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A bill to exempt certain class A CDL drivers from the requirement to obtain a hazardous material endorsement while operating a service vehicle with a fuel tank containing 3,785 liters (1,000 gallons) or less of diesel fuel.

Bill: 113-s-485
Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2013-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: General agriculture matters
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Licensing and registrations
Motor fuels
Motor vehicles
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to exempt from the requirement to obtain a hazardous material (hazmat) endorsement all class A commercial driver's license (CDL) holders who are custom harvesters, agricultural retailers, agricultural business employees, agricultural cooperative employees, or agricultural producers who operate a service vehicle with a fuel tank containing 3,785 liters (1,000) gallons or less of diesel fuel if the tank is clearly marked with a placard reading &quot;Diesel Fuel.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Driver Fatigue Prevention Act

Bill: 113-s-487
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2013-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Labor standards
Motor carriers
Transportation employees
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: 
Driver Fatigue Prevention Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to apply its maximum hours requirements to over-the-road bus drivers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Low Value Shipment Regulatory Modernization Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-489
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2013-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Customs enforcement
Economic performance and conditions
Inflation and prices
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: 
Low Value Shipment Regulatory Modernization Act of 2013 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States Trade Representative (USTR) should encourage other countries, through bilateral, regional, and multilateral fora, to establish commercially meaningful de minimis values for express and postal shipments of articles that are exempt from customs duties and certain entry documentation requirements, as appropriate.
 
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to increase from $200 to $800 for 2014, and to $800 adjusted annually for inflation after 2014, the aggregate retail value in the country of shipment of articles that may be imported duty-free into the United States by one person on one day.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Mobile Mammography Promotion Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-490
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2013-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cancer
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Motor fuels
Motor vehicles
Sales and excise taxes
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: 
Mobile Mammography Promotion Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the motor fuel excise tax fuel used in any highway vehicle designed exclusively to provide mobile mammography services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to require States to recognize the military experience of veterans when issuing licenses and credentials to veterans, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-492
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2013-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Licensing and registrations
State and local government operations
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: 
Requires a state, as a condition for receipt of a grant or contract from the Department of Labor for support of disabled veterans' outreach specialists and local veterans' employment representatives, to establish a program which issues a license or credential to a veteran without requiring any training or apprenticeship if such veteran: (1) receives a satisfactory score on completion of an examination administered by that state, and (2) has at least 10 years of experience in a military occupational specialty that is similar to the civilian occupation for which such license or credential is required.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-12
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-111.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Dairy Augmentation for Increased Retail in Yogurt products (DAIRY) Act

Bill: 113-s-493
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2013-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural insurance
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: 
Dairy Augmentation for Increased Retail in Yogurt products (DAIRY) Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish tax-exempt dairy farm savings accounts to allow taxpayers engaged in the trade or business of dairy farming to use distributions from such accounts to pay business expenses; (2) allow a deduction from gross income for cash contributions to such accounts; and (3) set forth tax rules relating to, and penalties for, account distributions, excess contributions, and prohibited transactions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the types of livestock for which bonus depreciation is available.

Bill: 113-s-494
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2013-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Livestock

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the special depreciation allowance (bonus depreciation) for dairy producing calves and cows purchased for business use, regardless of whether the original use of such livestock commenced with another taxpayer. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
FUELS Act

Bill: 113-s-496
Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2013-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Agricultural conservation and pollution
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Oil and gas
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: 
Farmers Undertake Environmental Land Stewardship Act or the FUELS Act - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in implementing the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure rule with respect to any farm, to require certification of compliance with such rule by: (1) a professional engineer for a farm with an individual tank with an aboveground storage capacity greater than 10,000 gallons, an aggregate aboveground storage capacity of at least 42,000 gallons, or a reportable oil discharge history; or (2) the owner or operator of the farm (via self-certification) for a farm with an aggregate aboveground storage capacity greater than 10,000 gallons but less than 42,000 gallons and no reportable oil discharge history of oil. Directs the Administrator to exempt from all requirements of such rule any farm with an aggregate aboveground storage capacity of 10,000 gallons or less and no reportable oil discharge history.
 
Excludes from the aggregate storage capacity of a farm all containers on separate parcels that have a capacity of less than 1,320 gallons.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
San Juan Islands National Conservation Area Act

Bill: 113-s-497
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2013-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Land transfers
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Washington State
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: 
San Juan Islands National Conservation Area Act - Establishes the San Juan Islands National Conservation Area in the state of Washington. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop a comprehensive plan for the long-term management of the Conservation Area. 
 
 Requires the Secretary to manage the Conservation Area in a manner to conserve, protect, and enhance the resources of such area. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe measures for the control of nonnative invasive plants and noxious weeds within the Conservation Area. 
 
Instructs the Secretary, in consultation with Indian tribes, to ensure the protection of religious and cultural sites within the Conservation Area and to provide access to them by tribal members for traditional cultural and customary uses. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish the San Juan Islands National Conservation Area Advisory Council to advise the Secretary on the preparation and implementation of the management plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Zimbabwe Sanctions Repeal Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-498
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2013-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Africa
Congressional oversight
Foreign aid and international relief
Foreign loans and debt
Sanctions
Zimbabwe

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: 
Zimbabwe Sanctions Repeal Act of 2013 - Repeals the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001. (The Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001 prohibits U.S. support through international financial institutions for debt relief and other economic development aid to Zimbabwe until certain conditions to restore democracy and the rule of law are met.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Patient Choice Restoration Act

Bill: 113-s-499
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2013-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: 
Patient Choice Restoration Act - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Restores provisions of law amended by such Acts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Keeping Our Social Security Promises Act

