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Consumer Rental Purchase Agreement Act

Bill: 113-hr-1551
Sponsor: Rep. Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2013-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Contracts and agency
Evidence and witnesses
Federal Reserve System
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Federal preemption
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Lease and rental services
Marketing and advertising
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: 
 Consumer Rental Purchase Agreement Act - Amends the Consumer Credit Protection Act to prescribe consumer protection guidelines for rental-purchase transactions, including: (1) the determination of rental-purchase cost; (2) disclosure requirements; (3) prohibitions against confessions of judgment, wage assignments, and waiver of consumer claims or defenses; (4) furnishing of statements of account; (5) point-of-rental disclosures; and (6) rental-purchase advertising disclosures.
 
Declares that an action for civil liability may be brought against a merchant's assignee only if the violation is apparent on the face of a rental-purchase agreement to which it relates, including, but not limited to, a disclosure that can be determined to be incomplete or inaccurate from the face of the agreement. 
 
Authorizes the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to promulgate implementing regulations. 
 
Grants enforcement powers to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and to state attorneys general. 
 
Subjects to criminal penalties any willful and knowing violation of the information disclosure requirements of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Health Freedom for Seniors Act

Bill: 113-hr-1552
Sponsor: Rep. Huizenga, Bill [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2013-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: 
Health Freedom for Seniors Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax-free transfers of required distributions after age 70 1/2 from an individual retirement account (IRA) and other tax-exempt retirement accounts to a health savings account. Exempts such transfers from the excise tax on excess contributions to tax-favored accounts and annuities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act

Bill: 113-hr-1553
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2013-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Credit and credit markets
Department of the Treasury
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Reserve System
National Credit Union Administration

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: 
Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act - Amends the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council Act of 1978 to require a federal financial institutions regulatory agency to make a final examination report to a financial institution within 60 days of the later of: (1) the exit interview for an examination of the institution, or (2) the provision of additional information by the institution relating to the examination.
 
Sets a deadline for the exit interview if a financial institution is not subject to a resident examiner program.
 
Sets forth examination standards for financial institutions.
 
Prohibits federal financial institutions regulatory agencies from requiring a well capitalized financial institution to raise additional capital in lieu of an action prohibited by the examination standards.
 
 Establishes in the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council an Office of Examination Ombudsman.
 
Grants a financial institution the right to appeal a material supervisory determination contained in a final report of examination.
 
Requires the Ombudsman to determine the merits of the appeal on the record, after an opportunity for a hearing before an independent administrative law judge.
 
Declares the decision by the Ombudsman on an appeal to: (1) be the final agency action, and (2) bind the agency whose supervisory determination was the subject of the appeal and the financial institution making the appeal.
 
Amends the Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994 to require: (1) the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to establish an independent intra-agency appellate process in connection with the regulatory appeals process; and (2) appropriate safeguards to protect an insured depository institution or insured credit union from retaliation by the CFPB, the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Board, or any other federal banking agency for exercising its rights. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
International Tax Competitiveness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1555
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-35]
Introduced: 2013-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Foreign and international corporations
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: 
International Tax Competitiveness Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) treat foreign corporations that are managed, directly or indirectly, within the United States as domestic corporations for U.S. tax purposes; (2) subject certain royalty income and income from intangibles received from a controlled foreign corporation to U.S. taxation; and (3) revise the tax treatment of property other than stock received in connection with a corporate reorganization (i.e., boot) to provide that such property shall be treated as a taxable dividend.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Fairness in International Taxation Act

Bill: 113-hr-1556
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-35]
Introduced: 2013-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Corporate finance and management
Department of the Treasury
Employment taxes
Foreign and international corporations
Income tax deductions
International law and treaties
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: 
Fairness in International Taxation Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit a reduction under any treaty of the United States of tax withholding for a tax deductible payment made between persons who are members of the same foreign controlled group of entities unless there would be a similar reduction for payments made directly to the foreign parent corporation of such entities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Plain Regulations Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1557
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2013-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: 
Plain Regulations Act of 2013 - Requires the head of each executive agency to: (1) implement a program for using plain language in writing new and revised regulations, and (2) certify to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that each proposed or final rule is in plain language. 
 
Requires the Director to: (1) publish agency certifications of compliance with plain language requirements on OMB's website, and (2) return proposed agency regulations that fail to meet such requirements to be redrafted and resubmitted for approval. 
 
Denies jurisdiction to any court to review compliance or noncompliance with any provision of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Rural Preventive Health Care Training Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1559
Sponsor: Rep. Gabbard, Tulsi [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2013-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical education
Public contracts and procurement
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: 
Rural Preventive Health Care Training Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants and enter into contracts for preventive health care training of rural health care practitioners.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
SAFE ID Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1560
Sponsor: Rep. Garcia, Joe [D-FL-26]
Introduced: 2013-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Crime prevention
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: 
SAFE ID Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the use of a taxpayer identification number, in lieu of a social security number, in reporting wages of employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make improvements to support facilities for National Historic Sites operated by the National Park Service, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-1561
Sponsor: Rep. Gardner, Cory [R-CO-4]
Introduced: 2013-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property
Historic sites and heritage areas
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, through the National Park Service (NPS), to make improvements to a support facility, including a visitor center, for a National Historic Site administered by the NPS if such project: (1) is conducted within the agency's existing budget, (2) is subject to a 50% non-federal cost sharing requirement, and (3) is conducted for a unit of the NPS which has the authority to establish a support facility outside the park's boundary. 
 
Allows the NPS to operate and use all or part of a support facility, including a visitor center, for such a Site: (1) to carry out the duties associated with the administration and support of such Site, and (2) only in situations where there is an agreement between the Secretary and the commissioners of the county or parish in which the facility is located. 

action_date: 2014-12-22
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, through the National Park Service (NPS), to make improvements to a support facility, including a visitor center, for a National Historic Site administered by the NPS if such project: (1) is conducted within the agency's existing budget, (2) is subject to a 50% non-federal cost sharing requirement, and (3) is conducted for a unit of the NPS which has the authority to establish a support facility outside the park's boundary. 
 
Allows the NPS to operate and use all or part of a support facility, including a visitor center, for such a Site: (1) to carry out the duties associated with the administration and support of such Site, and (2) only in situations where there is an agreement between the Secretary and the commissioners of the county or parish in which the facility is located. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-22
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 522.
action_date: 2014-12-22
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-691.
action_date: 2014-12-22
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-691.
action_date: 2014-11-19
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2014-11-19
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2014-11-19
text: Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Discharged.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Family Farm Relief Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1562
Sponsor: Rep. Gibson, Christopher P. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2013-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional oversight
Department of Agriculture
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Labor
Department of State
Employee hiring
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign labor
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Immigration status and procedures
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Livestock
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Temporary and part-time employment
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: 
 Family Farm Relief Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a process for receiving H-2A nonimmigrant visas (temporary agricultural workers) which shall ensure that that petitioners may file such petitions over the Internet or in paper form. (Transfers administration of the H-2A program from the Department of Labor to USDA.)
 
Includes year-round livestock workers, including dairy workers, in the H-2A category with a maximum 12-month period of admissions which may be renewed three months after the end of each such period.
 
Revises H-2A certification provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Concrete Masonry Products Research, Education, and Promotion Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1563
Sponsor: Rep. Guthrie, Brett [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2013-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Building construction
Department of Commerce
Executive agency funding and structure
Judicial review and appeals
Manufacturing
Marketing and advertising
Materials
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: 
Concrete Masonry Products Research, Education, and Promotion Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to issue orders applicable to manufacturers of concrete masonry products (concrete). Requires any such order to provide for the establishment of a Concrete Masonry Products Board, which shall carry out a program of promotion, research, and information regarding concrete products. Requires manufacturers and importers to maintain, and make available, specified records.

 
Requires any such order to provide that assessments shall be paid by concrete manufacturers with respect to concrete manufactured and marketed in the United States. Provides assessment rates. Requires at least 50% of the assessments paid by a manufacturer to be used to support research, education, and promotion plans and projects in support of the geographic region of the manufacturer. Directs the Secretary, during the 60-day period preceding the proposed effective date of an order, to conduct a referendum for order approval among the manufacturers required to pay assessments under the order. Outlines referendum procedures.
 
Provides for petition and review of an order, and order enforcement through U.S. district courts. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct appropriate investigations in order to administer this Act (with power of subpoena). Directs the Secretary to suspend or terminate any order or provision that obstructs or does not tend to effectuate the purposes of this Act, or that is not favored by persons voting in a referendum.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Tax Equity Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1568
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2013-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax rates
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Tax Equity Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide regional cost-of-living adjustments in individual income tax rates. Directs the Secretary of Labor to determine and publish a regional cost-of-living index for each metropolitan statistical area.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
New Fair Deal Busting America's Rigid Outdated & Needless Subsidies Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1569
Sponsor: Rep. Pompeo, Mike [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2013-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Corporate finance and management
Electric power generation and transmission
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Income tax credits
Income tax rates
Motor fuels
Nuclear power
Oil and gas
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: 
New Fair Deal Busting America's Rigid Outdated & Needless Subsidies Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal: (1) the excise tax credits for alcohol fuel, biodiesel, and alternative fuel mixtures; (2) the tax credits for the purchase of alternative motor vehicles and new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles; (3) the alternative fuel vehicle refueling property tax credit; (4) the income tax credits for alcohol, biodiesel, and renewable diesel used as fuel; (5) the enhanced oil recovery tax credit and the tax credit for producing oil and gas from marginal wells; (6) the tax credits for producing electricity from renewable resources and from advanced nuclear power facilities; (7) the tax credit for carbon dioxide sequestration; (8) the energy tax credit; and (9) the tax credits for investment in qualifying advanced coal projects and qualifying gasification projects. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe a flat income tax rate for corporations, in lieu of the existing marginal tax rates, based upon the overall revenue savings from the repeal of energy tax expenditures by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Taxpayer Protection and Preparer Fraud Prevention Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1570
Sponsor: Rep. Richmond, Cedric L. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2013-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Treasury
Licensing and registrations
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: 
Taxpayer Protection and Preparer Fraud Prevention Act of 2013 - Grants authority to the Secretary of the Treasury to regulate and discipline tax return preparers. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Secretary to impose user fees for regulating taxpayer representatives and tax return preparers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Buffett Rule Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1571
Sponsor: Rep. Scalise, Steve [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2013-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: 
Buffett Rule Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers to donate an amount (not less than $1), in addition to any tax owed, which shall be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury and transferred to an account used to reduce the public debt. Requires such donation to be designated on a taxpayer's income tax return at the time such return is filed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
STOP Act

Bill: 113-hr-1572
Sponsor: Rep. Schock, Aaron [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2013-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Appropriations
Food industry and services
Government information and archives
Marketing and advertising
Nutrition and diet

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: 
Stopping Taxpayer Outlays for Propaganda Act or STOP Act - Prohibits the use of any part of any appropriation contained in any Act for print, radio, television or any other media advertisement, campaign, or form of publicity against the use of a food or non-alcoholic beverage that is lawfully marketed under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House