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Earthquake Insurance Affordability Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1813
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2013-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disaster relief and insurance
Government lending and loan guarantees
Natural disasters
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: 
 Earthquake Insurance Affordability Act of 2013 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to guarantee holders of debt against loss of principal or interest, or both, on debt issued by eligible state programs designed to: (1) promote the availability of private capital to provide liquidity and capacity to state earthquake (specifically, residential property) insurance programs, and (2) expedite the payment of claims under such programs and better assist financial recovery from significant earthquakes.
 
Prescribes operational requirements for eligible state programs which include an established earthquake insurance program that: (1) offers residential property insurance coverage for insured losses to property, contents, and additional living expenses; (2) is prohibited from requiring insurers to pool resources to provide property insurance coverage for earthquakes; (3) is based upon the best available scientific information for assessing the risk of earthquake frequency, severity, and loss; and (4) incorporates the sum of the modeled expected loss, risk financing costs, loss adjustment expense, and any other expenses necessary to operate the state program.
 
Includes among such operational requirements that the state: (1) has in effect and enforces, or the appropriate local governments within the state have in effect and enforce, nationally recognized building, seismic-design, and safety codes and consensus-based standards; and (2) has taken actions to establish an insurance rate structure that takes into account measures to mitigate insured losses.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish procedures for annual certification of an eligible state program.
 
Restricts to $3 billion, including interest, the aggregate principal amount of outstanding debt obligations guaranteed by the Secretary. 
 
Makes appropriations to satisfy debt guarantee commitments.
 
Requires the Secretary, upon request of an eligible state program, to provide such debt guarantees.
 
Restricts to $1.5 billion the amount of a debt guarantee that an eligible state program receives to secure or provide claim-payment capacity for paying the insured losses and loss adjustment expenses from all events relating to a single earthquake. 
 
Pledges the full faith and credit of the United States to the payment of all guarantees issued under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
National Silver Alert Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1814
Sponsor: Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV]
Introduced: 2013-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Aging
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Justice
Emergency communications systems
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Public-private cooperation
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: 
National Silver Alert Act of 2013 - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) establish a national Silver Alert communications network within the Department of Justice (DOJ) to assist regional and local search efforts for missing seniors; (2) ensure that, when feasible, the network is able to operate in coordination with the AMBER Alert communications network; and (3) designate an individual of DOJ to serve as the Silver Alert Coordinator to coordinate the network with states. Defines &quot;missing senior&quot; as any individual who is reported as missing to or by a law enforcement agency and who meets state requirements for designation as a missing senior. 

Directs the Coordinator to: (1) establish minimum standards for the issuance and dissemination of alerts issued through the network; and (2) make available to states, local governments, law enforcement agencies, and other concerned entities network training and information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8774-8775)
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Occupational Therapy in Mental Health Act

Bill: 113-s-1815
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2013-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Allied health services
Department of Health and Human Services
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: 
Occupational Therapy in Mental Health Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to include occupational therapists within the definition of &quot;behavioral and mental health professionals&quot; for purposes of the National Health Service Corps.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Trademark Act of 1946 to provide for the registration of marks consisting of a flag, coat of arms, or other insignia of the United States, or any State or local government, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-1816
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2013-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Intellectual property
National symbols

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: 
Amends trademark registration criteria under the Trademark Act of 1946 to specify that the United States, or any state, municipality, county, political subdivision, or other governmental authority in the United States, may register with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) a trademark that consists of, or comprises, its own flag, coat of arms, or other official insignia. (Currently, an applicant's trademark registration is subject to refusal if the mark consists of, or comprises, the flag or coat of arms or other insignia of the United States, or of any state or municipality, or of any foreign nation.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Humane Short Term Custody Act

Bill: 113-s-1817
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2013-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional oversight
Department of Homeland Security
Detention of persons
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: 
Humane Short Term Custody Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to prescribe regulations establishing standards for short-term custody of individuals by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that provide for basic minimums of care at all CBP facilities that hold individuals in custody, including Border Patrol stations, ports of entry, checkpoints, forward operating bases, secondary inspection areas, and short-term custody facilities. 
 
Requires: (1) that such regulations be fully consistent with national standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, and (2) annual facility inspections.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Emergency Information Improvement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1819
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2013-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Disaster relief and insurance
News media and reporting

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: 
Emergency Information Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to include public broadcasting facilities within the definition of a &quot;private nonprofit facility&quot; that provides essential services of a governmental nature to the general public, and to include broadcast and telecommunications within the definition of &quot;critical services&quot; provided by such a facility, for purposes of eligibility for certain disaster assistance.
 
Makes this Act applicable to a major disaster declared by the President under such Act on or after October 28, 2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Philippines Charitable Giving Assistance Act

Bill: 113-s-1821
Sponsor: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2013-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Asia
Charitable contributions
Disaster relief and insurance
Income tax deductions
Philippines
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: 
Philippines Charitable Giving Assistance Act - Treats cash contributions made after January 1, 2014, and before March 1, 2014, for the relief of victims of Typhoon Haiyan as having been made on December 31, 2013, for purposes of the tax deduction for charitable contributions. Deems such a contribution as meeting the recordkeeping requirements of the Internal Revenue Code if the taxpayer produces a telephone bill showing the name of the donee organization and the date and amount of the contribution.

action_date: 2014-03-06
text: 
Philippines Charitable Giving Assistance Act - Treats cash contributions made after the enactment of this Act and before April 15, 2014, for the relief of victims in areas affected by Typhoon Haiyan as having been made on December 31, 2013, for purposes of the tax deduction for charitable contributions. Deems such a contribution as meeting the recordkeeping requirements of the Internal Revenue Code if the taxpayer produces a telephone bill showing the name of the donee organization and the date and amount of the contribution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-25
text: See also H.R. 3771.
action_date: 2014-03-25
text: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1706)
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S1369)
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S1369)
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S1369)
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2014-03-06
text: Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Foreign Medical School Accountability Fairness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1822
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2013-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Government lending and loan guarantees
Medical education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: 
Foreign Medical School Accountability Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to eliminate the exemption of certain foreign medical schools from the prohibition on foreign medical schools participating in the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan program, unless:
 
 
at least 60% of those enrolled in, and at least 60% of the graduates of, the foreign medical school during the preceding year were not citizens, nationals, or permanent residents of the United States or were not in the United States with the intention of becoming citizens or permanent residents; and
 
at least 75% of students or graduates of the medical school located outside the United States or Canada who took the examinations administered by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates in the preceding year received a passing score.
 
 
Preserves the Direct Loan eligibility of students who were enrolled at schools excepted from that prohibition on or before the date of this Act's enactment.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8907)
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8775-8776)
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Strengthening the Child Welfare Response to Human Trafficking Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1823
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2013-12-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Adoption and foster care
Child safety and welfare
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Health and Human Services
Government information and archives
Human trafficking
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-13
text: 
Strengthening the Child Welfare Response to Human Trafficking Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and publish guidelines to assist state, Indian tribe, and tribal organization child welfare agencies and juvenile and family courts in efforts to serve appropriately youth who are victims of trafficking and youth at-risk of becoming such.
 
Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require a state plan for foster care and adoption assistance to require reasonable efforts be made to: (1) identify as a victim of trafficking and document appropriately in agency records each child who is such a victim over whom the agency has responsibility for placement, care, or supervision; and (2) specify in agency records the type of trafficking to which the child has been subjected. 
 
Requires the plan to require the agency to report within 72 hours to appropriate law enforcement agencies for entry into the National Crime Information Center database the identity of each child to whom the agency is providing child welfare services who is missing or has been abducted or is identified as a victim of trafficking.
 
Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to require the state plan for use of a grant for a child abuse or neglect prevention program to contain an assurance that the state law has in place provisions and procedures for the assessment and identification of victims of trafficking, as well as comprehensive training and services to serve such victims.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-12-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Drinking Water Supply Assistance Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1824
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2013-12-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Budget deficits and national debt
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Metals
State and local finance
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-13
text: 
Drinking Water Supply Assistance Act of 2013 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to exempt any pipe, pipe or plumbing fitting or fixture, solder, or flux that contains brass from certain prohibitions against the use of lead pipes, solder, and flux under the following conditions:
 
 
a supplier of water owns the brass before enactment of this Act;
 
the brass is used to prevent or mitigate a municipal budget deficit or an interruption in service of a public water system; and
 
the supplier of water is otherwise in compliance with all laws and regulations, except monitoring requirements regarding lead in water.
 
 
Makes the exemption inapplicable to a municipality if the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determines it would result in an unreasonable risk to public health.
 
Directs the Administrator 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: 2013-12-15
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 261.
action_date: 2013-12-13
text: Introduced in the Senate, read the first time.
action_date: 2013-12-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Securing Job Corps Centers Act

Bill: 113-s-1825
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2013-12-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Department of Labor
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Vocational and technical education
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-13
text: 
Securing Job Corps Centers Act - Expresses the sense of Congress with respect to the Job Corps program.
 
Establishes the Jobs Corps Program Advisory Board in the Department of Labor.
 
Directs the Board to conduct a study and develop recommendations for improving the administration and management structure of the Job Corps program.
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training, to take actions to improve the administration and management structure of the Jobs Corps program, including reducing to one (currently, there are three) the number of Senior Executive Service positions within the program.
 
Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to conduct a financial audit of the Job Corps program for FY2012 and FY2013 and report the results to Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-12-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8809-8811)
action_date: 2013-12-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Motorsports Fairness and Permanency Act

Bill: 113-s-1826
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2013-12-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Motor vehicles
Sports and recreation facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-13
text: 
Motorsports Fairness and Permanency Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the classification, for depreciation purposes, of any motorsports entertainment complex as seven-year property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-12-13
text: Introduced in Senate
American Fighter Aces Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 113-s-1827
Sponsor: Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV]
Introduced: 2013-12-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Congressional tributes
Military history
Military personnel and dependents
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Smithsonian Institution

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-15
text: 
American Fighter Aces Congressional Gold Medal Act - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of a congressional gold medal to the American Fighter Aces, collectively, in recognition of their heroic military service and defense of the nation's freedom.
 

action_date: 2014-03-26
text: 

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

 
American Fighter Aces Congressional Gold Medal Act - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of a congressional gold medal to the American Fighter Aces, collectively, in recognition of their heroic military service and defense of the nation's freedom.
 
Requires the medal to be given to the Smithsonian Institution, where it shall be available for display or temporary loan to be displayed elsewhere, particularly at locations associated with the American Fighter Aces.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-27
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2014-03-27
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2014-03-27
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2014-03-26
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S1779)
action_date: 2014-03-26
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S1779)
action_date: 2014-03-26
text: Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1778-1779)
action_date: 2014-03-26
text: Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S1778-1779)
action_date: 2013-12-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-12-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1828
Sponsor: Sen. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN]
Introduced: 2013-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing industry and standards
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Real estate business
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: 
Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act of 2013 - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to revise the exclusion from the meaning of "mortgage originator" of any employee of a retailer of manufactured homes who does not for compensation or gain take residential mortgage loan applications, for compensation or gain offer or negotiate terms of a residential mortgage loan, or advise a consumer on loan terms (including rates, fees, and other costs).
 
Excludes from the meaning of "mortgage originator," instead, any retailer of manufactured or modular homes or its employees unless the retailer or its employees receive compensation or gain for engaging in certain activities in excess of any compensation or gain received in a comparable cash transaction.
 
Amends the Truth in Lending Act to revise the definition of "high cost mortgage."


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to modify the boundaries of Cibola National Forest in the State of New Mexico, to transfer certain Bureau of Land Management land for inclusion in the national forest, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-1829
Sponsor: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Introduced: 2013-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Land transfers
New Mexico
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: 
Expands the boundaries of the Cibola National Forest in New Mexico to include the Crest of Montezuma.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer administrative jurisdiction over such land to the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) for inclusion in the Cibola National Forest. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate