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Return to Prudent Banking Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-985
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Corporate finance and management
Department of the Treasury
Federal Reserve System
Federal appellate courts
Federal district courts
Financial services and investments
Securities
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
Return to Prudent Banking Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) to prohibit an insured depository institution from being an affiliate of any broker or dealer, investment adviser, investment company, or any other person or entity engaged principally in the issue, flotation, underwriting, public sale, or distribution of stocks, bonds, debentures, notes, or other securities.
 
Prohibits officers, directors and employees of securities firms from simultaneous service on the boards of depository institutions, except in specified circumstances.
 
Requires any such individual serving as an officer, director, employee, or other institution-affiliated party of any insured depository institution to terminate such service as soon as practicable after enactment of this Act. Requires an insured depository institution to wind-down in an orderly manner and terminate any affiliation prohibited by this Act. 
 
Amends the Banking Act of 1933 (Glass-Steagall Act) to expand its prohibition against the transaction of banking activities by securities firms.
 
Declares that Congress ratifies the interpretation by the Supreme Court of specified statutory language in the case of 
Investment Company Institute v. Camp
 (
ICI
) regarding permissible activities of banks and securities firms. 
 
Declares that the reasoning of the Court in that case shall continue to apply to the limitations placed upon security affiliations under the FDIA as enacted by this Act. Prohibits a federal banking agency or federal court from issuing an interpretation regarding such security affiliations that is narrower than that of the Court in 
ICI
.
 
Makes technical and conforming changes to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Revised Statutes of the United States, and specified federal law.
 
Requires the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Comptroller of the Currency, or another appropriate federal banking agency to report to Congress a detailed description of the basis for its decision each time it makes a determination or grants an extension concerning an affiliation between insured depository institutions and investment banks or securities firms.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit performance awards in the Senior Executive Service during sequestration periods.

Bill: 113-s-986
Sponsor: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
Prohibits a federal agency from paying a performance award to an employee in a Senior Executive Service position during a sequestration period or any period during which a sequestration order is issued under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for an accounting of total United States contributions to the United Nations.

Bill: 113-s-988
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2013-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Foreign aid and international relief
Government information and archives
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-20
text: 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to report annually to Congress regarding all assessed and voluntary U.S. contributions to the United Nations (U.N.) and its affiliated agencies and related bodies during the previous fiscal year. 
 
Requires the report to include the following: (1) the total amount of all assessed and voluntary U.S. contributions to the U.N. and its affiliated agencies and related bodies; (2) the approximate percentage of U.S. contributions to each such agency or body in a fiscal year when compared with all such contributions in that fiscal year; and (3) the amount, description, and purpose of each contribution, the identity of the donating U.S. department or agency, and the identity of the recipient U.N. agency or body.
 
Requires the first report to include information for the previous three fiscal years.
 
Requires OMB to post a version of such report on a publicly available Internet website.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2013-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Strengthening Health Disparities Data Collection Act

Bill: 113-s-989
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2013-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Census and government statistics
Disability and health-based discrimination
Government information and archives
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-20
text: 
Strengthening Health Disparities Data Collection Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the categories of data the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) is required to ensure is collected and reported regarding federally conducted or supported health care or public health programs to include the sexual orientation and gender identity of applicants, recipients, or participants. (Current law requires the collection of data on race, ethnicity, sex, primary language, and disability status.)
 
Eliminates the prerequisite of direct appropriations for the collection of such health data.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the Iraqi and Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Programs by 1 year.

Bill: 113-s-990
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2013-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Afghanistan
Asia
Immigration status and procedures
Iraq
Middle East
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-20
text: 
Amends the Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act of 2007 to extend the program providing special immigrant status to qualifying Iraqis for an additional fiscal year.
 
Amends the Afghan Allies Protection Act of 2009 to extend the program providing special immigrant status to qualifying Afghans through FY2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent the avoidance of tax by insurance companies through reinsurance with non-taxed affiliates.

