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Schoolchildren's Health Protection Act

Bill: 113-hr-2943
Sponsor: Rep. Lamborn, Doug [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Family planning and birth control
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Schoolchildren's Health Protection Act - Amends the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit the provision of federal education funding to state or local educational agencies that: (1) provide, or permit the provision of, postcoital emergency contraception or prescriptions for such contraception on the premises of elementary or secondary schools; or (2) contract with a school-based health center to provide students with health services, unless the center agrees to deny students postcoital emergency contraception or prescriptions for such contraception pursuant to the contract.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
TIGER CUBS Act

Bill: 113-hr-2944
Sponsor: Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
Department of Transportation
Executive agency funding and structure
Infrastructure development
Public transit
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery for Cities Underfunded Because of Size Act of 2013 or TIGER CUBS Act - Makes supplemental appropriations of $500 million for FY2014 to the Department of Transportation (DOT) for the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) competitive grant program for national infrastructure investment projects for states, local governments, and transit agencies. Earmarks $100 million of such funds for projects in cities with populations between 10,000 and 50,000.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to provide a federal share of project costs of more than 80%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend and expand the charitable deduction for contributions of food inventory.

Bill: 113-hr-2945
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-9]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Food assistance and relief
Income tax deductions
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the tax deduction for charitable contributions of food inventory; (2) set forth rules for determining the basis and fair market value of contributed food; and (3) increase from 10% to 15% of taxpayer net income the amount of deductible food inventory contributions which a taxpayer, including a C corporation, may make in any taxable year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Risk-Based Cockpit Security Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2946
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Terrorism
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Risk-Based Cockpit Security Act of 2013 - Directs the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to make an assessment that: (1) identifies any risk posed to commercial aviation security if a flight deck door is opened on a commercial aircraft in flight, (2) identifies methods to mitigate such risk, and (3) recommends security standards for mitigation methods that involve installing a physical secondary cockpit barrier on commercial aircraft.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
To delay for one year certain amendments to the Medicaid program made by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-2949
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), to delay from January 1, 2014 to January 1, 2015, the mandate to cover individuals with an income at or below 133% of the poverty line, as well as the state option to cover them.
 
Delays for a year certain reports on such coverage by the states to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and by the Secretary to Congress.
 
Revises the increased federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for newly eligible mandatory individuals to repeal the 100% FMAP for 2014, but keep it for 2015 and 2016.
 
Delays from the two-year period between January 1, 2014, and December 31, 2015, to the two-year period between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2016, the increase in the FMAP by 2.2% for certain states for expenditures for individuals who are not newly eligible. 
 
Delays until January 1, 2015, application of the special FMAP for a Medicaid expansion state with respect to certain nonpregnant childless adults whom the state may require to enroll in benchmark coverage. 
 
Delays from January 1, 2014, to January 1, 2015, the effective date of the requirement that any benchmark benefit package or benchmark equivalent coverage provide certain minimum essential health benefits prescribed by PPACA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to delay the application of the individual health insurance mandate for individuals who have not attained age 27.

Bill: 113-hr-2950
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), to delay until 2015 for individuals who have not attained age 27 as of December 31, 2013, the penalty imposed by PPACA for failure to maintain minimum essential health care coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
To require certain preconditions for allowing premium tax credits, reductions in cost-sharing, and funding of Navigators and related Exchange enrollment activities, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-2951
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Income tax credits
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Disallows specified subsidy payments under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), including the tax credit for health care coverage premium assistance and reduction in cost-sharing, or any funding for the operation of a PPACA Navigator Program until: (1) the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) certifies to Congress that verification methods under PPACA to determine eligibility for subsidies have been tested to verify their accuracy and have safeguards in place to protect personally identifiable information; and (2) the Inspector General of HHS reviews such verification methods and certifies to Congress the quality, accuracy, response time, and integrity of such methods and that the level of improper subsidy payments is not likely to exceed 3% of the level of the total subsidy payment.
 
Requires the Inspector General of HHS to review verification methods annually to determine the level of improper subsidy payments and suspend such subsidies in years in which they exceed 3% of the total subsidy payment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-08-01
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: 2013-08-01
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: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Medicare VA Reimbursement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2953
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Health programs administration and funding
Medicare
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Medicare VA Reimbursement Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in cooperation with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), to establish a Medicare VA reimbursement program under which the HHS Secretary shall reimburse the VA Secretary, from the Medicare trust funds, for any item or service: (1) furnished to a Medicare-eligible veteran by a VA medical facility for the treatment of a non-service-connected condition, and (2) covered by Medicare or determined to be medically necessary by the VA Secretary.
 
Requires the HHS Secretary to enter a memorandum of understanding with the VA Secretary concerning administration of the program. Specifies required conditions in the memorandum.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress on the program every three years.
 
Declares the sense of Congress that the amount of funds appropriated to the VA for medical care in any fiscal year should not be reduced as a result of the implementation of the Medicare VA reimbursement program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Veterans' 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: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Veterans' 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: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Veterans' 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: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Runaway and Homeless Youth Inclusion Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2955
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Child care and development
Child safety and welfare
Crimes against children
Family services
Government information and archives
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Poverty and welfare assistance
Racial and ethnic relations
Sex offenses
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Runaway and Homeless Youth Inclusion Act of 2013 - Amends the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act to revise requirements for services provided under grants from the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for centers for runaway and homeless youth and their families.
 
Requires the plan proposed by grant applicants for a runaway and homeless youth center to: 
 
 
 provide services to persons in a minority category related to sexual orientation or gender identity or expression,
 
include demographics on the sexual orientation and gender identity or expression of the youth it serves within its statistical records, and
 
serve youth in a manner that is culturally competent.
 
 
Revises requirements for:
 
 
 transitional living programs for homeless youth to require such programs to serve them in a manner that is culturally competent, and
 
sexual abuse prevention programs to require certification to HHS that these programs have systems in place to ensure services to all youth in such a manner.
 
 
Requires the HHS report on periodic estimates of incidence and prevalence of youth homelessness to include data on the demographics of such individuals (except identity), including whether they are sexual and gender minority youth.
 
Prohibits any person in the United States, on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or disability, from being excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or subjected to discrimination under: (1) any program or activity funded in whole or in part with funds made available under the Act; or (2) any program or activity funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated for grants, agreements, and other assistance administered with such funds.
 
Grants the Attorney General and the Office of Justice Programs the same authority to enforce this Act as granted under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
End Welfare for Big Oil Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2956
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick [D-FL-18]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Energy revenues and royalties
Gulf of Mexico
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
End Welfare for Big Oil Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to limit or repeal certain tax benefits for major integrated oil companies (defined as companies with annual gross receipts over $1 billion and an average daily worldwide production of crude oil of at least 500,000 barrels or certain successors in interest of such companies), including: (1) the foreign tax credit for companies that are dual capacity taxpayers; (2) the tax deduction for income attributable to the production, transportation, or distribution of oil, natural gas, or primary products thereof; (3) the tax deduction for intangible drilling and development costs; (4) the percentage depletion allowance for oil and gas wells; and (5) the tax deduction for qualified tertiary injectant expenses.
 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to repeal royalty relief (suspension of royalties) for: (1) natural gas production from deep wells in shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico; and (2) deep water oil and gas production in the Western and Central Planning Area of the Gulf (including the portion of the Eastern Planning Area encompassing whole lease blocks lying west of 87 degrees, 30 minutes west longitude).
 
Dedicates any increased revenue generated by this Act to the reduction of a federal budget deficit or the federal debt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Clean Ports Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2958
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Air quality
Federal preemption
Intergovernmental relations
Motor carriers
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Transportation costs
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Clean Ports Act of 2013 - Declares that federal preemption of state and local law relating to a price, route, or service of any motor carrier of property shall not apply to the authority of a state, local government, or the political authority of two or more states to adopt requirements for motor carriers providing services at port facilities that are reasonably related to the reduction of environmental pollution, traffic congestion, the improvement of highway safety, or the efficient utilization of such port facilities, provided adoption or enforcement of such requirements does not conflict with federal law.
 
Declares that nothing in this Act shall limit the rights reserved to any state or political subdivision of such state under the Clean Air Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2959
Sponsor: Rep. Nugent, Richard B. [R-FL-11]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Firearms and explosives
Intergovernmental relations
Licensing and registrations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2013 - Amends the federal criminal code to authorize a person who is carrying a valid, government-issued identification document containing that person's photograph and a valid permit to carry a concealed firearm in one state, and who is not prohibited from possessing, transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm under federal law, to possess or carry a concealed handgun (other than a machine gun or destructive device) in another state in accordance with the restrictions of that state. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
SMART Grid Study Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2962
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M., Jr. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy research
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Government studies and investigations
Homeland security
Natural disasters
Research administration and funding
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Saving More American Resources Today Grid Study Act of 2013 or SMART Grid Study Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), and the heads of other federal departments and agencies, as necessary, to enter into an agreement with the National Research Council to research the future resilience and reliability of the nation's electric power transmission and distribution system.
 
Names such research the &quot;Saving More American Resources Today Study&quot; or &quot;SMART Study.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Dollars to the Classroom Act

Bill: 113-hr-2963
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Dollars to the Classroom Act - Requires at least 95% of any federal funds made available to a state by the Secretary of Education for elementary or secondary education to be used: (1) for academic and classroom or classroom-related purposes, or (2) at the elementary or secondary school level.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House