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FAIR Act

Bill: 113-s-1770
Sponsor: Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2013-11-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Crimes against property
Jurisdiction and venue
Legal fees and court costs
Trade secrets and economic espionage

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-21
text: 
Future of American Innovation and Research Act of 2013 or the FAIR Act - Authorizes the owner or lawful possessor of a covered trade secret (that is related to or included in a product or service that is used in or reasonably anticipated to be used in interstate or foreign commerce) to bring a civil action in a U.S. district court against a person (including a legal or commercial entity) who misappropriates, threatens to misappropriate, or conspires to misappropriate such trade secret: (1) while located outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States; or (2) on behalf of, or for the benefit of, a person located outside such territorial jurisdiction.
 
Defines &quot;misappropriate&quot; as the acquisition or disclosure of a trade secret under specified circumstances through improper means, including theft, bribery, misrepresentation, breach or inducement of a breach of a duty to maintain secrecy, and espionage through electronic means. Excludes reverse engineering or independent derivation from the categories of improper means when such activity alone is the only alleged conduct. 
 
Permits an action to arise from conduct outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States if the conduct, either by itself or in combination with conduct within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, causes or is reasonably anticipated to cause an injury: (1) within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, or (2) to a U.S. person. 
 
Provides for an affirmative defense to such an action if each alleged trade secret in dispute was readily ascertainable through proper means by other persons who did not already know the trade secret at the time of the alleged conduct.
 
Authorizes a court, upon an ex parte application, to order the seizure of any property used to commit or facilitate specified conduct alleged in the civil action. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-11-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Good IRA Rollover Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1772
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2013-11-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-21
text: Public Good IRA Rollover Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the tax exclusion of distributions from individual retirement accounts (IRAs) for charitable purposes to: (1) make such exclusion permanent; (2) eliminate the $100,000 cap on such exclusion; (3) permit tax-free distributions from IRAs to a split-interest entity (i.e., a charitable remainder annuity or unitrust, a pooled income fund, and a charitable gift annuity); and (4) allow distributions to a split-interest entity to be made when the account beneficiary attains age 59-1/2 (otherwise, age 70-1/2 for IRA distributions to a charitable organization).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-11-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Andrew's Law

Bill: 113-s-1773
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2013-11-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer credit
Disability and paralysis
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-21
text: 
Andrew Prior Act or Andrew's Law - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to discharge the repayment obligations of the estate of a borrower and any cosigner of a private educational loan if the borrower dies or is totally and permanently disabled.
 
Requires the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to develop necessary and appropriate safeguards to prevent fraud and abuse in the discharge of those obligations. 
 
Authorizes the Director to promulgate regulations to reinstate those obligations in any case in which the Director determines that doing so is necessary to protect the public interest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-11-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Undetectable Firearms Reauthorization Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1774
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2013-11-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Firearms and explosives
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-21
text: 
Undetectable Firearms Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Extends the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 for one year (the Act prohibits the manufacture or possession of firearms that are not detectable by the types of x-ray machines commonly used at airports).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-09
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 252.
action_date: 2013-11-21
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2013-11-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Spectrum Accessibility Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1776
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2013-11-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Licensing and registrations
Rural conditions and development
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-21
text: 
Rural Spectrum Accessibility Act of 2013 - Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish a program under which a wireless carrier receiving a license under specified provisions of the Communications Act of 1934 may partition or disaggregate the license in order to make unused spectrum available to small carriers or carriers serving certain rural areas.
 
Defines &quot;small carrier&quot; as a carrier with not more than 1,500 employees as calculated under regulatory standards used by the Small Business Administration (SBA) to determine the number of individuals employed by a business concern on a full-time, part-time, or other basis.
 
Provides carriers receiving such licenses and participating in the program with a three-year extension of licenses granted under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2013-11-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Kilah Davenport Child Protection Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1778
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2013-12-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Child health
Congressional oversight
Crime victims
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Domestic violence and child abuse
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-09
text: 
Kilah Davenport Child Protection Act of 2013 - Directs the Attorney General to report every 3 years to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees on the penalties for violations of laws prohibiting child abuse in each state (defined as each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and each U.S. territory), including whether the laws of each state provide for enhanced penalties when a victim suffers serious bodily injury or permanent or protracted loss or impairment of any mental or emotional function.
 Amends the federal criminal code to apply certain increased criminal penalties against any person who commits domestic assault and who has a final conviction on at least two separate prior occasions under state, federal, or tribal court proceedings (an habitual offender) for offenses that would be, if subject to federal jurisdiction, assault, sexual abuse, or a serious violent felony against a spouse or intimate partner (as under current law) or against a child of, or in the care of, the person committing the offense.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-12-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Fire Safety Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1779
Sponsor: Sen. Toomey, Patrick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2013-12-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Fires
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-09
text: 
Community Fire Safety Act of 2013 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to exempt fire hydrants from certain prohibitions against the use of lead pipes, solder, and flux.
 
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) consult with and seek the advice of the National Drinking Water Advisory Council on potential changes to federal regulations pertaining to lead; and (2) request the Council to consider sources of lead throughout drinking water distribution systems, including through components used to reroute drinking water during distribution system repairs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-12-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to clarify that funding for the standard setting body designated pursuant to section 19(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is not subject to the sequester.

Bill: 113-s-1780
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2013-12-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Corporate finance and management
Financial services and investments
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-09
text: 
Makes any sequestration ordered by the President under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) inapplicable to funding of:
 
 
the standard setting body designated by the Security Exchange Commission (SEC) (which establishes accounting principles &quot;generally accepted&quot; for securities laws),
 
the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, or 
 
the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2013-12-09
text: Introduced in Senate
General Duty Clarification Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1781
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2013-12-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Accidents
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-09
text: 
General Duty Clarification Act of 2013 - Amends the Clean Air Act, with respect to provisions relating to the prevention of accidental releases of hazardous air pollutants, to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) promulgate final regulations establishing criteria defining the terms "extremely hazardous substance," "appropriate hazard assessment techniques," and "design and maintain a safe facility"; and (2) issue guidelines to ensure enforcement of such provisions by the regional offices of EPA in a uniform and appropriate manner across all regions of the United States.
 
Modifies the definition of "accidental release" to exclude an emission resulting from an act intended to cause harm.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-12-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Shiloh National Military Park Boundary Adjustment and Parker's Crossroads Battlefield Designation Act

Bill: 113-s-1785
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2013-12-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Land transfers
Military history
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Tennessee

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: 
Shiloh National Military Park Boundary Adjustment and Parker's Crossroads Battlefield Designation Act - Modifies the boundary of Shiloh National Military Park to include the following areas : (1) Fallen Timbers Battlefield, (2) Russell House Battlefield, and (3) Davis Bridge Battlefield. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands by donation, purchase from willing sellers, or exchange.
 
Establishes Parker's Crossroads Battlefield in Tennessee as an affiliated area of the National Park System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-493.
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Sibling Connections Act

Bill: 113-s-1786
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2013-12-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Family relationships
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: 
Sibling Connections Act - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require the state foster care and adoption assistance plan to encourage placement of children with siblings by requiring the state, in its due diligence with regard to a child removed or being removed from parental custody, to notify all parents of a sibling of the child who have legal custody of that sibling.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicaid Managed Care Responsibility and Equity Act

Bill: 113-s-1787
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2013-12-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child health
Department of Health and Human Services
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicaid
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: 
Medicaid Managed Care Responsibility and Equity Act - Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (Children's Health Insurance) (CHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to managed care requirements.
 
Requires a minimum medical loss ratio of at least 85% for Medicaid and CHIP managed care plans under contracts between a state and a managed medical care entity (health maintenance organization), but a minimum ratio of only 80% for an entity in which at least 10% of the enrollees are optional targeted low-income children.
 
Prescribes administrative penalties for failure to maintain such ratios.
 
Applies the same minimum medical loss ratios to a state child health (CHIP) plan, except for a medical loss ratio of at least 80% for managed care organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Digital Trade Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1788
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2013-12-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Digital media
Free trade and trade barriers
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Tariffs
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: 
Digital Trade Act of 2013 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) executive branch agencies, including the Office of the United States Trade Representative, should be staffed with experts and leaders to promote an open, global Internet that facilitates commerce and digital trade; and (2) private sector stakeholders should have the opportunity to inform executive agency efforts related to digital trade. 
 
States that it shall be a U.S. negotiating principle in negotiations for a bilateral, plurilateral, or multilateral agreement, and in multi-stakeholder fora, to seek the inclusion of binding provisions that promote and enhance Internet-enabled commerce and digital trade.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to establish signal quality and content requirements for the carriage of public, educational, and governmental channels, to preserve support of such channels, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-1789
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2013-12-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Consumer affairs
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require certain cable system operators, with channel capacity for public, educational, or governmental (PEG) use that is designated by a franchising authority under existing code provisions or required to be provided under this Act, to: (1) carry PEG-use signals to subscribers without material degradation and without altering or removing content or data; (2) provide viewable signals to every cable subscriber without additional service or equipment charges; and (3) provide to the appropriate local government subdivision (LGS), free of charge, any transmission services and the use of any transmission facilities necessary to meet such requirements. 
 
Requires a cable operator in a state adopting applicable franchising legislation that becomes effective after May 31, 2005, to: (1) owe any LGS in which the operator provides cable service during a year beginning after enactment of this Act an LGS-determined amount for such year, within specified limits, notwithstanding requirements relating to support for cable system PEG use in such state legislation; and (2) provide a certain number of channels for PEG use in an LGS, notwithstanding requirements relating to the number of PEG-use cable channels in such state legislation.
 
Defines &quot;local government subdivision&quot; (referred to above as an LGS) as a franchising authority deriving its power to grant a franchise from state or local law or an entity considered such a franchising authority as of the day before the effective date of such state legislation relating to support.
 
Specifies forms of support as cash payments, in-kind support, and free services provided by the cable system operator, or its predecessor, to the LGS for the cable system's PEG use.
 
Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) LGS or state enforcement, and (2) nonbinding mediation and court proceedings concerning disputed support amounts.
 
Revises the definition of &quot;franchise fee&quot; including by striking a provision prohibiting such a fee from including (in the case of a franchise granted after the enactment of the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984) capital costs that the franchise requires the cable operator to incur for PEG access facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: Introduced in Senate
REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1790
Sponsor: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2013-12-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Defense
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Justice
Disability and health-based discrimination
Government studies and investigations
HIV/AIDS
Intergovernmental relations
Judicial procedure and administration
Military law
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: 
Repeal Existing Policies that Encourage and Allow Legal HIV Discrimination Act of 2013 or the REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act of 2013 - Expresses the sense of Congress that federal and state laws, policies, and regulations regarding people living with HIV/AIDS should: (1) not place unique or additional burdens on such individuals solely as a result of their HIV status; and (2) demonstrate a public health-oriented, evidence-based, medically accurate, and contemporary understanding of HIV transmission, health implications, treatment, and the impact of punitive HIV-specific laws, policies, regulations, and judicial precedents and decisions on public health and on affected people, families, and communities.
 
Directs: (1) the Attorney General (AG), Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), and Secretary of Defense (DOD) to initiate a national review of federal (including military) and state laws, policies, regulations, and judicial precedents and decisions regarding criminal and related civil commitment cases involving people living with HIV/AIDS; and (2) the AG to transmit to Congress and make publicly available the results of such review with related recommendations.
 
Requires the AG and HHS Secretary to: (1) develop and publicly release guidance and best practice recommendations for states, and (2) establish an integrated monitoring and evaluation system to measure state progress.
 
Directs the AG and HHS and DOD Secretaries to transmit to the President and Congress any proposals necessary to implement adjustments to federal laws, policies, or regulations.
 
Prohibits this Act from being construed to discourage the prosecution of individuals who intentionally transmit or attempt to transmit HIV to another individual.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: Introduced in Senate