Bill: 113-s-991
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2013-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Insurance industry and regulation
Life, casualty, property insurance
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-20
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the taxable income of a life insurance company or other insurance company: (1) any non-taxed reinsurance premium; (2) any additional amount paid by an insurance company with respect to the reinsurance for which such non-taxed reinsurance premium is paid; and (3) any return premium, ceding commission, reinsurance recovered, or other amount received by an insurance company with respect to the reinsurance for which such non-taxed reinsurance premium is paid. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for offices on sexual assault prevention and response under the Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces, to require reports on additional offices and selection of sexual assault prevention and response personnel, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-992
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2013-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Congressional oversight
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against women
Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Military command and structure
Military personnel and dependents
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: 
Requires each Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces to establish and maintain an office within such Chief of Staff on the sexual assault prevention and response program carried out by that armed force.
 
Directs each military department Secretary to submit to the congressional defense committees an assessment of the feasibility and advisability of: (1) establishing such an office within each department, and (2) selecting members of the Armed Forces and department personnel to be assigned to positions that include responsibility for sexual assault prevention and response within the Armed Forces.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Committee on Armed Services. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-320.
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3660)
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize and request the President to award the Medal of Honor to James Megellas, formerly of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and currently of Colleyville, Texas, for acts of valor on January 28, 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.

Bill: 113-s-993
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2013-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Belgium
Conflicts and wars
Congressional tributes
Europe
Military history
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: 
Authorizes and requests the President to award the Medal of Honor to James Megellas for acts of valor on January 28, 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services by unanimous consent.
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3660)
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
National Desert Storm and Desert Shield War Memorial Act

Bill: 113-s-995
Sponsor: Sen. Boozman, John [R-AR]
Introduced: 2013-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
District of Columbia
Iraq
Kuwait
Middle East
Military history
Military operations and strategy
Monuments and memorials
Saudi Arabia

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: 
National Desert Storm and Desert Shield War Memorial Act - Authorizes the National Desert Storm Memorial Association to establish a commemorative work on federal land in the District of Columbia to commemorate and honor the members of the Armed Forces that served on active duty in support of Operation Desert Storm or Operation Desert Shield.
 
Prohibits the use of federal funds to pay any expense to establish the commemorative work.

action_date: 2014-05-22
text: 

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

 
National Desert Storm and Desert Shield War Memorial Act - Authorizes the National Desert Storm Memorial Association to establish a commemorative work on federal land in the District of Columbia to commemorate and honor the members of the Armed Forces that served on active duty in support of Operation Desert Storm or Operation Desert Shield.
 
Prohibits the use of federal funds to pay any expense to establish the commemorative work.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-22
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 395.
action_date: 2014-05-22
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Landrieu without amendment. With written report No. 113-169.
action_date: 2014-05-22
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Landrieu without amendment. With written report No. 113-169.
action_date: 2013-11-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-93.
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3661)
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3660)
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to improve the National Flood Insurance Program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-996
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2013-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Building construction
Congressional oversight
Dams and canals
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency planning and evacuation
Endangered and threatened species
Floods and storm protection
Government studies and investigations
Land use and conservation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: 
Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to repeal the prohibition against provision of flood insurance by the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to prospective insureds at rates less than standard estimates for property purchased after enactment of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 (Biggert-Waters). (Thus allows risk premium rates lower than standard rates for certain property purchased after Biggert-Waters.)
 
Delays the effective date of any flood insurance rate changes until 180 days after FEMA submits: (1) a certain report on methods to establish an affordability framework for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), or (2) notice to the congressional committees concerned of an alternative method of gathering information for such report if the report cannot be submitted by its due date. 
Directs FEMA to study options, methods, and implementing strategies for making available voluntary community-based flood insurance policies through NFIP.
 
Prohibits FEMA, when determining whether a community has made adequate progress on the construction, reconstruction, or improvement of a flood protection system, from considering the level of federal funding or participation.
 
Deems an action for the repair, restoration, and replacement of a totally destroyed structure or facility located in a coastal high hazard area for which an eligible entity received a contribution under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to be a &quot;substantial improvement&quot; for which grant funds may be used, if specified conditions are met
.

 
Requires a replacement structure or facility to be relocated to an alternative site if FEMA determines that a practicable alternative located outside the coastal high hazard area exists and provides better protection against hazards associated with coastal high hazard areas.
 
