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Equal Access to Quality Education Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1334
Sponsor: Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-27]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Disability and paralysis
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Minority education
Performance measurement
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Equal Access to Quality Education Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive matching grants to partnerships between high-need local educational agencies (LEAs) and institutions of higher education (IHEs) to establish or support: (1) teacher preparation programs, and (2) teacher induction and retention programs.
 
Requires the teacher preparation programs to: (1) require participants to complete at least one year of residency followed by at least three years of teaching at the LEA's high-need schools, and (2) award participants a teaching credential or degree that meets state requirements for a teaching license or certification upon completion of the program.
 
Requires the teacher induction and retention programs to use high-quality mentoring, teacher collaboration, and research-based instructional practices to: (1) support and advance the retention of beginning teachers and principals, and (2) promote effective teaching and leadership skills.
 
Allows the grants to be used for certain other activities designed to improve the quality of education in high-need areas.
 
Gives grant priority to partnerships that: (1) use a valid and reliable teacher performance assessment and have a plan to recruit teachers from among minority and local candidates and the disabled; or (2) use that assessment and include an IHE that is eligible to participate in the TEACH Grant program, a Tribal College or University, an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institution, a Hispanic-serving institution, or a historically Black college and university.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Short Sale Transparency Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1335
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Government information and archives
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Short Sale Transparency Act of 2013 - Directs the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to require the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), in any case in which one or the other denies the purchase of a residential mortgage loan made to finance the purchase, under a short sale, of a covered dwelling on the basis that the purchase price involved is insufficient, to disclose promptly to the prospective seller the amount by which the purchase price was less than the minimum purchase price sufficient for approval of the purchase of such mortgage. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Voluntary Debt Reduction Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1336
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Voluntary Debt Reduction Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers to donate an amount (not less than $1) or designate a portion of any overpayment of tax (not less than $1) to be donated, 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: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Palestinian Accountability Act

Bill: 113-hr-1337
Sponsor: Rep. DeSantis, Ron [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Arab-Israeli relations
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Foreign aid and international relief
Gaza Strip
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Human rights
International organizations and cooperation
Israel
Middle East
Palestinians
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Sanctions
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Terrorism
Trade restrictions
United Nations
West Bank

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Palestinian Accountability Act - Prohibits any U.S. government document from referring to the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority (PA) as Palestine until the Secretary of State certifies to Congress that the PA: (1) does not inappropriately influence elections in PA-contolled areas; (2) is promoting human rights and ending government corruption; (3) has taken steps to dismantle terrorist infrastructures and arrest terrorists, control Palestinian security organizations, and end the incitement to violence and hatred in the Palestinian media, educational institutions, and mosques; (4) has ceased to participate in any boycott of Israel; (5) works with Israel to implement the Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict of 2003 (the Roadmap to Peace); (6) recognizes Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state; and (7) has excluded Hamas from participating in a unity government or has required Hamas to publicly support such requirements.
 
Prohibits certain Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 funds from being made available to the PA unless: (1) a U.S. nongovernmental or private entity audits the PA budget and the Secretary submits the audit to Congress, and (2) the Secretary certifies to Congress that the PA meets specified requirements.
 
Prohibits funds from being obligated or expended for U.S. contributions to the United Nations (U.N.) if a Palestinian state is recognized as a U.N. member state unless the Secretary certifies to Congress that the PA meets specified requirements.
 
Prohibits funds from from being obligated or expended for U.S. contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) unless: (1) a U.S. nongovernmental or private entity audits the UNRWA budget and the Secretary submits the audit to Congress, and (2) the Secretary certifies to Congress that UNRWA meets specified requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Restoring Confidence in Our Democracy Act

Bill: 113-hr-1338
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Corporate finance and management
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Labor-management relations
Political advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Restoring Confidence in Our Democracy Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to set forth special rules for electioneering communications, especially targeted communications, which national banks, corporations, and labor organizations are prohibited from paying for.
 
Defines "targeted communications" as electioneering communications distributed from a television or radio broadcast station or provider of cable or satellite television service and, in the case of a communication which refers to a candidate for an office other than President or Vice President, is targeted to the relevant electorate.
 
Prohibits independent expenditures by national banks, corporations, and labor organizations.
 
Applies certain limitations on contributions made by any person to a political committee to any contribution to a political committee which accepts donations or contributions that do not comply with contribution or source prohibitions (or made to any account of a political committee established to accept such noncompliant donations or contributions). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act

Bill: 113-hr-1339
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Home and outpatient care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medical education
Nursing
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants or contracts for the establishment or operation of Palliative Care and Hospice Education Centers.
 
Requires such Centers to: (1) improve the training of health professionals in palliative care for individuals with serious or life-threatening illnesses; (2) develop and disseminate related curricula; (3) support the training and retraining of faculty to provide instruction in palliative care; (4) support continuing education of health professionals who provide palliative care; (5) provide students with clinical training in palliative care in long-term care facilities, home care, hospices, chronic and acute disease hospitals, and ambulatory care centers; and (6) establish traineeships for individuals preparing for advanced education nursing degrees in palliative care.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with schools of medicine, schools of osteopathic medicine, teaching hospitals, and graduate medical education programs to provide support for projects that fund the training of physicians who plan to teach palliative medicine.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a program to provide Palliative Medicine and Hospice Academic Career Awards to eligible individuals; (2) award grants or contracts to entities that operate a Palliative Care and Hospice Education Center; (3) award incentive grants or contracts to advanced practice nurses, clinical social workers, pharmacists, chaplains, or students of psychology pursuing an advanced degree in palliative care or related fields; and (4) award grants to schools of nursing, health care facilities, or programs leading to certification as a certified nurse assistant to develop and implement programs and initiatives to train individuals in providing palliative care in health-related educational, hospice, home, or long-term care settings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Urban Jobs Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1340
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Advisory bodies
Employment and training programs
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Language arts
Urban and suburban affairs and development
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Urban Jobs Act of 2013 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to authorize the Secretary of Labor to make competitive grants to national or regional private nonprofit community-based organizations to carry out Urban Jobs Programs to provide job training, education, and support services and activities for eligible urban youth to provide them with a pathway to employment, or education leading to employment. 
 
Defines "eligible youth" as individuals ages 18 to 24 who: (1) are not enrolled in secondary or post-secondary school, or (2) are or have been subject to the criminal justice process.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a National Jobs Council Advisory Committee.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) community-based affiliates should establish local jobs council advisory committees to aid in establishing local community support for local implementation of the program; and (2) at least one-third of the members of the committee should be employers in high-impact, high-growth industries in the locality.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Project Ready STEM Act

Bill: 113-hr-1343
Sponsor: Rep. Fudge, Marcia L. [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Minority education
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Project Ready STEM Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to national and regional intermediaries and, through them, subgrants to their community-based affiliates to operate in-school, after school, summer, and weekend programs that focus on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education.
 
Defines a &quot;national intermediary&quot; as a national private nonprofit organization that has: (1) a network comprising community-based affiliates in at least 50 urban communities, (2) expertise in overseeing programs to help middle and secondary school students succeed, and (3) operated in at least 25 states continuously for at least 20 years.
 
Defines a &quot;regional intermediary&quot; as a private nonprofit community-based organization that has: (1) a network comprising community-based affiliates in a prescribed region, and (2) expertise in extending educational services to middle and secondary school students.
 
Requires the STEM programs to primarily serve students who are traditionally underrepresented in STEM field careers, and include project-based learning opportunities and individualized instruction.
 
Directs each subgrantee to collaborate with an institution of higher education in providing such services.
 
Requires grantees to direct at least: (1) 50% of their grant to community-based affiliates that are successfully operating STEM programs so that they can expand them to reach more students traditionally underrepresented in STEM field careers, and (2) 25% of their grant to the development of STEM programs by community-based affiliates not currently operating any.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Catching Up To 1968 Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1346
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Government information and archives
Home and outpatient care
Inflation and prices
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Catching Up To 1968 Act of 2013 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase to $10.50 an hour (adjusted annually based on increases in the Consumer Price Index) the federal minimum wage for employees.
 
Prescribes the federal minimum wage for tipped employees to be 70% of the federal minimum wage in effect for employees.
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor, 60 days before any increase in the minimum wage, to publish the increase in the Federal Register and on the Department of Labor's website. 
 
 Revises the exemption from minimum wage and maximum hour requirements of agricultural employees to eliminate (and so subject to such requirements) all agricultural employees except those who are members of the employer's immediate family.
 
Eliminates from that same exemption (and thereby subject to such requirements) any employee employed in domestic service employment to provide companionship services for individuals who because of age or infirmity are unable to care for themselves.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Meers Point Boundary Adjustment Act

Bill: 113-hr-1347
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Land transfers
Travel and tourism
User charges and fees
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Meers Point Boundary Adjustment Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, after completing a survey of Meers Point which covers those portions of lots 34, 35, 37, and 38 that are currently within the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge in Yuma County, Arizona, to convey to the current landowner or landowners of certain properties within such lots (grantees) by quitclaim deed that federal land that is within each grantee's lot. 
 
Requires each grantee to pay a percentage of the total administrative costs incurred by the United States. Waives such payment respecting any conveyance of federal land to the state of Arizona. 
 
Requires any proceeds paid to the Secretary to remain available for visitor services and resource protection at the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Great Bend of the Gila National Monument Establishment Act

Bill: 113-hr-1348
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Archaeology and anthropology
Arizona
Historical and cultural resources
Land transfers
Monuments and memorials
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Great Bend of the Gila National Monument Establishment Act - Establishes the Great Bend of the Gila National Monument in Arizona. 
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to manage the Monument as part of the National Landscape Conservation System by allowing only such uses of the Monument that further the purposes for which it was established. 
 
Requires the Monument to be managed so as to maintain its undeveloped character and to protect and restore its cultural resources, species, and ecosystems. 
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct an inventory of invasive plant species in the Monument.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to carry out vegetation management treatments within the Monument. 
 
Permits grazing within the Monument where it is already established. 
 
Requires the Secretary to develop a management plan for the Monument. Instructs the Secretary to prepare such plan in government-to-government consultation with Indian tribes having a cultural or historic tie to the Great Bend of the Gila. 
 
Allows for the continued use of the Monument by members of tribes for traditional ceremonies and as a source of traditional plants and other materials. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to allow scientific research to be conducted within the Monument, including research for the preservation of the historic and cultural resources of the Monument. 
 
Permits the Secretary to conduct or authorize other persons to conduct research regarding the effects of climate change on the Monument's resources. 
 
Prohibits renewable energy and transmission development projects from being carried out in the Monument. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 113-hr-1349
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Historic sites and heritage areas
Historical and cultural resources
Outdoor recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area in Arizona. Requires the Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Alliance, Inc. as the local coordinating entity for the Area, to prepare and submit a management plan for it. 
 
Requires the management plan to:
 
 
inventory the natural, historical, cultural, educational, scenic, and recreational resources of the Area related to its national importance, as well as the themes that ought to be protected, enhanced, interpreted, managed, funded, and developed; and
 
recommend policies and strategies for resource management. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Grand Canyon Watersheds Protection Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1350
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Mining
Water use and supply
Watersheds
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Grand Canyon Watersheds Protection Act of 2013 - Withdraws the approximately 982,550 acres of the Tusayan Ranger District in Arizona and federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in the vicinity of Kanab Creek and in House Rock Valley from: (1) entry, appropriation, and disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) operation of the mineral leasing, geothermal leasing, and mineral materials laws. Subjects such withdrawal to valid, existing rights. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House