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Safe Military Bases Act

Bill: 113-hr-3199
Sponsor: Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36]
Introduced: 2013-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Defense
Firearms and explosives
Military facilities and property
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-26
text: 
Safe Military Bases Act - Repeals: (1) Army Regulation 190-14, entitled "Carrying of Firearms and Use of Force for Law Enforcement and Security Duties"; and (2) Department of Defense Directive Number 5210.56, entitled "Use of Deadly Force and the Carrying of Firearms by DOD Personnel Engaged in Law Enforcement and Security Duties." Nullifies any provision in any other law, rule, regulation, or executive order that prohibits military personnel trained in firearms from carrying officially issued or personally owned firearms on military bases.
 
Prohibits: (1) the Secretary of Defense (DOD) and the Secretaries of the military departments from reinstating the firearm bans repealed in this Act or enacting similar restrictions; and (2) the President from taking any executive action, promulgating any rule, or issuing any executive order or regulation to prohibit military personnel from carrying firearms.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-09-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2013-09-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2013-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-26
text: Introduced in House
Justice for Former American Hostages in Iran Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3200
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2013-09-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Government liability
Government trust funds
Iran
Middle East
Sanctions

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: 
Justice for Former American Hostages in Iran Act of 2013 - Establishes in the Treasury the American Hostages in Iran Compensation Fund for the purpose of making payments to: (1) the Americans held hostage in the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, and in other locations in Iran, from November 3, 1979, to January 20, 1981; and (2) certain family members.
 
Imposes a surcharge, to be deposited into the Fund, of 30% on any fine or penalty imposed, or settlement entered into, for a violation of any law or regulation for any economic activity regarding Iran that is administered by specified federal departments.
 
Requires Fund payments of: (1) $150,000 plus $10,000 for each day of captivity first to each living former hostage and then to the estate of each deceased former hostage, and (2) $5,000 to each eligible spouse or child of a former hostage for each day of the such hostage's captivity. 
 
Requires a payment recipient to waive and forever release all existing claims against Iran and the United States arising out of the hostage events. 
 
Directs the Secretary of State to notify each individual qualified to receive a payment of the individual's claim status. 
 
States that: (1) if a claim is denied or approved for less than the full amount, the individual shall be entitled to submit additional information; (2) the Secretary may affirm, modify, or revise the former action; and (3) the Secretary's actions in identifying claimants and in disbursing Fund amounts shall be final on all questions of law and fact, and shall not be subject to review by any other U.S. official, agency, or court.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2013-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2013-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Augusta Canal National Heritage Area Reauthorization Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3201
Sponsor: Rep. Barrow, John [D-GA-12]
Introduced: 2013-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Dams and canals
Georgia
Historic sites and heritage areas

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: 
Augusta Canal National Heritage Area Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Amends the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to extend through FY2023 the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to make grants or provide assistance for the Augusta Canal National Heritage Area in Georgia. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Restore the Tour Act

Bill: 113-hr-3203
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2013-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: 
Restore the Tour Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to accept gifts of money and other intangible personal property on the condition that such money or the proceeds from the sale of such property be used solely to provide public tours of the White House. Authorizes the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to accept gifts of tangible property on the condition that such property be sold and the proceeds from the sale be used to provide public tours of the White House. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3206
Sponsor: Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2013-09-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Abortion
Child health
Family planning and birth control
Foreign aid and international relief
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: 
Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Act of 2013 - Authorizes the President to provide assistance to: (1) support the achievement of universal access to sexual and reproductive health in developing countries and to ensure that individuals and couples can freely and responsibly determine the number, timing, and spacing of their children and have the means to do so; (2) reduce the incidence of unsafe abortion in developing countries and provide care for women experiencing injury or illness from complications of unsafe abortion; (3) ensure that sexual and reproductive health services are provided in developing countries at every phase of a humanitarian emergency; and (4) ensure access to sexual and reproductive health care for young people in developing countries.
 
Directs the President to implement a strategy to improve and create linkages among the various components of sexual and reproductive health to ensure that individual men and women are provided with a continuum of appropriate sexual and reproductive health services. 
 
States that assistance under this Act shall: (1) promote coordination between and among donors, the private sector, nongovernmental and civil society organizations, and governments in order to support sexual and reproductive health programs in developing countries; and (2) be used for the conduct of formative research and to monitor and evaluate program effectiveness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Benefits Fairness for Filipino Veterans Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3207
Sponsor: Rep. Gutierrez, Luis V. [D-IL-4]
Introduced: 2013-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Asia
Immigration status and procedures
Philippines
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: 
Benefits Fairness for Filipino Veterans Act of 2013 - Provides that, with respect to eligibility for benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of Filipino veterans who are lawful U.S. residents, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs may not determine that such a person is not an individual residing in the United States solely because the person is outside the United States for any period of less than one year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Introduced in House
To clarify that certain natural gas facilities are not subject to the Natural Gas Act.

