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American Oil for American Families Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-435
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2013-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Energy storage, supplies, demand
Forests, forestry, trees
General public lands matters
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Motor fuels
Oil and gas
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: 
American Oil for American Families Act of 2013 - Bans the export from the United States of petroleum extracted from public lands in the United States (including lands located on the outer Continental Shelf [OCS]), or a petroleum product produced from such petroleum.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Sequester for Congressional Pay and Accountability Act

Bill: 113-s-436
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2013-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: 
Sequester for Congressional Pay and Accountability Act - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to reduce the pay of each Member of Congress by the greatest percentage by which the pay of any federal employee is reduced as a result of a furlough relating to the sequestration order for that furlough period.
 
Defines &quot;furlough period&quot; as each period:
 
 
 beginning on the effective date of the first furlough of any federal employee relating to a sequestration order issued under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, and
 
ending on the last day of the fiscal year to which the sequestration order applies.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1089-1090)
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Choice Neighborhoods Initiative Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-437
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2013-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Building construction
Economic development
Employment and training programs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Housing and community development funding
Housing supply and affordability
Low- and moderate-income housing
Public housing
Public transit
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Unemployment
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: 
Choice Neighborhoods Initiative Act of 2013 - Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make competitive grants to local governments, public housing agencies (PHAs), community development corporations, assisted housing owners, and other for-profit and nonprofit entities to implement transformational programs in eligible neighborhoods with a concentration of extreme poverty, severely distressed housing, and a potential for long-term viability, once certain key problems are addressed.
 
Requires such programs to include neighborhoods with characteristics such as proximity to educational institutions, medical centers, central business districts, major employers, effective transportation alternatives (including public transit, walking, and bicycling), and low poverty neighborhoods.
 
Prohibits the use of such grants for construction or rehabilitation of a K-12 school building or a higher educational institution. Limits the use of grants for certain non-housing activities and supportive services. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such limitations.
 
Exempts from specified requirements of the United States Housing Act of 1937 the demolition and disposition of severely distressed public and assisted housing pursuant to a transformation plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs by unanimous consent.
action_date: 2013-04-22
text: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2013-04-22
text: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax Credit for Early Educators Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-438
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2013-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child care and development
Elementary and secondary education
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Preschool education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: 
Tax Credit for Early Educators Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow an individual taxpayer who is employed in a position involving regular contact with students in an early childhood school or education program and whose position involves the formulation or implementation of educational programs for such school or program a $3,000 tax credit, adjusted for inflation after 2013; (2) extend until 2018 the tax deduction for certain expenses of eligible educators (currently, elementary and secondary school teachers) and expand the definition of "eligible educators" to include teachers, instructors, counselors, or aides in a preschool or early childhood program; and (3) eliminate the income-based reduction in the tax credit for employer-provided dependent care services (thus allowing a full 35% tax credit for employment-related expenses incurred for the care of a dependent). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Career and Technical Education Facilities Modernization Act

Bill: 113-s-439
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2013-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Building construction
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Energy efficiency and conservation
Higher education
Rural conditions and development
Science and engineering education
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: 
Career and Technical Education Facilities Modernization Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to direct the Secretary of Education to support local educational agencies (LEAs), community colleges, and other appropriate entities in modernizing, renovating, or repairing facilities used to provide science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or career and technical education to public elementary, secondary school, or community college students.
 
Requires the Secretary to furnish such support by providing eligible entities with grants or loan guarantees or by making payments of interest on the financial instruments they use to fund the modernization, renovation, or repair of those facilities.
 
Prohibits the use of that support for new construction or the payment of routine maintenance costs.
 
Requires the Secretary to direct at least 25% of the funds made available under this Act to: (1) LEAs that are eligible to receive assistance under the ESEA's Rural Education Initiative program, or (2) community colleges that serve a substantial number of rural students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Preparing and Reinvesting in Early Education Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-440
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2013-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Preschool education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: 
Preparing and Reinvesting in Early Education Act of 2013 or the PRE ED Act of 2013 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include early childhood educators in the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) and Direct Loan (DL) forgiveness programs for teachers.
 
Makes early childhood educators eligible for FFEL or DL forgiveness if they are not in default on the loan being forgiven and have: (1) been employed as a full-time early childhood educator for five consecutive complete school years or a comparable period, as determined by the Secretary of Education; and (2) obtained an associate or baccalaureate degree in early childhood education prior to that period of service. 
 
Caps at $25,000 the amount of an early childhood educator's FFEL or DL that may be forgiven. 
 
Includes early childhood educators with associate degrees in early childhood development, early child education, or a related field in the program providing FFEL forgiveness for service in areas of national need. (Currently, early childhood educators are required to have completed a baccalaureate or advanced degree in such a field to qualify for participation in that program.)
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Professional Development for Educators Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-441
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2013-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Performance measurement
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: 
Professional Development for Educators Act of 2013 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to direct the Secretary of Education to allot grants to states and, through them, award or allot subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to provide professional development to educators.
 
Makes each state's allotment equivalent to its share of school improvement funds under part A of title I of the ESEA.
 
Requires states to use a portion of their allotment to: 
 
 
establish the criteria for quality professional development activities, which must include the requirement that those activities are regularly assessed on the basis of their impact on teacher effectiveness and student achievement;
 
design and implement methods for evaluating quality professional development activities;
 
make recommendations for improving those activities;
 
design and maintain an electronic, searchable, statewide registry of quality professional development activities;
 
hire regional professional development coordinators to work as liaisons between the state and LEAs regarding those activities;
 
evaluate professional development activities; and
 
submit annual reports to the Secretary regarding the progress they make under the grant program.
 
 
Requires LEAs to use their subgrants to: (1) inform their states of quality professional development activities that are available for inclusion in the statewide registry; and (2) dedicate at least 25% of each subgrant to quality professional development activities that involve science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and career and technical education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Child Care Public-Private Partnership Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-442
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2013-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Child care and development
Public-private cooperation
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: 
Child Care Public-Private Partnership Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a business-incentive grant program to provide child care through public-private partnerships.
 
Requires the Secretary to make such grants to: (1) states, on a competitive basis, to enable businesses and consortia to carry out certain activities; and (2) nonprofit business organizations with expertise in management issues of a high-quality child care center to provide technical information and assistance to enable businesses to provide child care services.
 
Specifies that grants to businesses and consortia are meant to enable them to: (1) pay start-up costs incurred to provide child care services, (2) assist with the costs of child care services needed by their employees, and (3) pay for training and professional development for staff that provide child care services.
 
Gives priority in grant selection to businesses with fewer than 100 full-time employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Courthouse Safety Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-445
Sponsor: Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN]
Introduced: 2013-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
State and local courts

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: 
Courthouse Safety Act of 2013 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to permit the Director of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Bureau of Justice Assistance to carry out a training and technical assistance program to teach employees of state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies how to anticipate, survive, and respond to violent encounters during the course of their duties, including duties relating to security at state, county, and tribal courthouses.
 
Requires the Director to give preference for any courthouse security training program to employees of jurisdictions that have magnetometers available at their courthouses.
 
Amends the State Justice Institute Act of 1984 to require the State Justice Institute (a private nonprofit organization established to improve judicial administration in state courts) to include courthouse safety as a factor in the national assistance program under which it provides funding to state courts and related national and nonprofit organizations. Permits state and local courts and other organizations awarded funds pursuant to Institute grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts to use such funds to improve safety and security in state and local courts. 
 
Requires, if such a grant is awarded to state or local courts without magnetometers, that specified matching funds be used acquire a magnetometer.
 
Directs the Administrator of General Services (GSA) to ensure that state or local courthouses having less security equipment than such courthouses require have an opportunity to request surplus security equipment (metal detectors, wands, baggage screening devices) before such equipment is made available to any other individual or entity. Requires that priority be given to courthouses that have no security equipment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Crop Insurance Subsidy Reduction Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-446
Sponsor: Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2013-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural insurance
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: 
Crop Insurance Subsidy Reduction Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to reduce crop insurance premium subsidy rates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Black Hills Cemetery Act

Bill: 113-s-447
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2013-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Forests, forestry, trees
Land transfers
South Dakota

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: 
Black Hills Cemetery Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to convey, to the local communities in South Dakota that are currently managing specified community cemeteries, all interest of the United States in: (1) the parcels of National Forest System land that contain the cemeteries, and (2) up to an additional two acres adjoining each cemetery to ensure that such conveyances include unmarked gravesites and allow for the expansion of those cemeteries.
action_date: 2013-06-27
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Black Hills Cemetery Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to convey, to the local communities in South Dakota that are currently managing specified community cemeteries, all interest of the United States in: (1) the parcels of National Forest System land that contain the cemeteries, and (2) up to an additional two acres adjoining each cemetery to ensure that such conveyances include unmarked gravesites and allow for the expansion of those cemeteries. 
 
Subjects each such conveyance to the conditions that: (1) the recipient accept the conveyed real property as is, (2) the conveyed lands to continue to be used in the same manner and for the same purposes as they were immediately before conveyance, and (3) the recipients bear the cost of the survey for their particular parcels.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-27
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 117.
action_date: 2013-06-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Wyden without amendment. With written report No. 113-63.
action_date: 2013-06-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Wyden without amendment. With written report No. 113-63.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-28.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Seniors' Tax Simplification Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-448
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2013-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aging
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: 
 Seniors' Tax Simplification Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make available a new federal income tax Form 1040SR (similar to Form 1040EZ) to individuals who have turned 65 as of the close of the taxable year. Allows the form to be used even if income includes: (1) social security benefits; (2) distributions from qualified retirement plans, annuities, or other such deferred payment arrangements; (3) interest and dividends; or (4) capital gains and losses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Anton Dodaj, Gjyljana Dodaj, Franc Dodaj, and Kristjan Dodaj.

Bill: 113-s-449
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2013-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Provides for the relief of Anton Dodaj, Gjyljana Dodaj, Franc Dodaj, and Kristjan Dodaj.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Financial Regulatory Responsibility Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-450
Sponsor: Sen. Shelby, Richard C. [R-AL]
Introduced: 2013-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Congressional oversight
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Department of the Treasury
Economic performance and conditions
Economic theory
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Housing Finance Agency
Federal Reserve System
Financial Stability Oversight Council
Government information and archives
Judicial review and appeals
National Credit Union Administration
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: 
Financial Regulatory Responsibility Act of 2013 - Prohibits a federal financial regulatory agency from issuing notices of proposed or final rulemakings unless specified analyses have been included in them. 
 
Prohibits an agency from publishing a notice of final rulemaking if it determines that the quantified costs are greater than the quantified benefits. 
 
Requires an agency to make available on its public website sufficient information about the data, methodologies, and assumptions underlying its analyses so that its analytical results are capable of being substantially reproduced.
 
Requires the chief economist of an agency, within five years after publication in the Federal Register of a notice of final rulemaking, to report to certain congressional committees on the economic impact of the subject regulation, including its direct and indirect costs and benefits.
 
Requires each federal agency to develop, report to certain congressional committees, and post on its public website a plan to modify, streamline, expand, or repeal existing regulations so as to make the agency's regulatory program more effective or less burdensome in achieving its regulatory objectives.
 
Authorizes judicial review for a person adversely affected or aggrieved by a regulation. 
 
Establishes the Chief Economists Council to report to certain congressional committees on activities of the financial regulatory agencies.
 
Requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to report separately to certain congressional committees their plans for subjecting to the requirements of this Act the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, and registered national securities associations on the one hand, and registered futures associations on the other.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Technical Corrections Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-451
Sponsor: Sen. Shelby, Richard C. [R-AL]
Introduced: 2013-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer credit
Financial services and investments
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: 
 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Technical Corrections Act of 2013 - Makes technical corrections to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, including certain Acts within it as well as other specified Acts, regarding definitions affecting regulation of advisers to hedge funds.
 
Extends for one year the deadline for issuance of any rule or regulation, conduct of any study, or submission of any report required by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, except any rules already finalized.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate