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Passenger Fee Restructuring Exemptions Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-1964
Sponsor: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2014-01-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Alaska
Aviation and airports
Hawaii
Rural conditions and development
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-27
text: 
Passenger Fee Restructuring Exemptions Act of 2014 - Revises aviation security service fee requirements. 
 
Makes an exception to the $5.60 per one-way trip fee for certain passengers for domestic flights that originate at a U.S. airport.
 
Limits such fees to $2.50 per enplanement, with the total not to exceed $5.00 per one-way trip, for any passengers: (1) boarding to an eligible small community for which essential air service compensation is paid; or (2) on flights, including flight segments, between two or more points in Hawaii or two or more points in Alaska.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2014-01-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the East Bench Irrigation District Water Contract Extension Act to permit the Secretary of the Interior to extend the contract for certain water services.

Bill: 113-s-1965
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2014-01-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Montana
Public contracts and procurement
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-28
text: 
Amends the East Bench Irrigation District Water Contract Extension Act to permit the Secretary of the Interior to extend the contract for water services between the United States and the East Bench Irrigation District until the earlier of: (1) that date that is 10 years (currently, 4 years) after the date on which the contract would have expired if such Act had not been enacted, or (2) the date on which a new long-term contract is executed by the parties to the contract.

action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Amends the East Bench Irrigation District Water Contract Extension Act to permit the Secretary of the Interior to extend the contract for water services between the United States and the East Bench Irrigation District until the earlier of: (1) that date that is 10 years (currently, 4 years) after the date on which the contract would have expired if such Act had not been enacted, or (2) the date on which a new long-term contract is executed by the parties to the contract.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 515.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Landrieu without amendment. With written report No. 113-228.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Landrieu without amendment. With written report No. 113-228.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2014-02-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-284.
action_date: 2014-01-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-01-28
text: Introduced in Senate
National Forest Jobs and Management Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-1966
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2014-01-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Congressional oversight
Department of Agriculture
Endangered and threatened species
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Forests, forestry, trees
Government trust funds
Land use and conservation
Performance measurement
Public contracts and procurement
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-28
text: 
National Forest Jobs and Management Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to conduct projects that involve the management or sale of national forest material (covered projects) within certain National Forest System (NFS) lands (Forest Management Emphasis Areas). 
 
Makes timber sale contracts under the National Forest Management Act of 1976 the primary means for carrying out covered projects under this Act. 
 
Requires the Secretary to identify, prioritize, and carry out covered projects in Forest Management Emphasis Areas that mechanically treat a total of at least 7.5 million acres in such areas during a specified 15-year period. 
 
Requires the Secretary to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) by completing an environmental assessment of the direct environmental effects of each proposed covered project, limited to the proposed agency action and one alternative.
 
Requires administrative review of covered projects to occur only in accordance with the special administrative review process established by the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003. 
 
Establishes a pilot program in the USDA that: (1) authorizes the use of arbitration instead of judicial review of a decision made following the special administrative process for a covered project, and (2) shall be the only means to challenge a covered project in a Forest Management Emphasis Area during the 15-year period.
 
Directs the Secretary, for FY2015 and each fiscal year until termination of this Act, to make to each county in which a covered project is carried out annual payments of 25% of the amounts received from that project. 
 
Requires the Secretary, after making such payments, to use amounts received from covered projects during such period to make deposits into the fund established under the Knutson-Vandenburg Act and the fund established under the National Forest Management Act of 1976 in contributions equal to the amounts collected under those Acts for projects conducted on NFS lands.
 
Requires the Secretary to develop performance measures that evaluate the degree to which this Act's purposes and the minimum acreage requirements are being achieved.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-06
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-349.
action_date: 2014-01-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-01-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Inventoried Roadless Area Management Act

Bill: 113-s-1967
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2014-01-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Forests, forestry, trees
Land use and conservation
Roads and highways
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-28
text: 
Inventoried Roadless Area Management Act - Releases from further study for wilderness designation each of the inventoried roadless areas within the National Forest System (NFS) in Wyoming identified on the maps contained in the Forest Service Roadless Area Conservation, Final Environmental Impact Statement, Volume 2 (November 2000). 
 
