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Redistricting and Voter Protection Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2756
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2013-07-19 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Congressional districts and representation
Intergovernmental relations
Judicial procedure and administration
Racial and ethnic relations
State and local government operations
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: 
Redistricting and Voter Protection Act of 2013 - Requires a state that enacts a congressional redistricting plan prior to the next decennial census and apportionment of Representatives to obtain a declaratory judgment or preclearance from the Attorney General that such plan does not have the purpose or effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color or in contravention of the guarantees of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to remove the exclusion from medical assistance under the Medicaid Program of items and services for patients in an institution for mental diseases.

Bill: 113-hr-2757
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2013-07-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Hospital care
Medicaid
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to repeal the exclusion from medical assistance under the Medicaid program of items and services for patients in an institution for mental diseases. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Introduced in House
Redistricting Reform Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2758
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-19]
Introduced: 2013-07-19 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Civil actions and liability
Congressional operations and organization
House of Representatives
Intergovernmental relations
Members of Congress
Public participation and lobbying
State and local courts
State and local finance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: 
Redistricting Reform Act of 2013 - Prohibits a state that has been redistricted after an apportionment from being redistricted again until after the next apportionment of Representatives, unless the state is ordered by a court to conduct such a subsequent redistricting in order to: (1) comply with the U.S. Constitution, or (2) enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
 
Requires such redistricting to be conducted according to: (1) a plan developed by the independent redistricting commission established in the state; or (2) if such plan is not enacted into law, the redistricting plan selected by the state's highest court or developed by a U.S. district court.
 
Provides for: (1) establishment by each state of an independent redistricting commission; (2) development by such commission of a redistricting plan; (3) submission of the plan to, and consideration and enactment of a plan by, the state legislature; (4) selection of a plan by the state's highest court or development of a plan by the U.S. district court, under specified conditions; (5) special rules for redistricting conducted under a federal court order; (6) Election Assistance Commission payments to states for carrying out redistricting; (7) civil enforcement to carry out this Act; and (8) the right of civil action for a person who is aggrieved by a violation of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Introduced in House
Teachers at the Table Act

Bill: 113-hr-2759
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2013-07-19 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Advisory bodies
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Performance measurement
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: 
Teachers at the Table Act - Amends title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to establish the Volunteer Teacher Advisory Committee to monitor the effects of such title in classrooms, with its focus solely on children and families.
 
Requires the Committee to be composed of a diverse group of public school classroom teachers who are past or present Teachers of the Year and have experience or training in data collection, analysis, and reporting.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Introduced in House
Panama Canal and Pan-Pacific Exhibition Centennial Celebration Act

Bill: 113-hr-2760
Sponsor: Rep. Pelosi, Nancy [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2013-07-19 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: California
Commemorative events and holidays
Currency
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Panama Canal
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: 
Panama Canal and Pan-Pacific Exhibition Centennial Celebration Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue in commemoration of the centennial of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition and the Panama Canal: (1) $5 octagonal gold coins, (2) $5 round gold coins, (3) $2.50 gold coins, (4) $1 gold coins, and (5) half-dollar silver coins. 
 
Urges that the coin designs be close likenesses of the five coins issued by the San Francisco Mint at the opening of the Pan-Pacific Exposition. 
 
 Prescribes design requirements.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to issue circulating clad half dollar coins, in the same design as for the half dollar silver coins. Limits the issue to five consecutive calendar years.
 
 Restricts the issuance of certain coins to the one-year period beginning on January 1, 2017.
 
Prescribes the sale price of the coins and coin surcharges. Requires such surcharges to be paid by the Secretary to the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society for the design and construction of appropriate exhibitions in the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Introduced in House
Presidential Appointment of FISA Court Judges Act

Bill: 113-hr-2761
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-28]
Introduced: 2013-07-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Judges
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Specialized courts

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: 
Presidential Appointment of FISA Court Judges Act - Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to require the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to publicly designate: (1) the 11 district court judges constituting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court with jurisdiction over applications for electronic surveillance, (2) the 3 judges of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, and (3) the presiding judges of such Courts. (Currently, such judges are designated by the Chief Justice.)
 
Permits existing FISA judges to complete their terms. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2013-07-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2013-07-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Introduced in House
Powering America for Tomorrow Act

Bill: 113-hr-2762
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2013-07-19 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Energy
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Public utilities and utility rates

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: 
Powering America for Tomorrow Act - Amends the Federal Power Act to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to designate one or more regions within the Eastern Interconnection and the Western Interconnection to be represented by specified regional transmission planners. 
 
Sets forth application and approval procedures for regional transmission planners. 
 
Prescribes: (1) a regional transmission plan design, and (2) a regional transmission planning process. 
 
Requires the federal power marketing administrations and transmitting utilities in a designated region to integrate their transmission plans with the regional transmission plans required under this Act, and to otherwise participate in a regional transmission planning process. 
 
Directs FERC to require that: (1) all regional high voltage electric transmission cost allocation processes and methodologies adhere to a clear and consistent set of specified regulatory principles, and (2) regional transmission planners coordinate planning across regional boundaries within an Interconnection. 
 
Authorizes a regional transmission planner, as part of a plan submitted to FERC, to identify regional transmission projects required by, and consistent with, the public convenience and necessity. 
 
Directs FERC, in issuing a certificate of public convenience and necessity, to give substantial deference to any proposed finding of public convenience and necessity in the plan submitted by a regional transmission planner. 
 
Excludes from review for any environmental assessment or environmental impact statement required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 any proposed finding by a regional transmission planner of public convenience and necessity with respect to a regional transmission project. 
 
Retains state exclusive authority over the siting of any transmission facility that is not a part of a regional transmission project. 
 
Specifies federal siting authority with respect to any transmission facility identified as part or all of a regional transmission project for which a certificate of public convenience and necessity has been issued. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Introduced in House
To reauthorize appropriations for the National Women's Rights History Project Act.

Bill: 113-hr-2763
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-25]
Introduced: 2013-07-19 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Department of the Interior
Executive agency funding and structure
Historic sites and heritage areas
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: 
Reauthorizes appropriations through FY2018 for the Votes for Women History Trail Route in the state of New York, the National Women's Rights History Project Registry, and the National Women's Rights History Project Partnership Network.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1102)
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Introduced in House
Sanctity of Life Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2764
Sponsor: Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36]
Introduced: 2013-07-19 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Abortion
Federal district courts
Jurisdiction and venue
State and local government operations
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: 
Sanctity of Life Act of 2013 - Declares that: (1) human life is deemed to exist from fertilization, without regard to race, sex, age, health, defect, or condition of dependency; and (2) &quot;person&quot; includes all such human life.
 
Recognizes that each state has a compelling interest in protecting the lives of those within the state's jurisdiction whom the state rationally regards as human beings. 
Amends the federal judicial code to remove Supreme Court and district court jurisdiction to review cases arising out of any statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, or practice, or any act interpreting such a measure on the grounds that such measure: (1) protects the rights of human persons between conception and birth; or (2) prohibits, limits, or regulates the performance of abortions or the provision of public funds, facilities, personnel, or other assistance for abortions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Introduced in House
Save Our Seasons Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2765
Sponsor: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2013-07-19 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Foreign labor
Temporary and part-time employment
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: 
Save Our Seasons Act of 2013 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require that wages paid to H-2B visa temporary nonagricultural workers shall be the greater of: (1) the actual wage level paid by the employer to other employees with similar experience and qualifications for such position, or (2) the prevailing wage level for the occupational classification of the position in the geographic area of the employment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Introduced in House
STOP Act

Bill: 113-hr-2766
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2013-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Financial services and investments
Intellectual property
Lawyers and legal services

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-22
text: 
 Stopping the Offensive Use of Patents Act or the STOP Act - Amends the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act to remove the eight-year sunset provision with respect to the transitional post-grant review program available to review the validity of covered business method patents, thereby making the program permanent.
 
Expands the term &quot;covered business method patent&quot; to include a patent that claims a method or corresponding apparatus for performing data processing or other operations used in the practice, administration, or management of any enterprise, product, or service, except technological inventions. (Current law limits the program to financial products or services.) 
 
Requires the Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) (the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property) to work with and support intellectual property law associations throughout the United States, within established pro bono programs, to assist financially under-resourced resellers, users, implementers, distributors, or customers of an allegedly infringing product or process.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
action_date: 2013-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Taxpayer Bill of Rights Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2768
Sponsor: Rep. Roskam, Peter J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2013-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Department of the Treasury
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Lawyers and legal services
Right of privacy
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-22
text: 
Taxpayer Bill of Rights Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to ensure that IRS employees are familiar with and act in accordance with taxpayer rights, including the right to be informed, to be assisted, to be heard, to pay no more than the correct amount of tax, to an appeal, to certainty, to privacy, to confidentiality, to representation, and to a fair and just tax system.

action_date: 2013-07-31
text: 
Taxpayer Bill of Rights Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to ensure that IRS employees are familiar with and act in accordance with taxpayer rights, including the right to be informed, to be assisted, to be heard, to pay no more than the correct amount of tax, to an appeal, to certainty, to privacy, to confidentiality, to representation, and to a fair and just tax system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5211)
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5211)
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2768.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5211-5212)
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Mr. Roskam moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2013-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Stop Playing on Citizens' Cash Act

Bill: 113-hr-2769
Sponsor: Rep. Roskam, Peter J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2013-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of the Treasury
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-22
text: 
Stop Playing on Citizen's Cash Act - Prohibits the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from holding any conference until the Inspector General for Tax Administration of the Department of the Treasury submits to Congress a report: (1) certifying that the IRS has implemented all recommendations set forth in the Inspector General's report titled "Review of the August 2010 Small Business/Self-Employed Division's Conference in Anaheim, California"; and (2) describing such implementation.
 
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: 
Stop Playing on Citizens' Cash Act - Prohibits the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from holding any conference until the Inspector General for Tax Administration of the Department of the Treasury submits to Congress a report certifying that the IRS has implemented all recommendations set forth in the Inspector General's report titled &quot;Review of the August 2010 Small Business/Self-Employed Division's Conference in Anaheim, California&quot; and describing such implementation.
 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5209)
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5209)
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2769.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5209-5211)
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Mr. Roskam moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended. (text: CR H5209)
action_date: 2013-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Pathways Back to Work Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2770
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-11]
Introduced: 2013-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Adult education and literacy
Disability and paralysis
Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Government trust funds
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local government operations
Unemployment
Vocational and technical education
Wages and earnings
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-22
text: 
Pathways Back to Work Act of 2013 - Establishes in the Treasury the Pathways Back to Work Fund, with an initial appropriation of $12.5 billion.
 
Requires the Secretary of Labor to make certain Fund allocations to states with approved plans, qualifying outlying areas (U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Republic of Palau), and Native American program grantees to provide: (1) subsidized employment to unemployed, low-income adults; and (2) summer and year-round employment opportunities to low-income youth.
 
Requires the Secretary to award competitive grants to local entities for work-based training and other work-related and educational strategies and activities of demonstrated effectiveness to provide unemployed, low-income adults and low-income youths with skills that will lead to employment.
 
Subjects activities funded under this Act to federal labor standards and nondiscrimination protections.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-22
text: Introduced in House