Prescribes deed restrictions to dedicate and maintain it in perpetuity as open space for the conservation of natural floodplain functions for any property involved in the construction of replacement structures or facilities, either the original site if the replacement structure or facility is relocated, or an alternative parcel of land in the coastal high hazard area if the replacement is rebuilt at the same location.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young, Jr. Social Work Reinvestment Act

Bill: 113-s-997
Sponsor: Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2013-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Education programs funding
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Policy sciences
Public contracts and procurement
Research administration and funding
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs
Wages and earnings
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: 
Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young, Jr. Social Work Reinvestment Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish the Social Work Reinvestment Commission to provide independent counsel to Congress on policy issues associated with the recruitment for, and retention, research, and reinvestment in, the profession of social work.
 
Directs the Commission to study and report to Congress on issues facing the social work profession, including: (1) fair market compensation, high social work educational debt, social work workforce trends, translating social work research to practice, and social work safety; and (2) state-level social work licensure policies and reciprocity agreements for providing services across state lines. Requires such study to assess the professional capacity of the social work workforce to serve and respond successfully to the increasing biopsychosocial needs of individuals, groups, and communities in certain areas, including aging and child welfare. 
 
Terminates the Commission 30 days after it submits such report within 18 months of its first meeting.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award: (1) workplace improvement grants to eligible entities and individuals to address workplace concerns for the social work profession, including caseloads, compensation, social work safety, supervision, and working conditions; and (2) research grants, education and training grants, and community-based programs of excellence grants.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) contract with a national social work entity to serve as a coordinating center and clearinghouse for information on activities funded under the grants, and (2) develop a multi-media outreach campaign and issue public service announcements that advertise and promote the social work profession.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3661)
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
RUSH Act

Bill: 113-s-999
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2013-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aging
Congressional oversight
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Family services
Food assistance and relief
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance
Social security and elderly assistance
State and local government operations
Transportation costs
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: 
Responding to Urgent Needs of Survivors of the Holocaust Act or RUSH Act - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to include specifically within its purview older Americans who are Holocaust survivors.
 
Authorizes the Administrator for Community Living to designate, within the Administration for Community Living of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a person with specialized training, background, or experience with issues of Holocaust survivors to implement services for them.
 
Requires a state nutrition project to: (1) ensure that project meals meet the dietary needs of program participants based on religious, cultural, or ethnic requirements; and (2) encourage individuals who distribute nutrition services to engage in conversation with homebound older individuals and to be aware of the warning signs of medical emergencies, injury, or abuse in order to reduce isolation and promote wellbeing. 
 
Amends the Older Americans Act Amendments of 2006 to require the study of nutrition projects to analyze the abilities of service providers to obtain viable contracts for special foods necessary to meet a religious requirement, required dietary need, or ethnic consideration. 
 
Authorizes the HHS Assistant Secretary for Aging to make grants to or contract with states, public agencies, private nonprofit agencies, institutions of higher education, and organizations, including tribal organizations, to support programs that provide transportation services and resources to older individuals with the greatest economic or social need.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Iran Export Embargo Act

Bill: 113-s-1001
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2013-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Foreign and international banking
Foreign property
Insurance industry and regulation
Iran
Middle East
Oil and gas
Sanctions
Trade restrictions
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: 
Iran Export Embargo Act - Amends the Iran Freedom and Counter-Proliferation Act of 2012 to direct the President to prohibit all transactions in property and property interests of a person (as defined in this Act) if such property and property interests are in the United States or within the possession or control of a U.S. individual.
 
Directs the President to prohibit the opening, and prohibit or impose strict conditions on the maintaining, in the United States of a correspondent account or a payable-through account by a foreign financial institution that has knowingly conducted or facilitated a significant transaction with respect to the importation, sale, or transfer of goods or services from Iran on behalf of a described person.
 
Directs the President to impose sanctions pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act with respect to an individual that knowingly: (1) imports, purchases, or transfers goods or services from a described person; and (2) provides underwriting services or insurance or reinsurance to a described person. 
 
Describes a "person" as: (1) the state and the government of Iran, or any political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality of such government, including the Central Bank of Iran; (2) any person owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, such government; or (3) any other person determined by the President to be described in clauses (1) or (2).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3661-3662)
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate