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Union Transparency and Accountability Act

Bill: 113-s-2688
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government information and archives
Judicial review and appeals
Labor-management relations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Union Transparency and Accountability Act - Amends the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to revise specified current reporting requirements to require every labor organization to file annually with the Secretary of Labor (currently, the Office of Labor Management Standards of the Department of Labor) its:
 
 
 form LM-2, as published in the appendix to the final rule issued by the Secretary entitled &quot;Labor Organization Annual Financial Reports&quot; dated January 21, 2009, or a successor form including the same information; and
 
 form T-1, as published in the appendix to the final rule issued by the Secretary entitled &quot;Labor Organization Annual Financial Reports for Trusts in Which a Labor Organization is Interested, Form T-1&quot; dated October 2, 2008, or a successor form including the same information.
 
 
Requires similarly certain labor organization officers or employees (as under current law) to file annually with the Secretary form LM-30, as published in the appendix to the final rule issued by the Secretary entitled &quot;Labor Organization Officer and Employee Report, Form LM-30&quot; dated July 2, 2007, or a successor form including the same information.
 
Prescribes civil penalties for any labor organization that fails to disclose to its members specified information contained in a report, including a financial report, required to be filed with the Secretary.
 
Revises the authority of the Secretary to bring a civil action in a U.S. district Court or in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for the actual or imminent failure of any person to file required reports. 
 
Requires the Secretary to establish certain standards and procedures for the imposition by the appropriate district court of civil fines for persons, labor organizations, or employers who violate specified reporting requirements.
 
Prescribes a civil fine of up to $250 a day from the date of a violation, with an aggregate maximum of $45,000, both amounts adjusted for inflation. 
 
Prescribes certain whistleblower protections for labor organization employees who file complaints or institute, or cause to be instituted, proceedings under the Act, or testify or are about to tesify in any such proceedings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare CGM Access Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2689
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Medicare CGM Access Act of 2014 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide Medicare coverage of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices furnished to a CGM qualified individual. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a fee schedule and ensure that CGM qualified individuals are furnished with appropriate device components.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5137-5138)
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Student Privacy Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2690
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Right of privacy
School administration
Student records

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Protecting Student Privacy Act of 2014 - Amends the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 to prohibit programs administered by the Department of Education from making funds available to any educational agency or institution that has not implemented information security policies that: (1) protect personally identifiable information (PII) from education records, and (2) require each outside party to whom PII from education records is disclosed to have a comprehensive security program to protect such information.
 
Defines &quot;outside party&quot; as a person that is not an employee, officer, or volunteer of the educational agency or institution or of a government agency. Includes within such term any contractor or consultant acting as a school official or authorized representative or in any other capacity.
 
 Prohibits such funds from being made available to any educational agency or institution that has a policy or practice of using, releasing, or providing access to PII to advertise or market a product or service.
 
Requires state agencies receiving such funds, and each educational agency or institution, to ensure that any outside party with access to such records: (1) provides parents access to any PII it holds about their students; (2) provides a process to challenge, correct, or delete any inaccurate, misleading, or inappropriate data through a hearing by the agency or institution providing the outside party with access; (3) maintains a record of all individuals, agencies, or organizations that have requested or obtained access to the education records of a student; and (4) has information security procedures in place.
 
Prohibits funds from being made available to any educational agency or institution, or any state educational agency, unless the agency or institution has a practice that: (1) promotes data minimization by meeting requests for student information with non-PII, and (2) requires that PII held by any outside party be destroyed when the information is no longer needed for the specified purpose.
 
Directs educational agencies and institutions to maintain a record of all outside parties which have requested or obtained access to a student's education records. Requires such record to describe the information shared and to indicate specifically the party's legitimate interest in obtaining this information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Pay for Performance Act

Bill: 113-s-2691
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Adoption and foster care
Advisory bodies
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child care and development
Crime prevention
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Disability and paralysis
Domestic violence and child abuse
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health promotion and preventive care
Intergovernmental relations
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public contracts and procurement
Public-private cooperation
Sex and reproductive health
State and local government operations
Teenage pregnancy
Unemployment
Wages and earnings
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Pay for Performance Act - Amends title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services and Elder Justice) of the Social Security Act to add a new part C (Social Impact Pay for Performance Contracts).
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to publish in the Federal Register a request for proposals from states or local governments for social impact pay for performance contract projects which produce measurable, clearly defined outcomes that result in social benefit, such as employment for the unemployed, high school graduation, and reduction of teen and unplanned pregnancies as well as incidences of child abuse and neglect. Requires applications to include a feasibility study, funded under this Act, which contains specified information.
 
