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Gun-Owner Registration Information Protection Act

Bill: 113-s-2105
Sponsor: Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS]
Introduced: 2014-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Firearms and explosives
Government information and archives
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-11
text: 
Gun-Owner Registration Information Protection Act - Prohibits any federal agency from supporting (by funding or other means) the establishment or maintenance by a state or political subdivision of any listing of firearms lawfully possessed or owned by private persons, or of persons who lawfully possess or own firearms, except in the case of firearms that have been reported as lost or stolen.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2014-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate
FAIR Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2106
Sponsor: Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE]
Introduced: 2014-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-11
text: 
Freeing Americans from Inequitable Requirements Act of 2014 or the FAIR Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the individual mandate to purchase health care coverage, to delay such requirement from taking effect until the Secretary of the Treasury submits to Congress a certification that the employer mandate to provide health care coverage for employees is being applied and administered without any administratively created exceptions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate
National STEM Education Tax Incentive for Teachers Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2108
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2014-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Income tax credits
Science and engineering education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-11
text: 
National STEM Education Tax Incentive for Teachers Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain full-time elementary and secondary school teachers of mathematics, science, engineering, or technology courses a refundable tax credit for 10% of their undergraduate tuition up to $1,000 in any taxable year. Increases such credit amount to $1,500 for teachers in schools serving disadvantaged children. Terminates such credit after the 10th taxable year for which such credit is allowed. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Government Reports Elimination Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2109
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2014-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-11
text: 
Government Reports Elimination Act of 2014 - Eliminates, modifies, or consolidates reporting requirements for the: (1) Department of Agriculture, (2) Department of Commerce, (3) Department of Defense (DOD), (4) Department of Education, (5) Department of Energy (DOE), (6) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), (7) Department of Homeland Security (DHS), (8) Department of Housing and Urban Affairs (HUD), (9) Department of Justice (DOJ), (10) Department of Labor, (11) Department of the Interior, (12) Department of State, (13) Department of the Treasury, (14) Department of Transportation (DOT), (15) Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), (16) Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), (17) Corporation for National and Community Service (18) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), (19) Federal Trade Commission (FTC), (20) General Services Administration (GSA), (21) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), (22) National Science Foundation (NSF), (23) Office of Personnel Management (OPM), (24) Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), (25) Small Business Administration (SBA), (26) Social Security Administration (SSA), (27) Army Corps of Engineers, and (28) Executive Office of the President. Repeals or modifies reports relating to activities conducted by the intelligence community. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2014-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area Reauthorization Act

Bill: 113-s-2111
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2014-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Historic sites and heritage areas
Lakes and rivers

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: 
Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area Reauthorization Act - Amends the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area Act of 2000 to extend through FY2030 the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to make grants or provide assistance for the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-493.
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1586)
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Bond Transparency Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2114
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2014-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Securities
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: 
Bond Transparency Act of 2014 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to define a &quot;riskless principal transaction&quot; as any transaction the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) identifies as one, but primarily one in which a broker, dealer, or municipal securities dealer acts on a customer order to buy or sell either municipal securities or corporate debt securities while also acting as principal for its own account in order to complete the transaction.
 
Requires a broker or dealer, at or before completion of the transaction, to make a markup disclosure in writing to the customer of the difference between either: (1) the customer's purchase price and the broker or dealer's purchase price; or (2) the customer's sale price and the broker or dealer's sale price.
 
Subjects riskless principal transactions in corporate debt securities to the same markup disclosure requirements as those for riskless principal transactions in municipal securities.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
American Cures Act

Bill: 113-s-2115
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2014-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Department of Defense
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Veterans Affairs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government trust funds
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Military medicine
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Research administration and funding
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: 
American Cures Act - Establishes a Biomedical Research Fund to be administered by the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for an expanded and sustained national investment in biomedical research. 
 
Requires amounts to be transferred from the Fund for each fiscal year to accounts related to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Defense (DOD) health program, and the medical and prosthetics research program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that funding for such programs and agencies does not fall below 105% of the level of funding provided for the preceding fiscal year and an additional amount to account for any increases in the Gross Domestic Product for the year involved.
 
Requires that amounts appropriated for each of such programs and agencies for a fiscal year be not be less than the amounts appropriated for FY2014. Authorizes and appropriates to the Fund such sums as necessary in each fiscal year to enable such transfers. 
 
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act to exempt the Fund from any sequestration order issued under such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1586-1587)
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Native American Seeds Protection Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2116
Sponsor: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Introduced: 2014-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural education
Agricultural practices and innovations
Agricultural research
Education programs funding
Horticulture and plants
Indian lands and resources rights
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: 
Native American Seeds Protection Act of 2014 - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to award grants to, and enter into agreements with, Indian tribes and 1994 Institutions to conduct research and education and training programs concerning the purity of Native American seeds. (1994 Institutions are Native American tribally-controlled colleges and universities that were granted land-grant status in 1994.)
 
Requires grant applicants to certify that any research conducted will be performed under a cooperative agreement with at least one other entity that has the capacity and infrastructure necessary to carry out agricultural research projects.
 
Authorizes the use of the grants to fund research to assess the impact of: (1) public law and policies on traditional ways of life and cultural practices relating to the harvesting and cultivating of Native American seeds, and (2) contaminants that compromise the integrity and purity of those seeds.
 
Authorizes the use of the grants to fund education and training programs on: (1) the methods necessary to conduct such research; and (2) the best methods to continuously test, monitor, and otherwise protect the purity of Native American seeds.
 
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the use of grants under the community facilities grant program to expand, construct, and develop seed storage facilities that are used to protect and preserve Native American seeds.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
ENFORCE the Law Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2118
Sponsor: Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO]
Introduced: 2014-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Congressional-executive branch relations
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Judicial review and appeals
Legislative rules and procedure
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: 
Executive Needs to Faithfully Observe and Respect Congressional Enactments of the Law Act of 2014 or the ENFORCE the Law Act of 2014 - Authorizes either chamber of Congress, upon adoption of a resolution declaring that the President or any officer or employee of the United States has established or implemented a policy, practice, or procedure to refrain from enforcing, applying, following, or administering any federal statute, rule, regulation, program, policy, or other law in violation of the constitutional requirement that the President faithfully execute the laws of the United States, to bring a civil action for a declaratory judgment to that effect.
 
Grants jurisdiction to a three-judge panel of a U.S. district court to hear such civil action and provides for an expedited direct appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Head Start Improvement Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2119
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2014-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Preschool education

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: 
Head Start Improvement Act of 2014 - Amends the Head Start Act to eliminate, beginning on the first fiscal year following this Act's enactment, the formula for allotting Head Start program funds to Head Start agencies. 
 
 Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to allot block grants for prekindergarten programs to states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, the Republic of Palau, and each federally recognized Indian tribe on the basis of each jurisdiction's share of children aged five and younger who are from families with incomes below 130% of the poverty level.
 
Requires the Governor or other chief executive of each grantee to certify that all grant funds will be used to directly or indirectly provide comprehensive education and related services to low-income children and their families.
 
Requires grantees to: (1) award subgrants to prekindergarten providers of their choosing, (2) establish rules and standards for those subgrantees to follow, and (3) monitor compliance with those rules and standards.
 
Gives grantees full flexibility to use the grant funds to finance a prekindergarten education provider, service, or program, including to establish a portable voucher system.
 
Requires grantees to provide matching funds from nonfederal sources equal to 20% of their grant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to expand the prohibition on the manufacture, distribution, and importation of children's products that contain phthalates, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-2120
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2014-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Child health
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: 
Amends the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 to expand the prohibition against the manufacture, distribution, or importation of any children's toy or child care articles containing specified phthalates to include any children's products containing those chemicals. Expands also the list of prohibited phthalates.
 
Declares that such prohibition shall not apply to any component of a children's product (currently, only of a children's toy or child care article) that is not accessible to a child through normal and reasonably foreseeable use and abuse of that product.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Repeal REAL ID Act

Bill: 113-s-2121
Sponsor: Sen. Walsh, John E. [D-MT]
Introduced: 2014-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Government information and archives
Licensing and registrations
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: 
Repeal REAL ID Act - Repeals title II (Improved Security for Driver's Licenses and Personal Identification Cards) of the REAL ID Act of 2005. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
School District 318 Land Exchange Act

Bill: 113-s-2123
Sponsor: Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN]
Introduced: 2014-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Land transfers
Minnesota

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: 
School District 318 Land Exchange Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) accept any offer by the Minnesota Independent School District number 318 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, to convey to the United States approximately 1.6 acres of specified non-federal land (including any structures on it), and (2) convey to the District in exchange approximately 1.3 acres of specified U.S. Geological Survey land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-433.
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Safety and Economic Security Communications Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2125
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2014-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Government information and archives
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: 
Public Safety and Economic Security Communications Act of 2014 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require an intermediate provider that offers the capability to transmit certain voice communications and signaling information from one destination to another, and that charges a rate to any other entity (including an affiliated entity) for the transmission, to: (1) register with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and (2) comply with service quality standards to be established by the FCC.
 
Defines &quot;intermediate provider&quot; as any entity that: (1) carries or processes traffic that is generated from the placement of a call from a connection using a North American Numbering Plan resource or a call placed to a connection using such a numbering resource, and (2) does not itself originate or terminate such traffic in the context of the carriage or processing. 
 
Prohibits certain long-distance voice service providers (including local exchange carriers, interexchange carriers, commercial mobile radio services, interconnected voice over Internet Protocol [VoIP] services, and certain non-interconnected VoIP services) from using an intermediate provider to transmit voice communications and signals unless the intermediate provider is so registered.
 
Directs the FCC, in promulgating rules for such standards, to: (1) ensure the integrity of the transmission of voice communications to all customers in the United States, (2) prevent unjust or unreasonable discrimination among areas of the United States in the delivery of such voice communications, and (3) make a registry of intermediate providers publicly available on the FCC website.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1655-1656)
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Regenerative Medicine Promotion Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2126
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2014-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medical research
Product development and innovation
Research administration and funding
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: 
Regenerative Medicine Promotion Act of 2014 - Requires the Comptroller General to submit to Congress a report identifying all ongoing federal programs and activities regarding regenerative medicine. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a Regenerative Medicine Coordinating Council, which shall: 
 
 
prepare a national strategy to support research into regenerative medicine and enable the development of drugs, biological products, medical devices, and biomaterials for use in regenerative medicine; 
 
develop national goals for regenerative medicine research and product development; 
 
prepare a plan specifying priorities for research into regenerative medicine; 
 
identify sources of funding for research into regenerative medicine and areas where such funding is inadequate or duplicative; 
 
make recommendations regarding federal policies to support development and marketing of regenerative medicine products; 
 
develop consensus standards regarding scientific issues critical to regulator approval of regenerative medicine products; and 
 
determine the need for establishing centers of excellence or consortia to further advance regenerative medicine.
 
 
Directs the Council to: (1) adopt procedures to ensure the receipt of public input; and (2) submit an annual report on its activities to Congress, the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Commissioner of Food and Drugs (FDA).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Inspector General Empowerment Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2127
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2014-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of Justice
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: 
Inspector General Empowerment Act of 2014 - Amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to eliminate a provision of such Act that requires referral of allegations of misconduct involving Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys, investigators, or law enforcement personnel to the DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility (thus allowing the DOJ Inspector General to investigate such allegations). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to name the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Waco, Texas, as the "Doris Miller Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center".

Bill: 113-s-2128
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2014-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Health facilities and institutions
Military personnel and dependents
Texas
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: 
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical center in Waco, Texas, as the &quot;Doris Miller Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.&quot; 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1656)
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate