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A bill to amend title 31, United States Code, to provide that the President's annual budget submission to Congress list the current fiscal year spending level for each proposed program and a separate amount for any proposed spending increases, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-1321
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2013-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: 
Requires the President's budget submission to Congress to: (1) list each program, and its proposed funding level, that will be a one-time expense for the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted; and, in addition to the performance standards required, (2) a proposal, by budget function and agency, for reductions in spending for each of the four ensuing fiscal years.
 
Requires the President, for each budget item being conducted in the current fiscal year, to provide: (1) the amount appropriated or otherwise made available for the item in that year, and (2) the amount of any proposed adjustment in the funding level for the item and its justification.
 
 Requires the President, if he proposes an adjustment resulting in a funding increase for a budget item, to include with the proposal the amount of the adjustment that is a result of inflation and the amount that is a result of an increase in employees' salaries or benefits.
 
Requires the President to provide for each major program in a budget function specified in the required estimated budget outlays and proposed budget authority: (1) the amount appropriated or otherwise made available for it in the current fiscal year; and (2) a separate amount (if any) of its expected increase in the following fiscal year owing to inflation, pay increases, or benefit increases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
SALTS Act

Bill: 113-s-1322
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2013-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Marketing and advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: 
Synthetic Abuse and Labeling of Toxic Substances Act of 2013 or the SALTS Act - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to provide that, in determining whether a controlled substance analogue was intended for human consumption, the following factors may be considered: (1) the marketing, advertising, and labeling of the substance; (2) the known efficacy or usefulness of the substance for the marketed, advertised, or labeled purpose; (3) the difference between the price at which the substance is sold and the price at which the substance it is purported to be or advertised as is normally sold; (4) the diversion of the substance from legitimate channels and the clandestine importation, manufacture, or distribution of the substance; and (5) whether the defendant knew or should have known that the substance was intended to be consumed by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other immediate means.
 
Declares that evidence that a substance was not marketed, advertised, or labeled for human consumption shall not by itself be sufficient to establish that the substance was not intended for human consumption.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-14
text: Committee on United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. Hearings held.
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Committee on United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. Hearings held.
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Our Youth from Dangerous Synthetic Drugs Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1323
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2013-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Executive agency funding and structure
Trade restrictions
U.S. Sentencing Commission

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: 
Protecting Our Youth from Dangerous Synthetic Drugs Act of 2013 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to include in the definition of a "controlled substance analogue" a substance designated as such by the Controlled Substance Analogue Committee (established by this Act).
 
Directs the Attorney General to establish such Committee as an interagency committee headed by the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and comprised of scientific experts in the fields of chemistry and pharmacology from DEA, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and any other federal agency determined by the Attorney General to be appropriate. 
 
 Requires the Committee to designate, and establish and maintain a list of, controlled substance analogues determined to be similar to a schedule I or II controlled substance in either chemical structure or predictive effect on the body in such a manner as to make it likely that the substance will, or can be reasonably expected to, have a potential for abuse. Directs the Administrator to publish a description of each designation made by the Committee.
 
Amends the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to prohibit the importation of any controlled substance analogue except pursuant to such notification or declaration as the Attorney General may prescribe.
 
Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to review and, if appropriate, amend the federal sentencing guidelines and policy statements to ensure that they provide adequate penalties for any offense involving the unlawful manufacturing, importing, exporting, or trafficking of controlled substance analogues and similar offenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-14
text: Committee on United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. Hearings held.
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Committee on United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. Hearings held.
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5802-5803)
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5801-5802)
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
National Energy Tax Repeal Act

Bill: 113-s-1324
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2013-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: 
National Energy Tax Repeal Act - Prohibits the head of a federal agency from promulgating any regulation relating to power sector carbon pollution standards or any substantially similar regulation on or after June 25, 2013, unless that regulation is explicitly authorized by an Act of Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Tax Credits Improvement Act

Bill: 113-s-1325
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2013-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax credits
Small business
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: 
Small Business Tax Credits Improvement Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for the health insurance expenses of small employers, to: (1) expand eligibility for the credit to employers having up to 50 (currently, 25) full-time equivalent employees whose annual wages do not exceed $75,000 (currently, $50,000); (2) raise the employee threshold for triggering the phaseout of such credit from 10 to 20 full-time employees; (3) eliminate the requirement that employers contribute the same percentage of cost of each employee's health insurance and the cap limiting eligible employer contributions to average premiums paid to a state health care exchange; and (4) make such credit available to employee-owners and their dependents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Songwriters Tax Simplification Reauthorization Act

Bill: 113-s-1326
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2013-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Intellectual property
Music

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: 
Songwriters Tax Simplification Reauthorization Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax deduction for depreciation, to make permanent the taxpayer election to amortize over a five-year period expenses incurred in creating or acquiring a musical composition or any copyright with respect to such composition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy Competition for Small Business Act

Bill: 113-s-1327
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2013-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: 
Healthy Competition for Small Business Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to allow qualified employers under such Act to offer their employees enrollment in a health benefits plan under the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program when fewer than two qualified health plans are offered through the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP Exchange) and no multi-state qualified health plan is available under such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
New Philadelphia, Illinois, Study Act

Bill: 113-s-1328
Sponsor: Sen. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL]
Introduced: 2013-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Historic sites and heritage areas
Illinois
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: 
New Philadelphia, Illinois, Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the New Philadelphia archaeological site and the land surrounding it in Illinois (the study area). 
 
Requires the Secretary to evaluate the national significance of the study area and to determine the suitability and feasibility of designating the study area as a unit of the National Park System. 

action_date: 2014-12-10
text: 

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

 
New Philadelphia, Illinois, Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the New Philadelphia archaeological site and the land surrounding it in Illinois. 
 
Requires the Secretary to report to Congress regarding the national significance of the area, the suitability and feasibility of designating the area as a unit of the National Park System, and alternatives for preservation, protection, and interpretation of the area by federal, state, or local governments or by private and nonprofit organizations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 633.
action_date: 2014-12-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Landrieu without amendment. With written report No. 113-293.
action_date: 2014-12-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Landrieu without amendment. With written report No. 113-293.
action_date: 2014-11-13
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-93.
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5803)
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5803)
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Realistic Employer Responsibility Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1330
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2013-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: 
Realistic Employer Responsibility Act of 2013 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to delay until 2016 enforcement of requirements that large employers offer their full-time employees the opportunity to enroll in minimum essential coverage. Delays the effective date of related reporting requirements for such employers.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to:
 
 
publish the forms and other guidance necessary for large employers to make the information return required under the Internal Revenue Code and provide opportunity to make the return, at the option of the employer, for 2014 and 2015 in the case of those that would be required to do so for either such year but for the amendments made by this Act; and
 
in consultation with the State American Health Benefit Exchanges established under PPACA, establish an Internet website (which may be combined with the existing website to identify affordable health insurance coverage options) through which employers and residents of any state may obtain information in an easily understandable format relating to the responsibilities of, and benefits available to, such employers and residents under such Act.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the Generalized System of Preferences, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-1331
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2013-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Customs enforcement
Tariffs
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: 
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to extend duty-free treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) through September 30, 2015. 
 
Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) to extend certain customs users fees for certain customs services performed through January 21, 2022, and for other specified customs services performed through January 28, 2022.
 
Prescribes a formula for required estimated corporate tax payments otherwise due in each of the quarters of 2018 from corporations with assets of at least $1 billion. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1332
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2013-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Home and outpatient care
Medicare
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: 
Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise conditions of and limitations on payment for home health care services.
 
Allows payment for home health services to Medicare beneficiaries by: (1) a nurse practitioner, (2) a clinical nurse specialist working in collaboration with a physician in accordance with state law, (3) a certified nurse-midwife, or (4) a physician assistant under a physician's supervision.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5803-5804)
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Increased Competition for Consumers Act

Bill: 113-s-1333
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2013-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Government lending and loan guarantees
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: 
Increased Competition for Consumers Act - Transfers to the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) program the unobligated balance of funds transferred under the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 to a fund to provide assistance and oversight to qualified nonprofit health insurance issuers awarded loans or grants pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). 
 
Amends PPACA to appropriate the amount equal to the amount rescinded (unobligated funds for the CO-OP program as of January 2, 2013) under the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 to carry out such program. 
Removes the time restriction on the award of CO-OP program loans and grants.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1334
Sponsor: Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV]
Introduced: 2013-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: 
Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013 - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to set the annual interest rate on Direct Stafford loans and Direct Unsubsidized Stafford loans issued to undergraduate students at the rate on high-yield 10-year Treasury notes plus 2.05%, but caps that rate at 8.25%.
 
Sets the annual interest rate on Direct Unsubsidized Stafford loans issued to graduate or professional students at the rate on high-yield 10-year Treasury notes plus 3.6%, but caps that rate at 9.5%.
 
Sets the annual interest rate on Direct PLUS loans at the rate on high-yield 10-year Treasury notes plus 4.6%, but caps that rate at 10.5%.
 
Limits the applicability of the preceding provisions to loans first disbursed on or after July 1, 2013.
 
Fixes the interest rate on Direct Stafford loans, Direct Unsubsidized Stafford loans, and Direct PLUS loans for the period of the loan.
 
Sets the annual interest rate on Direct Consolidation loans for which an application is received on or after July 1, 2013, at the weighted average of the interest rates on the loans consolidated, rounded to the nearest higher one-eighth of 1%.
 
Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to conduct a study and report to Congress on the actual cost to the federal government of carrying out the federal student loan programs authorized under title IV of the HEA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read twice. Ordered Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 142.
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to permit States to require proof of citizenship for registration to vote in elections for Federal office.

Bill: 113-s-1336
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2013-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Citizenship and naturalization
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Federal preemption
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: 
Amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to allow states to require proof of citizenship for voter registration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read twice. Ordered Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 144.
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Crime Gun Tracing Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1337
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2013-07-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Firearms and explosives
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-23
text: 
Crime Gun Tracing Act of 2013 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to direct the Attorney General, in awarding public safety and community policing (COPS ON THE BEAT) grants, to give preferential consideration to an applicant that has reported all firearms recovered during the previous 12 months at a crime scene or during the course of a criminal investigation to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), or to a state agency that reports such firearms to the Bureau, for the purpose of tracing.
 
Requires each application for a COPS grant to specify: (1) whether the applicant recovered any firearms at a crime scene or during the course of a criminal investigation during the 12 months before the submission of the application; (2) the number of such firearms recovered; (3) the number of such firearms reported to the Bureau, or to a state agency that reports such firearms to the Bureau, for tracing; and (4) the reason why any such firearms were not so reported.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5962)
action_date: 2013-07-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5842)
action_date: 2013-07-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to require that the Office of Personnel Management submit an annual report to Congress relating to the use of official time by Federal employees.

Bill: 113-s-1338
Sponsor: Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK]
Introduced: 2013-07-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Employee leave
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Labor-management relations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-23
text: 
Requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to submit an annual report to Congress on the use of official time by federal employees. Defines &quot;official time&quot; as any period of time granted to a federal employee to perform representational or consultative functions and during which the employee would otherwise be in a duty status.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-07-23
text: Introduced in Senate