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Access to Birth Control Act

Bill: 113-s-333
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Family planning and birth control
Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Access to Birth Control Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require pharmacies to comply with certain rules related to contraceptives, including: (1) providing a customer a contraceptive without delay if it is in stock; (2) immediately informing a customer if the contraceptive is not in stock and either transferring the prescription to a pharmacy that has the contraceptive in stock or expediting the ordering of the contraceptive and notifying the customer when it arrives, based on customer preference, except for pharmacies that do not ordinarily stock contraceptives in the normal course of business; and (3) ensuring that pharmacy employees do not take certain actions relating to a request for contraception, including intimidating, threatening, or harassing customers, interfering with or obstructing the delivery of services, intentionally misrepresenting or deceiving customers about the availability of contraception or its mechanism of action, breaching or threatening to breach medical confidentiality, or refusing to return a valid, lawful prescription. 
 
Provides that a pharmacy is not prohibited from refusing to provide a contraceptive to a customer if: (1) it is unlawful to dispense the contraceptive to the customer without a valid, lawful prescription and no such prescription is presented; (2) the customer is unable to pay for the contraceptive; or (3) the employee of the pharmacy refuses to provide the contraceptive on the basis of a professional clinical judgment.
 
Provides that this Act does not preempt state law or any professional obligation of a state board that provides greater protections for customers.
 
Sets forth civil penalties and establishes a a private cause of action for violations of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to terminate agricultural direct payments beginning with the 2013 crop year.

Bill: 113-s-334
Sponsor: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to end agricultural direct payments beginning with the 2013 crop year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-336
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Retail and wholesale trades
Sales and excise taxes
State and local government operations
State and local taxation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013 - Authorizes each member state under the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (the multistate agreement for the administration and collection of sales and use taxes adopted on November 12, 2002) to require all sellers not qualifying for a small-seller exception (applicable to sellers with annual gross receipts in total U.S. remote sales not exceeding $1 million) to collect and remit sales and use taxes with respect to remote sales under provisions of the Agreement, but only if such Agreement includes minimum simplification requirements relating to the administration of the tax, audits, and streamlined filing. Defines "remote sale" as a sale of goods or services into a state in which the seller would not legally be required to pay, collect, or remit state or local sales and use taxes unless provided by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Bring Jobs Home Act

Bill: 113-s-337
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Employee hiring
Foreign and international corporations
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Taxation of foreign income
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Bring Jobs Home Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) grant business taxpayers a tax credit for up to 20% of insourcing expenses incurred for eliminating a business located outside the United States and relocating it within the United States, and (2) deny a tax deduction for outsourcing expenses incurred in relocating a U.S. business outside the United States. Requires an increase in the taxpayer's employment of full-time employees in the United States in order to claim the tax credit for insourcing expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Land and Water Conservation Authorization and Funding Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-338
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government trust funds
Hunting and fishing
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Land and Water Conservation Authorization and Funding Act of 2013 - Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to make permanent the authorization for the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
 
Makes monies covered into the Fund available for expenditure to carry out the purposes of the Act without further appropriation. 
 
Requires not less than 1.5% of the annual authorized funding amount to be made available for projects that secure recreational public access to existing federal public land for hunting, fishing, and other recreational purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-339
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Forests, forestry, trees
Historical and cultural resources
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Mining
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2013 - Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) (the Secretary), if Resolution Copper Mining, LLC offers to convey specified parcels of non-federal land in Gila, Yavapi, Maricopa, Coconino, Pinal, and/or Santa Cruz Counties, Arizona, that are acceptable to the Secretary or the Secretary of the Interior, to convey certain federal land in Pinal County, Arizona, to Resolution Copper. 
 
Makes the federal lands available to Resolution Copper for use for mining and related activities. 
 
 Requires the Secretary, if so requested by Resolution Copper, to issue separate special use permits to it to carry out mineral exploration activities: (1) under the Oak Flat Withdrawal Area from existing drill pads outside the Area, if they would not disturb the surface of the area; and (2) within the Withdrawal Area (with the exception of within the Oak Flat Campground), if they are conducted from a single exploratory drill pad which is located to minimize visual and noise impacts on the Campground. 
 
Makes lands acquired by the Secretary under this Act part of the National Forest within which the land is located. 
 
 Adds certain of the non-federal land acquired by the Secretary of the Interior in Pinal and Santa Cruz Counties to the San Pedro Riparian and Las Cienegas National Conservation Areas, respectively.
 
Instructs Resolution Copper to surrender, without compensation, the rights held by it under mining and other U.S. laws to commercially extract minerals under Apache Leap. 
 
Requires Resolution Copper to make value adjustment payments to the United States based upon locatable minerals produced from the federal land in Pinal County, Arizona. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to issue to Resolution Copper special use permits that allow it to carry out underground activities (other than the commercial extraction of minerals) under the surface of Apache Leap that would not disturb the surface. 
 
Requires preparation of a management plan for Apache Leap. 
 
 Directs the Secretary to convey specified lands in Pinal County to the town of Superior, Arizona. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-20
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-342.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Pine Forest Range Recreation Enhancement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-342
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Land transfers
Nevada
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Pine Forest Range Recreation Enhancement Act of 2013 - Designates specified federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Humboldt County, Nevada, and to be known as the Pine Forest Range Wilderness, as wilderness and as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to take necessary measures in such wilderness to control fire, insects, and diseases. 
 
Releases BLM land in any part of the Blue Lakes and Alder Creek wilderness study areas not designated as wilderness by this Act from further study for wilderness designation. 
 
