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One Percent Spending Reduction Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-547
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2013-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
House of Representatives
Legislative rules and procedure
Senate

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: 
One Percent Spending Reduction Act of 2013 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to establish the aggregate outlay (outlay cap) (less net interest payments) for FY2014 at $3.329 trillion, less 1%.
 
Reduces each outlay cap for FY2015-FY2016 by 1% of the previous fiscal year's outlay cap.
 
Requires the outlay cap for FY2017 and each subsequent fiscal year to be 19% of the gross domestic product (GDP) for that fiscal year as estimated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
 
Prohibits the outlay caps from being less than those for the preceding fiscal year for FY2018 and any ensuing fiscal year.
 
Requires a sequestration by OMB within 45 days after the beginning of a fiscal year to eliminate any excess outlay amount.
 
Prescribes requirements for Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and OMB sequestration preview reports and an OMB final sequestration report, accompanied by a presidential order detailing uniform spending reductions equal to the excess outlay amount.
 
Requires the House and the Senate budget committees to report a resolution directing the committees of their respective chambers to change existing law to achieve the spending reductions outlined in the OMB August 20 report to meet the outlay limits, if a sequestration is projected.
 
States that if, after November 14, a bill resulting in outlays for the current fiscal year is enacted that causes excess outlays, the excess outlays for the next fiscal year shall be increased by the amount or amounts of that breach.
 
Repeals provisions of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act terminating Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) enforcement mechanisms under such Act.
 
Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it out of order in both chambers to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that includes any provision that would cause the most recently reported, current outlay cap to be exceeded. Prescribes procedures for waiver or suspension of this rule.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Sexual Assault Prevention Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-548
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2013-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Assault and harassment offenses
Crimes against women
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Defense
Military law
Military personnel and dependents
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: 
Military Sexual Assault Prevention Act of 2013 - Prohibits any person convicted under federal or state law of rape, sexual assault, forcible sodomy, or incest from being commissioned or enlisting in the Armed Forces. Requires administrative separation from the Armed Forces, when not punitively discharged, for any member of the Armed Forces (member) on active duty, and any reserve member in an active status, who is convicted of rape, sexual assault, forcible sodomy, or an attempt thereof (covered offenses). Allows the Secretary of the military department concerned to waive such a separation in the interests of national security on a case-by-case basis.
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD), with respect to any charge under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) that alleges any of the covered offenses, to require the military department Secretaries to restrict disposition authority to specified high-command officers authorized to convene special courts-martial under the UCMJ.
 
States as the policy of the United States that any charge regarding the covered offenses should be disposed of by court-martial rather than non-judicial punishment or administrative action.
 
Requires a commanding officer who receives a report of a sexual-related offense involving a member to act upon the report within 24 hours, including by submitting the report to the next higher officer in that chain of command or referring such report to the appropriate office of special investigation.
 
Requires inclusion in a member's personnel service record of a substantiated complaint of a sexual-related offense. Requires commanding officer review of a member's history of substantiated sexual offenses upon a member's transfer to the new command.
 
Requires sexual assault forms and records to be retained for at least 50 years.
 
Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 to require the Secretary to retain for at least 50 years certain records concerning an incident of sexual assault. (Current law mandates such retention only at the request of a member who files a specified report.) 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Committee on Armed Services. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-320.
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Online Information Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-549
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2013-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Civil actions and liability
Freedom of information
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Legal fees and court costs
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: 
Public Online Information Act of 2013 - Establishes a Public Online Information Advisory Committee to: (1) coordinate and encourage the government's efforts to make information from all three branches of government available on the Internet, and (2) issue and update nonbinding guidelines on how the government should make public information available.
 
Directs the government to make public records available on the Internet at no charge, except as imposed by federal law before this Act's enactment. Requires: (1) public records to be permanently available on the Internet; (2) current information technology capabilities to be applied to the means by which records are made available and to the formats in which they are available; (3) public records to be made accessible through programs and equipment that are readily available to the general public; and (4) each agency to publish on the Internet a comprehensive, searchable, machine processable list of all records it makes publicly available.
 
Delineates the roles of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Administrator of the Office of Electronic Government, and the chief information officers of independent regulatory agencies, including granting narrow case-by-case exceptions to the Internet publication requirement if an agency requests an exception and demonstrates that: (1) there is clear and convincing evidence that the record should not be made available on the Internet, and (2) on balance the harm caused by disclosure significantly outweighs the public's interest in having the record available on the Internet.
 
Directs the Inspector General of each agency to conduct periodic reviews regarding agency compliance with Internet publication requirements. Sets forth provisions regarding enforcement of public access by private individuals or organizations.
 
Urges: (1) judicial and legislative agencies to adopt or adapt the Advisory Committee's recommendations, and (2) the Government Printing Office (GPO) to make all of its publications permanently available on the Internet in a multiplicity of formats.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Investment Company Modernization Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-550
Sponsor: Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2013-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Government lending and loan guarantees
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: 
Small Business Investment Company Modernization Act of 2013 - Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to increase from $225 million to $350 million the maximum amount of outstanding leverage to be made available by the Small Business Administration (SBA) to two or more commonly controlled small business investment companies not under capital impairment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-309.
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Capital Construction Fund Penalty Relief Act

Bill: 113-s-551
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2013-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: 
Capital Construction Fund Penalty Relief Act - Permits any person who entered into a capital construction fund agreement (an agreement to provide replacement vessels, additional vessels, or reconstructed vessels) with respect to certain vessels operated in the fisheries of the United States to make an election to terminate the capital construction fund established under such agreement.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prescribe requirements regarding the effect of such an election, including the distribution and taxation of such funds, on individuals and entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1788-1789)
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1787-1788)
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Quadrennial Energy Review Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-552
Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2013-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Alternative and renewable resources
Congressional oversight
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy research
Energy storage, supplies, demand
General energy matters
International organizations and cooperation
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: 
Quadrennial Energy Review Act of 2013 - Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to direct the President to establish an interagency energy coordination council to coordinate the Quadrennial Energy Review to provide an integrated view of national energy objectives and federal energy policy, including maximum practicable alignment of research programs, incentives, regulations, and partnerships.
 
 Requires the Secretary of Energy (DOE), in cooperation with the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, to report to Congress on the Quadrennial Energy Review, including an integrated view of short-, intermediate-, and long-term objectives for federal energy policy in the context of economic, environmental, and security priorities.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide the Executive Secretariat with the necessary analytical, financial, and administrative support for the conduct of each Quadrennial Energy Review.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program Enhancement Act

Bill: 113-s-553
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2013-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Income tax exclusion
Medical education
Student aid and college costs
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: 
Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program Enhancement Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income payments under the federal veterinary medicine loan repayment program or any other state loan repayment or forgiveness program that is intended to provide for increased access to veterinary services in such state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1789-1791)
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act

Bill: 113-s-554
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2013-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Financial crises and stabilization
Homeland security
Performance measurement
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: 
Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require: (1) biennial (currently annual) budget resolutions, (2) biennial appropriations Acts, and (3) biennial government strategic and performance plans.
 
Defines the budget biennium as the two consecutive fiscal years beginning on October 1 of any odd-numbered year.
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to: (1) determine the impact and feasibility of changing the definition of a fiscal year and the budget process based on that definition to a two-year fiscal period with a biennial budget process based on such period, and (2) report the findings to the House and Senate Budget Committees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
CINEMA Act

Bill: 113-s-555
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2013-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Disability and health-based discrimination
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: 
Captioning and Image Narration to Enhance Movie Accessibility Act or the CINEMA Act - Amends the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to declare it a discriminatory practice for any person who owns, leases (or leases to), or operates certain movie complexes to fail to ensure that the motion pictures are accessible to individuals with disabilities, including by making open captioning (openly displaying text on the movie screen), closed captioning (displaying text through an individual device), and video description (narrated descriptions) available for individuals who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or have other disabilities.
 
Applies this Act to entities operating a complex of at least two movie theaters, screening rooms, or similar venues, at a single location, that are used for the exhibition of copyrighted motion pictures, if such exhibition is open to the public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1792)
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1791-1792)
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Air Carrier Access Amendments Act

Bill: 113-s-556
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2013-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Access Board
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Disability and health-based discrimination
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: 
Air Carrier Access Amendments Act - Requires domestic and foreign air carriers to ensure that all visually displayed entertainment programming available to flight passengers is accessible to individuals with disabilities, including by making available open captioning (openly displaying text on a shared video monitor), closed captioning (displaying text through an individual video monitor), and video description (audio-narrated descriptions through individual or shared monitors) for individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, or visually impaired, as the case may be.
 
Requires in addition that all individual video displays to flight passengers of entertainment programming or information that are operated primarily by use of touchscreens or other contact-sensitive controls include a mechanism allowing individuals with disabilities to operate such displays independently in accordance with standards the Access Board shall establish.
 
Makes certain penalties under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 available to persons aggrieved by an air carrier's failure to comply with this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-14
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1792-1793)
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Medication Therapy Management Empowerment Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-557
Sponsor: Sen. Hagan, Kay R. [D-NC]
Introduced: 2013-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Drug therapy
Health care quality
Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: 
Medication Therapy Management Empowerment Act of 2013 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Chief Actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and to Congress on whether or not the expansion of the definition of targeted beneficiary, with respect to medication therapy management, would, if implemented, reduce spending under Medicare. Requires the report to include a certification of any determination by the Chief Actuary that such expansion would reduce such spending.
 
Specifies such an expansion as targeted beneficiaries with a single chronic disease that accounts for high Medicare spending, including diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, dyslipidemia, respiratory disease (such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or chronic lung disorders), bone disease-arthritis (such as osteoporosis or osteoarthritis), rheumatoid arthritis, and mental health (such as depression, schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder). (Currently a targeted beneficiary must have multiple chronic diseases.)
 
Requires such an expansion to take place if the report contains the certification indicated. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Accountability in Grants Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-558
Sponsor: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2013-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Public contracts and procurement
Research administration and funding
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: 
Accountability in Grants Act of 2013 - Amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from awarding grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, or other financial assistance under the national research and development program for the prevention and control of air pollution for any program, project, or activity that will be carried out outside the United States or its territories and possessions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 26.
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide that the individual mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act shall not be construed as a tax.

Bill: 113-s-560
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to provide that provisions of such Act imposing a penalty for failure to purchase minimum essential health care coverage shall not be construed as imposing any tax or as an exercise of any power of Congress under the Constitution to impose a tax. Makes the effective date of the amendment made by this Act retroactive to the enactment date of PPACA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Offshoring Prevention Act

Bill: 113-s-561
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Foreign and international corporations
Income tax credits
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Offshoring Prevention Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include in foreign base company income, for purposes of determining the foreign trade income of controlled foreign corporations, imported property income. Defines "imported property income" as, with certain exceptions, income attributable to property manufactured outside of the United States and imported for sale into the United States. Provides for a separate application of limitations on the foreign tax credit for imported property income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-562
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare
Mental health
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover marriage and family therapist services and mental health counselor services under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance), particularly those provided in rural health clinics, federally qualified health centers, and in hospice programs.
 
Amends Medicare part E (Miscellaneous) to exclude such services from the skilled nursing facility prospective payment system.
 
Authorizes marriage and family therapists and mental health counselors to develop discharge plans for post-hospital services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1855-1856)
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1855)
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate