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Federal Communications Commission Collaboration Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-539
Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-18]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Lawyers and legal services
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Federal Communications Commission Collaboration Act of 2013 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to allow a bipartisan majority of Commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), notwithstanding a specified open meeting provision, to hold a meeting that is closed to the public to discuss official business if: (1) no agency action is taken, (2) each person present is an FCC Commissioner or employee or a member or person on the staff of a joint board to which the FCC has referred a matter under such Act, and (3) an attorney from the FCC's Office of General Counsel is present. 
 
Defines &quot;bipartisan majority of Commissioners&quot; as at least three Commissioners including at least one Commissioner for each political party of which any Commissioner is a member and at least one unaffiliated Commissioner if any Commissioner has no political affiliation. 
 
Requires public disclosure of the meeting, attendees, and matters discussed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
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
Energy Efficient Government Technology Act

Bill: 113-hr-540
Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-18]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Executive agency funding and structure
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Licensing and registrations
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Performance measurement
Public contracts and procurement
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Energy Efficient Government Technology Act - Amends the National Energy Conservation Policy Act, with respect to federal agency energy management, to require each agency to collaborate with the Director of the Office of the Management and Budget (OMB) to develop an implementation strategy for the maintenance, purchase, and use of energy-efficient and energy-saving information and communications technologies (ICT) and practices that is based on the agency's operating requirements and statutory mission. Includes as part of such a strategy consideration of ICT and related infrastructure and practices.
 
Requires the OMB Director to: (1) establish performance goals for evaluating the efforts of agencies in improving such technology systems and practices; and (2) maintain a data centers task force responsible for sharing progress toward individual agency goals and the overall target for increased energy efficiency, including through exchanges of best practices and energy efficiency information with the private sector.
 
Sets forth reporting requirements.
 
Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, with respect to data center energy efficiency, to require: 
 
 publication of the designation of the information technology industry organization that coordinates the voluntary national information program for such centers;
 
updating and publication of a report on server and data center efficiency, including an analysis of the impact of ICT asset and related infrastructure utilization solutions;
 
maintenance of a data center energy practitioner program that leads to the certification of practitioners qualified to evaluate energy usage and efficiency opportunities;
 
annual evaluation of agency data centers by such certified energy practitioners (with a preference for those employed by the agency);
 
establishment of an open data initiative for federal data center usage data;
 
active participation by the Secretary of Energy (DOE) in efforts to harmonize global specifications and metrics for data center energy efficiency; and
 
assistance by the Secretary in the development of an efficiency metric that measures the energy efficiency of the overall data center. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
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
PREEMIE Reauthorization Act

Bill: 113-hr-541
Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-18]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Child health
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Hospital care
Medical research
Minority health
Research administration and funding
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Reauthorization Act or PREEMIE Reauthorization Act - Amends the Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Act to revise and reauthorize requirements for research on prematurity and preterm births.
 
Requires the Director of the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth to give preference in awarding grants to an eligible entity that proposes to use the grant funds to develop plans for, or to establish, telehealth networks that provide prenatal care for high-risk pregnancies.
 
 Revises and reauthorizes through FY2017 the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct demonstration projects related to preterm births.

 Repeals establishment of the Interagency Coordinating Council on Prematurity and Low Birthweight.
 
 Authorizes the Secretary to establish the Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality. Directs the Advisory Committee (or an existing advisory committee designated by the Secretary) to develop, and periodically review and revise, a plan for conducting and supporting research, education, and programs on preterm birth through HHS.
 
 Requires the Secretary to designate an appropriate agency within HHS to coordinate existing studies and report to the Secretary and Congress on hospital readmissions of preterm infants.
 
 
 
 


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 limit restrictions on deer hunting within the Kisatchie National Forest.

Bill: 113-hr-542
Sponsor: Rep. Fleming, John [R-LA-4]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Department of Agriculture
Forests, forestry, trees
Hunting and fishing
Louisiana
Property rights

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) from restricting the use of dogs in deer hunting activities within the Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana unless those restrictions are applicable to the smallest practicable parts and are necessary for the reduction or control of trespassing onto adjacent land. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-543
Sponsor: Rep. Gibson, Christopher P. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Asia
Conflicts and wars
Disability and paralysis
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation
Vietnam

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
 Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2013 - Includes as part of the Republic of Vietnam its territorial seas for purposes of the presumption of service connection for diseases associated with exposure by veterans to certain herbicide agents while in Vietnam.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-15
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
Letting Insurance Benefit Everyone Regardless of Their Youth (LIBERTY) Act

Bill: 113-hr-544
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Age discrimination
Aging
Health care costs and insurance
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Letting Insurance Benefit Everyone Regardless of Their Youth (LIBERTY) Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to increase the permissible variation based on age for premium rates charged by a health insurance issuer for health insurance coverage offered in the individual or small group market from &quot;3 to 1&quot; for adults to &quot;5 to 1&quot; for adults, or such other ratio for adults as the state involved may provide. (The restrictions on premium variations enacted under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act apply to plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2014.)


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
Prioritize Emergency Job Creation Act

Bill: 113-hr-545
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Employment and training programs
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Prioritize Emergency Job Creation Act - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to require that, if for FY2013-FY2021 appropriations for discretionary accounts are enacted that Congress and the President designate as being for emergency job creation, the adjustment to discretionary spending limits for a fiscal year shall be the total of such appropriations in discretionary accounts designated for emergency job creation.
 
Requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in calculating the amount of the deficit reduction required for FY2013-FY2021 to enforce a specified budget goal under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, to further reduce the amount calculated for FY2013 by such appropriations for emergency job creation.
 
 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Promoting Partnerships to Transform Opportunities Act

Bill: 113-hr-546
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Adult education and literacy
Computers and information technology
Economic development
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Financial literacy
Health promotion and preventive care
Higher education
Language arts
Minority education
Minority employment
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Promoting Partnerships to Transform Opportunities Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to direct the Secretary of Labor to make competitive grants to, or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with, nonprofit organizations in partnership with one or more minority-serving institutions to provide support services, job training, and education to individuals with multiple barriers to employment, especially underrepresented minorities, to help prepare them to enter the workforce.
 
Requires such nonprofit organizations to submit a program plan to the Secretary in order to receive a grant or enter into such a contract or cooperative agreement.


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
Homeowner Catastrophe Protection Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-549
Sponsor: Rep. Grimm, Michael G. [R-NY-11]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Business investment and capital
Disaster relief and insurance
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Insurance industry and regulation
Natural disasters
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Homeowner Catastrophe Protection Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow insurance companies (other than life insurance companies) to make tax deductible contributions to a tax-exempt policyholder disaster protection fund established by this Act for the payment of policyholders' claims arising from certain catastrophic events, such as windstorms, earthquakes, snowstorms, fires, tsunamis or floods, volcanic eruptions, or hail; (2) establish a tax-exempt Catastrophe Savings Account to help taxpayers pay for catastrophe expenses; and (3) allow a nonrefundable tax credit for 25% of certain natural disaster mitigation property expenditures made to fortify a taxpayer's principal residence against catastrophes.


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
Phantom Fuel Reform Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-550
Sponsor: Rep. Harper, Gregg [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Government information and archives
Motor fuels

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Phantom Fuel Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Clean Air Act to revise the renewable fuel program by requiring the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration, in estimating the projected volume of cellulosic biofuel to be sold or introduced into commerce in the next year, to determine for each facility producing such biofuel during the current year: (1) the average monthly volume of biofuel produced by such facility based on the actual volume produced through October 31, and (2) the estimated annualized volume of biofuel production for such facility for the current year based on such average monthly production. Requires the estimate of cellulosic biofuel projected to be sold or introduced into commerce in the following year to equal the total of the estimated annual volumes of cellulosic biofuel production for all such facilities.
 
Requires (currently, authorizes) the Administrator, in any year in which the Administrator reduces the applicable volume of cellulosic biofuel required in gasoline, to also reduce the applicable volume of renewable fuel and advanced biofuels required by the same (currently, by the same or a lesser) volume.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
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
Fast Track to College Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-551
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Fast Track to College Act of 2013 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award matching six-year grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) that partner with institutions of higher education (IHEs) to establish or support dual enrollment programs, such as early college high schools, that allow secondary school students to earn credit simultaneously toward a secondary school diploma and a postsecondary degree or certificate.
 
Gives grant priority to applicants: (1) that propose to establish or support a dual enrollment program for a student body at least 40% of which is impoverished; and (2) from states that provide assistance to dual enrollment programs, such as assistance defraying the costs of higher education.
 
Requires applicants to make assurances that: (1) students will not be required to pay tuition or fees for postsecondary courses, and (2) those courses will be taught by faculty that meet their partner IHE's normal standards.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award matching five-year grants to states to: (1) plan and implement statewide strategies to make dual enrollment programs more accessible to students who are underrepresented in postsecondary education; (2) provide technical assistance to dual enrollment programs; and (3) engage in outreach, assessment, and teacher training activities designed to strengthen such programs.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) contract for an independent evaluation of this Act's programs, and (2) provide technical assistance to LEAs and their partners and disseminate information concerning best practices in dual enrollment programs.


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: 2013-02-06
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
Meeting the Inpatient Health Care Needs of Far South Texas Veterans Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-552
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Texas
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Meeting the Inpatient Health Care Needs of Far South Texas Veterans Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to: (1) ensure that the South Texas Veterans Affairs Health Care Center in Harlingen, Texas, includes a full-service VA inpatient health care facility; and (2) if needed, modify the existing facility to meet this requirement.
 
Requires the Secretary to report on specific actions to be taken to satisfy such requirement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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
To designate the exclusive economic zone of the United States as the "Ronald Wilson Reagan Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States".

Bill: 113-hr-553
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Designates the U.S. exclusive economic zone (as established by Presidential Proclamation Numbered 5030, dated March 10, 1983) as the &quot;Ronald Wilson Reagan Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States.&quot;

action_date: 2013-09-10
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Designates the U.S. exclusive economic zone (as established by Presidential Proclamation Numbered 5030, dated March 10, 1983) as the &quot;Ronald Wilson Reagan Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-10
text: Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 50.
action_date: 2013-09-10
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-204.
action_date: 2013-09-10
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-204.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs Discharged.
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-02-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
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
Superstorm Sandy Mortgage Relief Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-554
Sponsor: Rep. Jeffries, Hakeem S. [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2013-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Connecticut
Consumer affairs
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Disaster relief and insurance
Federal Housing Finance Agency
Housing finance and home ownership
Natural disasters
New Jersey
New York State
Rhode Island

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: 
Superstorm Sandy Mortgage Relief Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Director of the Federal Housing Agency to carry out a program to notify mortgagors under covered mortgages of the availability of forbearance and to offer and provide such relief upon an eligible homeowner's request.
 
Defines &quot;covered mortgage&quot; as one that: (1) is secured by a one- to four-family dwelling that is the mortgagor's principal residence and is located within a major disaster area resulting from Hurricane Sandy; and (2) is insured under the National Housing Act or owned or guaranteed by the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Introduced in House