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Proprietary Institution of Higher Education Accountability Act

Bill: 113-hr-1928
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Performance measurement
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
Proprietary Institution of Higher Education Accountability Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education, in calculating the cohort default rate for a proprietary institution of higher education, to treat its current and former students who have received a specified forbearance or deferment of over six months on direct loans before the end of the second fiscal year after they enter repayment on such loans, as students who have defaulted on such loans before the end of such second fiscal year.
 
Applies that calculation to forbearances: (1) that have been agreed to by the parties to an insured loan and approved by the insurer, or (2) for borrowers whose educational debt burden equals or exceeds 20% of their income.
 
Applies that calculation to deferments for borrowers who: (1) are seeking and unable to find full-time employment, or (2) have or will experience an economic hardship.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Enhancing Employment and Training Through Education Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1929
Sponsor: Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Food assistance and relief
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
Enhancing Employment and Training Through Education Act of 2013 - Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to carry out pilot projects to identify best practices for employment and training programs to increase the number of work registrants who obtain unsubsidized employment, increase their earned income, and reduce their reliance on public assistance, including but not limited to the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program).
 
Sets forth selection criteria.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, and Nutrition.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2538)
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Drug Testing Integrity Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1930
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Medical tests and diagnostic methods

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
Drug Testing Integrity Act of 2013 - Makes it unlawful to knowingly manufacture, market, sell, ship, or otherwise provide to another individual any product with the intent to assist such individual to use such product to defraud a drug test. 
 
Treats a violation of this Act as an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
EASY Savings Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1931
Sponsor: Rep. Fleischmann, Charles J. "Chuck" [R-TN-3]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
Employees of America Streamlining for Your Savings Act of 2013 or the EASY Savings Act of 2013 - Expands the awards program for disclosures by federal employees of fraud, waste, or mismanagement that result in cost savings to the employee's agency to include identification of surplus funds or unnecessary budget authority. Directs that any savings resulting from the identification of such funds or budget authority be deposited in the Treasury and used to reduce a budget deficit or the federal debt. 
 Prohibits the payment of awards to: (1) the head of an agency; (2) federal officers who serve in a position at level I of the Executive Schedule, and (3) a voting member of an independent establishment.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Farm Program Integrity Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1932
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
Farm Program Integrity Act of 2013 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to establish a per farm cap of $50,000 on commodity program benefits and $75,000 on marketing loan program benefits ($125,000 total). Increases such limit to $250,000 for married couples. 
 
Revises the limitation of benefits eligibility to active producers to include farm managers.
 
Establishes criteria for determining whether a person acting as a farm manager is actively engaged in farming for such purposes. (Permits only one such eligibility per farm operation.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Saguaro National Park Boundary Expansion and Study Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1934
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Government studies and investigations
Land transfers
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
 Saguaro National Park Boundary Expansion and Study Act of 2013 - Amends the Saguaro National Park Establishment Act of 1994 to modify further the boundaries of Saguaro National Park to include specified land. 
 
Allows the Secretary of the Interior, with the consent of the State of Arizona, to acquire from the state land or interests in land within the boundary of the Park. 
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct a study to identify lands that would be a part of any future boundary adjustments for the Park. Instructs that such study examine the natural, cultural, recreational, and scenic values and characters of the lands identified.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of John Castellano.

Bill: 113-hr-1935
Sponsor: Rep. Hahn, Janice [D-CA-44]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Provides for the relief of John Castellano.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Honoring Our WWII Merchant Mariners Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1936
Sponsor: Rep. Hahn, Janice [D-CA-44]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Government trust funds
Marine and inland water transportation
Transportation employees
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
 Honoring Our WWII Merchant Mariners Act of 2013 - Establishes in the Treasury the Merchant Mariner Equity Compensation Fund for payments by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) of a monthly benefit of $1,000 to each individual who, between December 7, 1941, and December 31, 1946, was a documented member of the U.S. merchant marine (including the Army Transport Service and the Naval Transport Service) serving as a crewmember of a vessel that was operated in U.S. waters by the War Shipping Administration or the Office of Defense Transportation and under contract to, or the property of, the United States. Requires such individuals to: (1) apply for such benefit within one year after the enactment of this Act, and (2) not have received benefits under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944.
 
Requires the Secretary to include, in annual budget documents submitted to Congress, detailed information on the Fund's operation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2013-05-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2849)
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E640)
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that members of the Armed Forces serving on active duty who are diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury have access to hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-1938
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Mental health
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
Neurological disorders

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to furnish hyperbaric oxygen therapy for a member who is: (1) entitled to medical care provided through DOD, and (2) diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or traumatic brain injury.
 
Allows the Secretary to furnish such therapy through contracted private facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Reducing Barriers to Learning Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1940
Sponsor: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Child health
Department of Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational guidance
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Mental health
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
Reducing Barriers to Learning Act of 2013 - Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to create an Office of Specialized Instructional Support within the Department of Education to improve specialized instructional support services in schools. Defines &quot;specialized instructional support services&quot; as assessment, diagnosis, counseling, educational, therapeutic, and other services provided by qualified professionals as part of a comprehensive program to meet student needs.
 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award competitive matching grants to states to: (1) establish or expand specialized instructional support services and programs at the state level that are designed to provide technical assistance, coordination, and support to specialized instructional support services and programs addressing barriers to learning within local educational agencies and individual schools; and (2) hire and support specialized instructional support services coordinators to provide such assistance, coordination, and support.
 
Replaces references to pupil services and pupil services personnel with references to specialized instructional support services and specialized instructional support personnel. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Supporting Working Moms Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1941
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Labor standards
Women's employment
Women's health
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
Supporting Working Moms Act of 2013 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to extend the requirement that certain employers provide reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child to bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity employees or outside salesmen who are exempt from federal labor laws that limit the number of hours in a workweek.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E632)
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Construction Quality Assurance Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1942
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Business ethics
General Services Administration
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
Construction Quality Assurance Act of 2013 - Requires each solicitation by an executive agency for the procurement of construction in excess of $1 million to require each bidder to submit the name, business location, and nature of work of each subcontractor with whom such bidder will subcontract for work in excess of $100,000. Deems to be non-responsive, and prohibits consideration of, any bidder that fails to list such subcontractors. 
 
Prohibits a contractor from substituting another subcontractor for a listed subcontractor, permitting any subcontract to be voluntarily assigned or transferred, or subcontracting work for which the contractor listed itself, except with the consent of the contracting officer for good cause. 
Sets forth: (1) examples of good cause and procedures required for substitution requests; and (2) penalties for violations of substitution prohibitions, including suspension or debarment from federal contracts for multiple violations. 
Requires revisions to the Federal Acquisition Regulation to implement this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E640-641)
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
SUPER Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1943
Sponsor: Rep. Peters, Scott H. [D-CA-52]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Government studies and investigations
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
Super Pollutant Emissions Reduction Act of 2013 or the SUPER Act of 2013 - Requires the President to establish the Task Force on Super Pollutants to: 
 
 
review existing and potential policies and measures that promote reduction of short-lived climate pollutants, in part by identifying and evaluating programs and activities of the federal government that contribute to such reduction; 
 
 identify and recommend specific existing programs and activities that are duplicative and that can be consolidated to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness; 
 
 identify gaps where programs do not exist and recommend focused programs and activities to fill such gaps to achieve reductions of short-lived climate pollutants, with an emphasis on industry standards and public-private partnerships; 
 
 identify, compile, evaluate, and develop best practices for reductions of short-lived climate pollutants; and
 
 report to Congress on its findings and recommendations.
 
 
Defines &quot;short-lived climate pollutant&quot; as black carbon, methane, hydrofluorocarbons, tropospheric ozone and its precursors, or emissions from banks of ozone-depleting substances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Fostering Resilience to Terrorism Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1945
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Homeland Security
Department of the Treasury
Disaster relief and insurance
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Homeland security
Insurance industry and regulation
Life, casualty, property insurance
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
Fostering Resilience to Terrorism Act of 2013 - Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to revise the definition of an "act of terrorism" to mean any act that is certified as meeting the specified criteria for such an act by the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), in concurrence with the Secretary of the Treasury (currently, by the Secretary of the Treasury in concurrence with the Secretary of State).
 
Extends the Terrorism Insurance Program until December 31, 2024 (under current law the Program expires on December 31, 2014). 
 
Requires reports in 2017, 2020, and 2030 on the findings of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets pursuant to an ongoing analysis regarding the long-term availability and affordability of insurance for terrorism risk.
 
Directs the DHS Secretary to: (1) provide to insureds under the Program, through the Secretary of the Treasury, timely homeland security information, including terrorism risk information, at the appropriate classification level and information on best practices to foster resilience to a terrorist act; and (2) conduct research to determine the extent to which such insureds, particularly insureds in critical infrastructure sectors, incorporate such best practices information into their business operations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Responsible Student Loan Solutions Act

Bill: 113-hr-1946
Sponsor: Rep. Tierney, John F. [D-MA-6]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
Responsible Student Loan Solutions Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to limit the unpaid amount of Direct Stafford loans that students may amass before completing their undergraduate education. Varies that limit on the basis of whether a student is a dependent student, independent student, or dependent student whose parents are unable to borrow a Direct PLUS loan.
 
Limits the amount of Direct Stafford loans that students may borrow in any academic year before the completion of their undergraduate studies. Varies that limit on the basis of whether a student: (1) is a dependent student, independent student, or dependent student whose parents are unable to borrow a Direct PLUS loan; and (2) has or has not successfully completed the first year or first and second years of their undergraduate studies.
 
Sets the annual interest rate on Direct loans at the bond equivalent rate on 91-day Treasury bills plus a percentage that: (1) represents the total cost of administering the Direct Loan program and borrower benefits, and (2) results in the program being revenue neutral for the applicable 12-month period. Allows the Secretary of Education to use different percentages under that formula for the Direct Stafford Loan, Unsubsidized Stafford Loan, PLUS Loan, and Consolidation Loan programs.
 
Caps the annual interest rate for Direct Stafford loans at 6.8%, and for Direct Unsubsidized Stafford loans and Direct PLUS and Consolidation loans at 8.25%
 
Directs the Secretary to charge the borrower of a Direct PLUS loan an origination fee of up to 3% of the loan principal.
 
Limits the applicability of the preceding provisions to loans first disbursed on or after July 1, 2013.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to refinance federal PLUS and Stafford loans to permit borrowers to obtain an interest rate determined pursuant to this Act's provisions.
 
Allows the Secretary to charge borrowers an administrative fee for refinancing such loans that does not exceed 0.5% of the loan principal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House