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To amend the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to prohibit the preemption of State stalking laws.

Bill: 113-hr-2472
Sponsor: Rep. Price, Tom [R-GA-6]
Introduced: 2013-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Civil actions and liability
Federal preemption
Labor-management relations
Railroads
State and local government operations
Transportation employees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-20
text: 
Amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to declare that nothing in those Acts shall be construed to preempt a law of any state, U.S. territory, or the District of Columbia that prohibits, criminalizes, or creates a civil cause of action for stalking, cyberstalking, or harassment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2013-06-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-06-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to prohibit the preemption of State identity theft laws.

Bill: 113-hr-2473
Sponsor: Rep. Price, Tom [R-GA-6]
Introduced: 2013-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Computer security and identity theft
Federal preemption
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Labor-management relations
Railroads
Right of privacy
State and local government operations
Transportation employees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-20
text: 
Amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to declare that nothing in those Acts shall be construed to preempt a law of any state, U.S. territory, or the District of Columbia that prohibits, criminalizes, or creates a civil cause of action for identity theft or the release of an individual's personally identifiable information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2013-06-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-06-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Ending Secret Law Act

Bill: 113-hr-2475
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-28]
Introduced: 2013-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Government information and archives
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Specialized courts

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-20
text: Ending Secret Law Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that each decision, order, or opinion (&quot;decision,&quot; for purposes of this Act) issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review that includes significant construction or interpretation of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) provisions concerning access to business records and the targeting of persons reasonably believed to be located outside the United States to acquire foreign intelligence information should be declassified in a manner consistent with the protection of national security, intelligence sources and methods, and other properly classified and sensitive information. 
Amends FISA provisions concerning access to business records and the targeting of persons reasonably believed to be located outside the United States to require the Attorney General, with exceptions, to declassify and make publicly available decisions concerning certain surveillance orders required for inclusion in a semiannual report to Congress. Requires release to the public of unclassified summaries and reports if the Attorney General determines that a decision may not be declassified.
 
Requires the Attorney General, in cases in which an unclassified summary may not be made available, to make publicly available an unclassified report on the status of the internal deliberations and process regarding the declassification by executive branch personnel of such decisions, including estimates of the number of decisions that will be declassified or remain classified.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-06-20
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2013-06-20
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2013-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-20
text: Introduced in House
SERVE Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2476
Sponsor: Rep. Hanna, Richard L. [R-NY-22]
Introduced: 2013-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Income tax credits
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-24
text: 
Supporting Emergency Responders Volunteer Efforts Act of 2013 or the SERVE Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual taxpayer who is a bona fide volunteer of a qualified volunteer emergency response organization a $1,000 refundable tax credit. Requires such individual to: (1) have served as a bona fide volunteer performing fire fighting and prevention services, emergency medical services, and ambulance services for more than six months in a taxable year; (2) have provided more than 40 hours of such services actively engaged in the prevention, control, or extinguishment of fires or response to emergency situations where life, property, or the environment is at risk; or (3) have been stationed on the premises of an emergency response organization in anticipation of being actively engaged in providing such services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Planning Actively for Cancer Treatment (PACT) Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2477
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-24]
Introduced: 2013-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Health care coverage and access
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: 
Planning Actively for Cancer Treatment (PACT) Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of cancer care planning and coordination services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Section 526 Repeal Act

Bill: 113-hr-2478
Sponsor: Rep. Conaway, K. Michael [R-TX-11]
Introduced: 2013-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Motor fuels
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: 
Section 526 Repeal Act - Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to repeal the requirement that any federal agency procurement contract for an alternative or synthetic fuel, including those from nonconventional petroleum sources, for any mobility-related use (except research or testing) specify that lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with the fuel must, on an ongoing basis, be less than or equal to such emissions from equivalent conventional fuel produced from conventional petroleum sources. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Artist-Museum Partnership Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2482
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2013-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
Charitable contributions
Income tax deductions
Intellectual property
Literature
Music

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: 
Artist-Museum Partnership Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers who create literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions or similar property a fair market value (determined at the time of contribution) tax deduction for contributions of such properties, the copyrights thereon, or both, to certain tax-exempt organizations, if such properties are properly appraised and are donated no sooner than 18 months after their creation. Limits the amount of such deduction based upon the donor's artistic adjusted gross income, as defined by this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2483
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2013-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Appropriations
Conflicts and wars
Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Government trust funds
Religion
Right of privacy
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: 
Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish in the Treasury the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund for the deposit of income, gift, and estate taxes paid by or on behalf of taxpayers: (1) who are designated conscientious objectors opposed to participation in war in any form based upon their sincerely held moral, ethical, or religious beliefs or training (within the meaning of the Military Selective Service Act); and (2) who have certified their beliefs in writing to the Secretary.
 
Requires that: (1) amounts deposited in the Fund be allocated annually to any appropriation not for a military purpose, (2) the Secretary report to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on the total amount transferred into the Fund during the preceding fiscal year and the purposes for which such amount was allocated, and (3) the privacy of individuals using the Fund be protected. 
Expresses the sense of Congress that any revenue increase resulting from the creation of the Fund be allocated in a manner consistent with its purposes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Act

Bill: 113-hr-2484
Sponsor: Rep. Bera, Ami [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2013-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Foreign labor
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Immigration status and procedures
Medical education
Rural conditions and development
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: 
Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1994 to make the J-1 visa waiver (Conrad state 30/medical services in underserved areas) program permanent.
 
Excludes from numerical immigration limitations alien physicians who have completed national interest waiver requirements by working in a health care shortage area (including alien physicians who completed such service before the date of enactment of this Act and any spouses or children of such alien physicians).
 
Sets forth specified employment protections and contract requirements for alien physicians working in underserved areas.
 
Increases the number of alien physicians that a state may be allocated from 30 to 35 per fiscal year in specified circumstances. Provides for additional increases or decreases based upon demand.
 
Provides up to three visa waivers per fiscal year per state for physicians in academic medical centers. 
 
Permits dual intent for an alien coming to the United States to receive graduate medical education or training, or to take examinations required for graduate medical education or training. 
 
Exempts H-1B nonimmigrant aliens seeking to enter the United States to pursue graduate medical education or training from specified entry limitations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Helping Homeless Veterans Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2485
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2013-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Appropriations
Mental health
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: 
Helping Homeless Veterans Act of 2013 - Extends the following Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) programs and services through FY2014: (1) homeless veterans reintegration programs, (2) referral and counseling services for veterans at risk of homelessness who are transitioning from certain institutions (including penal institutions), (3) financial assistance for supportive services for very low-income veteran families in permanent housing, and (4) a grant program for homeless veterans with special needs. 
 
Extends the following VA programs and services through 2014: (1) treatment and rehabilitation for seriously mentally ill and homeless veterans, (2) housing assistance for homeless veterans, and (3) the Advisory Committee on Homeless Veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
California Ocean and Coastal Protection Act

Bill: 113-hr-2486
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-24]
Introduced: 2013-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: California
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas
Pacific Ocean

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: 
California Ocean and Coastal Protection Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit oil and gas preleasing, leasing, and related activities in areas of the Outer Continental Shelf located off the coast of California.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Shoppers Honest Online Pricing Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2487
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2013-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Retail and wholesale trades
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: 
Ensuring Shoppers Honest Online Pricing Act of 2013 or the E-SHOP Act - Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to promulgate rules requiring an Internet merchant with annual gross revenue of more than $1 million to disclose to each consumer, prior to the final purchase of any good or service, the use of personal information in establishing or changing a price. 
 
Defines &quot;personal information&quot; to include an individual's Internet browsing history, device type and manufacturer, operating system, and Internet Protocol address.
 
Directs the FTC to provide specific exceptions when consumers should reasonably expect a change in price based on their personal information, including for the calculation of shipping charges and financial services for which such information is customarily used to formulate a price.
 
Deems a violation of a rule promulgated under this Act to be an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Rogue Wilderness Area Expansion Act

Bill: 113-hr-2488
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2013-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Dams and canals
Electric power generation and transmission
Lakes and rivers
Licensing and registrations
Oregon
Water storage
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: 
 Rogue Wilderness Area Expansion Act - Adds specified federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in the Wild Rogue Wilderness as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. 
 
Requires the part of the Rogue River, which lies within the Wild Rogue Wilderness, including the Wilderness additions, and was designated under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act as a component of the System in 1968, to be managed as a wild river. 
 
Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to add specified segments of creeks to the designation of the Rogue River in Oregon as a component of the national wild and scenic rivers system. 
 
Prohibits: (1) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) from licensing the construction of any dam, water conduit, reservoir, powerhouse, transmission line, or other project works affecting specified stream segments; and (2) any federal department or agency from assisting in the construction of any water resources project affecting any such segment, except for maintaining or repairing existing projects. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Oregon Caves Revitalization Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2489
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2013-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Lakes and rivers
Land transfers
Oregon
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: 
 Oregon Caves Revitalization Act of 2013 - Redesignates the Oregon Caves National Monument as the Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to transfer certain land identified as proposed addition lands to the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary) and adjust the boundary of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest to exclude such lands transferred by the Secretary. 
 
 Directs the Secretaries to accept the donation of a grazing lease or permit from a lessee or permittee for the Big Grayback Grazing Allotment located in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest or the Billy Mountain Grazing Allotment located on a parcel of BLM-managed land. 
 
 Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate the subterranean segment of the Cave Creek in Oregon known as the River Styx as a component of the national wild and scenic rivers system and certain additional segments of the Monument and Preserve for study for potential addition to the system. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Coretta Scott King Mid-Decade Redistricting Prohibition Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2490
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2013-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Congressional districts and representation
Constitution and constitutional amendments
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
State and local government operations
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: 
Coretta Scott King Mid-Decade Redistricting Prohibition Act of 2013 - Prohibits any state whose congressional districts have been redistricted after a decennial census from carrying out another redistricting until after the next apportionment of Representatives following a decennial census, unless a court requires such state to conduct a subsequent redistricting to comply with the Constitution or enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 
 
Makes this Act applicable to any congressional redistricting which occurs after the regular decennial census conducted during 2020. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Introduced in House