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Improving Cancer Treatment Education Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1661
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3]
Introduced: 2013-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Drug therapy
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medical research
Medicare
Nursing
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-19
text: 
Improving Cancer Treatment Education Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend Medicare coverage to comprehensive cancer patient treatment education services, including a one-hour patient treatment education session delivered, in advance of treatment, by a registered nurse to an individual diagnosed with cancer (or whose course of treatment has been materially modified).
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand, intensify, and coordinate research programs to: (1) improve the treatment and management of symptoms and side effects associated with cancer and cancer treatment, and (2) evaluate the role of nursing interventions in the amelioration of such symptoms and side effects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2013-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2013-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Army Corps Accountability Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1662
Sponsor: Rep. Richmond, Cedric L. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2013-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Dams and canals
Department of Defense
Floods and storm protection
Government liability
Military civil functions

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-19
text: 
Army Corps Accountability Act of 2013 - Amends the federal judicial code and the Federal Flood Control Act of 1928 to provide for the liability of the Army Corps of Engineers in the case of a tort claim arising out of damage caused by the gross negligence of an officer or employee of the Corps (thereby removing the Corps from an exception under the Federal Tort Claims Act that protects federal agencies from liability for certain discretionary functions).
 
Applies such liability to the Corps in the case of damage that occurred on or after August 29, 2005. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2013-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2013-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-19
text: Introduced in House
PARTS Act

Bill: 113-hr-1663
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2013-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Intellectual property
Manufacturing
Marketing and advertising
Motor vehicles
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: 
 Promoting Automotive Repair, Trade, and Sales Act of 2013 or PARTS Act - Makes it not an act of infringement, with respect to a design patent that claims a component part of a motor vehicle as originally manufactured, to: (1) make, test, or offer to sell within the United States, or import into the United States, any article of manufacture that is similar or the same in appearance to the component part claimed in such design patent if the purpose of such article is for the repair of a motor vehicle to restore its appearance to as originally manufactured; and (2) use or sell within the United States any such same or similar articles for such restorations more than 30 months after the claimed component part is first offered for public sale as part of a motor vehicle in any country. 
 
Defines "component part" as a component part of the exterior of a motor vehicle only (such as a hood, fender, tail light, side mirror, or quarter panel), excluding an inflatable restraint system or other component part located in the interior of a motor vehicle.
 
Specifies that an offer to sell includes any marketing of an article of manufacture to prospective purchasers or users and any pre-sale distribution.
 
Applies this Act to any patent issued, or application filed, before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Distracted Driving Prevention Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1664
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2013-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Motor carriers
Public contracts and procurement
Research administration and funding
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Telephone and wireless communication
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: 
Distracted Driving Prevention Act of 2013 - Requires the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to withhold a certain percentage of a state's apportionment of certain federal-aid highway funds for FY2016-FY2018, and each succeeding fiscal year, if the state has not enacted or is not enforcing a law that: (1) prohibits a driver from using a hand-held personal wireless communications device (such as a cell phone or smart phone) to text or call while driving; (2) allows the use of a hands-free device by a driver (other than a driver who is less than 18 years old) to call; (3) makes violation of the law a primary offense; (4) requires distracted driving issues to be tested as part of the state's driver's license examination; and (5) establishes certain minimum fines and increased civil and criminal penalties.
 
Excludes from the meaning of personal wireless communications device a global navigation satellite system receiver used for positioning, emergency notification, or navigation (GPS).
 
Declares that laws meet the requirements of this Act without regard to whether it provides exceptions for driver: (1) use of a cell phone in emergency situations, and (2) use of a cell phone to activate its hands-free capabilities.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a research program to study distracted driving by passenger and commercial vehicle drivers. 
 
Directs the the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to report to Congress on existing and developing wireless communications technology that may be used to reduce problems associated with distracted driving. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Drunk Driving Repeat Offender Prevention Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1665
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2013-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: 
Drunk Driving Repeat Offender Prevention Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to withhold specified graduated percentages of a state's apportionment of certain federal-aid highway funds for FY2016-FY2018 if the state has not enacted and is not enforcing a law requiring the installation of an ignition interlock device for a minimum of 180 days on each motor vehicle operated by an individual convicted of driving while intoxicated or driving under the influence (having a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08% or greater).
 
Authorizes reduction of the 180-day period to 90 days if: (1) the driver's license is suspended for a minimum of 180 days as a result of the conviction, and (2) the period for installation of an ignition interlock device begins after the last day of the suspension.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Prevention of Escapement of Genetically Altered Salmon in the United States Act

Bill: 113-hr-1667
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Aquaculture
Congressional oversight
Ecology
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fishes
Genetics
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Seafood
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: 
Prevention of Escapement of Genetically Altered Salmon in the United States Act - Prohibits a person from: (1) shipping, transporting, offering for sale, selling, or purchasing a covered fish, or a food product containing such fish, in interstate commerce; (2) having custody, control, or possession of, with the intent to ship, transport, offer for sale, sell, or purchase such fish or food products, in interstate or foreign commerce; (3) engaging in net-pen aquaculture of such fish; (4) releasing such fish into a natural environment; or (5) having custody, control, or possession of such fish with the intent to release it into a natural environment. 
 
 Defines &quot;covered fish&quot; as any finfish (live or dead, including the gametes, fertilized eggs, offspring, and descendants) that is modified or produced through the application of recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) technologies, using DNA from an organism's own genome or that of another species, that overcome natural physiological reproductive barriers and that are not techniques used in traditional breeding and selection.
 
Exempts from such prohibitions fish, fish parts, or products confined for scientific research or collected to enforce this Act. Sets forth an additional exception if the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, upon reviewing any application requesting a federal agency to permit activity prohibited by this Act: (1) prepares a finding of no significant impact in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, or (2) finds the application to be consistent with an environmental impact statement that includes an environmental risk analysis and specified assessments of costs and potential economic damage.
 
Directs each federal agency to promptly notify the Under Secretary when an action involving such covered fish or food products is first identified by such agency.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to enforce penalties for violations of this Act under specified provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Safely Sheltering Disaster Victims Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1668
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2013-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Connecticut
Disaster relief and insurance
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Housing and community development funding
Low- and moderate-income housing
Natural disasters
New Jersey
New York State
Rhode Island

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: 
Safely Sheltering Disaster Victims Act of 2013 - Transfers a specified amount made available for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Fund in the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 to the Public and Indian Housing Tenant-Based Rental Assistance HUD account for tenant-based rental assistance only, including related administrative expenses, to areas impacted by Hurricane Sandy.
 
Subjects such funds to specified requirements, including that:
 
 
they be made available for such assistance by 60 days after enactment of this Act;
 
the HUD Secretary waive the public housing agency (PHA) project-based limitation for use of such assistance (under the voucher program) for low-income families;
 
the amounts may be provided only to PHAs that agree to give a preference to making such assistance available to eligible families displaced by Hurricane Sandy;
 
such families are otherwise eligible for such assistance; and 
 
an eligible family may continue to receive such assistance after the transferred amounts are no longer available, subject to family eligibility and the availability of amounts in appropriation Acts.
 
 
Retains the designation of such amounts as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Appropriations, and 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: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Appropriations, and 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: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Appropriations, and 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: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
SHUT Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1674
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2013-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Foreign labor
Income tax credits
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax treatment of families

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: 
Stop Handouts to Unauthorized Taxpayers Act of 2013 or SHUT Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny the refundable portion of the child tax credit to individuals unless they include their social security number on their tax return or otherwise demonstrate that they are authorized to be employed in the United States. 
 
Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury or any delegate of the Secretary employed by the Department of the Treasury from issuing an individual taxpayer identification number unless supporting documentary evidence is submitted.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E523)
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Women's Access to Free-Market Healthcare Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1675
Sponsor: Rep. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2013-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child health
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: 
Ensuring Women's Access to Free-Market Healthcare Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax treatment of health savings accounts (HSAs), to allow a health plan which does not have a deductible for prenatal, labor and delivery, and postpartum care to be treated as a high deductible health plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Yosemite National Park Boundary Expansion Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1677
Sponsor: Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2013-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Land transfers
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: 
 Yosemite National Park Boundary Expansion Act of 2013 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire the approximately 1,575 acres of identified land that is adjacent to Yosemite National Park in California for addition to the Park. 
 
Permits an acquisition of such land to be made by donation, purchase from a willing seller, or exchange and revises the boundary of the Park to reflect the acquisition. 
 
Requires the Secretary to administer any acquired land as part of the Park. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2168)
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
SEAS Act

Bill: 113-hr-1678
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2013-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Buy American requirements
Food assistance and relief
Foreign aid and international relief
Marine and inland water transportation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: 
Saving Essential American Sailors Act or SEAS Act - Amends the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) to repeal the Act's repeal of the agricultural export requirements that: (1) 25% of the gross tonnage of certain agricultural commodities or their products exported each fiscal year be transported on U.S. commercial vessels, and (2) the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) finance any increased ocean freight charges incurred in the transportation of such items.
 
Revives and reinstates those repealed requirements to read as if they were never repealed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Expedited Funds Availability Act to clarify the application of that Act to American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Bill: 113-hr-1679
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: American Samoa
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: 
Amends the Expedited Funds Availability Act to apply it to American Samoa.
 
Extends by two business days, for American Samoa, any time periods established for large or redeposited check, repeated overdraft, reasonable cause, or other emergency exceptions to the 30-day funds availability requirements for deposits in an depository institution account by a new depositor. Applies this two-day extension to any deposit in an account at a depository institution located in American Samoa by a check drawn on an originating depository institution which is not located in the same state as the receiving depository institution.

action_date: 2014-06-09
text: 
 Amends the Expedited Funds Availability Act to apply it to American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
 
Extends by two business days, for American Samoa and the Commonwealth, any time periods established for large or redeposited check, repeated overdraft, reasonable cause, or other emergency exceptions to the 30-day funds availability requirements for deposits in an depository institution account by a new depositor.
 
Extends by one business day any deposit which is both deposited: (1) in an account at a depository institution located in American Samoa or the Commonwealth, and (2) by a check drawn on an originating depository institution which is not located in the same commonwealth or territory as the receiving depository institution.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2014-06-09
text: The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2014-06-09
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5138)
action_date: 2014-06-09
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5138)
action_date: 2014-06-09
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1679.
action_date: 2014-06-09
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5138-5139)
action_date: 2014-06-09
text: Mr. Huizenga (MI) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E522-523)
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House