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Effective Teaching and Leading Act

Bill: 113-hr-2173
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2013-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: 
Effective Teaching and Leading Act - Amends title II (Preparing, Training, and Recruiting High Quality Teachers and Principals) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to create a new Part E: Building School Capacity for Effective Teaching and Leadership.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to allot grants to states for subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to improve teaching and school leadership through a system of teacher and principal induction, professional development, and evaluation that is developed, implemented, and evaluated in collaboration with local teacher, principal, and school leader organizations and preparation programs.
 
Requires LEAs to include in such system: 
 
 
 a comprehensive, coherent, high quality formalized induction program for beginning teachers during their first two years of full-time employment; 
 
 high-quality effective professional development for teachers, principals, school librarians, and other school leaders at their lowest achieving schools; 
 
 a rigorous, transparent, and equitable teacher and principal evaluation system for all their schools; 
 
 ongoing high-quality support, coaching, and professional development for principals and other school leaders at their lowest achieving schools; 
 
 opportunities for teachers and school librarians to assume new school leadership roles and receive training regarding such roles; and 
 
 significant and sustainable stipends above a teacher's base salary for teachers that serve as mentors, instructional coaches, teacher leaders, or evaluators under these programs.
 
 
Directs LEA grantees to conduct a valid and reliable full population survey of teaching and learning, at the school and LEA level, the results of which are to inform and be integrated into such systems.
 
Requires a formal evaluation of each system to be conducted by the state, an institution of higher education, or an external agency and the results disseminated widely.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-2175
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Bill [R-OH-6]
Introduced: 2013-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
District of Columbia
Europe
Military history
Monuments and memorials
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Religion
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: 
 World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to install at the World War II memorial in the District of Columbia a suitable plaque or an inscription with the words that President Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with the United States on June 6, 1944, the morning of D-Day. 

action_date: 2014-06-30
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here, with an updated short title.)

 
 World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to install at the World War II memorial in the District of Columbia a suitable plaque or an inscription with the words that President Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with the United States on June 6, 1944, the morning of D-Day. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-30
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 373.
action_date: 2014-06-30
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-500.
action_date: 2014-06-30
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-500.
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Discharged.
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
To require express prior statutory authorization from Congress to carry out any activities under the United States-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-2176
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2013-05-23 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Afghanistan
Asia
Congressional oversight
International law and treaties
Military assistance, sales, and agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: 
Prohibits the United States from carrying out any activities under the United States-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement, signed on May 2, 2012, or any successor agreement for any fiscal year beginning on or after the date of the enactment of this Act absent prior congressional statutory authorization to carry out such activities for such fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
Unemployment Restoration Act

Bill: 113-hr-2177
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2013-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: 
Unemployment Restoration Act - Makes available for obligation, in the same amount and manner as if such order had not been issued, any budgetary resources sequestered under the presidential sequestration order issued on March 1, 2013, for federal payments to a state under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 and similar payments under the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008, pursuant to a federal-state agreement.
 
 Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to apply the same requirements for FY2014-FY2021 with respect to any presidential sequestration order that might be issued.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
FIT Kids Act

Bill: 113-hr-2178
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2013-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Disability and health-based discrimination
Disability and paralysis
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Higher education
Nutrition and diet
Performance measurement
Physical fitness and lifestyle
School athletics
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: 
Fitness Integrated with Teaching Kids Act or FIT Kids Act - Requires the Secretary of Education to award grants to states to implement comprehensive programs to promote physical activity, education, and fitness and nutrition that are based on scientifically valid research, and an analysis of need that considers, at a minimum, physical education indicators. Limits a grant award to a maximum of five years.
 
Prescribes certain activities under a grant, including that states must: (1) develop and implement a physical education indicators measurement system; (2) collect and publish information on physical activity, education, and fitness and nutrition at the school level; (3) use indicators to identify and address student needs; (4) encourage local education agencies to integrate physical activity, education, and fitness into a range of subjects throughout the school day and locations within schools; and (5) award sub-grants based on identified needs. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences, to establish program performance metrics to measure the effectiveness of the grant program's activities.
 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require the compact with parents under the school-level parental involvement policy to include a description of the school's responsibility to support their children in leading a healthy and active life, such as by providing health meals and snacks, encouraging participation in physical education, and sharing in physical activity outside the school day to support successful academic achievement.
 
Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to require the Secretary to promote equal opportunities for students with disabilities to be included and participate in physical education and extracurricular athletics implemented in, or in conjunction with, elementary schools, secondary schools, and institutions of higher education, by ensuring the provision of appropriate technical assistance and guidance for schools and institutions and their personnel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Act

Bill: 113-hr-2179
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2013-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child health
Department of Health and Human Services
Government information and archives
Health promotion and preventive care
Physical fitness and lifestyle

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: 
Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to publish a &quot;Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans&quot; report at least every 10 years that contains physical activity information and guidelines for the general public, based on the preponderance of current scientific and medical knowledge, and including guidelines for identified population subgroups, as needed. Requires any federal agency that proposes to issue any physical activity guidance for the general population or identified subgroups to submit the text of the guidance to the Secretary for review. Prescribes review procedures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Procurement Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program in title 10, United States Code.

Bill: 113-hr-2180
Sponsor: Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2]
Introduced: 2013-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: 
Amends the procurement technical assistance cooperative agreement program of the Department of Defense (DOD) (providing procurement technical assistance to businesses) to: (1) increase from 50% to 65% the DOD share of program costs, and (2) increase assistance limits with respect to programs operating on a statewide basis, on less than a statewide basis, wholly within one service area of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, or wholly within more than one such service area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
Safe Food for Seniors Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2181
Sponsor: Rep. Latham, Tom [R-IA-3]
Introduced: 2013-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medicare
Nutrition and diet

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: 
Safe Food for Seniors Act of 2013 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, for a Medicare skilled nursing facility or a Medicaid nursing facility without a full-time qualified dietitian, to require its director of food services to be: (1) a Certified Dietary Manager meeting the requirements of the Certifying Board for Dietary Managers; (2) a Dietetic Technician, Registered meeting with the requirements published by the Commission on Dietetic Registration; or (3) an individual with equivalent military or academic qualifications.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2013-05-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
Half in Ten Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2182
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2013-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Child safety and welfare
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Community life and organization
Department of Health and Human Services
Disaster relief and insurance
Economic performance and conditions
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: 
Half in Ten Act of 2013 - Establishes within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) a Federal Interagency Working Group on Reducing Poverty, which shall develop a National Strategy to reduce the number of persons living in poverty in America in half within 10 years after release of the 2012 Census report on Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
WE CARE Act

Bill: 113-hr-2184
Sponsor: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2]
Introduced: 2013-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Community life and organization
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Family relationships
Public-private cooperation
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: 
Working to Encourage Community Action and Responsibility in Education Act or the WE CARE Act - Amends title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require states and local educational agencies (LEAs) to assess the nonacademic factors affecting student academic performance and work with other public, private, nonprofit, and community-based entities to address those factors. 
 
Requires the annual report cards issued by states and LEAs to include additional performance data, including information on their efforts to increase community and parental involvement in students' education.
 
Establishes a new program requiring the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to LEAs for the development and implementation of community involvement policies that leverage the resources, services, and opportunities available from public, private, nonprofit, and community-based partners to address students' academic and nonacademic needs and thereby support their attainment of state academic performance standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Day Moment of Silence Act

Bill: 113-hr-2185
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2013-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commemorative events and holidays
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: 
Veterans Day Moment of Silence Act - Directs the President to issue an annual proclamation calling on the people of the United States to observe two minutes of silence on Veterans Day, beginning at 3:11 p.m. Atlantic standard time, in honor of the service and sacrifice of veterans throughout the history of the nation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
VALID Compounding Act

Bill: 113-hr-2186
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2013-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government information and archives
Health care quality
Health personnel
Licensing and registrations
Manufacturing
Prescription drugs
Retail and wholesale trades
Small business
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: 
Verifying Authority and Legality In Drug Compounding Act of 2013 or VALID Compounding Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the regulation of compounding drugs.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and maintain a list of bulk substances from which drug products may be compounded that specifies any limitation on compounding of the substance and the particular medical need that is met by placing such substance on the list. Requires the Secretary to receive and consider petitions from any person identifying a substance that should be added to or removed from the list. Sets forth requirements for such petitions. Requires the Secretary also to develop and maintain a list of drug products that should not be compounded.
 
 Allows a pharmacy to compound drugs which are not for an identified individual patient based on the receipt of a prescription order if the pharmacy registers with the Secretary and agrees to comply with any condition of operation or limitation of activity the Secretary specifies. Sets forth information that must be included in any such registration.
 
Authorizes the compounding of a drug that is a copy of a commercially available drug product if: (1) the drug is on the drug shortage list with notice given to the Secretary by the pharmacy, or (2) the drug product is necessary to protect public health and well-being. Requires the pharmacy to demonstrate to the Secretary that controls will be used that are comparable to elements required for safe use for a drug subject to a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish standards, processes, and procedures for high-risk sterile compounding.
 
Establishes requirements related to inspections, labeling, and adverse event reporting for compounded drugs.
 
Requires the Secretary to assess an annual establishment fee from compounding pharmacies and a reinspection fee for any pharmacy subject to a reinspection in a fiscal year. Sets forth a methodology for setting such fees and requires reduced fees for small businesses (pharmacies with $1 million or less in annual sales).
 
States that the requirements of this Act do not preempt any non-federal requirement that is in addition to, and compatible with, such requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
SALUTE Act

Bill: 113-hr-2187
Sponsor: Rep. Meehan, Patrick [R-PA-7]
Introduced: 2013-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Government studies and investigations
Mental health
Specialized courts
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: 
Servicemember Assistance for Lawful Understanding, Treatment, and Education Act or the SALUTE Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to award grants for developing, implementing, or enhancing veterans' treatment courts or expanding operational mental health or drug courts to serve veterans to ensure that such courts effectively integrate substance abuse treatment, mental health treatment, sanctions and incentives, and transitional services, in a judicially supervised court setting with jurisdiction over offenders who are veterans. 
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to award such grants to states, state courts, local courts, local governments, and Indian tribal governments for court programs that involve: (1) continuing judicial supervision over offenders who are veterans with substance abuse or mental health problems; (2) coordination with appropriate federal, state, or local prosecutors; (3) coordination with the Veterans Health Administration; and (4) the integrated administration of other sanctions and services, including substance abuse and mental health treatment, supervised release involving the possibility of prosecution, confinement, or incarceration based on non-compliance with program requirements or failure to show satisfactory progress, and offender management. Prohibits the use of grant funds to provide judicial supervision over, treatment of, or other services to violent offenders.
 
Sets forth application and reporting requirements.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study to assess the effectiveness and impact of such grant program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in House