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Children of Military Service Members Commemorative Lapel Pin Act

Bill: 113-hr-1889
Sponsor: Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2013-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: 
Children of Military Service Members Commemorative Lapel Pin Act - Requires a lapel button, to be known as the children of military service members commemorative lapel button, to be designed, as approved by the Secretary of Defense (DOD), to identify and recognize child dependents of members of the Armed Forces who serve on active duty for more than 30 days. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should expedite the design and manufacture of the button, as well as mechanisms to facilitate its issuance.
 
Makes such button available retroactively to the child of any member satisfying such eligibility conditions before the enactment of this Act.
 
Requires the Secretary to notify members with qualifying service since September 11, 2001, of the availability of the button.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Science Laureates of the United States Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1891
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-19]
Introduced: 2013-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: General science and technology matters
Research administration and funding
Science and engineering education

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: 
Science Laureates of the United States Act of 2013 - Establishes the position of Science Laureate of the United States. 
 
Requires the President to appoint a Science Laureate on the basis of: (1) merit, particularly the ability of such individual to foster and enhance public awareness and interest in science and to provide ongoing significant scientific contributions; and (2) recommendations received by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) based on those factors. 
 
Encourages each Science Laureate to continue his or her scientific work and directs the NAS to facilitate his or her duties. 
 
Requires each Science Laureate to serve a term of one or two years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Unlocking Technology Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1892
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-19]
Introduced: 2013-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Intellectual property
Telephone and wireless communication
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: 
Unlocking Technology Act of 2013 - Amends the prohibition under federal copyright law on the circumvention of a technological measure that controls access to a copyright-protected work to require that such prohibition apply only to circumventions carried out in order to infringe or facilitate infringement of a protected work.
 
Declares that it shall not be a violation to: (1) circumvent a technological measure if the purpose is to engage in a use that is not an infringement of federal copyright law; or (2) use, manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part primarily designed or produced to facilitate noninfringing uses of protected works by circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to such work, unless the intent is to infringe or facilitate infringement of a copyright.
 
Declares that it is not an infringement to copy or adapt the software or firmware of a user-purchased mobile communications device for the sole purpose of enabling the device to connect to a wireless communications network if: (1) the copying or adapting is initiated by, or with the consent of, the owner of that device or the owner's agent; (2) the owner or agent is in legal possession of the device; and (3) the owner has the consent of, or an agreement with, the authorized operator of such wireless communications network to make use of its network. (Thus allowing the &quot;unlocking&quot; of mobile devices without requiring an owner to obtain the consent of the initial carrier network before switching to a new carrier.)
 
Directs the President to ensure that applicable bilateral and multilateral trade agreements are modified to be consistent with this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2013-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2013-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: Introduced in House
To establish an Office of Tribal Relations in the Department of Agriculture.

Bill: 113-hr-1894
Sponsor: Rep. Noem, Kristi L. [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Department of Agriculture
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Indian social and development programs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: 
Amends the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 to establish an Office of Tribal Relations within the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to advise the Secretary on policies related to Indian tribes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, and Nutrition.
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: Introduced in House
To protect the child custody rights of deployed members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-1898
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-10]
Introduced: 2013-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Judicial procedure and administration
Military personnel and dependents
Separation, divorce, custody, support

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: 
 Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide that if a court renders a temporary order for custodial responsibility for a child based solely on a deployment or anticipated deployment of a parent-servicemember, then the court shall require that upon the return of that servicemember from deployment the custody order that was in effect preceding such deployment shall be reinstated, unless the court finds that reinstatement in not in the child's best interest. Prohibits a servicemember's deployment or possible deployment from being considered as the sole factor in the determination of a child's best interest in a motion seeking a permanent order to modify custody. Provides that under a temporary custody order, if a state law provides a higher standard of protection to the deploying parent-servicemember, then the appropriate court shall apply the higher standard.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Fighting for American Jobs Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1899
Sponsor: Rep. Visclosky, Peter J. [D-IN-1]
Introduced: 2013-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Business records
Buy American requirements
Foreign and international corporations
Government lending and loan guarantees
Public contracts and procurement
Unemployment
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: 
Fighting for American Jobs Act of 2013 - Directs each federal agency that provides contracts, grants, loans, or loan guarantees to businesses to require, as a condition of such assistance, that such businesses provide annually information on: (1) the number of employees employed in the United States and its territories and possessions and the number employed outside the United States, as well as wage information on U.S. employees; and (2) the percentage of the workforce that has been laid off or forced to resign during the preceding year. Prohibits, until the situation is corrected, subsequent federal assistance to businesses that lay off a greater percentage of workers in the United States and its territories and possessions than in other countries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Breast Cancer Recovery Improvement Act

Bill: 113-hr-1902
Sponsor: Rep. Fitzpatrick, Michael G. [R-PA-8]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicare
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
Breast Cancer Recovery Improvement Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) to require payment for post-mastectomy external breast prosthesis garments regardless of whether such items are supplied to the beneficiary before or after the mastectomy or other breast cancer surgical procedure.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop policies to ensure appropriate beneficiary access and utilization safeguards for such items.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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 Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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
To direct that certain coal mine safety grant funds be directed to study the prevention and treatment of Black Lung Disease.

Bill: 113-hr-1903
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Coal
Government trust funds
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical research
Mining
Research administration and funding
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
Establishes in the Treasury the Mine Safety Grant Fund.
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to: (1) award competitive Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants to entities for research and outreach to prevent and treat Black Lung Disease, and (2) deposit into the Fund amounts collected as civil penalties for mandatory health or safety standard violations committed by mine operators.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
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
Oversight of Sensitive Military Operations Act

Bill: 113-hr-1904
Sponsor: Rep. Thornberry, Mac [R-TX-13]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Defense
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Military operations and strategy
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
Oversight of Sensitive Military Operations Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to notify the congressional defense and appropriations committees of any sensitive military operation (a lethal or capture operation conducted by U.S. Armed Forces outside the United States) promptly following such operation. Requires: (1) the Secretary to submit to such committees procedures for complying with such requirement consistent with U.S. national security and the protection of operational integrity, and (2) such committees to ensure that committee procedures designed to protect the unauthorized disclosure of U.S. national security information are sufficient to protect the information submitted. Makes the notification requirement inapplicable to a sensitive military operation executed within Afghanistan pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force.
 
Requires the Secretary to submit to such committees an explanation of the legal and policy considerations and approval processes used in determining whether an individual or group could become the target of a sensitive military operation.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide such committees quarterly briefings on DOD counterterrorism operations and related activities involving special operations forces.


Legislative actions:
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
Mother's Day Centennial Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 113-hr-1905
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Child health
Commemorative events and holidays
Currency
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases
Research administration and funding
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
Mother's Day Centennial Commemorative Coin Act - Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than 400,000 $1 coins emblematic of the 100th anniversary of President Wilson's proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to issue such coins beginning on January 1, 2014, except that the Secretary may initiate sales of such coins, without issuance, before such date.
 
Terminates such minting authority after December 31, 2014. 
 
Requires coin sales to include a $10 surcharge per coin, with distribution of one-half of such surcharges to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and one-half to the National Osteoporosis Foundation for the purpose of furthering research.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Safe Highways and Infrastructure Preservation Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1906
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Intergovernmental relations
Licensing and registrations
Motor carriers
Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
Safe Highways and Infrastructure Preservation Act of 2013 - Prohibits a state from prescribing or enforcing any regulation that allows a restricted property-carrying unit (any trailer, semi-trailer, container, or other property-carrying unit longer than 53 feet, except for a fire-fighting unit) to operate on the National Highway System (NHS) (including the Interstate System), unless the operation of such unit is authorized by the state on June 1, 2008, and in actual and lawful operation on a regular or periodic basis (including seasonal operations) on or before that date. 
 
Prohibits a state from allowing the operation of a commercial motor vehicle combination on the NHS (except a vehicle or load that cannot be dismantled or divided easily, and that has been issued a special permit under state law) with more than one property-carrying unit (excluding the truck tractor) whose property-carrying units are more than: (1) the maximum combination trailer, semi-trailer, or other type of length limitation allowed by state law on June 1, 2008; or (2) the length of the property-carrying units of those commercial motor vehicle combinations, by specific configuration, in actual and lawful operation on a regular or periodic basis (including continual seasonal operation) in such state on or before June 1, 2008. 
 Prohibits a state from allowing the operation of a vehicle or combination (other than a longer combination vehicle) exceeding Interstate weight limits on the Interstate System unless its operation was lawful: (1) on July 1, 1956; (2) in the case of the overall gross weight of any group of two or more consecutive axles, on January 4, 1975; or (3) under a special permit pursuant to state (grandfather) law. 
Declares that Interstate weight limitations on vehicles and combinations (other than longer combination vehicles) that operate on the Interstate System shall apply to such vehicles and combinations that operate on non-Interstate segments of the NHS, unless: (1) such segments are subject to lower state weight limits; or (2) a state allows the operation of any vehicle or combination on an existing non-Interstate segment of the NHS that could have been lawfully operated on June 1, 2008.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
FREE Act

Bill: 113-hr-1908
Sponsor: Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
Federal Repeal of Expensive Exchanges Act or the FREE Act - Repeals provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) providing for: (1) a health insurance premium assistance tax credit and advance payments for credit amounts, (2) reductions in out-of-pocket health care expenses for certain low income taxpayers (cost-sharing) and advance payments of cost-sharing amounts, (3) the individual mandate to purchase health care coverage under PPACA, and (4) the employer mandate to provide health care coverage to employees under PPACA and the reporting requirements with respect to such mandate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Education and the Workforce, 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 Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Education and the Workforce, 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 Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Education and the Workforce, 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
Export Coordination Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1909
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
Export Coordination Act of 2013 - Amends the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 to revise the duties of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC).
 
Requires the TPCC to: (1) identify opportunities to consolidate or co-locate offices of federal agencies involved in export promotion and export financing activities; (2) assess the use and coordination of electronic databases among federal agencies in support of such activities; and (3) provide a detailed listing of current and future federal and state-led trade missions, trade fairs, and related activities to ensure better delivery of services to U.S. businesses.
 
Requires the Secretary of Commerce to make available information on federal and state-led trade missions, trade fairs, and related activities on the Export.gov website.
 
Requires the governmentwide strategic plan for federal trade promotion efforts to: (1) clearly identify and explain the role, goals, and objectives of each TPCC member agency with respect its export promotion and export financing activities; (2) include the recommendations of the Comptroller General relating to coordination of the TPCC and member agencies; and (3) reflect the recommendations of the U.S. Travel Association (currently, U.S. National Tourism Organization) to the degree considered appropriate by the TPCC.
 
Revises membership of the TPCC to include representatives from the Millennium Challenge Corporation, as well as one or more presidential appointees representing state trade promotion agencies.
 
Requires the Inspector General of the Department of Commerce to report annually to Congress on the extent to which the TPCC is successfully carrying out its duties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House