Requires the Secretary to decide whether to enter into such a contract within six months after receiving an application.
 
Requires independent evaluation of a state or local government social impact pay for performance contract project.
 
Makes appropriations for 10 years to carry out this Act.
 
Establishes the Federal Interagency Council on Social Impact Pay for Performance Contracts.
 
Authorizes the Comptroller General (GAO) to audit the activities of any state, local government, or nongovernment that receives funds under this Act.
 
Amends the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 to require the appropriate federal financial supervisory agency to consider, in assessing and taking into account the record of a financial institution in meeting the credit needs of its entire community, its investments in social impact pay for performance contract projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Ensuring Access to Primary Care for Women & Children Act

Bill: 113-s-2694
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health personnel
Health promotion and preventive care
Hospital care
Medicaid
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Ensuring Access to Primary Care for Women and Children Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require that the primary care services furnished in 2015 and 2016 by a physician with a primary specialty designation of family medicine, general internal medicine, or pediatric medicine be paid at a rate that is not less than 100% of the payment rate that applies to such services and physician under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance).
 
Extends this 100% of Medicare payment floor under certain conditions to the following providers, who are self-attested as Board-certified and at least 60% of whose services billed for under Medicaid must be for primary care services: (1) physicians with a primary specialty designation of obstetrics and gynecology; (2) advanced practice clinicians; (3) rural health clinics, federally-qualified health centers, or other specified health clinics; and (4) nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or certified nurse-midwives. 
 
Excludes from coverage of primary care services any such services provided in an emergency department of a hospital.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in Senate
SOS Campus Act

Bill: 113-s-2695
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against women
Education programs funding
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Evidence and witnesses
Higher education
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Right of privacy
School administration
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Survivor Outreach and Support Campus Act or the SOS Campus Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require each institution of higher education (IHE) that participates in the programs under title IV (Student Assistance) to designate an independent advocate for campus sexual assault prevention and response (Advocate) with experience in providing sexual assault victim services.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to prescribe regulations for IHEs to follow in appointing Advocates.
 
Requires each Advocate to: (1) report to an individual outside the body responsible for investigating and adjudicating sexual assault complaints at the IHE, (2) submit to such individual an annual report summarizing how the resources supplied to the Advocate were used, and (3) represent the interests of each student victim even when they conflict with the IHE's interests.
 
Directs each Advocate to:
 
 
ensure that sexual assault victims at the IHE receive, with their consent, specified information and services;
 
guide sexual assault victims who request assistance through the reporting, counseling, administrative, medical and health, academic accommodations, or legal processes of the IHE or local law enforcement;
 
attend, at the request of a sexual assault victim, any administrative or IHE-based adjudication proceeding related to such assault as an advocate for the victim;
 
maintain the privacy and confidentiality of the victim and any witness to such sexual assault, without notifying the IHE or any other authority of the identity of the victim or of any such witness or the alleged circumstances surrounding the reported sexual assault, unless otherwise required to do so by state law; and
 
conduct a public information campaign to inform the students enrolled at the IHE of the existence of, contact information for, and services provided by the Advocate.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Federal Reserve to make certain changes to the small bank holding company policy statement on assessment of financial and managerial factors, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-2696
Sponsor: Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Federal Reserve System
Financial services and investments

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to publish in the Federal Register proposed revisions to the Small Bank Holding Company Policy Statement on Assessment of Financial and Managerial Factors applying the policy to bank holding companies and savings and loan holding companies which have pro forma consolidated assets of less than $1 billion, and which:
 
 
are not engaged in significant nonbanking activities either directly or through a nonbank subsidiary;
 
do not conduct significant off-balance sheet activities (including securitization, asset management or administration) either directly or through a nonbank subsidiary; and
 
do not have a material amount of outstanding debt or equity securities, other than trust preferred securities, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 
 
 
Authorizes the Board, however, to exclude any bank holding company or savings and loan holding company from the policy statement if that is warranted for supervisory purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Truth in Lending Act to clarify the application of the qualified mortgage rule to rural lenders, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-2697
Sponsor: Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Amends the Truth in Lending Act to limit to a city or town with under 50,000 inhabitants the meaning of "rural" with respect to rural lenders which may presume that the applicant for a residential mortgage loan has a reasonable ability to repay the loan and all applicable taxes, insurance, and assessments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the National Credit Union Administration to provide pass-through share insurance for the deposits or shares of any interest on lawyers trust accounts, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-2699
Sponsor: Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Bankruptcy
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Lawyers and legal services

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Amends the Federal Credit Union Act regarding insured amounts payable in connection with a bankrupt state-chartered credit union for which the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Board is the liquidating agent. 
 
Revises requirements relating to the limitation to the standard maximum share insurance amount ($250,000) for the net amount of share insurance payable to any member at an insured credit union in the event of such a bankruptcy. Applies the limitation also to any person with funds lawfully held in a member account.
 
Requires the Board to provide pass-through share insurance paid by certain lawyers administering deposits or shares of any interest on a lawyer's trust account (IOLTA), or paid by the escrow agent administering other similar escrow accounts.
 
Defines "IOLTA" as a system in which lawyers place certain client funds in interest-bearing or dividend-bearing accounts, with the interest or dividends then used to fund programs such as legal service organizations providing services to clients in need.
 
Treats IOLTAs as escrow accounts for share insurance purposes, and considers them as member accounts if the administering attorney or escrow agent is a member of the insured credit union in which the funds are held.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Honor Those Who Served Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2700
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Religion
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Honor Those Who Served Act of 2014 - Authorizes the following persons to request a headstone or marker to be furnished by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to commemorate an eligible decedent:
 
 
 the decedent's next of kin;
 
a person authorized in writing by the decedent's next of kin to make such request;
 
 a personal representative authorized in writing by the decedent to make such request;
 
 in the case of a decedent for which no such person may be identified, a state veterans service agency, a military researcher, a local historian, or a genealogist or other person familiar with the research sources and methods necessary to prove the identity of the decedent; or 
 
in the case of a decedent who is a veteran who served on active duty in the Armed Forces at least 75 years before the date on which the headstone or marker is requested, any person (subject to a request by the decedent's next of kin to change the placement of, or to remove, such headstone or marker).
 
 
Permits the last two categories of persons to request emblems of belief for such a headstone or marker only when such a person can provide sufficient evidence regarding the decedent's religious beliefs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Stopping Illegal Obamacare Subsidies Act

Bill: 113-s-2701
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Comprehensive health care
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Income tax credits
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Stopping Illegal Obamacare Subsidies Act - Prohibits American Health Benefit Exchanges from providing for automatic enrollment in health plans until the Inspector General (IG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) verifies that each state exchange and the federal exchange established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) have resolved the inconsistencies outlined in the June 14 IG report.
 
Directs the Secretary of HHS to make public the steps that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the federal exchange will take to clear any inconsistencies that arose on or before the enactment of this Act and to ensure that the systems used by the CMS to determine or assess eligibility for premium tax credits, cost-sharing reductions, Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) under title XXI of the Social Security Act can resolve such inconsistencies within 30 days after enactment of this Act.
 
Directs the Secretary to make public the methods that the CMS use to monitor, track, and measure the progress of the federal and state exchanges in resolving inconsistencies.
 
Suspends for plan year 2015 the availability of premium assistance tax credits and the reduced cost-sharing program under PPACA; and allows them to resume only after the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration declares affirmatively that all inconsistencies related to invalid Social Security numbers have been resolved, and the IG determines that this is so.
 
Directs the Secretary to request additional information from any applicant for a qualified health plan on a state or federal exchange whose information contains inconsistencies. Requires the applicant to: (1) be withdrawn from the premium assistance credit and reduced cost-sharing programs if the additional information is not provided within 90 days, and (2) re-enroll in a qualified health plan with appropriate and accurate information during the next open enrollment period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Education Tax Fraud Prevention Act

Bill: 113-s-2702
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Higher education
Income tax credits
Student aid and college costs
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Education Tax Fraud Prevention Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require: (1) individuals who claim a tax credit for qualified tuition and related expenses under the Hope Scholarship or the Lifetime Learning tax credit to include their social security numbers on their tax returns, and (2) the educational institutions of such individuals to provide their employer identification numbers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in Senate