Bill: 113-s-500
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2013-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment taxes
Self-employed
Social security and elderly assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: 
Keeping Our Social Security Promises Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to apply employment and self-employment taxes to remuneration up to the contribution and benefit base and to remuneration in excess of $250,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Volunteer Responder Incentive Protection Reauthorization Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-501
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2013-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Health personnel
Income tax exclusion
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: 
Volunteer Responder Incentive Protection Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Amends Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax exclusion for benefits paid to volunteer firefighters and emergency medical providers by states and local governments, to: (1) increase the amount of benefits excludible; and (2) make such tax exclusion available for taxable years beginning in 2014, 2015, or 2016. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Prepare All Kids Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-502
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2013-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Child care and development
Education programs funding
Government trust funds
Preschool education
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: 
Prepare All Kids Act of 2013 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to establish a Prekindergarten Incentive Fund from which matching grants shall be awarded to states and, through them, subgrants to qualified prekindergarten providers to establish, expand, or enhance voluntary high quality full-day prekindergarten programs serving children ages three through five.
 
Directs state grantees to set aside: (1) at least 15% of their grant for quality early childhood development programs for children from birth through age three, and (2) at least 10% of their grant to extend the hours of early childhood development programs to create extended day and year programs.
 
Requires prekindergarten subgrantees to: (1) maintain a maximum class size of 20 children, with at least 1 prekindergarten teacher per classroom; and (2) ensure that the ratio of children to prekindergarten teachers and teacher aides does not exceed 10 to 1.
 
Prohibits the use of program funds for assessments of children in prekindergarten or early childhood development programs if: (1) the assessments are used to reward or sanction individual children, teachers, programs, or schools; or (2) a single assessment is used as the primary or sole method for assessing program effectiveness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Sangre de Cristo National Historical Park Establishment Act

Bill: 113-s-503
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Mark [D-CO]
Introduced: 2013-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Historic sites and heritage areas
Historical and cultural resources
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: 
Sangre de Cristo National Historical Park Establishment Act - Establishes the Sangre de Cristo National Historical Park in Colorado as a unit of the National Park System. 
 
Requires the Park to be composed of cultural and historical sites and byways within the Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range-San Luis Valley region of southern Colorado.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the National Park Service (NPS), to study the feasibility of including additional cultural and historical sites in Huerfano and Las Animas Counties in the Park.
 
Allows the Secretary to acquire water rights by donation or purchase from willing sellers.
 
Requires the completion of a general management plan for the Park. 
 
Requires the head of the federal agency having jurisdiction over a part of the Old Spanish Trail that is included within the Park to continue to manage that part of the Trail. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1271)
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
FAIR Generics Act

Bill: 113-s-504
Sponsor: Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN]
Introduced: 2013-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Government information and archives
Intellectual property
Marketing and advertising
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: 
Fair And Immediate Release of Generic Drugs Act or FAIR Generics Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to revise the definition of &ldquo;first applicant&rdquo; for purposes of the 180-day exclusivity period given to first applicants to file an abbreviated new drug application (generic drug). Makes applicants for a generic drug eligible for the exclusivity period only if they have not entered into a disqualifying agreement (an agreement between a generic drug applicant and the holder of the application for the listed drug [brand name drug] or the patent holder for the brand name drug whereby the generic drug applicant agrees not to seek approval of its generic drug or not to begin the commercial marketing of its generic drug until the expiration of the exclusivity period awarded to another generic applicant).
 
Expands the definition of &ldquo;first applicant&rdquo; to include an applicant that meets the following criteria: (1) the applicant is not the first generic applicant; (2) either no action for patent infringement was brought, such action was withdrawn or dismissed by a court without a decision that the patent was valid and infringed, or the court decided that the patent was invalid or not infringed; and (3) the applicant does not begin commercial marketing of such drug until 30 days after the first applicant began such commercial marketing.
 
Prohibits a party that enters an agreement to delay seeking approval of its generic drug application or to delay the commercial marketing of a generic drug from seeking approval of its application or beginning commercial marketing before the earlier of: (1) the latest date set forth in the agreement to seek approval or market the drug without regard to any earlier date under the agreement when commercial marketing could begin, or (2) 180 days after another first applicant begins commercial marketing of such drug.
 
Requires notice to the Secretary of the Health and Human Services (HHS) of the details of any agreement under this Act not later than ten business days after execution of the agreement.
 
Declares that the exclusive remedy for an infringement of a patent included within a new drug application shall be an action brought under the FFDCA within the 45-day period prescribed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the use of drones to kill citizens of the United States within the United States.

Bill: 113-s-505
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2013-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Due process and equal protection
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: 
Prohibits the federal government from using a drone (unmanned aircraft) to kill a U.S. citizen located in the United States. 
 
Makes such prohibition inapplicable to an individual who poses an immediate threat of death or serious bodily injury to another.
 
States that nothing in this Act shall be construed to allow the killing of a U.S. citizen located in the United States without due process of law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-11
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 22.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-506
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2013-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Labor
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Health personnel
Income tax deferral
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: 
Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow sponsors of certain deferred compensation plans to elect to include length of service award plans for bona fide volunteers providing firefighting and fire prevention services, emergency medical services, ambulance services, and emergency rescue services.
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to issue regulations exempting a length of service award program from treatment as an employee pension benefit plan under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1271)
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Fruit Heights Land Conveyance Act

Bill: 113-s-509
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2013-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Land transfers
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: 
Fruit Heights Land Conveyance Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to convey to the city of Fruit Heights, Utah, all interest of the United States in approximately 100 acres of identified National Forest System land.
 
Requires the Secretary to reserve an easement to such land for the Bonneville Shoreline Trail.
 
Requires the city to use such land only for public purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-85.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate