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To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that every military chaplain has the prerogative to close a prayer outside of a religious service according to the dictates of the chaplain's own conscience.

Bill: 113-hr-343
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2013-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents
Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: 
Authorizes a military chaplain, if called upon to lead a prayer outside of a religious service, to close the prayer according to the dictates of the chaplain's conscience.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in House
Competitive Health Insurance Act

Bill: 113-hr-344
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2013-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Competition and antitrust
Health care costs and insurance
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: 
Competitive Health Insurance Act - Amends the McCarran-Ferguson Act to provide that nothing in that Act shall modify, impair, or supersede the operation of any of the antitrust laws with respect to the business of health insurance.
 
Applies prohibitions against using unfair methods of competition to the business of health insurance without regard to whether such business is carried on for profit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in House
District of Columbia Budget Autonomy Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-345
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Congressional oversight
District of Columbia
Intergovernmental relations
Public contracts and procurement
State and local finance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: 
District of Columbia Budget Autonomy Act of 2013 - Amends the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to eliminate, with respect to each fiscal year that is not a control year, all federally-imposed mandates over the District of Columbia's: (1) local budget process, financial management, audits, and accountability requirements; and (2) short-term borrowing of money, with specified exceptions.
 
Declares that the process by which the District develops and enacts the District government's budget for a fiscal year, the activities carried out regarding financial management of the District government, and the process and rules by which the District issues bonds or otherwise borrows money shall be established under laws enacted by the District.
 
Provides that Acts adopting the District government's annual budget for FY2014 and succeeding non-control fiscal years shall take effect upon their prescribed dates. (Thus eliminates congressional review of such Acts).
 
Repeals the federal cap on amounts the District may borrow (other than in a control year).
 
Repeals the application of the Federal Anti-Deficiency Act to the District government. Makes conforming amendments to the Act.
 
Makes conforming amendments to the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E48)
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in House
SAFE Act

Bill: 113-hr-346
Sponsor: Rep. Nunnelee, Alan [R-MS-1]
Introduced: 2013-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Comprehensive health care
Federal preemption
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: 
Stop Abortion Funding in Multi-state Exchange Plans Act or SAFE Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in entering into contracts with health insurance issuers, to ensure that no multi-state qualified health plan offered in a health benefit exchange provides coverage of abortion. Excepts from such limitation: (1) a pregnancy that results from rape or incest; or (2) a case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, injury, or illness that would place the her in danger of death unless an abortion is performed, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself.
 
Preempts any state law requiring coverage of or funding for abortions in multi-state health plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in House
21st Century Readiness Act

Bill: 113-hr-347
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2013-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Performance measurement
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: 
21st Century Readiness Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to support 21st century readiness initiatives that fuse core academic subject knowledge and higher-order thinking skills (such as critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation) to ensure that students are prepared for postsecondary education and careers, upon graduation from secondary school. 
 
Amends title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the ESEA to require the Secretary of Education, as part of the national assessment of title I programs, to examine the extent to which such initiatives improve student readiness for postsecondary education and careers. 
 
Includes 21st century readiness initiatives in comprehensive school reform programs and school dropout prevention and reentry programs under title I.
 
Amends title II (Preparing, Training, and Recruiting High Quality Teachers and Principals) of the ESEA to require high-quality professional development programs to incorporate an aligned system of teaching and learning that includes 21st century skills (such as critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation), standards, curriculum, instruction, and assessments.
 
Requires local educational agencies to use title II subgrants to enable educators to deliver instruction on higher-order thinking skills and use the latest available technology in doing so. 
 
Amends title IV (21st Century Schools) of the ESEA to include 21st century readiness initiatives in 21st Century Community Learning Center activities. (21st Century Community Learning Centers provide students with before and after school programs to improve their academic performance.)
 
Amends title VI (Flexibility and Accountability) of the ESEA to allow assessment grants to be used by states to develop or improve assessments that use technology to measure core academic subject knowledge and higher-order thinking skills to ensure that students can apply a range of skill competencies alongside core academic subject knowledge, and do so in real-world contexts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E45)
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in House
Narrowing Exceptions for Withholding Taxes Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-348
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-13]
Introduced: 2013-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment taxes
Service industries
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: 
Narrowing Exceptions for Withholding Taxes Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Benefits) of the Social Security Act to require a shareholder of a subchapter S corporation engaged in a professional service business to include all items of income or loss attributable to such business in determining such shareholder's net earnings from self-employment for purposes of computing employment tax liability.
 
Defines a "professional service business" as any trade or business substantially all of the activities of which involve providing services in the fields of health, law, lobbying, engineering, architecture, accounting, actuarial science, performing arts, consulting, athletics, investment advice or management, or brokerage services. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in House
Preserving Marginal Lands and Protecting Farming Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-349
Sponsor: Rep. Roby, Martha [R-AL-2]
Introduced: 2013-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Farmland
Floods and storm protection
Forests, forestry, trees
Land use and conservation
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: 
Preserving Marginal Lands and Protecting Farming Act of 2013 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to set the maximum number of acres that may be enrolled at any one time in the conservation reserve program (CRP) at: (1) 29 million acres for FY2013, (2) 26 million acres for FY2014, and (3) 26 million acres for each of FY2015 through FY2018.
 
Prohibits the enrollment of land in the conservation reserve that is classified as class I or class II land under the National Soil Survey Handbook's land capability classification system unless such land is enrolled as a buffer, filterstrip, or strip adjacent to a riparian area.
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), during FY2014, to permit a participant that entered into a CRP contract to terminate the contract at any time if the contract has been in effect for at least five years. 
 
Revises the types of land that are not subject to early contract termination.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the Legal Services Corporation Act.

Bill: 113-hr-350
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Austin [R-GA-8]
Introduced: 2013-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Executive agency funding and structure
Lawyers and legal services
Legal Services Corporation
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: 
Repeals the Legal Services Corporation Act (established a federally funded nonprofit corporation to provide financial support for legal assistance in noncriminal matters to persons financially unable to afford such assistance).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-351
Sponsor: Rep. Roe, David P. [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Health care costs and insurance
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2013 - Repeals sections of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care (PPACA) (and restores provisions of law amended by such sections) related to the establishment of an Independent Payment Advisory Board to develop and submit detailed proposals to reduce the per capita rate of growth in Medicare spending to the President for Congress to consider.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Rules, 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: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Rules, 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: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Rules, 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: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Tax Code Termination Act

Bill: 113-hr-352
Sponsor: Rep. Goodlatte, Bob [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economic performance and conditions
Employment taxes
Financial services and investments
Income tax rates
Legislative rules and procedure
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax reform and tax simplification
Tax treatment of families

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
Tax Code Termination Act - Terminates the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 after December 31, 2017, except for self-employment taxes, Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) taxes, and railroad retirement taxes. Requires a two-thirds majority vote in Congress to change such termination date.
 
Declares that any new federal tax system should be a simple and fair system that: (1) applies a low rate to all Americans, (2) provides tax relief for working Americans, (3) protects the rights of taxpayers and reduces tax collection abuses, (4) eliminates the bias against savings and investment, (5) promotes economic growth and job creation, and (6) does not penalize marriage or families.
 
Requires that the new federal tax system be approved by Congress in its final form by July 4, 2017.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2013-01-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E50)
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to implement a program to prevent the fraudulent use of taxpayer identification numbers of residents of United States territories and possessions to be used to obtain a credit or refund on tax returns filed with the United States.

Bill: 113-hr-353
Sponsor: Rep. Dent, Charles W. [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: American Samoa
Caribbean area
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Guam
Income tax credits
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to implement a program to prevent the fraudulent use of taxpayer identification numbers of residents of U.S. territories and possessions to obtain federal tax refunds or credits. Requires the program to include a comparison of all income tax returns filed with the United States and any U.S. territory or possession under the same taxpayer identification number. 
 
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Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
To increase the statutory limit on the public debt only upon the certification by the President of the submission to the States for their ratification of the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States to balance the Federal Budget or limit Federal spending.

Bill: 113-hr-355
Sponsor: Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Constitution and constitutional amendments

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
Increases the current public debt limit from $14.294 trillion to $16.994 trillion after the President certifies and submits to the states for ratification a joint resolution entitled:
 
 
 &quot;Joint resolution proposing a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution,&quot;
 
&quot;Joint resolution proposing a spending limit amendment to the U.S. Constitution,&quot; or 
 
&quot;Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to restrict the power of Congress to enact legislation increasing any amount spent under entitlement programs or creating new entitlement programs.&quot;



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Strategic Response to Asian Carp Invasion Act

Bill: 113-hr-358
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Congressional oversight
Fishes
Lakes and rivers
Mississippi River
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
Strategic Response to Asian Carp Invasion Act - Requires the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), in coordination with the Army Corps of Engineers, the National Park Service (NPS), and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), to lead a multiagency effort to slow the spread of Asian Carp in the Upper Mississippi and Ohio River basins and tributaries by providing high-level technical assistance, coordination, best practices, and support to state and local government strategies, to slow, and eventually eliminate, the threat posed by such carp. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Center to Advance, Monitor, and Preserve University Security Safety Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-359
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Crime prevention
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Justice
Education programs funding
Emergency planning and evacuation
Executive agency funding and structure
First responders and emergency personnel
Higher education
Law enforcement administration and funding
Mental health
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
Center to Advance, Monitor, and Preserve University Security Safety Act of 2013 or the CAMPUS Safety Act of 2013 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to establish and operate, within the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, a National Center for Campus Public Safety.
 
Tasks the Center with strengthening the safety and security of institutions of higher education (IHEs) by: (1) training IHE public safety personnel and their collaborative partners; (2) fostering relevant research; (3) collecting and disseminating information and best practices regarding campus safety; (4) developing protocols and best practices to prevent, protect against, and respond to dangerous and violent situations that threaten the campus community; and (5) promoting cooperation among public safety and emergency management personnel of IHEs and their collaborative partners, including law enforcement, emergency management, and mental health agencies.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to IHEs and other nonprofit organizations for activities that will assist the Center in performing its functions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E54-55)
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House