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Refundable Child Tax Credit Eligibility Verification Reform Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-556
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Income tax credits
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax treatment of families

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Refundable Child Tax Credit Eligibility Verification Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the child tax credit, to require taxpayers claiming such credit to provide their social security numbers on their tax returns. 
 
Prohibits taxpayers who improperly claimed such credit in a previous year from claiming such credit during a disallowance period of: (1) 2 years for claims made with reckless or intentional disregard of rules governing such credit, or (2) 10 years for fraudulent claims.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe a form for completion by paid income tax preparers in connection with claims for the refundable portion of the child tax credit. Imposes a penalty on preparers who fail to comply with due diligence requirements for claiming the refundable portion of the credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Advice and Consent Restoration Act

Bill: 113-hr-557
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Labor-management relations
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Advice and Consent Restoration Act - Prohibits a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member from receiving a salary unless that member has been appointed: (1) by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or (2) by the President to fill a vacancy during a recess of the Senate.
 
Prohibits an unconstitutional quorum of the NLRB from convening or taking any agency action until a final judgment is entered in all cases pending before a federal court challenging the constitutionality of the purported appointment of NLRB members.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Fallen Heroes Flag Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-558
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-2]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional tributes
First responders and emergency personnel
Law enforcement officers
National symbols
U.S. Capitol

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Fallen Heroes Flag Act of 2013 - Allows the Representative of the immediate family of a deceased fire fighter, law enforcement officer, emergency technician, or other rescue worker who died in the line of duty to provide the family, at their request, with a Capitol-flown flag, together with a certificate, signed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Representative providing the flag, which contains an expression of sympathy for the family. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Audit the Pentagon Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-559
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Audit the Pentagon Act of 2013 - Requires, on March 2 of FY2014 and each subsequent fiscal year, a 5% reduction in the discretionary budget authority of a federal agency that is identified by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as required to have an audited financial statement: (1) that has not submitted a financial statement for the previous fiscal year, or (2) whose statement has not received either an unqualified or a qualified audit opinion by an independent external auditor. Excludes from such reduction accounts for military, reserve and National Guard personnel and the Defense Health Program account of the Department of Defense (DOD). Authorizes the President to waive a reduction in discretionary budget authority if such reduction would harm national security or members of the Armed Forces who are in combat.
 
Requires a report to Congress listing required DOD reports that interfere with DOD's capacity to achieve an audit of its financial statements with an unqualified opinion.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) congressional defense committees and DOD should not endanger the nation's troops by reducing wounded warrior accounts or vital protection for members of the Armed Forces in harm's way, (2) the valuation of legacy assets by DOD should be simplified without compromising essential controls or generally accepted government auditing standards, and (3) this Act should not be construed to require or permit the declassification of accounting details about classified defense programs and DOD should ensure financial accountability in such programs.
 
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Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Rio Grande del Norte National Conservation Area Establishment Act

Bill: 113-hr-560
Sponsor: Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: New Mexico
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
 Rio Grande Del Norte National Conservation Area Establishment Act - Establishes the Rio Grande Del Norte National Conservation Area in New Mexico. 
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to ensure the protection of religious and cultural sites in the Conservation Area and to provide access to them by tribal members. 
 
Requires the Secretary to develop a management plan for the Conservation Area. 
 
Designates the Cerro Del Yuta Wilderness and Rio San Antonio Wilderness as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Victims on Campus Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-561
Sponsor: Rep. Meehan, Patrick [R-PA-7]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Education programs funding
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Right of privacy
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Protecting Victims on Campus Act of 2013 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise provisions that require each institution of higher education (IHE) participating in a title IV (Student Assistance) program to comply with certain crime reporting requirements.
 
Requires IHEs to provide students and employees with a list of the titles, in each department of the IHE, of each individual who is a campus security authority to whom they should report specified criminal offenses.
 
Includes criminal offenses involving minors that are reported to campus security authorities or the local police among the criminal offenses that are to be included in: (1) the annual campus security report provided to current and prospective students and employees, and (2) the timely reports to the campus community on crimes considered to be a threat to the community.
 
Requires the personally identifiable information of victims to be kept confidential when IHEs are making timely reports to the campus community on crimes considered to be a threat to the community.
 
Requires IHEs, in carrying out their obligation to make such timely reports, to: (1) designate an individual to serve as campus security authority coordinator, and (2) provide for the training of that coordinator and the campus security authorities.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education, when imposing civil penalties on IHEs for substantial violations of the crime reporting requirements, to distinguish between IHEs that intentionally violated those requirements and those whose violations are attributable to institutional neglect. 
 
Requires the Secretary to provide each IHE that is to be investigated for violating such reporting requirements with a timeline of the investigation and a preliminary report that includes the reasons for the investigation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
VRAP Extension Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-562
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Jeff [R-FL-1]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
VRAP Extension Act of 2013 - Amends the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011 to extend through June 30, 2014, the veterans retraining assistance program. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to submit to Congress an interim report on the retraining assistance provided under such program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2013-04-10
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-02-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
School Social Workers Improving Student Success Act

Bill: 113-hr-563
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child care and development
Child safety and welfare
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
School Social Workers Improving Student Success Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award renewable grants to high-need local educational agencies (LEAs) to retain or hire additional school social workers.
 
Permits grantees to use the funds to reimburse school social workers for expenses they incur in rendering services.
 
Requires grant-funded social workers to target their services to the highest-need students.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance to high-need LEAs in applying for such grants.
 
Prohibits the grant funds from being used to supplant other federal, state, or local funds used for hiring and retaining school social workers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Access to Health Information Centers for Families with Disabilities Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-564
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Disability and paralysis
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Access to Health Information Centers for Families with Disabilities Act of 2013 - Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, to extend through FY2016 appropriations for family-to-family health information centers to help families of children with disabilities or special health care needs make informed choices about health care for their children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Cardiomyopathy Health Education, Awareness, Risk Assessment, and Training in the Schools (HEARTS) Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-565
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child care and development
Child health
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Preschool education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Cardiomyopathy Health Education, Awareness, Risk Assessment, and Training in the Schools (HEARTS) Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in conjunction with the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to develop and disseminate to school administrators, educators, school health professionals, coaches, and families, as well as to state and local health departments, pediatricians, hospitals, and other health professionals, public education and awareness materials and resources that include: (1) background information to increase education and awareness of cardiomyopathy (a disease of the heart muscle) among school administrators, educators, and families; (2) a cardiomyopathy risk assessment worksheet for use by parents, guardians, or other caregivers; (3) guidelines regarding the placement of automated external defibrillators in schools and child care centers; (4) training information on defibrillators and cardiopulmonary resuscitation; and (5) recommendations for how schools and child care centers can develop and implement a cardiac emergency response plan.
 
Encourages the Secretary, in support of such effort, to: (1) establish an advisory panel, and (2) engage in a memorandum of understanding or cooperative agreement with a national nonprofit advocacy organization expert in all forms of cardiomyopathy. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide for a guarantee by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation for qualified preretirement survivor annuities under insolvent or terminated multiemployer pension plans.

Bill: 113-hr-566
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to declare that a qualified preretirement survivor annuity with respect to a participant under a multiemployer plan which becomes insolvent or is terminated shall not be treated as forfeitable solely because the participant has not died as of the date on which the plan became so insolvent or the termination date. (Thus guarantees, in the absence of other disqualifying factors, the payment by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation [PBGC] of a qualified preretirement survivor annuity to a participant of a multiemployer pension plan which becomes insolvent or is terminated.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E105-106)
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5, United States Code, to require that the Office of Personnel Management submit an annual report to Congress relating to the use of official time by Federal employees.

Bill: 113-hr-568
Sponsor: Rep. Ross, Dennis A. [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Employee leave
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Labor-management relations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to submit an annual report to Congress on the use of official time by federal employees. Defines &quot;official time&quot; as any period of time granted to a federal employee to perform representational or consultative functions and during which the employee would otherwise be in a duty status.

action_date: 2013-07-16
text: 
Requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), not later than March 31 of each year, to report to Congress on the use of official time by federal employees. Requires each federal agency, not later than December 31 of each year, to submit to OPM information required for OPM's report to Congress. 
 
Defines "official time" as any period of time granted to a federal employee to perform representational or consultative functions in labor-management relations during which the employee would otherwise be in a duty status.
 
Requires OPM's report to Congress to include: (1) the total amount of official time granted to employees, (2) the average amount of official time expended per bargaining unit employee, (3) the specific types of activities or purposes for which official time was granted and the impact which the granting of such official time had on agency operations, (4) the total number of employees to whom official time was granted and the total number of such employees who were not engaged in any work activities or purposes except those involving the use of official time, and (5) the total amount of compensation (including fringe benefits) afforded to employees in connection with activities or purposes for which they were granted official time. Requires the information submitted by OPM to be shown both agency-by-agency and for all agencies and to be accompanied by corresponding information in previous reports, together with appropriate comparisons and analyses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 111.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. H. Rept. 113-154.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. H. Rept. 113-154.
action_date: 2013-05-22
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2013-05-22
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-569
Sponsor: Rep. Runyan, Jon [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability assistance
Inflation and prices
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
 Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to increase, as of December 1, 2013, the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children.
 
Requires each such increase to be the same percentage as the increase in benefits provided under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, on the same effective date.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2013-04-16
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-02-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Karl Hoerig Foreign Aid Suspension Act

Bill: 113-hr-571
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Brazil
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Foreign aid and international relief
Latin America
Sanctions

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Karl Hoerig Foreign Aid Suspension Act - Prohibits assistance to Brazil until the President certifies to Congress that the government of Brazil has removed the prohibition on extradition of Brazilian nationals to other countries.
 
Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition on a case-by-case basis if in the U.S. national interest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
End Immuity for Brazilian Criminals Act

Bill: 113-hr-572
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Brazil
Congressional oversight
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Latin America
Sanctions
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
End Immuity for Brazilian Criminals Act - Prohibits the issuance of a visa to a citizen, subject, national, or resident of Brazil until the President certifies to Congress that the government of Brazil has removed the prohibition on extradition of Brazilian nationals to other countries.
 
Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition on a case-by-case basis if in the U.S. national interest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House