimize the use of suspensions, expulsions, and other actions that remove students from instruction and that show evidence of effectiveness for improving the learning environment;
 
requires or provides incentives to LEAs to execute with any law enforcement agency that assigns officers to schools a collaborative agreement that prohibits the involvement of such officers in regular student disciplinary matters and describes their roles and responsibilities;
 
prohibits or limits court referrals for juvenile school-based status offenses;
 
has shifted, or has a plan to shift, significant funding formerly dedicated to secure detention of minors into community-based alternatives to incarceration; and
 
has adopted, or will adopt, a reentry policy to ensure that youth in correctional facilities can continue their education immediately and without delay upon release by providing for prompt re-enrollment.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Agency PAYGO for Greenhouse Gases Act

Bill: 113-s-2533
Sponsor: Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2014-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: 
Agency PAYGO for Greenhouse Gases Act - Requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to include an offset in any proposed rule that limits greenhouse gas emissions and imposes increased costs on other agencies. Requires the offset to be from funds available to the EPA and for all projected increased costs imposed on other agencies. 
 
Prohibits agencies from passing on the cost imposed by the rule on to any rate payer of the agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Freedom From Union Violence Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2535
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2014-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against property
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Labor-management relations
Organized crime
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: 
Freedom From Union Violence Act of 2014 - Amends the Hobbs Act to exempt from provisions that prohibit obstructing, delaying, or affecting commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce by robbery or extortion and threatening physical violence to any person or property in furtherance of a plan or purpose to interfere with commerce by threats or violence, any conduct that: (1) is incidental to otherwise peaceful picketing during the course of a labor dispute; (2) consists solely of minor bodily injury, or minor damage to property, or threat or fear of such minor injury or damage; and (3) is not part of a pattern of violent conduct or of coordinated violent activity. Subjects such conduct to prosecution only by the appropriate state and local authorities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate
SAVE Act

Bill: 113-s-2536
Sponsor: Sen. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL]
Introduced: 2014-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Child safety and welfare
Civil actions and liability
Crime victims
Crimes against children
Department of Justice
Domestic violence and child abuse
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Marketing and advertising
Pornography
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: 
Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation Act of 2014 or the SAVE Act - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit: (1) knowingly selling, commercially promoting, placing, or maintaining an adult advertisement (an advertisement designed to induce a commercial exchange for a sexual act or sexual contact, sexually explicit conduct, a commercial sex act, or the goods or services of an adult escort or erotic performer involving such a commercial exchange) in a medium whose predominant purpose is to facilitate commercial transactions; and (2) acting with reckless disregard of the fact that an adult advertisement facilitates an offense of sex trafficking of children or by force, fraud, or coercion in which the victim was under age 18 or an offense in violation of a state law prohibiting felony offenses relating to child pimping, child prostitution, child sexual abuse, assault on children, or the sex trafficking of children.
 
Shields from liability under such prohibition an Internet access service provider, browser provider, common carrier, telecommunications carrier, or other generic search or utility provider solely based on providing generic search or utility services. 
 
Requires anyone selling, commercially promoting, or placing an adult advertisement to: (1) verify the identity of each person purchasing advertisement space for, and each person depicted in, such advertisement; (2) verify that each person whose goods or services are advertised is not under age 18; (3) create and maintain individually identifiable records pertaining to each such person for at least seven years; and (4) affix to each adult advertisement a statement describing where such records may be located
 
Sets civil and criminal penalties (including forfeiture) for violations of this Act.
 
Sets forth increased penalties for failure by an electronic communication service provider or a remote computing service provider to report apparent violations of provisions regarding sexual abuse of children and child pornography, with reckless disregard of the requirement to make such report.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Red River Private Property Protection Act

Bill: 113-s-2537
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2014-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Lakes and rivers
Land transfers
Oklahoma
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: 
Red River Private Property Protection Act - Directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to relinquish and transfer, by quitclaim deed, all interest of the United States in and to the lands along the approximately 539-mile stretch of the Red River between Texas and Oklahoma to any claimant who demonstrates that official county or state records indicate that such claimant holds all interest to those lands. 
 
Requires publication in the Federal Register and on official and appropriate websites of a process for receiving submissions of such documents.
 
Instructs BLM to ensure that no parcels of Red River lands are treated as federal land for the purpose of any resource management plan until the Secretary of the Interior has ensured that such parcels are not subject to transfer by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4156)
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Viral Hepatitis Testing Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2538
Sponsor: Sen. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL]
Introduced: 2014-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medical education
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: 
Viral Hepatitis Testing Act of 2014 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to carry out surveillance, education, and testing programs with respect to hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV) virus infections.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a national system with respect to HBV and HCV to: (1) determine the prevalence of such infections; (2) carry out testing programs to increase the number of individuals who are aware of their infection; (3) disseminate public information and education programs for the detection and control of such infections; (4) improve the training of health professionals in the detection, control, and treatment of such infections; and (5) provide referrals for counseling and medical treatment and ensure the provision of follow-up services. Directs the Secretary to determine the populations that are considered at high risk.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish and support public-private partnerships that facilitate such HBV and HCV surveillance, education, screening, testing, and linkage to care programs.
 
Requires the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to convene the Preventive Services Task Force every three years to review its recommendation for HBV and HCV screening. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Patriot Employer Tax Credit Act

Bill: 113-s-2540
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2014-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Employee benefits and pensions
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Labor standards
Taxation of foreign income
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: 
Patriot Employer Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a Patriot employer a business-related tax credit for up to 10% of the first $15,000 of wages paid to any employee in a taxable year. Sets forth criteria for designation as a Patriot employer, including requirements that such employer: (1) maintains its headquarters in the United States and does not expatriate to avoid payment of U.S. income taxes, (2) complies with the employer mandate to provide minimum essential health care coverage to its employees under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, (3) compensates at least 90% of its employees at a level that is 150% of the federal poverty level for a family of three and provides 90% of its employees with a basic level of retirement benefits, (4) provides for differential wage payments to its employees who are members of the Uniformed Services, and (5) increases the number of its employees performing substantially all of their services inside the United States to offset the number of employees who work outside the United States. 
 
Sets forth a rule for the deferral of the tax deduction for foreign-related interest expense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4156-4158)
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Competitive Service Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2541
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2014-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employee hiring
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: 
Competitive Service Act of 2014 - Authorizes an appointing authority (i.e., a federal agency appointing an individual to a position in the competitive service) other than the appointing authority that requested the certificate of eligibles for filling a position in the competitive service to select an individual from that certificate for appointment to a position that is: (1) in the same occupational series as the position for which the certification of eligibles was issued, and (2) at a similar grade level as the original position. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to clarify the effect of State statutes of repose on the required commencement date for actions under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.

Bill: 113-s-2542
Sponsor: Sen. Hagan, Kay R. [D-NC]
Introduced: 2014-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Federal preemption
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Pollution liability
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: 
Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) to preempt a state statute of repose for actions brought under state law for personal injury or property damages caused from or contributed to by exposure to any hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant, if the state statute provides a commencement date that is earlier than the federally required commencement date. (Currently, CERCLA preempts state statutes of limitations, which limit the amount of time a lawsuit can commence from the time the contamination is discovered. The Supreme Court ruled in 
CTS Corp. v. Waldburger
 that North Carolina's statute of repose was not preempted by CERCLA. That statute of repose limits the amount of time a lawsuit can commence to 10 years from the defendant's last action, regardless of when the contamination is discovered.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate