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Department of Defense Suicide Tracking Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2357
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2014-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Mental health
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: 
Department of Defense Suicide Tracking Act of 2014 - Requires the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to submit to Congress a policy for the development of a standard method for collecting, reporting, and assessing suicide data and suicide-attempt data involving members of the Armed Forces, including reserve components, and their dependents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3187-3188)
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
MOM Act

Bill: 113-s-2358
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Mark [D-CO]
Introduced: 2014-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Child care and development
Employee leave
Military personnel and dependents
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: 
Military Opportunities for Mothers Act or the MOM Act - Requires military personnel who give birth to a child to be given 42 days of convalescent leave for use in connection with that birth.
 
Allows military personnel up to 42 additional days of leave in connection with the birth of such child upon the expiration of the convalescent leave, but: 
 
 
 makes them ineligible for basic pay for any day on which such additional leave is used, although they are to be considered to be on active duty for all other purposes; and
 
their commanding officer may recall them from such leave when necessary to maintain unit readiness.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Corporate Inversions Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2360
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2014-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Corporate finance and management
Department of the Treasury
Foreign and international corporations
Income tax rates
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: 
Stop Corporate Inversions Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise rules for the taxation of inverted corporations (i.e., U.S. corporations that acquire foreign companies to reincorporate in a foreign jurisdiction with income tax rates lower than the United States) to provide that during the period beginning after May 8, 2014, and before May 9, 2016, a foreign corporation that acquires the properties of a U.S. corporation or partnership shall be treated as an inverted corporation and thus subject to U.S. taxation if, after such acquisition: (1) it holds more than 50% of the stock of the new entity (expanded affiliated group), or (2) the management or control of the new entity occurs primarily within the United States and the new entity has significant domestic business activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3188-31889)
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3188-3189)
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the payment of performance awards in fiscal year 2015 to employees in the Veterans Health Administration, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-2362
Sponsor: Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE]
Introduced: 2014-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Performance measurement
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: 
Prohibits the payment of performance awards to employees in the Veterans Health Administration in FY2015.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the long-term storage of rail cars on certain railroad tracks unless the Surface Transportation Board has approved the rail carrier's rail car storage plan.

Bill: 113-s-2365
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2014-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Railroads
Surface Transportation Board
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: 
Requires a rail carrier to have a storage plan, meeting specified requirements and approved by the Surface Transportation Board, for any of its rail cars that it stores for three or more years, and continues to store, on tracks (except rail yard or storage yard tracks) that pass through a commercial- or residential-zoned area that were designed or previously used for through transportation of trains.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Child Summer Hunger Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2366
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2014-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates
International monetary system and foreign exchange
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: 
Stop Child Summer Hunger Act of 2014 - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program providing eligible households with summer Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards that give children access to food during the summer months to: (1) reduce or eliminate children's food insecurity and hunger, and (2) improve their nutritional status.
 
Defines an &quot;eligible household&quot; as a household that includes one or more children who are eligible to receive free or reduced price meals under the school lunch or breakfast programs.
 
Sets the amount on each summer EBT card at $150 per child in 2016, with adjustments thereafter reflecting changes in reimbursement rates for school meals under the school lunch program.
 
Requires children to be enrolled in the program without further application if they are enrolled to receive free or reduced price meals under the school lunch or breakfast programs.
 
Requires summer EBT cards to be used only to purchase food from retail food stores that have been approved for participation in the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program).
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to limit the amount of a taxpayer's foreign-related interest expense that is allowed as a deduction for any taxable year. Sets that limit pursuant to a formula that takes into account a domestic corporation's undistributed foreign earnings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3239)
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy Kids Outdoors Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2367
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Mark [D-CO]
Introduced: 2014-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Child health
Family services
Hunting and fishing
Intergovernmental relations
Mental health
Nutrition and diet
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Public transit
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: 
 Healthy Kids Outdoors Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to issue one cooperative agreement per state to eligible entities to implement and update a five-year Healthy Kids Outdoors State Strategy for encouraging the people of the United States, especially children, youth, and families, to be physically active outdoors. 
 
 
Requires eligible entities to provide a 25% match of the funding that they receive under this Act through in-kind contributions or cash. 
 
Directs the President to issue a national strategy for encouraging the people of the United States to be physically active outdoors. 
 
Directs the Secretary and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to carry out a study of national significance on the health impacts of the strategies under this Act. 
 
Requires the Secretary to provide technical assistance to grantees and to disseminate best practices that emerge from the state strategies funded by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to consider Brunswick County, North Carolina to be part of the same metropolitan statistical area as Wilmington, North Carolina.

Bill: 113-s-2369
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2014-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics
North Carolina
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to consider Brunswick County, North Carolina, to be part of the metropolitan statistical area that contains Wilmington, North Carolina. 
 
Terminates this Act on January 1, 2021.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Orphan Earmarks Act

Bill: 113-s-2370
Sponsor: Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK]
Introduced: 2014-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Department of Transportation
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Legislative rules and procedure
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: 
Orphan Earmarks Act - Rescinds all unobligated amounts of funds earmarked for the Department of Transportation (DOT) if more than 90% of the dollar amount of that earmark remains available for obligation at the end of the 9th fiscal year after it was first made available. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to delay any such rescission for one year if an additional obligation of the earmark is likely to occur during the 10th fiscal year after it was first made available.
 
Requires each agency head to identify and report every project that is an earmark with an unobligated balance at the end of a fiscal year to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), who shall report a listing and accounting for such earmarks to Congress and to the public via the OMB website.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Accurate Budgeting Act

Bill: 113-s-2371
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2014-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget process
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: 
Accurate Budgeting Act - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Joint Committee on Taxation to prepare for each major revenue bill or resolution, reported by specified congressional tax committees or considered on the floor of either chamber, as a supplement to Congressional Budget Office (CBO) cost estimates, a macroeconomic impact analysis of the budgetary effects of the legislation for: (1) the 10-fiscal year period beginning with the first fiscal year for which such estimate was prepared, and (2) each of the next three 10-fiscal year periods.

Defines &quot;major revenue bill or resolution&quot; as a bill, resolution, or conference report for which either: 
 
 
 the sum of the positive changes in revenues resulting from such measure (not including the impact of any timing shifts for the due date for estimated corporate income tax payments) for any fiscal year in the period for which a CBO cost estimate is prepared, or
 
the absolute value of the sum of the negative changes in revenues resulting from such measure, 
 
 
is greater than 0.25% of the current projected U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) for that fiscal year.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Assessment Act

Bill: 113-s-2372
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2014-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: 
Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Assessment Act - Requires the head of each federal agency to identify cybersecurity workforce positions within the agency, determine the primary Cybersecurity Work Category and Specialty Area (CWCSA) of such positions, and assign the corresponding Data Element Code.
 
Directs each agency head to establish procedures to: (1) identify open positions that include cybersecurity functions, and (2) assign the appropriate employment code to each such position and to each agency employee who carries out cybersecurity functions.
 
Directs each agency head, beginning not later than one year after such employment codes are assigned and annually through 2021, to submit a report to the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that identifies the CWCSAs of critical need in the agency's cybersecurity workforce and substantiates the critical need designations.
 
Requires the Director to: (1) provide agencies with timely guidance for identifying CWCSAs of critical need, including current categories and areas with acute skill shortages and with emerging skill shortages; and (2) identify Specialty Areas of critical need for the cybersecurity workforce across all federal agencies.
 
Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to analyze, monitor, and report on this Act's implementation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the appropriation of funds to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for conducting or supporting research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention.

Bill: 113-s-2373
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2014-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accidents
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Crime prevention
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Firearms and explosives
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Research administration and funding
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: 
Authorizes appropriations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for each of FY2015-FY2020 to conduct or support research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention under the Public Health Service Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Middle Class CHANCE Act

Bill: 113-s-2374
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2014-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: 
Creating Higher Education Affordability Necessary to Compete Economically Act or the Middle Class CHANCE Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase the maximum Federal Pell Grant for award year 2014-2015 and adjust it each subsequent award year to account for changes in the Consumer Price Index.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to award an additional Pell Grant to an eligible student who: (1) has received a Pell Grant for an award year, and (2) is enrolled in a program of study for one or more additional payment periods during the same award year that are not otherwise covered by the Pell Grant. 
 
Limits the total amount of the Pell Grants awarded to such student for the award year to 150% of the maximum Pell Grant for such award year.
 
Raises, from 12 semesters to 15 semesters, the period during which a student may receive Federal Pell Grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Colorado News, Emergency, Weather, and Sports Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2375
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Mark [D-CO]
Introduced: 2014-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Colorado
Intellectual property
New Mexico
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: 
Colorado News, Emergency, Weather, and Sports Act of 2014 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 and federal copyright law to allow cable operators or satellite carriers to offer certain Colorado-based television broadcast stations to eligible Colorado counties located in a New Mexico-based designated market area if the counties meet specified criteria according to U.S. television household estimates by Nielsen Media Research.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the buildings occupied by the Department of Transportation located at 1200 New Jersey Avenue, Southeast, and 1201 4th Street, Southeast, in the District of Columbia as the "James L. Oberstar United States Department of Transportation Building Complex".

Bill: 113-s-2376
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2014-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Department of Transportation
District of Columbia
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Members of Congress
Minnesota

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: 
Designates buildings occupied by the Department of Transportation (DOT) located at 1200 New Jersey Avenue, Southeast, and 1201 4th Street, Southeast, in the District of Columbia as the James L. Oberstar United States Department of Transportation Building Complex for the period the buildings are occupied by the DOT.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Don't Tax Our Fallen Public Safety Heroes Act

Bill: 113-s-2377
Sponsor: Sen. Ayotte, Kelly [R-NH]
Introduced: 2014-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Income tax exclusion
Law enforcement officers

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: 
Don't Tax Our Fallen Public Safety Heroes Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income, for income tax purposes, federal public safety officer death benefits or amounts paid under a state program to surviving dependents of a public safety officer who died as the direct and proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty. Makes this Act applicable to amounts received after December 31, 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Freight Priorities Act

Bill: 113-s-2380
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2014-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Infrastructure development
Marine and inland water transportation
Motor carriers
Performance measurement
Public-private cooperation
Railroads
Research administration and funding
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: 
Freight Priorities Act - Declares the policy, objectives, and goals of the United States for improving the efficiency, operation, and security of the national freight network by leveraging investments and promoting partnerships that accomplish specified results.
 
Requires metropolitan planning organizations to involve public port authorities in metropolitan freight transportation planning.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to establish: (1) measures to assess the performance of a multimodal freight network in accordance with the national freight strategic plan, and (2) a pilot program for up to five urbanized areas to develop and deploy one or more pilot measures and targets to improve multimodal freight movement in densely populated and congested urban areas.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish and support a national cooperative freight transportation research program, and (2) offer to enter into an agreement with the Transportation Research Board of the National Research Council of the National Academies to support and carry out administrative and management activities relating to governance of the research program.
 
Requires the National Academies to select an advisory committee consisting of a representative cross-section of freight stakeholders, which shall recommend a national research agenda for the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3241)
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Flood Insurance Market Parity and Modernization Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2381
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2014-05-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection
Insurance industry and regulation
Life, casualty, property insurance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-22
text: 
Flood Insurance Market Parity and Modernization Act of 2014 - Amends the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 to redefine "private flood insurance" to include a policy issued by an insurance company that is eligible as a nonadmitted insurer to provide insurance in the state or jurisdiction where the property to be insured is located.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2014-05-22
text: Introduced in Senate