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Insurance Capital Standards Clarification Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4510
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Gary G. [R-CA-31]
Introduced: 2014-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Foreign and international corporations
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: 
Insurance Capital Standards Clarification Act of 2014 - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act concerning establishment of minimum leverage and minimum risk-based capital requirements on a consolidated basis for a depository institution holding company or a nonbank financial company supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board).
 
States that federal banking agencies shall not be required to subject any person to such minimum capital requirements, to the extent that such person either: (1) acts in its capacity as a regulated insurance entity regulated by a state insurance regulator, or (2) is a regulated foreign subsidiary engaged in the business of insurance (including a regulated foreign affiliate of such subsidiary).
 
Exempts from any requirement to prepare holding company financial statements in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles any Board-supervised depository institution holding company or nonbank financial company that is also a person regulated by a state insurance regulator or a regulated foreign subsidiary (or a regulated foreign affiliate) that files its holding company financial statements using only Statutory Accounting Principles in accordance with state law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance Prior to Referral.
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Students From Automatic Default Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4511
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Timothy H. [D-NY-1]
Introduced: 2014-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: 
Protecting Students From Automatic Default Act of 2014 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require a private educational lender to notify a borrower immediately if, upon receiving notification of the death or bankruptcy of a cosigner jointly liable for the private education loan, the lender deems the borrower to be in default, changes the terms of the loan, or accelerates the loan's repayment terms. 
 
Requires a private educational lender to give a borrower at least 90 days after such a notification to identify a new cosigner for that loan. Retains the lender's right to renegotiate loan terms based on the creditworthiness of the new cosigner.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Max Tax Act

Bill: 113-hr-4512
Sponsor: Rep. Jolly, David [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2014-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment taxes
Income tax rates
Property tax
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Transfer and inheritance taxes
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: 
Alternative Maximum Tax Act or the Max Tax Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for an alternative maximum tax for a taxpayer other than a corporate taxpayer. Limits the tax to 50% of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income, calculated by adding all federal, state, and local taxes paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year and dividing that amount by the taxpayer's adjusted gross income. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Student Debt Repayment Fairness Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4513
Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Daniel T. [D-MI-5]
Introduced: 2014-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Disability and paralysis
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: 
Student Debt Repayment Fairness Act of 2014 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit a private educational lender from accelerating the repayment terms of the outstanding obligation of a borrower in good standing with respect to a particular private education loan if a cosigner jointly liable on the loan is unable to fulfill any obligations with respect to it by reason of death or disability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Kline DeWire Public Safety Officers' Retroactive Benefits Act

Bill: 113-hr-4514
Sponsor: Rep. Marino, Tom [R-PA-10]
Introduced: 2014-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: 
Kline DeWire Public Safety Officers' Retroactive Benefits Act - Amends the Dale Long Public Safety Officers' Benefits Improvements Act of 2012 to provide that such Act shall apply to injuries sustained by rescue squad or ambulance crew members on or after December 1, 2007 (currently, June 1, 2009).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in House
GIRLS-STEM Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4515
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2014-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Vocational and technical education
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: 
Getting into Researching, Learning, & Studying of STEM Act of 2014 or the GIRLS-STEM Act of 2014 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to local educational agencies that serve underrepresented or low-income students to enable their elementary and secondary schools to establish and implement programs that:
 
 
 encourage the ongoing interest of female students in careers requiring science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) skills at all levels of the career pathway; and
 
prepare female students to pursue the industry-recognized credentials needed to pursue a STEM career.
 
 
Requires the grants to be awarded in four-school-year increments.
 
Requires the grants to be used to:
 
 
acquaint female students with, and prepare them to pursue, STEM careers;
 
educate the parents of such students about the opportunities and advantages of STEM careers;
 
provide female students with STEM tutoring, mentoring, after-school activities, and summer programs; 
 
expose female students to STEM role models, events, academic programs, or career and technical education programs;
 
purchase education materials, equipment, or software that facilitate STEM instruction;
 
assist female students in selecting secondary school courses that provide them with preparation for postsecondary education and experiential learning opportunities in STEM;
 
facilitate STEM internships for such students; and 
 
provide teachers with training that enables them to more effectively teach STEM and overcome gender biases that discourage female students' advancement in those fields.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Parental Protection Act

Bill: 113-hr-4518
Sponsor: Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36]
Introduced: 2014-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Drug therapy
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Due process and equal protection
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Medical ethics
Medical research
Mental health
Prescription drugs
Separation, divorce, custody, support

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: 
Parental Protection Act - Requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to withhold all monies from state agencies or entities, hospitals, and medical facilities that: (1) allow research presenting greater than minimal risk to minors, juveniles, or wards of the state; (2) deny Fourteenth Amendment rights to the parents or child; or (3) investigate parents or charge them with medical neglect, or remove children from the parents' custody when they disagree with a subjective diagnosis involving psychotropic drugs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Prohibiting Discrimination Against Israel Act

Bill: 113-hr-4519
Sponsor: Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36]
Introduced: 2014-04-29 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Appropriations
Arab-Israeli relations
Foreign and international corporations
Israel
Middle East
Multilateral development programs
Trade restrictions
West Bank

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: 
Prohibiting Discrimination Against Israel Act - States that it shall be U.S. policy that no funds authorized or appropriated by federal law may be expended for any international project that prohibits participation of Israeli organizations that operate beyond the 1949 armistice line.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Aircraft Positioning Modernization Act

Bill: 113-hr-4520
Sponsor: Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36]
Introduced: 2014-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
Government information and archives
Spacecraft and satellites
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: 
Aircraft Positioning Modernization Act - Amends the Code of Federal Regulations with respect to flight data recorders to require that the Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinate information be periodically transmitted to a receiving facility at a time frequency of 30 minutes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Community Institution Mortgage Relief Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4521
Sponsor: Rep. Luetkemeyer, Blaine [R-MO-3]
Introduced: 2014-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Federal Reserve System
Housing finance and home ownership
Real estate business
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: 
Community Institution Mortgage Relief Act of 2014 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) to require the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to exempt from certain escrow or impound requirements a loan secured by a first lien on a consumer's principal dwelling if the loan is held by a creditor with assets of $10 billion or less.
 
Amends the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to direct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to provide either exemptions or adjustments from the mortgage loan servicing and escrow account administration requirements of the Act for servicers that annually service 20,000 or fewer mortgage loans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-22
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 43 - 16.
action_date: 2014-05-22
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To establish the Green Bank to assist in the financing of qualified clean energy projects and qualified energy efficiency projects.

Bill: 113-hr-4522
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2014-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Foreign and international corporations
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Lighting, heating, cooling
Motor fuels
Nuclear power
Securities
State and local finance
Taxation of foreign income
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: 
Establishes the Green Bank as a federally-owned independent corporation with a 20-year charter. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Green Bonds in order to provide the Bank with an initial capitalization of $10 billion and to provide additional capitalization of up to $50 billion upon request of the Bank.
 
Requires the Bank to establish a program to provide financial support or risk management for qualifying clean energy or energy efficiency projects.
 
Authorizes the Bank to provide funding for low-interest loans to establish state clean energy financing institutions and to co-fund the projects with an institution.
 
Gives the Bank immunity from impairment, limitations, or restrictions under laws. Authorizes the Bank to conduct its business without regard to state law relating to incorporation.
 
Exempts the Bank from all state or local taxation except real property taxation.
 
Requires the Chief Executive Officer of the Bank to set forth spending safeguards, including: (1) deobligating financial support to entities that demonstrate an insufficient level of performance or wasteful or fraudulent spending, and (2) creating a publicly available online database with information about financing support or risk management.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to limit and defer tax deduction amounts for foreign-related interest expense (i.e., interest expense allocated and apportioned to income from sources outside the United States).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2014-04-30
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: 2014-04-30
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: 2014-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Introduced in House
44 to 69 Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4523
Sponsor: Rep. Farenthold, Blake [R-TX-27]
Introduced: 2014-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Roads and highways
Texas
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: 
44 to 69 Act of 2014 - Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to include Texas State Highway 44 from United States Route 59 at Freer, Texas, to Texas State Highway 358 as part of the high priority Lower Rio Grande Valley Corridor of the National Highway System in Texas. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Animal Emergency Planning Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4524
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2014-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Animal and plant health
Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Business records
Department of Agriculture
Emergency planning and evacuation
Medical research
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Natural disasters
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: 
Animal Emergency Planning Act of 2014 - Amends the Animal Welfare Act to require research facilities, dealers, exhibitors, intermediate handlers, and carriers (covered persons) to develop, document, and follow a contingency plan to provide for the humane handling, treatment, transportation, housing, and care of their animals in the event of an emergency or disaster.
 
Requires the plan to:
 
 
identify situations that the covered person might experience, including natural disasters and emergencies, that would trigger the need to implement the measures identified in the plan; 
 
 outline tasks to be carried out in response to emergencies or disasters, including animal evacuation or shelter-in-place instructions and provisions for providing backup sources of food and water as well as sanitation, ventilation, bedding, and veterinary care; 
 
 establish a chain of command and identify the individuals responsible for fulfilling the tasks; and 
 
 address how response and recovery will be handled in terms of materials, resources, and training needed.
 
 
Requires covered persons to review their plan at least annually to ensure compliance with this Act, and train personnel in their roles and responsibilities as outlined in the plan, and promptly provide training when the plan changes.
 
Prohibits this Act from preempting state law that provides greater protection for animals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development, and Credit.
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3300)
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act

Bill: 113-hr-4525
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2014-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Crimes against animals and natural resources
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: 
Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act - Amends the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit an exhibitor from allowing for the participation of an exotic or wild animal (including a non-human primate) in an animal act if, during the 15-day period preceding such participation, such animal was traveling in a mobile housing facility, unless the use of such animal is: (1) in an exhibition at a non-mobile, permanent institution or facility; (2) a part of an outreach program for educational or conservation purposes by an accredited zoo or aquarium and such animal is not kept in a mobile housing facility for more than 12 hours a day; (3) by a university, college, laboratory, or other research facility registered with the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA); (4) in film, television, or advertising if such use does not involve a live public exhibition; or (5) in a rodeo.
 
Subjects a traveling circus or exhibitor that fails to comply with this Act to specified penalties. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development, and Credit.
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E634)
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Introduced in House
21st Century Energy Workforce Development Jobs Initiative Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4526
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2014-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Alternative and renewable resources
Coal
Department of Energy
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Energy efficiency and conservation
General energy matters
Government information and archives
Higher education
Minority education
Minority employment
Nuclear power
Oil and gas
Pipelines
Public utilities and utility rates
Science, Technology, Communications
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Vocational and technical education
Women's education
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: 
21st Century Energy Workforce Development Jobs Initiative Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to establish a comprehensive program to improve the education and training of workers for energy-related jobs, with emphasis on increasing the number of skilled minorities and women trained to work in such jobs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To require a report and briefing to Congress explaining the procurement and inspection process for armored vehicles to transport civilian employees of the Department of Defense.

Bill: 113-hr-4528
Sponsor: Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3]
Introduced: 2014-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Defense
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Military facilities and property
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Motor vehicles
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to submit to the congressional defense committees a report and a detailed briefing on DOD policies for procuring and inspecting armored vehicles for transporting civilian employees through hostile or potentially hostile territory.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-30
text: Introduced in House