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Make It In America Manufacturing Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-375
Sponsor: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Employment and training programs
Government lending and loan guarantees
Manufacturing
Small business
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
 Make It In America Manufacturing Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretaries of Commerce and Labor to establish a program for the joint award of incentive grants to a state or a regional partnership to support the U.S. manufacturing industry. Designates the program as the Make It in America Incentive Grant Program. Limits single grants to $20 million, to be used by the recipient to carry out a manufacturing enhancement strategy. Requires, under such strategy: (1) establishing a revolving loan fund for loans to manufacturers for various business purposes, (2) retraining current and training new manufacturer employees, and (3) creating or expanding manufacturer export activity and domestic supply chain opportunities. Outlines recipient application requirements, including the submission of a proposed strategy and the establishment of a Make It In America Partnership Board.
 
Gives grant priority to entities that identify and commit matching funds of at least 50% of the grant amount. Prohibits more than half of the grant amounts from being used for employee retraining and training. Requires annual reports from recipients to the Secretaries on the use of grant funds.
 
Directs the Secretaries to jointly establish an advisory committee for advice on implementing and evaluating the Program. Authorizes the Secretaries to review and evaluate recipient performance and, as appropriate, determine a recipient to be ineligible for additional grants due to noncompliance with the Program or strategy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Universal Right to Vote by Mail Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-376
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Postal service
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
Universal Right to Vote by Mail Act of 2013 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit a state from imposing additional conditions or requirements on the eligibility of an individual to cast a vote in federal elections by mail, except to the extent that it imposes a deadline for requesting the ballot and returning it to the appropriate state or local election official.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Student Bill of Rights

Bill: 113-hr-378
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Preschool education
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
Student Bill of Rights - Directs the Secretary of Education to make annual determinations as to whether each state's public school system provides all its students with the educational resources to succeed academically and in life. Requires such education to enable students to: (1) acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for responsible citizenship, (2) meet challenging academic achievement standards, and (3) compete and succeed in a global economy.
 
Requires each system to do so by: (1) satisfying certain opportunity to learn indicators for all its schools, including highly effective teachers and equitable instructional resources; (2) providing educational services in local educational agencies (LEAs) that receive funds for disadvantaged students that are, taken as a whole, at least comparable to educational services provided in LEAs not receiving such funds; and (3) complying with any final federal or state court order in any matter concerning the adequacy or equitableness of the system. 
Requires withholding of specified portions of its federal funding for administrative expenses if a system: (1) fails to meet a yearly interim goal; (2) does not remedy, after two school years, a failure to provide comparable educational services to schools that receive funds for disadvantaged children; or (3) does not comply with a court order. 
Allows students or parents aggrieved by violations of this Act to bring civil actions for enforcement in federal district courts. 
Directs the Commissioner of Education Statistics to study the effects of educational disparities on economic growth and on national defense.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Fiscal Fairness Act

Bill: 113-hr-379
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
 Fiscal Fairness Act - Amends part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to condition local educational agency (LEA) receipt of school improvement funds on: (1) an average state and local spending per pupil in each school receiving school improvement funds of at least 97% of such spending per pupil across all of the LEA's schools that are not receiving such funds; and (2) an average state and local spending per pupil in each higher poverty school of at least 97% of such spending per pupil across all lower poverty schools, if the LEA is serving all of its schools under part A.
 
Allows LEAs to meet such requirement across all schools or among schools serving a particular grade span if they compare schools within no more than three grade spans.
 
Directs the Inspector General of the Department of Education, in the fourth and fifth years after this Act's enactment, to audit 5 states and 10 LEAs to determine their progress in meeting these requirements.
 
Requires annual LEA report cards to include certain information on state and local spending per pupil in schools.
 
Requires states to provide the public with annual up-to-date school-by-school listings of per-pupil state and local spending.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Communities Committed to College Tax Credit Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-380
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Higher education
Income tax credits
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
Communities Committed to College Tax Credit Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 50% of any contribution to a tax-exempt scholarship funding trust established to provide scholarships for individuals with demonstrated financial need to attend institutions of higher education. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Reinvesting and Ensuring America's Ability to Lead Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-381
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Employee hiring
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
Reinvesting and Ensuring America's Ability to Lead Act of 2013 - Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to: (1) prepare a 10-year long-term cost benefit analysis for each public introduced bill or resolution that determines its impact on American global competitiveness; and (2) devise criteria to evaluate such competitiveness, including the measure's impact on job creation, economic growth, consumption, investments, and savings.
 
Requires the analysis to evaluate whether the legislation will positively or negatively impact America's economic ability to compete globally compared to member nations of the Group of Twenty, or G-20, which comprise 19 country members and the European Union (EU), accounting for 90% of global gross domestic product (GDP) and 80% of global trade.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Preserve Land Freedom For Americans Act

Bill: 113-hr-382
Sponsor: Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Interior
Intergovernmental relations
Monuments and memorials
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
 Preserve Land Freedom For Americans Act - Requires the President, prior to designating a national monument, to obtain a state's approval for a monument located on federal land within the state. 
 
Bars the Secretary of the Interior from implementing any restrictions on the public use of a national monument until the expiration of an appropriate review period providing for public input and state approval.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-16
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
HAVEN Act

Bill: 113-hr-385
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Energy efficiency and conservation
Housing and community development funding
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Low- and moderate-income housing
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
Housing Assistance for Veterans Act of 2013 or HAVEN Act - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to establish a pilot program to award grants to nonprofit organizations that primarily serve veterans or low-income individuals. Requires such grants to be used to rehabilitate and modify the primary residence of disabled or low-income veterans (at a specified limited or no cost to such veterans). Limits grant amounts to $1 million per organization. Requires the Secretary to direct the oversight of grant fund use. Requires a minimum of 50% matching funds by participating organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Homes for Heroes Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-386
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Building construction
Congressional oversight
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Energy efficiency and conservation
Executive agency funding and structure
Housing and community development funding
Housing industry and standards
Housing supply and affordability
Low- and moderate-income housing
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public housing
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
Homes for Heroes Act of 2013 - Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to establish in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) a Special Assistant for Veterans Affairs to: (1) ensure veteran access to HUD housing and homeless assistance programs, (2) coordinate all HUD programs and activities relating to veterans, and (3) serve as a HUD liaison with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
 
Directs the HUD Secretary to provide assistance to private nonprofit organizations and consumer cooperatives to expand the supply of supportive housing for very low-income veteran families (families with incomes not exceeding 50% of the area median income).
 
Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to: (1) make housing rental vouchers available to all homeless veterans, regardless of medical condition; and (2) include veterans in public housing planning.
 
Excludes veterans' benefits from income for purposes of HUD assisted housing rental determinations.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) make grants to nonprofit entities for technical assistance in sponsoring HUD housing projects for veterans, and (2) report annually to specified congressional committees and the VA Secretary on HUD activities relating to veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Earnings Test Repeal Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-387
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Social security and elderly assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
 Social Security Earnings Test Repeal Act of 2013 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to remove the limitation on the amount of outside income which a beneficiary may earn (earnings test) without incurring a reduction in benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
To designate the United States courthouse located at 300 West Second Street in Little Rock, Arkansas, as the "Morris Sheppard Arnold United States Courthouse".

Bill: 113-hr-388
Sponsor: Rep. Griffin, Tim [R-AR-2]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Arkansas
Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Judges

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 300 West Second Street in Little Rock, Arkansas, as the "Morris Sheppard Arnold United States Courthouse."


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Transparency in Tobacco User Fees Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-389
Sponsor: Rep. Guthrie, Brett [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Manufacturing
Tariffs
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
Transparency in Tobacco User Fees Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to report annually to Congress on user fees assessed on manufacturers and importers of tobacco products.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
National Emergency Centers Establishment Act

Bill: 113-hr-390
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Emergency planning and evacuation
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Military facilities and property

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
National Emergency Centers Establishment Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish at least six national emergency centers on military installations to use existing infrastructure to provide: (1) temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance to individuals and families dislocated due to an emergency or major disaster; and (2) centralized locations for the training of first responders and the coordination of preparedness, response, and recovery efforts. 
 
Lists minimum requirements for sites for such centers, including that they be capable of: (1) meeting for an extended period the housing, health, transportation, education, public works, humanitarian, and other transition needs of a large number of individuals affected; (2) being scaled up or down to accommodate major disaster preparedness and response drills, operations, and procedures; (3) housing existing permanent structures necessary to meet training and first responders coordination requirements during non-disaster periods; and (4) hosting the infrastructure necessary to rapidly adjust to temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance needs.
 
Sets forth center location requirements, including requiring the Secretary to designate closed military installations as sites whenever possible and to designate portions of existing military installations as centers otherwise.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Emerging Threats & Capabilities.
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2013-01-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E57)
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Savings Start With Us Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-391
Sponsor: Rep. Herrera Beutler, Jaime [R-WA-3]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
Savings Start With Us Act of 2013 - Reduces the annual rate of pay in 2015 for Members of Congress and the Vice President by 10% of the 2013 pay rate. Maintains the pay rate for subsequent pay periods at the 2015 rate.
 
Reduces the annual rate of pay of the President from $400,000 to $360,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Student Privacy Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 113-hr-392
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Military personnel and dependents
Right of privacy
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
Student Privacy Protection Act of 2009 [
sic
]- Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise provisions for military recruiter access to secondary school student information. 
 
Requires ESEA-assisted local educational agencies (LEAs) to notify each secondary school student's parent of the option to consent to a release of the student's name, address, and telephone listing to military recruiters, and to give the parent the opportunity to provide such consent in writing. Requires such LEAs to provide military recruiters, upon their request, with access to such information on a student only if the student's parent has given such written consent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in House