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Renewable Energy Construction and Investment Parity Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3017
Sponsor: Rep. Cook, Paul [R-CA-8]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Budget deficits and national debt
Income tax credits
Oil and gas
Strategic materials and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Renewable Energy Construction and Investment Parity Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the energy tax credit to solar energy, fuel cell, microturbine, combined heat and power system, small wind energy, and thermal energy properties the construction of which begins before January 1, 2017. Requires amounts received from the sale of crude helium under the Helium Act to be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury to compensate for revenue lost resulting from this Act and to reduce the annual federal budget deficit or the public debt. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Insurance Fairness for Amputees Act

Bill: 113-hr-3020
Sponsor: Rep. Dent, Charles W. [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Labor
Disability and health-based discrimination
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Insurance Fairness for Amputees Act - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Public Health Service Act to require a group health plan that provides medical and surgical benefits and also provides benefits for prosthetics and custom orthotics to offer such prosthetics and custom orthotics in the same manner as applicable to medical and surgical benefits. Prohibits separate financial requirements or more restrictive treatment limitations. Requires a health plan that does not provide coverage for benefits outside of a network to ensure that such provider network is adequate to ensure enrollee access to prosthetic and custom orthotic devices and related services provided by appropriately credentialed practitioners and accredited suppliers.
 
Allows limitation of coverage for required benefits for prosthetics and custom orthotics to the most appropriate device or component that meets the medical requirements of the patient. Requires benefits to include repair and replacement due to normal wear and tear, irreparable damage, a change in the patient's condition, or as otherwise determined appropriate by the treating physician.
 
Prohibits any annual or lifetime dollar limitation on benefits for prosthetics and custom orthotics unless such limitation applies in the aggregate to all benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, 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: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, 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: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, 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: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
IRS Employee Responsibility Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3021
Sponsor: Rep. Fincher, Stephen Lee [R-TN-8]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Department of the Treasury
Employee performance
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
IRS Employee Responsibility Act of 2013 - Makes an officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) personally responsible for payment of any awards or costs of litigation arising from official actions taken by such officer or employee that a court finds were in violation of law, vexatious, frivolous, or in bad faith unless such court finds special circumstances that would make an award unjust.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
National Discovery Trails Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3022
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Colorado
Delaware
District of Columbia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Land use and conservation
Maryland
Missouri
Nebraska
Nevada
Ohio
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Utah
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
 National Discovery Trails Act of 2013 - Amends the National Trails System Act to establish national discovery trails which shall be extended, continuous interstate trails located so as to provide for outdoor recreation and travel and to connect representative examples of America's trails and communities. 
 
Authorizes the designation of such trails on federal lands and, with the consent of the owner, on non-federal lands. 
 
 Designates as a national discovery trail the 6,000-mile American Discovery Trail which shall extend from Cape Henlopen State Park in Delaware to Point Reyes National Seashore in California, splitting into northern and southern routes at Cincinnati, Ohio, and rejoining at Denver, Colorado. 
 
Sets forth requirements for designation of a trail as a national discovery trail. 
 
Requires the appropriate Secretary for each national discovery trail to: (1) administer the trail in cooperation with a competent trailwide volunteer-based organization; and (2) submit a comprehensive plan for the protection, management, development, and use of such trail.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Water and Agriculture Tax Reform Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3023
Sponsor: Rep. Gardner, Cory [R-CO-4]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Corporate finance and management
Farmland
Financial services and investments
Land transfers
Securities
Tax-exempt organizations
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Water and Agriculture Tax Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit tax-exempt mutual ditch or irrigation companies to earn income from dispositions of certain real property and stock interests without affecting their tax-exempt status. Requires that such income be used to pay the costs of operations, maintenance, and capital improvements of such a company.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Common Access Card Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3024
Sponsor: Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Health care quality
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Medicare Common Access Card Act of 2013 - Establishes a pilot program under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act in order to utilize smart card technology for Medicare beneficiary and provider identification cards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Irene and Lee Tax Relief Storm Recovery Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3025
Sponsor: Rep. Gibson, Christopher P. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Income tax credits
Low- and moderate-income housing
Natural disasters

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Irene and Lee Tax Relief Storm Recovery Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an increase in 2013, 2014, and 2015 of the amount of the low-income housing tax credit that may be allocated in states containing counties covered by the natural disaster declaration of the Secretary of Agriculture in 2011 due to damage from Hurricane Irene or Tropical Storm Lee. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
ASAP Act

Bill: 113-hr-3026
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Coast guard
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Military personnel and dependents
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Armed Services Always Paid Act or ASAP Act - Provides for funding the pay and allowances, without interruption, of members of the Armed Forces, including reserve personnel, during any period of lapsed appropriations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 442 Miller Valley Road in Prescott, Arizona, as the "Barry M. Goldwater Post Office".

Bill: 113-hr-3027
Sponsor: Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Arizona
Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Members of Congress
Postal service
Senate

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 442 Miller Valley Road in Prescott, Arizona, as the "Barry M. Goldwater Post Office."
action_date: 2014-12-18
text: 

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

 
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 442 Miller Valley Road in Prescott, Arizona, as the "Barry M. Goldwater Post Office."


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-18
text: Became Public Law No: 113-247.
action_date: 2014-12-18
text: Became Public Law No: 113-247.
action_date: 2014-12-18
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2014-12-18
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2014-12-17
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2014-12-17
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2014-12-16
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2014-12-15
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2014-12-15
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2014-12-15
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6841)
action_date: 2014-12-15
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S6841)
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6158)
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H6158)
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3027.
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration:  CR H6158)
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: Mr. Gosar moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 113-247
Career and Technical Education Equity Act

Bill: 113-hr-3028
Sponsor: Rep. Heck, Joseph J. [R-NV-3]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Career and Technical Education Equity Act - Amends the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 to revise hold harmless requirements for the allotment of career and technical education assistance grants to states. Prohibits a state from receiving an allotment for a fiscal year that is less than 90% of the allotment the state received for the preceding fiscal year. (Currently, no state may receive an allotment less than the one it received for FY1998.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
College Savings Enhancement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3029
Sponsor: Rep. Hurt, Robert [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Financial services and investments
Higher education
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Student aid and college costs
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
College Savings Enhancement Act of 2013 - Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to revise specified regulations so as to include: (1) qualified prepaid tuition programs under the definition of a qualified institutional buyer (with respect to private resales of securities to institutions), and (2) as accredited investors any qualified prepaid tuition programs whose total assets exceed $5 million (with respect to Regulation D, governing the limited offer and sale of securities without registration under the Securities Act of 1933).
 
Defines, for purposes of such revisions, a &quot;qualified prepaid tuition program&quot; as a qualified tuition program (under which a person may purchase tuition credits or certificates on behalf of a designated beneficiary which entitle the beneficiary to the waiver or payment of the beneficiary's qualified higher education expenses), which is established and maintained by a state or state agency or instrumentality that satisfies certain other requirements of the Internal Revenue Code.
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Tribal Tax and Investment Reform Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3030
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Indian social and development programs
Public utilities and utility rates
Sales and excise taxes
Securities
Separation, divorce, custody, support
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local finance
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Tribal Tax and Investment Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to include Indian tribal governments in an annual allocation of a national tax-exempt bond volume cap.
 
Repeals the condition limiting an Indian tribal government's eligibility to issue tax-exempt bonds or to be exempt from specified excise taxes to the connection of those bonds and excise taxes to an essential government function.
 
Amends the IRC and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to treat employee benefit plans maintained by Indian tribes and domestic relations orders issued pursuant to tribal law in the same manner as plans maintained by states and domestic relations orders issued pursuant to state law.
 
Treats tribal charities and foundations in the same manner as charities and foundations funded and controlled by other governmental entities for purposes of the tax-exempt status of, and deduction for contributions to, such organizations.
 
Amends the Social Security Act to give Indian tribes or tribal organizations access to the Federal Parent Locator Service if they are eligible for a grant to operate a child support enforcement program.
 
Makes those tribes and tribal organizations eligible to participate in the program that collects past-due support from the federal tax refunds individuals are due.
 
Amends the IRC to establish a clean renewable energy bond limitation for Indian tribal governments for each of calendar years 2014, 2015, and 2016. Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from allocating more than 20% of the national clean renewable energy bond limitation to finance any one project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-08-02
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: 2013-08-02
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: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Rebuilding Equity Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3031
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Consumer credit
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Housing finance and home ownership
Legal fees and court costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Rebuilding Equity Act of 2013 - Directs the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (government sponsored enterprises or GSEs) to each establish a voluntary program for eligible borrowers under which the GSE shall pay $1,000 toward the closing costs associated with applying for and receiving the refinancing when the borrower agrees to refinance into a fully amoritizing loan with a term not longer than 20 years.
 
Prohibits the amount of the closing costs that each GSE pays under the program during the 12 months following enactment of this Act from varying based on the term of the mortgage that the borrower agrees to refinance into.
 
 Requires the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, for each of the next two 12-month periods, to: (1) adjust the amount of the portion of the closing costs that each GSE will pay in accordance with specified requirements.
 
Makes eligible for the program borrowers: (1) who qualify for the Home Affordable Refinance Program carried out by the GSEs, (2) whose subject property has a loan-to-value ratio of at least 105%, and (3) who refinances from a loan with an original 30-year term to a loan with a term of 20 years or less.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House