Declares that such NFS land: (1) is no longer subject to the land use restrictions of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule (or successor regulations), and (2) shall not be managed to preserve roadless or wilderness characteristics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-01-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Retirement Security Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-1970
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2014-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Treasury
Employee benefits and pensions
Financial services and investments
Income tax credits
Small business
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-29
text: 
Retirement Security Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) prescribe final regulations to permit employers to participate in multiple employer pension benefit plans, (2) promulgate regulations or other guidance to simplify and clarify rules relating to the timing of participant notices required under tax-preferred pension plans and the automatic escalation rules, and (3) modify the 1040EZ tax return form to allow taxpayers to claim the tax credit for retirement savings (saver's credit) on such form.
 
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to employer pension benefit plans, to: (1) allow employers to maintain a tax-exempt multiple employer pension benefit plan even if the employers sponsoring the plan share no common interest, (2) modify requirements for secure deferral arrangements with respect to nondiscrimination and employer matching contributions, and (3) allow employers with not more than 100 employees a business-related tax credit to cover increased matching contributions required by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S600-601)
action_date: 2014-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
LOCAL Level Act

Bill: 113-s-1974
Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2014-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-30
text: 
Learning Opportunities Created At Local Level Act or the LOCAL Level Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that state and local prerogatives over elementary and secondary education need to be preserved.
 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to prohibit any federal officer or employee from directly or indirectly, through grants, contracts, or other cooperative agreements under the ESEA:
 
 
mandating, directing, or controlling a state's, local educational agency's (LEA's), or school's specific instructional content, academic standards, assessments, curriculum, or program of instruction;
 
incentivizing such an entity's adoption of any specific instructional content, academic standards, assessments, curriculum, or program of instruction;
 
mandating a state or any subdivision thereof to spend any funds or incur any costs not paid for under the ESEA; or 
 
conditioning the availability of financial support on a state's, LEA's, or school's adoption of any specific instructional content, academic standards, assessments, curriculum, or program of instruction, even if such conditions are specified under any other Act.
 
 
Prohibits any funds provided to the Department of Education under the ESEA from being used by the Department directly or indirectly, through grants, contracts, or other cooperative agreements, to endorse, approve, develop, require, or sanction any elementary or secondary school curriculum.
 
Prohibits conditioning any state's receipt of ESEA assistance on the approval or certification of its academic standards by the federal government.
 
Includes in the prohibition against the use of ESEA funds on federally sponsored testing and testing materials such use on any assessment or testing materials aligned to the Common Core State Standards or any other academic standards common to a significant number of states. Prohibits the use of Race to the Top funds, provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, on such aligned assessment or testing materials.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an above-the-line deduction for child care expenses, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-1975
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2014-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child care and development
Income tax deductions
Tax treatment of families

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers who do not otherwise itemize their tax deductions a deduction from gross income (above-the-line deduction) for their employment-related expenses incurred in caring for a child under the age of 13 or a child who is physicaly or mentaly incapable of self care (qualifying child). Limits the dollar amount of such deduction in a taxable year to $7,000 for taxpayers with one qualifying child or $14,000 for taxpayers with two or more qualifying children. Allows an annual inflation adjustment to such amounts for taxable years beginning after 2014. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Honor Our Promise Act

Bill: 113-s-1977
Sponsor: Sen. Ayotte, Kelly [R-NH]
Introduced: 2014-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Income tax credits
Inflation and prices
Military personnel and dependents
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax treatment of families
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-30
text: 
Honor Our Promise Act - Repeals the provision of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 that reduces the cost-of-living adjustment to the retirement pay of members of the Armed Forces under age 62.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require taxpayers who are claiming the refundable portion of the child tax credit to include the name and taxpayer identification number (e.g., social security number) of their qualifying child on their tax returns. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-03
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 300.
action_date: 2014-01-30
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2014-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Increasing Primary Care Access Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-1978
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM]
Introduced: 2014-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Medical education
Medicare
Minority education
Minority health
Performance measurement
Rural conditions and development
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-30
text: 
Increasing Primary Care Access Act of 2014 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to, and enter contracts with, schools of medicine and osteopathic medicine to assist the schools in supporting programs of excellence in primary care.
 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary to establish and implement procedures under which the amount of payments that a subsection (d) hospital would otherwise receive for indirect medical education costs for discharges occurring during an applicable period is adjusted based on the performance of the hospital on measures specified by the Secretary.
 
(Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system [IPPS] when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)
 
Prohibits the Secretary from consulting with an organization representing physicians on adjustments to the fee schedule for physicians' services if the organization uses a group to formulate recommendations regarding such adjustments unless at least 40% of the group are board certified and practicing physicians in specified primary care fields.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a pilot program to provide funding for graduate medical residency training programs in primary care.
 
Requires the Secretary to award grants or enter into contracts for the establishment of six to eight Regional Centers for Health Workforce Analysis to allocate funds to in-need primary care residency programs.
 
Increases the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for amounts expended on targeted graduate medical education in certain areas in need of primary care health professionals for a state which expanded Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
 
Reauthorizes a program of payments to teaching health centers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicaid and CHIP Continuous Quality Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-1980
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2014-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Medicaid
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2014-02-03
text: 
Medicaid and CHIP Continuous Quality Act of 2014 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require a state Medicaid plan to provide 12-month continuous enrollment for an eligible individual, regardless of age.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) identify methods that promote the retention of individuals who are enrolled under the state plan and remain eligible for medical assistance beyond the 12-month period, (2) actively promote the adoption of such enrollment retention methods by states, (3) publish the procedures that states are expected to use to provide annual enrollment and retention reports, and (4) publish annually enrollment and retention performance results for all states.
 
Amends SSA title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (CHIP) to: (1) require a state CHIP plan also to provide 12-month continuous enrollment for an eligible individual, (2) prohibit eligibility standards from applying a waiting period for a targeted low-income child (including a child provided dental-only supplemental coverage), and (3) extend the authorization of CHIP performance bonuses through FY2015.
 
Amends SSA title XIX to allow a state to qualify for performance bonuses for the enrollment and retention in Medicaid of certain low-income individuals.
 
Requires a state to develop and implement a quality assessment and improvement strategy if it provides contracts with comparable primary care case management services providers as well as health care services furnished in fee-for-service settings.
 
Directs the Secretary to require states to use certain adult health quality measures and approaches to report on the initial core set of quality measures for Medicaid eligible adults and for the quality of pediatric health care.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a Medicaid Quality Performance Bonus fund for awarding performance bonuses to select states for high attainment and improvement on a core set of quality measures related to the goals and purposes of the Medicaid program, as well as (2) a methodology for awarding Medicaid Quality Performance bonuses to states
 
Requires a state, as a condition of receiving a bonus fund award, to designate at least 75% of the performance bonus funds for the development and operation of quality-related initiatives that will directly benefit providers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Open Internet Preservation Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-1981
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2014-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2014-02-03
text: 
Open Internet Preservation Act of 2014 - Restores rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the Report and Order in the matter of preserving the open Internet and broadband industry practices (adopted on December 21, 2010) that were vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 
Verizon v. Federal Communications Commission
 (decided on January 14, 2014).
 
Requires such rules to remain in effect until the FCC takes final action in the proceedings remanded to the FCC in such D.C. Circuit decision.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2014-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Fernley Economic Self-Determination Act

Bill: 113-s-1983
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2014-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Nevada
Small towns

Summary:
action_date: 2014-02-03
text: 
Fernley Economic Self-Determination Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, if the Secretary receives an offer from the city of Fernley, Nevada, to purchase identified federal land within the city, through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Bureau of Reclamation, to convey to the city all interest of the United States in such land in exchange for consideration in an amount equal to the fair market value of the land. 
 
Permits the city and the Bureau of Reclamation to retain easements or rights-of-way on the federal land to be conveyed, including easements or rights-of-way that are necessary to carry out the operation and maintenance of the Truckee Canal or the Newlands Project. 
 
Requires the city to pay or reimburse the Secretary, as appropriate, for reasonable transaction and administrative personnel costs associated with such conveyance. 
 
Releases the United States from all liabilities or claims of any kind or nature arising from the presence, release, or threat of release of any hazardous substance, pollutant, contaminant, petroleum product (or derivative of a petroleum product), solid waste, mine materials, or mining related features existing on the federal land. 
 
Withdraws the federal land from: (1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) disposition under the mineral leasing, mineral materials, and geothermal leasing laws. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Credit Card Theft Sentencing Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-1984
Sponsor: Sen. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL]
Introduced: 2014-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Consumer credit
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Fraud offenses and financial crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2014-02-03
text: 
Credit Card Theft Sentencing Act of 2014 - Amends the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to set penalties of a fine, imprisonment for at least 25 years or for life, or both for intentionally accessing a computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access and thereby obtaining information of 1 million or more credit card holders contained in a financial record of a financial institution or a card issuer, contained in a file of a consumer reporting agency on a consumer, from any federal agency, or from any protected computer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate