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Data Accountability and Trust Act

Bill: 113-hr-4400
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2014-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Federal preemption
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Marketing and advertising
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: 
Data Accountability and Trust Act - Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to promulgate regulations requiring each person engaged in interstate commerce that owns or possesses data containing personal information to establish specified security policies and procedures to treat and protect such information.
 
Requires the regulations to include methods for disposing of both electronic and nonelectronic data.
 
Requires information brokers to submit their security policies to the FTC in conjunction with a notification of a security breach notification or on FTC request. Authorizes the FTC to conduct information security practices audits of brokers who have had a security breach or require such brokers to conduct independent audits. 
 
Requires information brokers to: (1) establish procedures to verify the accuracy of information that identifies individuals, (2) provide to individuals whose personal information it maintains a means to review it, (3) place a conspicuous notice on the Internet instructing individuals how to request access to such information, and (4) correct inaccurate information.
 
Directs the FTC to require information brokers to establish measures which facilitate the auditing or retracing of access to, or transmissions of, any data containing personal information. 
 
Makes it unlawful for information brokers to obtain or disclose personal information by false pretenses (pretexting).
 
Requires such person to notify the FTC and affected individuals of information security breaches. Sets forth requirements concerning such notification, including method of notification requirements and timeliness requirements. Allows an exemption from notification requirements if such person determines that there is no reasonable risk of identity theft, fraud, or other unlawful conduct.
 
Preempts state information security laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Temporary Emergency Payee Act

Bill: 113-hr-4401
Sponsor: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2014-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: 
Social Security Temporary Emergency Payee Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to require the Commissioner of Social Security, if the Commissioner or a court of competent jurisdiction determines that the representative payee for an individual has died, has misused any individual's benefit, or has otherwise become unable or unwilling to continue as a representative payee, to: (1) revoke immediately certification for payment of the individual's benefits to such representative payee; (2) certify payment of such benefits, on a permanent or temporary basis, to a qualified organization to serve as a substitute representative payee; or (3) certify payments of such benefits to the individual directly if it would serve the individual's interests.
 
Prohibits the deferral of benefits payments directly to an individual during the selection of a substitute representative payee in any case in which a representative payee has previously been designated for the individual.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Introduced in House
Homeowner Disaster Relief Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4403
Sponsor: Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2014-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Employee benefits and pensions
Natural disasters
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: 
Homeowner Disaster Relief Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt any qualified natural disaster distribution from the 10% penalty on premature distributions from tax-exempt retirement plans. Defines "qualified natural diasaster distribution" as a distribution from a retirement plan to an individual if: (1) such individual sustained an economic loss due to a federally-declared disaster, (2) the principal place of abode of such individual on the disaster declaration date is in the disaster area, and (3) such distribution is made during the one-year period beginning on the disaster declaration date. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Introduced in House
SARA Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4404
Sponsor: Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1]
Introduced: 2014-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Crimes against women
Criminal justice information and records
Sex offenses
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: 
Sexual Assault Reporting on Aircraft Act of 2014 or SARA Act of 2014 - Directs the Attorney General to acquire data, for each calendar year, about sexual offenses, including rape, that occur aboard passenger aircraft.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Introduced in House
Preventing Gun Violence Act

Bill: 113-hr-4405
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3]
Introduced: 2014-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Firearms and explosives
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: 
Preventing Gun Violence Act - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit the trafficking in or possession of a firearm by a person who has been adjudicated of committing a violent juvenile act. 
 
Defines a &quot;violent juvenile act&quot; as: (1) an act by a person under the age of 18 that, if committed by an adult, would be punishable by a prison term exceeding one year and that either has, as an element, the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against another person or involves, by its nature, a substantial risk that physical force against another person may be used; and (2) such an act that is committed by a person who has attained age 18 but not age 21 for which the person is tried as a juvenile or youthful offender under state law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Introduced in House
Taxpayer Bailout Protection Act

Bill: 113-hr-4406
Sponsor: Rep. Lance, Leonard [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2014-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: 
Taxpayer Bailout Protection Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, with respect to the program of risk corridors (under which a qualified health plan offered in the individual or small group market is required to participate in a payment adjustment system based on the ratio of the allowable costs of the plan to the plan's aggregate premiums), to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ensure that the amount of payments to plans for a plan year beginning during calendar years 2014 through 2016 does not exceed the amount of payments to the Secretary for such plan year.
 
Requires the Secretary to proportionately decrease the amount of payments to plans in order to ensure that such requirement is satisfied each year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Introduced in House
Wood Stove Regulatory Relief Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4407
Sponsor: Rep. Luetkemeyer, Blaine [R-MO-3]
Introduced: 2014-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Lighting, heating, cooling
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: 
Wood Stove Regulatory Relief Act of 2014 - Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for an eight-year period, from finalizing, issuing, implementing, or enforcing rules under the Clean Air Act applicable to any new source of air pollutants that is a residential wood heater, a residential hydronic heater, a forced-air furnace, or a residential masonry heater unless the rules comply with this Act.
 
Prohibits the Administrator from setting particulate matter emission limits below a specified threshold for adjustable rate wood heaters, single burn rate wood heaters, pellet heaters/stoves, residential hydronic heaters, and forced-air furnaces.
 
Phases in requirements for complying with emission limits. 
 
Sets forth provisions requiring third-party testing of compliance with emission limits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Introduced in House
Lawrence J. Hackett Jr. Vietnam Veterans Agent Orange Fairness Act

Bill: 113-hr-4408
Sponsor: Rep. Maffei, Daniel B. [D-NY-24]
Introduced: 2014-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Asia
Birth defects
Conflicts and wars
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Neurological disorders
South Korea
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation
Vietnam

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: 
Lawrence J. Hackett Jr. Vietnam Veterans Agent Orange Fairness Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a task force to assess and make recommendations about the care and compensation that should be provided to veterans who have been exposed to Agent Orange, their spouses, and multiple generations of their offspring.
 
Requires the task force to make recommendations: (1) to establish the Agent Orange Illness Compensation Program to provide an exposed veteran or eligible survivor a lump sum payment for the veteran's injury, illness, or death; (2) for the establishment of a national outreach and education campaign to communicate information about Agent Orange exposures and health conditions to veterans who are affected by incidents of toxic exposures and their families; (3) for compensation and health care for individuals with Spina Bifida, birth defects, or other illnesses who are the children or descendants of members of the Armed Forces who served in Vietnam or in or near the demilitarized zone in Korea during certain time periods determined by the task force; and (4) for the establishment of a unified policy to deal with the consequences of exposure to hazardous materials in the military.
 
Terminates the task force not later than two years after its establishment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Introduced in House
To award posthumously a Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner to commemorate the lives they lost 50 years ago in an effort to bring justice and equality to Americans in Mississippi during Freedom Summer.

Bill: 113-hr-4409
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2014-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Commemorative events and holidays
Congressional tributes
Crime victims
Mississippi
Racial and ethnic relations
U.S. history
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: 
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the posthumous presentation of a congressional gold medal, collectively, to James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner to commemorate the lives they lost 50 years ago in an effort to bring justice and equality to Americans in Mississippi during Freedom Summer.
 
Requires such medal, following its award, to be given to Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Introduced in House
DoD LABS Research Act

Bill: 113-hr-4410
Sponsor: Rep. Tsongas, Niki [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2014-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Defense
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Research and development
Science and engineering education
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: 
DoD Laboratory Authorities for Breakthrough Scientific Research Act or the DoD LABS Research Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Defense (DOD) from disallowing an employee of a defense laboratory from traveling to a technical symposium or conference if the head of such laboratory determines that there is a sufficient amount available to the laboratory for such travel and approves such travel using standard travel approval procedures.
 
Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 to allow the director of any DOD science and technology laboratory to appoint as an employee, through 2019, any student enrolled in a program of undergraduate or graduate instruction leading to a bachelor's or master's degree in a scientific, technical, engineering, mathematical, or medical course of study. (Under current law, such a director may only appoint through such period a candidate already possessing a bachelor's degree or a qualified veteran.)
 
Directs the Secretary to report to the congressional defense committees on the implementation and use by DOD of specified hiring authorities provided under federal law, prior defense authorization Acts, and the Intergovernmental Personnel Act.
 
Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to reinstate and make permanent a DOD personnel program for the hiring of scientific and technical personnel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Emerging Threats & Capabilities.
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-04
text: Introduced in House
To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 161 Live Oak Street in Miami, Arizona, as the "Staff Sergeant Manuel V. Mendoza Post Office Building".

Bill: 113-hr-4416
Sponsor: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2014-04-07 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Arizona
Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Military personnel and dependents
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-07
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 161 Live Oak Street in Miami, Arizona, as the "Staff Sergeant Manuel V. Mendoza Post Office Building."
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 161 Live Oak Street in Miami, Arizona, as the "Staff Sergeant Manuel V. Mendoza Post Office Building."


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-18
text: Became Public Law No: 113-258.
action_date: 2014-12-18
text: Became Public Law No: 113-258.
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: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6159)
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 H6159)
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4416.
action_date: 2014-07-14
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration:  CR H6159-6160)
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: 2014-04-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-04-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-07
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 113-258
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resources study to determine the suitability and feasibility of entering into public-private partnerships to operate federally owned golf courses in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-4417
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2014-04-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional oversight
District of Columbia
Government studies and investigations
Outdoor recreation
Sports and recreation facilities
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-07
text: 
Requires the Director of the National Park Service to conduct a special resources study to determine the suitability and feasibility of entering into public-private partnerships with non-federal entities to operate East Potomac Golf Course, Langston Golf Course, and Rock Creek Park Golf Course in the District of Columbia.
 
Requires the Director to assume that: (1) one of the three golf courses will be a world-class, tournament-quality public course, with commensurate playing fees; and (2) the other two shall be public courses of substantially similar quality to top-ranked courses owned by cities, towns, and counties for which the playing fees shall remain the same as they are on the date of this Act's enactment but shall be indexed annually to the Consumer Price Index. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2014-04-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-04-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E538-539)
action_date: 2014-04-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-07
text: Introduced in House
Authorized Rural Water Projects Completion Act

Bill: 113-hr-4420
Sponsor: Rep. Daines, Steve [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2014-04-08 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Economic development
Energy efficiency and conservation
Government trust funds
Indian social and development programs
Rural conditions and development
Water resources funding
Water use and supply
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-08
text: 
Authorized Rural Water Projects Completion Act - Establishes in the Treasury a Reclamation Rural Water Construction Fund, into which the Secretary of the Treasury shall deposit for each of FY2014-FY2030 a specified amount of revenues that would otherwise be deposited in the reclamation fund established by the Reclamation Act of 1902.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to use amounts from the Fund to complete construction of rural water projects that were authorized to be carried out on or before this Act's enactment or for which: (1) a feasibility study has been submitted to the Secretary by September 30, 2012, pursuant to the Rural Water Supply Act of 2006 that recommends construction, and (2) an Act of Congress enacted after this Act's enactment has authorized construction. Prohibits the Secretary from using amounts from the Fund to pay for project operation and maintenance costs.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from expending amounts from the Fund until the date on which the Secretary develops: (1) programmatic goals that would enable the completion of construction of the authorized rural water projects as expeditiously as possible and that reflect the goals and priorities identified in the laws authorizing the projects and the goals of the Reclamation Rural Water Supply Act; and (2) funding prioritization criteria that takes into account specified information, including an evaluation of the need for potable water supplies in the affected rural and tribal communities, the completion status of a project, and the financial needs of the affected communities.
 
Terminates the Fund on September 30, 2035.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2014-04-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-04-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-08
text: Introduced in House
MotorCities National Heritage Area Extension Act

Bill: 113-hr-4421
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2014-04-08 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Michigan
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-08
text: 
MotorCities National Heritage Area Extension Act - Amends the Automobile National Heritage Area Act to extend through FY2030 the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to make grants or provide assistance for the Automobile National Heritage Area in Michigan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2014-04-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-04-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-08
text: Introduced in House