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To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to limit citizens suits against publicly owned treatment works, to provide for defenses, to extend the period of a permit, to limit attorneys fees, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-202
Sponsor: Rep. McClintock, Tom [R-CA-4]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Civil actions and liability
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Evidence and witnesses
Legal fees and court costs
Licensing and registrations
Pollution liability
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to prohibit a citizen suit from being commenced against a publicly owned treatment works (POTW): (1) to enforce an effluent standard or limitation unless the POTW is in significant non-compliance as defined in the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) guidance document entitled &quot;A General Design for SNC Redefinition Enhancement in PCS,&quot; or (2) that is in significant non-compliance based on a manual designation as defined by such guidance document.
 
Prohibits liability for an unlawful discharge of a pollutant from a POTW for a person who can establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the immediate cause of such discharge and any damages was: (1) an act of God; (2) an act of war; or (3) an act or omission of a third party other than an employee or agent of such person or one whose act or omission occurs in connection with a contractual relationship with such person, if such person exercised due care and took precautions against foreseeable acts or omissions of such third party and the consequences that could foreseeably result from such acts or omissions.
 
Requires the Administrator of EPA or a state to provide a 60-day waiting period between the notice of a violation of such Act by a POTW and the issuance of a civil penalty. Prohibits the Administrator from assessing a penalty for a violation if the POTW submits a viable plan for correcting the non-compliance within such period and thereafter implements such plan.
 
Requires any permit issued to the owner or operator of a POTW to discharge a pollutant under such Act to have a 15-year (currently, 5-year) term. 
Limits attorney fees with respect to actions involving POTWs to the prevailing fees in the community. 
Requires any new or increased treatment requirement associated with a permit issued to the owner or operator of a POTW to discharge a pollutant under such Act to be subject to a cost-benefit analysis.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Pool SAFE Act

Bill: 113-hr-203
Sponsor: Rep. Mulvaney, Mick [R-SC-5]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Disability and health-based discrimination
Sports and recreation facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Pool Safety and Accessibility for Everyone Act or Pool SAFE Act - Prohibits any suit brought for an alleged violation of the revised regulations of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 concerning the requirements to provide an accessible means of entry to pools for places of public accommodation and commercial facilities that occurred on or after January 31, 2013, and before the date that is one year after enactment of this Act. Bars the Attorney General (AG) from investigating or initiating a compliance review of an alleged violation occurring during such period. 
Requires dismissal of any suit brought against a place of public accommodation or commercial facility for such a violation brought on or after January 31, 2013, and before the date of enactment of this Act. 
Directs the AG to revise accessibility regulations to provide that a place of public accommodation or a commercial facility is in compliance with the requirement to have an accessible means of entry to a pool when such a place or facility uses a portable pool lift on request, even if: (1) installation of a permanent lift is readily achievable, and (2) a single portable pool lift is used for multiple pools.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Common Sense Waiver Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-204
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, William L. [D-NY-21]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Air quality
Building construction
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Industrial facilities
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Common Sense Waiver Act of 2013 - Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to waive any emission standard or other requirements for hazardous air pollutants under the Clean Air Act applicable to the control of asbestos emissions in the demolition or renovation of a building if the building has been condemned and there is a reasonable expectation of the building's structural failure.
 
Requires the Administrator to approve or disapprove a request for such a waiver within 90 days or the request shall be deemed to be approved.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the treatment of certain retirement plan contributions picked up by governmental employers.

Bill: 113-hr-205
Sponsor: Rep. Sanchez, Loretta [D-CA-46]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Income tax deferral

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the treatment of certain employer contributions made to public retirement plans as picked up by an employing unit regardless of whether the participating employee is allowed to make an irrevocable election between the application of two alternative benefit formulas involving the same or different levels of employee contributions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
STALKERS Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-206
Sponsor: Rep. Sanchez, Loretta [D-CA-46]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aging
Assault and harassment offenses
Crimes against children
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
STALKERS Act of 2013 - Amends the federal criminal code to revise the definition of stalking and impose criminal penalties on anyone who, with intent to kill, physically injure, harass, or intimidate a person or to place a person under surveillance with the intent to kill, physically injure, harass, or intimidate such person, travels in interstate or foreign commerce or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States or enters or leaves Indian country and: (1) causes or attempts to cause bodily injury or serious emotional distress to another person, or (2) engages in conduct that would be reasonably expected to cause serious emotional distress to another person.
 
Imposes the same criminal penalties on anyone who, with intent to kill, physically injure, harass, or intimidate a person, engages in a course of conduct in or substantially affecting interstate or foreign commerce that: (1) causes or attempts to cause bodily injury or serious emotional distress to another person, or (2) occurs in circumstances where the conduct would be reasonably expected to cause another person serious emotional distress.
 
Increases penalties for stalking offenses if: (1) the offense involves conduct in violation of a protection order, or (2) the victim of the offense is under the age of 18 or over the age of 65.

Requires the annual report of the Attorney General to include an evaluation of efforts to enforce laws relating to stalking and to identify and describe elements of such efforts that constitute the best practices for the enforcement of such laws. 

Provides for compliance of the budgetary effects of this Act with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make members of health care sharing ministries eligible to establish health savings accounts.

Bill: 113-hr-207
Sponsor: Rep. Schock, Aaron [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat membership in a tax-exempt health care sharing ministry as coverage under a high deductible health plan for purposes of the tax deduction for contributions to a health savings account.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Anti-hunger Empowerment Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-208
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Alaska
California
Caribbean area
Child health
Congressional oversight
Connecticut
District of Columbia
Food assistance and relief
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Georgia
Government information and archives
Illinois
Indiana
Intergovernmental relations
Iowa
Kentucky
Maryland
Missouri
New York City
New York State
Nutrition and diet
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance
Puerto Rico
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Texas
Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Anti-hunger Empowerment Act of 2013 - Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (formerly known as the Food Stamp Act of 1977) to replace current Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps) administrative cost provisions with provisions authorizing 75% reimbursement for specified state activities to increase program access.
 
States that fingerprinting shall not be required for program participation.
 
Beyond the Soup Kitchen Grants Program Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a Beyond the Soup Kitchen pilot program to provide grants: (1) to a primary community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger group in each designated pilot community to allocate subgrants to other nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger groups in such community, and (2) for technical assistance grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, and Nutrition.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the appropriation of funds to be used to recruit, hire, and train 100,000 new classroom paraprofessionals in order to improve educational achievement for children.

Bill: 113-hr-209
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Education to allot funds to states for distribution to local educational agencies (LEAs) to recruit, hire, and train 100,000 new classroom paraprofessionals in order to improve educational achievement for children. 
 
Requires that 80% of a state's allotment be allocated to LEAs on the basis of each LEA's proportion of low-income schoolchildren in the state, and that the remainder be allocated on the basis of each LEA's proportion of the overall population of schoolchildren in the state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To require retail establishments that use mobile device tracking technology to display notices to that effect.

Bill: 113-hr-210
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Consumer affairs
Retail and wholesale trades
Right of privacy
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Requires a person who owns or operates a retail establishment and uses mobile device tracking technology in the establishment to display in a prominent location a notice that such technology is in use and that individuals can avoid being tracked by turning off their mobile devices.
 
Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to promulgate regulations to implement such requirement.
 
Provides for FTC enforcement of violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Newborn Coverage Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-211
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Child health
Citizenship and naturalization
Family relationships
Immigrant health and welfare
Immigration status and procedures
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Medicaid Newborn Coverage Act of 2013 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to waive the requirement for proof of citizenship during the first year of life for children born in the United States to a Medicaid-eligible mother.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To permit members of the House of Representatives to donate used computer equipment to public elementary and secondary schools designated by the members.

Bill: 113-hr-212
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Congressional operations and organization
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Amends the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1987 to allow the Clerk of the House of Representatives, at the request of a Member of the House, to donate computers and related peripheral tools previously used by the Member to a public elementary or secondary school designated by such Member without regard to whether the donation: (1) is a cost to the government, or (2) has a recoverable value. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Sewage Sludge in Food Production Consumer Notification Act

Bill: 113-hr-213
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural practices and innovations
Consumer affairs
Farmland
Food industry and services
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Livestock
Meat
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Sewage Sludge in Food Production Consumer Notification Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Egg Products Inspection Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act, and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to deem as adulterated food that is: (1) produced on land on which sewage sludge was applied; (2) derived from poultry that were raised, or that consumed animal feed produced, on such land; and (3) derived from livestock that grazed, or consumed animal feed produced, on such land.
 
Permits exceptions if: (1) the application of sewage sludge ended more than one year before producing food, raising poultry, producing animal feed, or grazing livestock; (2) the food labeling includes notice that the product was produced on such land; or (3) a sign providing such notice is posted in close proximity to the product for those foods generally offered for sale without labeling.
 
States that nothing in this Act shall be construed to modify the prohibition on the use of sewage sludge in organic food production under the National Organic Program of the Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development, and Credit.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Baseball Diplomacy Act

Bill: 113-hr-215
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Athletes
Caribbean area
Cuba
Foreign aid and international relief
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Latin America
Professional sports
Sanctions
Trade restrictions
Travel and tourism
Visas and passports
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
Baseball Diplomacy Act - Waives certain foreign assistance and trade and travel prohibitions against Cuba under specified federal law regarding Cuban nationals who: (1) enter the United States on a visa to play organized professional baseball, and (2) return to Cuba with their baseball earnings. States that such visa shall be valid only for the duration of the season and need not be renewed as long as the player remains with the same team.
 
Prohibits the President from denying visas to such nationals based upon authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act to restrict any entry of aliens or class of aliens that would be detrimental to U.S. interests. 
 
Declares that this Act shall not be affected by the economic embargo requirements against Cuba under the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
United States Library Trust Fund Act

Bill: 113-hr-216
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2013-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Government trust funds
Libraries and archives
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: 
United States Library Trust Fund Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish in the Treasury the United States Library Trust Fund, and (2) allow taxpayers to designate a portion of any tax overpayment (not less than $1) to the Fund. Authorizes public libraries or public school libraries to receive grants from the Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Introduced in House