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To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 respecting the scoring of preventive health savings.

Bill: 113-hr-2663
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2013-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Health care costs and insurance
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: 
Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), upon a request by the chairman or ranking minority member of specified congressional committees, to determine if a proposed measure would result in reductions in budget outlays in budgetary outyears through the use of preventive health and preventive health services.
 
Requires CBO, if the measure would result in such substantial reductions, to include in any CBO projection a description and estimate of such reductions and a description of the basis for such conclusions.
 
Authorizes CBO to prepare a budget projection that includes some or all of the budgetary outyears.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
Made in America Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2664
Sponsor: Rep. Carney, John C., Jr. [D-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Buy American requirements
Consumer affairs
Department of Commerce
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Licensing and registrations
Manufacturing
Marketing and advertising
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: 
Made in America Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish: (1) a voluntary America Star Program under which manufacturers may have products certified as meeting the standards of labels that indicate to consumers the extent to which the products are manufactured in the United States; and (2) such America Star labels, including the content of the labels and the standards that a product shall meet in order to bear a particular label. Requires the labels to be consistent with public perceptions of the meaning of descriptions of the extent to which a product is manufactured in the United States.
 
Requires the Secretary, after receiving an application, to certify a product as meeting a label's standards, notify the manufacturer, conduct monitoring and compliance review to ensure that a product continues to meet such standards, notify a manufacturer of any corrective action needed, and withdraw certification of a product if such action is not taken. Provides for an expedited appeals procedure for actions that adversely affect a person. 
 
Prohibits a person from placing an America Star label on a product, using such label in marketing such product, or in any other way representing that such product meets the standards of such label unless a certification by the Secretary is in effect. Bars the Secretary from certifying the product for a five-year period after determining that a manufacturer has violated the purposes of the Program.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
To ensure secure gun storage and gun safety devices.

Bill: 113-hr-2665
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2013-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Firearms and explosives
Licensing and registrations
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: 
Amends the federal criminal code to repeal provisions: (1) establishing exceptions to the prohibition against a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer transferring a firearm to any person other than a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer unless the transferee is provided with a secure gun storage or safety device; and (2) granting immunity from a qualified civil liability action to a person who has lawful possession and control of a handgun and who uses such a device.
 
Revises penalty provisions by authorizing the Attorney General to suspend (currently for not more than six months) or revoke any firearms license of, or to subject to a civil penalty of up to $10,000 (currently $2,500), any licensee who has knowingly violated such prohibition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
Community-Based Gang Intervention Act

Bill: 113-hr-2669
Sponsor: Rep. Cárdenas, Tony [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2013-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Crime prevention
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: 
Community-Based Gang Intervention Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should acknowledge and address social conditions such as poverty, homelessness, inadequate educational systems, and limited economic opportunities in developing a comprehensive gang violence reduction strategy. 
 
Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to: (1) require the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to award grants to nonprofit community-based gang intervention agencies to provide services for reducing and stopping gang-related and gang-motivated violence and crime, (2) include representatives of community-based gang intervention agencies in juvenile justice and delinquency prevention advisory groups established by state plans, and (3) include community-based gang intervention and prevention activities in state and local grant programs for delinquency prevention.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
OPEN Act

Bill: 113-hr-2670
Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2013-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Business records
Corporate finance and management
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
Labor-management relations
Political advertising
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: 
Openness in Political Expenditures Now Act or OPEN Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require a corporation which submits regular, periodic reports to its shareholders and a labor organization which submits similar reports to its members to include in each such report specified information on disbursements it has made for certain political activity (including independent expenditures and electioneering communications) during the period covered by the report. Limits the amount of disbursements reported, however, to the amount that equals or exceeds the applicable threshold for the covered political activity. 
 
Defines &quot;applicable threshold&quot; for a disbursement as: (1) $250 for an independent expenditure, (2) $10,000 for an electioneering communication or another kind of communication meeting specified criteria, and (3) the amount of the applicable limitation on contributions in effect for payment of dues or other amounts to a trade association or to a tax-exempt non-profit civic league meeting certain criteria (501[c][4] organization).
 
Requires a corporation or labor organization reporting such expenditures to: (1) file a statement about them with the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), and (2) post on its website (if any) a hyperlink from its homepage to this statement on the EAC website.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to subject a 501(c)(4) organization to the income tax on corporations if: (1) its expenditures for the taxable year for covered political activity exceed the lesser of 10% of its total expenditures or $10 million, and (2) its governing instrument does not effectively prohibit its expenditures for a covered political activity from exceeding these thresholds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2013-07-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
Charitable Agricultural Research Act

Bill: 113-hr-2671
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2013-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural research
Charitable contributions
Higher education
Income tax deductions
Public participation and lobbying
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: 
Charitable Agricultural Research Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a tax deduction for a charitable contribution to an agricultural research organization directly engaged in the continuous active conduct of agricultural research, and (2) make prohibitions against expenditures to influence legislation applicable to such organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
Helping Expand Lending Practices in Rural Communities Act

Bill: 113-hr-2672
Sponsor: Rep. Barr, Andy [R-KY-6]
Introduced: 2013-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer credit
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: 
CFPB Rural Designation Petition and Correction Act - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to direct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to establish an application process under which a person who lives or does business in a state may apply to have a county designated as a rural area for purposes of a federal consumer financial law.
 
 Prescribes criteria for the CFPB to consider when evaluating such an application. 
Requires the CFPB to enter each such application into a sortable, downloadable database publicly accessible through its website.

action_date: 2014-05-06
text: 
Helping Expand Lending Practices in Rural Communities Act - Directs the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to establish an application process under which a person who lives or does business in a state may apply to have an area in the state identified as a rural area if it has not yet been so designated by the CFPB for purposes of federal consumer financial law.
 
 Prescribes criteria for the CFPB to consider when evaluating the application. 
Requires the CFPB to: (1) grant or deny the application within 90 days after the public comment period ends; and (3) publish the grant or denial in the Federal Register, including an explanation of the factors upon which the CFPB relied in making its determination.
 
Sunsets this Act two years after its date of enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2014-05-07
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2014-05-06
text: The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2014-05-06
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3420)
action_date: 2014-05-06
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 H3420)
action_date: 2014-05-06
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2672.
action_date: 2014-05-06
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3420-3422)
action_date: 2014-05-06
text: Mrs. Capito moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2014-03-14
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 55 - 1.
action_date: 2014-03-14
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Prior to Referral.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
Portfolio Lending and Mortgage Access Act

Bill: 113-hr-2673
Sponsor: Rep. Barr, Andy [R-KY-6]
Introduced: 2013-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer credit
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: 
Portfolio Lending and Mortgage Access Act - Amends the Truth in Lending Act with respect to the permission that a creditor may presume that a residential mortgage loan has met the requirement that, at the time the loan is consummated, the consumer has a reasonable ability to repay it, if the loan is a qualified mortgage.
 
Treats as a qualified mortgage any residential mortgage loan made by a creditor so long as it appears on the creditor's balance sheet (held on portfolio).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2014-05-22
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 36 - 23.
action_date: 2014-05-22
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
Government Transformation Act

Bill: 113-hr-2675
Sponsor: Rep. Bustos, Cheri [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2013-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: 
Government Transformation Act - Establishes the Commission on Government Transformation. Directs the Commission to: (1) review work done by governmental and non-governmental entities and conduct research on the organizational practices, operations, and reform efforts of federal agencies; (2) analyze organizational practices and management challenges of federal agencies; (3) assess federal programs for economy, efficiency, and effectiveness and identify best practices; (4) upon request, provide information on Commission activities to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), other federal agency heads, and the Office of Inspector General of each federal agency; and (5) serve as a repository for best practices for federal agencies. Requires the Commission to make interim and annual reports on its activities to the President and Congress and make such reports available to the public.
 
Provides for expedited congressional consideration of legislation to implement recommendations of the Commission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-07-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
MITECH Act

Bill: 113-hr-2676
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-24]
Introduced: 2013-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: 
Medicaid Information Technology to Enhance Community Health Act of 2013 or MITECH Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to extend payments to encourage the adoption and use of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology to qualified safety net clinics (QSNCs).
 
Defines a QSNC as a clinic or network of clinics operated by a private non-profit or public entity at least 30% percent of whose patient volume is attributable to needy individuals.
 
Defines a "QSNC-based" individual as one who furnishes substantially all of his or her professional services in a QSNC and through use of the clinic's facilities and equipment, including qualified EHRs.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a procedure through which a QSNC may demonstrate meaningful use of certified EHR technology in order to receive incentive payments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
Sequestration Tied to Member Pay (STOMP) Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2677
Sponsor: Rep. Coffman, Mike [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2013-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: 
Sequestration Tied to Member Pay (STOMP) Act of 2013 - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 with respect to the annual rate of compensation of Members of Congress.
 
Requires that if, during either of the two most recent fiscal years ending before a Congress, the effective annual rate of pay of federal employees is reduced because of a sequestration-related furlough, the annual rate of pay otherwise applicable for Members during the Congress be reduced by a percentage equal to the average percentage reduction in the effective annual rate of pay during the fiscal years for all federal employees.
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), by December 15 of each even-numbered year, to determine and publish the percentage (if any) by which the Members' annual rate of pay otherwise applicable shall be reduced during the next Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-11
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: 2013-07-11
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: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
PURSE Act

Bill: 113-hr-2679
Sponsor: Rep. Gardner, Cory [R-CO-4]
Introduced: 2013-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Department of the Treasury
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Labor-management relations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: 
Preventing Unionization of Revenue Service Employees Act or the PURSE Act - Excludes employees of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from provisions of federal personnel law allowing federal employees to organize, bargain collectively, and participate in labor organizations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
No Taxation Without Representation Act

Bill: 113-hr-2680
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2013-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: District of Columbia
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: 
No Taxation Without Representation Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow bona fide residents of the District of Columbia an exclusion from gross income for income derived from sources within the District of Columbia and for income effectively connected with a trade or business within the District of Columbia.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
District of Columbia-Maryland Reunion Act

Bill: 113-hr-2681
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2013-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional districts and representation
Congressional oversight
District of Columbia
House of Representatives
Maryland
Members of Congress
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: 
District of Columbia-Maryland Reunion Act - Cedes the District of Columbia to Maryland after Maryland's acceptance of such retrocession. Declares that the National Capital Service Area in the District of Columbia shall not be ceded and relinquished to such state and shall continue to serve as the permanent seat of the federal government. Maintains the exclusive legislative authority and control of Congress over the Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2013-07-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House