Bill: 113-hr-3208
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2013-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Energy storage, supplies, demand
Industrial facilities
Motor fuels
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: 
Amends the Natural Gas Act to exclude from its jurisdiction persons who would not otherwise be subject to the Act if the sole reason for inclusion would be the person's construction or operation of a facility not otherwise subject to the Act that liquefies, stores, processes, or delivers natural gas for vehicular natural gas or other end use purposes even though natural gas may be reinjected into an interstate pipeline, as long as such reinjections are incidental to the facility's provision of natural gas for end use purposes and are required by certain facility needs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Fiscal Sanity Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3213
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2013-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Executive agency funding and structure
Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: 
Anti-Self-Destruction Act or the Fiscal Sanity Act of 2013 - Makes FY2014 appropriations for: (1) each project or activity for which budget authority was provided in the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-6) in an amount equal to the authority provided in such Act, as reduced pursuant to the presidential sequestration order dated March 1, 2013, to remain available for a comparable period of availability; and (2) entitlements and other mandatory payments whose budget authority was provided in appropriations Acts for FY2013, and for activities under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, in such amounts as may be necessary to maintain program levels under current law. 
 
Makes the public debt limit inapplicable from the date of the enactment of this Act until December 31, 2014. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2013-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2013-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Preserve our National Security Act

Bill: 113-hr-3214
Sponsor: Rep. Gallego, Pete P. [D-TX-23]
Introduced: 2013-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Border security and unlawful immigration
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Veterans Affairs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Military personnel and dependents
Military procurement, research, weapons development
National Guard and reserves
Public contracts and procurement
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: 
Preserve our National Security Act - Makes appropriations for FY2014 for pay and allowances to: (1) members of the Armed Forces, including reserve components, who perform active service during FY2014, as well as employees of agencies part of the National Intelligence Program, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA); and (2) civilian personnel and contractors of the Department of Defense (DOD), employees of agencies within the National Intelligence Program, and employees of DHS and VA who are providing support or benefits to veterans or support to U.S. national security interests related to military, intelligence services, and securing and staffing borders and ports of entry.
 
Makes such appropriations, funds, and authority granted by this Act available until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any purpose for which amounts are made available by this Act, (2) enactment of the applicable regular or continuing appropriations resolution or other Act without any appropriation for such purpose, or (3) January 1, 2015. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Shutdown Pay for Members of Congress Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3215
Sponsor: Rep. Gallego, Pete P. [D-TX-23]
Introduced: 2013-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Executive agency funding and structure
Legislative rules and procedure
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: 
Shutdown Pay for Members of Congress Act of 2013 - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to prohibit Members of Congress from receiving pay until a government spending agreement on future spending is agreed to by the House of Representatives and the Senate. 
 
Makes such prohibition effective with the termination of a fiscal year at the end of which the House and Senate fail to reach agreement on government spending. 
 
Directs the Committee on House Administration, consistent with the Constitution and the Anti-Deficiency Act, to consider the definition of &quot;employing authority&quot; under House Rules where Members of Congress would be deemed &quot;non-essential.&quot; 
 
Requires the amendments made by this Act to apply with respect to any adjustment which, but for this Act, would otherwise become effective in the event of a lapse in appropriations for government spending where the government would thereby shut down. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: Introduced in House
To ensure that members of the Armed Forces and Federal law enforcement officers continue to receive their pay and allowances despite a shutdown of the Federal Government or in the event that the debt of the United States Government reaches the statutory limit.

Bill: 113-hr-3216
Sponsor: Rep. Kingston, Jack [R-GA-1]
Introduced: 2013-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, during any funding gap during FY2014 when interim or full-year appropriations for the following activities have not been enacted, from amounts in the general fund of the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to transfer to the head of the appropriate executive agency such amounts as are necessary to continue payment of: (1) pay and allowances for members of the Armed Forces, including reserve components, on active duty; and (2) payment of salaries and benefits for sworn federal law enforcement officers.
 
Requires such payments to be given priority over all other federally incurred obligations in the event that the public debt reaches the statutory limit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-10-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and the Judiciary, 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: 2013-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and the Judiciary, 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: 2013-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and the Judiciary, 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: 2013-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Military Pay Act

Bill: 113-hr-3217
Sponsor: Rep. Lamborn, Doug [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2013-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Coast guard
Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Military personnel and dependents
Military procurement, research, weapons development
National Guard and reserves
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: 
Military Pay Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, in the event that U.S. debt reaches the statutory limit, to make available the following: (1) such amounts as the Secretary of Defense (and the Secretary of Homeland Security in the case of the Coast Guard) determines to be necessary to continue to provide pay and allowances without interruption to members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including reserve components, as well as civilian employees of the Department of Defense (DOD) (and the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] in the case of the Coast Guard) and designated contractors; and (2) such amounts as the President certifies to Congress as are necessary to carry out vital national security priorities.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, during any funding gap, to make emergency appropriations: (1) to continue to provide pay and allowances without interruption to members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including reserve components, as well as civilian employees of DOD (and DHS in the case of the Coast Guard) and designated contractors; and (2) for such amounts as the President certifies to Congress as are necessary to carry out vital national security priorities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6064)
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2013-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2013-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2013-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: Introduced in House