Authorizes land exchanges involving identified federal and non-federal lands in Humboldt County. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-27
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 113.
action_date: 2013-06-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Wyden without amendment. With written report No. 113-59.
action_date: 2013-06-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Wyden without amendment. With written report No. 113-59.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-28.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced in Senate: CR S776-778)
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Three Kids Mine Remediation and Reclamation Act

Bill: 113-s-343
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Land transfers
Mining
Nevada

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Three Kids Mine Remediation and Reclamation Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Henderson Redevelopment Agency of the city of Henderson, Nevada, specified federal land within the Three Kids Mine Project Site for the environmental remediation and reclamation of the Site. 
 
Requires Henderson Redevelopment Agency to pay the fair market value, if any, of the federal land, as determined and as adjusted based on remediation and reclamation costs. Excludes from the determination of fair market value any existing contamination associated with historical mining on such land. 
 
Adjusts the boundary of the River Mountains Area of Critical Environmental Concern to exclude any part of the Project Site.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-85.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced in Senate: CR S778-779)
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from approving the introduction into commerce of gasoline that contains greater than 10-volume-percent ethanol, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-344
Sponsor: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Motor fuels

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from authorizing or otherwise allowing the introduction into commerce of gasoline that contains greater than 10-volume-percent ethanol, including by granting a waiver for new fuels and fuel additives from the Clean Air Act's fuel standards. 
 
Nullifies any waiver granted under such Act before this Act's enactment that allows for the introduction into commerce of gasoline containing greater than 10-volume-percent ethanol for use in motor vehicles, including the waivers entitled: (1) &quot;Partial Grant and Partial Denial of Clean Air Act Waiver Application Submitted by Growth Energy To Increase the Allowable Ethanol Content of Gasoline to 15 Percent; Decision of the Administrator&quot; (published on November 4, 2010), and (2) &quot;Partial Grant of Clean Air Act Waiver Application Submitted by Growth Energy To Increase the Allowable Ethanol Content of Gasoline to 15 Percent; Decision of the Administrator&quot; (published on January 26, 2011).
 
Nullifies, 60 days after this Act's enactment, the portions of the rule entitled &quot;Regulation to Mitigate the Misfueling of Vehicles and Engines with Gasoline Containing Greater Than Ten Volume Percent Ethanol and Modifications to the Reformulated and Conventional Gasoline Programs&quot; (published on July 25, 2011) to mitigate misfueling.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Sugar Reform Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-345
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Agricultural trade
Alternative and renewable resources
Motor fuels
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Sugar Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to make loans available to processors of domestically grown sugarcane (18 cents per pound) and sugar beet processors through FY2017.
 
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to make specified sugarcane and sugar beet quantity estimates through crop year 2017. 
 
Requires that sugar allotments be appropriate to maintain adequate supplies at reasonable prices, taking into account all domestic supply sources, including imports.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to suspend or modify marketing allotments, taking into account: (1) the interests of consumers, food industry workers, businesses, and agricultural producers; and (2) the competitiveness of domestically produced and imported foods containing sugar. 
 
Revises sugar tariff-rate quota adjustment provisions to direct the Secretary to: (1) adjust tariff-rates to provide adequate domestic sugar supplies at reasonable prices, (2) establish and adjust tariff-rate quotas so that the ratio of sugar stocks to total sugar use at the end of the quota year will be approximately 15.5%, and (3) promulgate regulations that permit any country that has been allocated a quota share to temporarily transfer all or part of the share to any other country that has also been allocated a quota share.
 
Extends flexible marketing sugar allotment authority through crop year 2017.
 
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to repeal the feedstock flexibility program for bioenergy producers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to permit veterans who have a service-connected, permanent disability rated as total to travel on military aircraft in the same manner and to the same extent as retired members of the Armed Forces entitled to such travel.

Bill: 113-s-346
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to provide transportation on scheduled and unscheduled military flights within the United States and on scheduled overseas flights on a space-available basis for veterans with a service-connected, permanent disability rated as total.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Protection Act

Bill: 113-s-349
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Connecticut
Government studies and investigations
Rhode Island
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Protection Act - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate for study for potential addition to the national wild and scenic rivers system specified segments of the Beaver, Chipuxet, Queen, Wood, and Pawcatuck Rivers in Rhode Island and Connecticut. 

action_date: 2013-06-27
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Protection Act - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate for study for potential addition to the national wild and scenic rivers system specified segments of the Beaver, Chipuxet, Queen, Wood, and Pawcatuck Rivers in Rhode Island and Connecticut. Requires submission to Congress of a report describing such study's results. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-27
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 114.
action_date: 2013-06-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Wyden without amendment. With written report No. 113-60.
action_date: 2013-06-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Wyden without amendment. With written report No. 113-60.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-27.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S780)
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-350
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intellectual property
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2013 - Requires each federal agency with extramural research expenditures of over $100 million to develop a federal research public access policy, following common procedures for the collection and depositing of research papers, that is consistent with, and that advances, the purposes of the agency. 
 
Makes each federal research public access policy applicable to: (1) researchers employed by the federal agency whose works remain in the public domain, and (2) researchers funded by the agency. Specifies exclusions.
 
Requires each federal agency to submit an annual report on its federal research public access policy to specified congressional committees. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-351
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Health care costs and insurance
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
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: 2013-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the United States Trade Representative to notify the World Trade Organization if any member of the World Trade Organization fails during 2 consecutive years to disclose subsidies under the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-355
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Free trade and trade barriers
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Directs the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to identify and report to the Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures of the World Trade Organization (WTO) any WTO member with which this country maintains a material and persistent trade deficit that, for two consecutive years, fails to submit a notification of subsidies under the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, or omits information or includes inaccurate information in a notification material to the totality of the member's subsidies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate