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Explosive Materials Background Check Act

Bill: 113-s-792
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2013-04-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Assault and harassment offenses
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Justice
Domestic violence and child abuse
Firearms and explosives
Licensing and registrations
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: 
Explosive Materials Background Check Act - Amends federal criminal code provisions governing the importation, manufacture, distribution, and storage of explosive materials to: (1) include smokeless powder and black powder substitute within the definition of an &quot;explosive&quot; to which such provisions apply; (2) revise the definition of &quot;manufacturer&quot; to mean any person engaged in manufacturing (currently, in the business of manufacturing) explosive materials; and (3) delete the exemption for commercially manufactured black powder in quantities of less than fifty pounds.
 
Prohibits knowingly distributing explosive materials to any person who: (1) is subject to a court order (issued after a hearing meeting specified requirements) that restrains such person from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner or a child of such intimate partner or person or from engaging in other conduct that would place an intimate partner in reasonable fear of bodily injury to the partner or child; (2) has been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence; or (3) the Attorney General has determined is an individual known or appropriately suspected to be or have been engaged in, conduct constituting or related to terrorism or providing material support or resources for terrorism and the Attorney General has a reasonable belief that such person may use explosives in connection with terrorism. Makes it unlawful for any such person to ship or transport any explosive in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or to receive or possess any explosive that has been shipped or transported in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce. 
 
Exempts a limited explosives material permit holder who certifies that the permit will only be used to purchase black powder, black powder substitute, and smokeless powder from provisions limiting the receipt of explosive materials to six separate occasions during a 12-month period.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to deny or revoke an explosives materials license or permit upon determining that the licensee or holder is known to be or have been engaged in such terrorist conduct and may use explosives in connection with terrorism. Directs the Attorney General to issue guidelines describing the circumstances under which the Attorney General will exercise such authority and make such determinations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Dependable Air Service Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-794
Sponsor: Sen. Hoeven, John [R-ND]
Introduced: 2013-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Appropriations
Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
Employee leave
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Transportation employees
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: 
Dependable Air Service Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to ensure that flight delays and cancellations do not result from furloughs of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees that are implemented as a result of any rescission, sequestration, or reduction of federal funding for FY2013.
 
Authorizes the Secretary, in order to prevent such delays and cancellations, to: (1) use amounts available for FAA operations for FY2013; or (2) increase the amount available for FAA operations for FY2013 by an amount necessary to ensure that flight delays and cancellations do not result from the furloughs, as well as reduce amounts available for other Department of Transportation (DOT) programs for FY2013 by an amount equal to the increase in funding for FAA operations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2962)
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act

Bill: 113-s-795
Sponsor: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2013-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Corporate finance and management
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Lighting, heating, cooling
Motor fuels
Solid waste and recycling
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: 
Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax treatment of publicly traded partnerships as corporations, to expand the definition of &quot;qualifying income&quot; for such partnerships to include income and gains from renewable and alternative fuels (in addition to fossil fuels), including energy derived from thermal resources, waste, renewable fuels and chemicals, energy efficient buildings, gasification, and carbon capture in secure geological storage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 302 East Green Street in Champaign, Illinois, as the "James R. Burgess Jr. Post Office Building".

Bill: 113-s-796
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2013-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Illinois
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 302 East Green Street in Champaign, Illinois, as the "James R. Burgess Jr. Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6258-6259; text as passed Senate: CR S6259)
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S6258-6259; text as passed Senate: CR S6259)
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 158.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Carper without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Carper without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2963)
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2962-2963)
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the authorization for the Coastal Heritage Trail in the State of New Jersey.

Bill: 113-s-797
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2013-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
New Jersey
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: 
Extends the authorities provided to the Secretary of the Interior with respect to the Coastal Heritage Trail Route in New Jersey until September 30, 2018. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for a sequester replacement.

Bill: 113-s-799
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2013-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
House of Representatives
Legislative rules and procedure
Senate

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: 
Requires the President, by May 15, 2013, to submit to Congress a qualifying sequester replacement plan proposing to cancel permanently at least $85.333 billion of budgetary resources available for FY2013 from any discretionary appropriations or direct spending account. Requires further that:
 
 
up to $42.666.500 billion of budgetary resources be cancelled from defense spending (budget function 050);
 
any cancellation of such budgetary resources comply with the policies under and consistent with amounts authorized in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (NDAA FY2013);
 
the cancellation is not implemented through changes to programs or activities contained in the Internal Revenue Code, or increases governmental receipts, offsetting collections, or offsetting receipts;
 
any cancellation of budgetary resources in a non-defense spending account may not be offset against an increase in another such account; and
 
the proposed cancellation reduces outlays by at least $82.500 billion by the end of FY2018.
 
 
Sets forth requirements for expedited consideration of a joint resolution of disapproval in both chambers of the qualifying sequester replacement plan.
 
Requires the President, if the joint resolution of disapproval is not enacted within seven calendar days after May 15, 2013, to cancel: (1) any sequestration order issued under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) for enforcement of a specified budget goal, and (2) the budgetary resources submitted in the qualifying sequester replacement plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 65.
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Treto Garza Far South Texas Veterans Inpatient Care Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-800
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2013-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Texas
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: 
Treto Garza Far South Texas Veterans Inpatient Care Act of 2013 - Redesignates the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Center in Harlingen, Texas, as the "Treto Garza South Texas Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Center."
 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to: (1) ensure that such Center includes a full-service inpatient health care facility, (2) modify the existing facility to meet such requirement, and (3) include in the annual VA strategic capital investment plan a project to expand the Center's capabilities to provide increased inpatient capacity, an urgent care center, and a full range of services for women veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-203.
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2963)
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Prairie Protection Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-801
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2013-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural insurance
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Disaster relief and insurance
Land use and conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: 
Prairie Protection Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to reduce crop insurance assistance and noninsured crop disaster assistance for crops grown on native sod acreage converted to cropland for the first four years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Sensible Environmental Protection Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-802
Sponsor: Sen. Hagan, Kay R. [D-NC]
Introduced: 2013-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Licensing and registrations
Pest management
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: 
Sensible Environmental Protection Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act [CWA]) to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or a state from requiring a permit under CWA for a discharge from a point source into navigable waters of: (1) a pesticide authorized for sale, distribution, or use under FIFRA; or (2) the residue of the pesticide, resulting from the application of the pesticide. Excepts: (1) a discharge resulting from the application of a pesticide in violation of a provision of FIFRA relevant to protecting water quality if the discharge would not have occurred without the violation or if the amount of pesticide or pesticide residue in the discharge is greater than would have occurred without the violation; (2) stormwater discharges regulated under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES); and (3) discharges of manufacturing or industrial effluent, treatment works effluent, and discharges incidental to the normal operation of a vessel.
 
Directs the Administrator to report to specified congressional committees on: (1) the status of intra-agency coordination between the Office of Water and the Office of Pesticide Programs of EPA regarding streamlining information collection, standards of review, and data use relating to water quality impacts from the registration and use of pesticides; (2) an analysis of the effectiveness of current regulatory actions relating to pesticide registration and use aimed at protecting water quality; and (3) recommendations on how FIFRA can be modified to better protect water quality and human health.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Superstorm Sandy Unemployment Relief Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-803
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2013-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Appropriations
Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection
Natural disasters
State and local government operations
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: 
Superstorm Sandy Unemployment Relief Act of 2013 - Directs the President, in the case of an individual eligible to receive unemployment assistance under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act as a result of the disaster declaration made for Hurricane Sandy after October 20, 2012, to make such assistance available for 39 weeks after the date of the declaration (currently limited to 26 weeks).
 
Requires the payments to a state to equal 100% of the amount of unemployment compensation (UC) paid under state law to affected individuals in each affected state or any area within it.
 
 Makes payments available until July 28, 2013.
 
Makes appropriations necessary to carry out this Act.
 
Expresses the sense of the Senate that upon receiving a reimbursement or advance under this Act, a state should, if its law allows:
 
 
 reverse or waive any charges to employer accounts related to UC paid to affected individuals for which the reimbursement or advance is provided; or
 
 reimburse for such costs any state or local governmental entity, non-profit organization, Indian tribe, or other employer which elected to reimburse the state for UC paid to affected individuals in lieu of paying taxes based on charges to its employer account; and
 
provide for retroactive payment of UC to affected individuals who received a waiting period credit instead of an UC payment in relation to their initial week of unemployment.
 
 
Allows the state to receive reimbursement under this Act for any such retroactive payment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Careers through Responsive, Efficient, and Effective Retraining Act

Bill: 113-s-804
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2013-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Performance measurement
State and local government operations
Wages and earnings
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: 
Careers through Responsive, Efficient, and Effective Retraining Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1988, with respect to funds for statewide youth activities which are allocated to a local area for eligible youth seeking assistance in achieving academic and employment success, to require the use of such funds for training programs, with priority consideration given to those that lead to an industry-recognized, nationally portable, and regionally relevant credential.
 
Requires the operator of a state one-stop system for delivery of training services to adults and dislocated workers also to give priority consideration to training programs that lead to the same kind of credential.
 
Requires the program of a provider of training services that leads to such a credential to meet quality criteria as established by the state governor (which may be accreditation by a state-recognized, third party accrediting agency).
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish in at least five states, including at least one rural and one non-rural state, a Pay for Performance pilot program to provide a portion of training services for adults and dislocated workers under a plan meeting specified criteria.
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to prepare a plan to reorganize federal job training programs to increase their efficiency, integration, and alignment. Requires the plan to propose a decrease in the number of federal job training programs without decreasing services or accessibility to them for eligible job training participants, including individuals with specified barriers to employment such as economic disadvantage, limited English proficiency, age, a need for remedial education, or completion of a criminal sentence.
 
Amends part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV (Temporary Aid to Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to disclose pertinent employment information in the National Directory of New Hires to any state agency administering part D that transmits to the Secretary the names and Social Security account numbers of individuals. Prescribes restrictions on state use of such information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exclude customary prompt pay discounts from manufacturers to wholesalers from the average sales price for drugs and biologicals under Medicare.

Bill: 113-s-806
Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2013-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: 
Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to exclude from the average sales price in calculating Medicare payments for drugs and biologicals any customary prompt pay discounts from manufacturers to wholesalers


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Plain Writing Act for Regulations of 2013

Bill: 113-s-807
Sponsor: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2013-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: 
Plain Writing Act for Regulations of 2013 - Requires the head of each executive agency to: (1) implement a program for using plain writing in drafting agency regulations, (2) designate a senior official to oversee the implementation of plain writing requirements, (3) certify to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that each agency rule has been reviewed for compliance with such requirements, and (4) publish annual reports on agency compliance with such requirements on the agency's website.
 
Requires: (1) the Director of OMB to develop and issue guidance to agencies for implementing plain writing requirements and publish certifications of agency compliance with such requirements on the OMB's website, and (2) the Comptroller General (GAO) to report to Congress on the extent to which regulations are using plain writing and the impact of plain writing requirements on the rulemaking process. 
 
Prohibits judicial review of compliance or noncompliance with any provision of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate