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America's Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-886
Sponsor: Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6]
Introduced: 2013-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Business investment and capital
Capital gains tax
Contracts and agency
Employee benefits and pensions
Employment taxes
Financial services and investments
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Securities
Self-employed
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: 
America's Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent: (1) the 100% exclusion from gross income of gain from the sale of certain small business stock, (2) carrybacks and alternative minimum tax rules relating to small business tax credits, (3) the reduction in the recognition period for the built-in gains from the sale of S corporation stock, (4) the increased limitation for the expensing of depreciable business assets, (5) the use of the percentage of completion accounting method for long-term contracts, (6) the increased tax deduction for business start-up expenditures, and (7) the allowance of a deduction for health insurance premiums in computing net earnings from self-employment income.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
EDA Elimination Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-887
Sponsor: Rep. Pompeo, Mike [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2013-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Department of Commerce
Economic development
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: 
EDA Elimination Act of 2013 - Terminates the Economic Development Administration (EDA).
 
Repeals the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to take such actions as necessary and appropriate to conclude the outstanding affairs of the EDA, including dispositions of personnel, assets, and obligations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
General Duty Clarification Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-888
Sponsor: Rep. Pompeo, Mike [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2013-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Accidents
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: 
General Duty Clarification Act of 2013 - Amends the Clean Air Act, with respect to provisions relating to the prevention of accidental releases of hazardous air pollutants, to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) promulgate final regulations establishing criteria defining the terms &quot;extremely hazardous substance,&quot; &quot;appropriate hazard assessment techniques,&quot; and &quot;design and maintain a safe facility&quot;; and (2) issue guidelines to ensure that enforcement of such provisions is handled by the regional offices of EPA in a uniform and appropriate manner across all regions of the United States.
 
Modifies the definition of &quot;accidental release&quot; to exclude an emission resulting from an act intended to cause harm.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
Young Americans Financial Literacy Act

Bill: 113-hr-891
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Andre [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2013-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Adult education and literacy
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Financial literacy
Higher education
Research administration and funding
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: 
Young Americans Financial Literacy Act - Authorizes the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to make competitive grants to, and enter agreements with, eligible institutions to establish centers of excellence to support research, development and planning, implementation, and evaluation of effective programs in financial literacy education for young people and families ages 8-24 years old.
 
Limits the aggregate amount of grants made under this Act during any fiscal year. Sunsets the grant program at the end of FY2018.
 
Defines &quot;eligible institution&quot; as a partnership of two or more of the following: (1) an institution of higher education; (2) a local educational agency; (3) a nonprofit agency, organization, or association; or (4) a financial institution.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-02-28
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: 2013-02-28
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: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
S Corporation Modernization Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-892
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2013-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Business investment and capital
Capital gains tax
Charitable contributions
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Securities
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: 
S Corporation Modernization Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the tax treatment of S corporations by: (1) permanently reducing from 10 to 5 years the period during which S corporation built-in gains are subject to tax; (2) repealing mandatory termination of S corporation elections for excessive passive investment income; (3) allowing S corporations to increase passive investment income from 25 to 60% without incurring additional tax; (4) allowing nonresident aliens to be potential current beneficiaries of an electing small business trust (ESBT); (5) allowing individual retirement accounts (IRAs) to be S corporation shareholders; (6) allowing ESBTs to claim expanded charitable tax deductions; and (7) making permanent the rule requiring a basis adjustment to stock of an S corporation making charitable contributions of property. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
Stop AIDS in Prison Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-895
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2013-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Department of Justice
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Evidence and witnesses
HIV/AIDS
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Right of privacy
Sexually transmitted diseases
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: 
 Stop AIDS in Prison Act of 2013 - Directs the Bureau of Prisons to develop a comprehensive policy to provide HIV testing, treatment, and prevention for inmates in federal prisons and upon reentry into the community. Requires such policy to include provisions for: (1) testing of inmates upon intake and counseling; (2) HIV/AIDS prevention education; (3) HIV testing of prisoners annually upon request or upon exposure to HIV; (4) HIV testing of pregnant inmates; (5) comprehensive medical treatment of inmates who test positive for HIV and confidential counseling on managing their medical condition and preventing its transmission to other persons; (6) protection of confidentiality; (7) testing, counseling, and referral prior to reentry into the community; (8) allowing inmates the right to refuse routine HIV testing; (9) excluding as "routine" the testing of an inmate who may have transmitted HIV to any U.S. officer or employee or to any person lawfully present but not incarcerated in a correctional facility; and (10) timely notification of test results.
 
Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) require HIV testing for all federal prison inmates upon intake regardless of length of sentence or risk factors, (2) allow inmates to decline testing prior to release from incarceration, and (3) make HIV testing part of the routine health screening conducted at intake.
 
Requires the Bureau to report on: (1) testing, treatment, and prevention education programs for hepatitis and other diseases transmitted through sexual activity and intravenous drug use; and (2) the incidence among prison inmates of diseases transmitted through sexual activity and intravenous drug use.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the definition of homeless veteran for purposes of benefits under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 113-hr-897
Sponsor: Rep. Hahn, Janice [D-CA-44]
Introduced: 2013-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Crime victims
Domestic violence and child abuse
Sex offenses
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: 
Includes as a homeless veteran, for purposes of eligibility for benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs, a veteran or veteran's family who: (1) is fleeing domestic or dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, or other dangerous or life-threatening conditions in the individual's or family's current housing situation; and (2) has no other residence and lacks the resources or support networks to obtain other permanent housing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E227-228)
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
Cancel the Sequester Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-900
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2013-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: 
Cancel the Sequester Act of 2013 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Controlled Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act), as amended by the Budget Control Act of 2011, to repeal certain sequestration requirements for enforcement of a specified budget goal. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E250)
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
Tax Return Due Date Simplification and Modernization Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-901
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, Lynn [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2013-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Coal
Contracts and agency
Department of the Treasury
Disability assistance
Mining
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax-exempt organizations
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: 
Tax Return Due Date Simplification and Modernization Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to change tax return due dates for partnerships (from April 15 to March 15, with a six-month extension), S corporations (from March 15 to March 31), and C corporations (from March 15 to April 15).
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2013, to modify by regulation the due dates for extensions of tax returns for partnerships, trusts and estates, employee benefit plans, tax-exempt organizations, and certain trust funds. Sets a due date of April 15 for the annual information return of a foreign trust with a U.S. owner and for the report of foreign bank and financial accounts (with extensions until October 15).
 
Extends the automatic extension for corporation income tax returns from three to six months. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
Keep Our Commitment to Veterans Act

Bill: 113-hr-902
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: California
Connecticut
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Health facilities and institutions
Home and outpatient care
Kansas
Louisiana
Massachusetts
New Jersey
New Mexico
Puerto Rico
South Carolina
Texas
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: 
Keep Our Commitment to Veterans Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out specified major medical facility leases in FY2013-FY2014 in New Mexico, New Jersey, South Carolina, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Florida, Puerto Rico, Texas, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
 
Reduces lease amounts authorized in previous fiscal years for VA outpatient clinics in: (1) Johnson County, Kansas; (2) San Diego, California; and (3) Tyler, Texas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
American Job Protection Act

Bill: 113-hr-903
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: 
American Job Protection Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal provisions added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requiring certain employers who have a workforce of 50 or more full-time employees to provide health insurance coverage for their employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
Justice for the American Diplomats Held Hostage in Tehran Act

Bill: 113-hr-904
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2013-02-28 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Civil actions and liability
Detention of persons
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Foreign and international banking
Foreign property
Government liability
Government trust funds
International law and treaties
Iran
Middle East

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: 
Justice for the American Diplomats Held Hostage in Tehran Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a common fund to be administered by the class representatives and agents for the former American hostages in Iran and their survivors (case number 1:08-CV-00487 (EGS) of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia) in order to pay claims to the American hostages and to family members identified as class members.
 
Finances the fund from: (1) fines and penalties for violations of activities with respect to any government or person by reason of a connection with Iran, and (2) seized or frozen Iranian assets or assets from persons or entities subject to Iran-related sanctions.
 
Sets forth payment priority and amount provisions.
 
States that the United States shall be fully subrogated with respect to payments to all rights of each individual paid under this Act against the government of Iran or the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
Research and Development Tax Credit Extension Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-905
Sponsor: Rep. Carney, John C., Jr. [D-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Research and Development Tax Credit Extension Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the tax credit for increasing research activities, and (2) increase the rate of the alternative simplified research tax credit.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
Human Trafficking Reporting Act

Bill: 113-hr-906
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2013-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Human trafficking
Law enforcement administration and funding
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: 
Human Trafficking Reporting Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include severe forms of trafficking in persons among &quot;part 1 violent crimes&quot; required to be reported by states for the Uniform Crime Reports of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for purposes of Bureau of Justice Assistance Grants and Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
Northern Virginia Metrorail Extension Act

Bill: 113-hr-907
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2013-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Public transit
Railroads
Transportation programs funding
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: 
Northern Virginia Metrorail Extension Act - Authorizes project development for specified Metrorail new fixed guideway capital projects in Virginia.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
Welfare Integrity Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-909
Sponsor: Rep. Fincher, Stephen Lee [R-TN-8]
Introduced: 2013-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: 
Welfare Integrity Act of 2013 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require state TANF programs to operate a program to conduct random testing of TANF applicants and recipients for illegal drug use.
 
Requires state TANF programs to deny assistance to individuals who test positive for illegal drugs and individuals convicted of drug-related crimes.
 
Prescribes an administrative penalty for failure to implement illegal drug use testing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E221)
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Introduced in House