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A bill to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to establish a procedure for approval of certain settlements.

Bill: 113-s-19
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2013-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Civil actions and liability
Endangered and threatened species
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-27
text: 
Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require the Secretary of the Interior, within 30 days after being served with a complaint in an action alleging a failure to perform an act or duty related to an endangered species or threatened species determination, to publish the complaint. Prohibits the failure of the Secretary to meet such deadline from being the basis for such an action. Sets forth requirements concerning the intervention in such actions by affected parties and referral to a mediation program. 
 
Authorizes the court, in issuing any final order in such an action, to award litigation costs to any party. Prohibits the court from: (1) awarding litigation costs in any proposed covered settlement, (2) granting a motion that is based on a proposed covered settlement or other consent decree that includes payment for litigation costs, (3) approving a proposed covered settlement unless each state and county in which the Secretary believes a species occurs approves it, or (4) granting a motion that is based on a proposed covered settlement unless such settlement is approved by each such state and county. Requires the courts to ensure that such a settlement is approved by each such state and county. 
Requires the Secretary to provide notice of a proposed covered settlement to each such state and county. Authorizes a court to approve such a settlement or grant such a motion if, within 45 days of notification: (1) a state or county fails to respond, and (2) each state or county that responds approves the covered settlement, or (3) all of the states and counties fail to respond.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Financial Takeover Repeal Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-20
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2013-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Bankruptcy
Business records
Commodities markets
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Corporate finance and management
Financial crises and stabilization
Financial services and investments
Foreign and international banking
Government information and archives
Securities
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-27
text: 
Financial Takeover Repeal Act of 2013 - Repeals the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
 
Revives or restores the provisions of law amended by such Act as if it had not been enacted.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Cybersecurity and American Cyber Competitiveness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-21
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2013-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Business records
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Crime prevention
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Electric power generation and transmission
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Financial services and investments
Infrastructure development
International organizations and cooperation
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Right of privacy
Telephone and wireless communication
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: 
Cybersecurity and American Cyber Competitiveness Act of 2013 - Calls for the enactment of bipartisan legislation to improve communication and collaboration between the private sector and the federal government to secure the United States against cyber attack, enhance the competitiveness of the United States and create jobs in the information technology industry, and protect the identities and sensitive information of U.S. citizens and businesses by: (1) enhancing the security and resiliency of public and private communications and information networks against cyber attack; (2) establishing mechanisms for sharing cyber threat and vulnerability information between the government and the private sector; (3) developing a public-private system to improve the capability of the United States to assess cyber risk and prevent, detect, and respond to cyber attacks against critical infrastructure such as the electric grid, the financial sector, and telecommunications networks; (4) promoting research and development investments and professional training; (5) preventing and mitigating identity theft; (6) enhancing U.S. diplomatic capacity and public-private international cooperation to respond to emerging cyber threats; (7) expanding resources for investigating and prosecuting cyber crimes in a manner that respects privacy rights and civil liberties and promotes U.S. innovation; and (8) maintaining robust protections of the privacy of U.S. citizens and their online activities and communications.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Gun Show Background Check Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-22
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2013-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Firearms and explosives
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Gun Show Background Check Act of 2013 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to require registration of gun show promoters and to set forth the responsibilities of promoters, licensees, and other transferors. 
Provides that if any part of a firearm transaction takes place at a gun show, each licensed importer, manufacturer, and dealer who transfers one or more firearms to a person who is not licensed shall, within 10 days after the transfer, submit a report of the transfer to the Attorney General. Sets forth penalties for violations. 
Grants the Attorney General authority to enter the place of business of any gun show promoter and any place where a gun show is held, during business hours and without a showing of reasonable cause or a warrant, for purposes of examining records and the inventory of licensees conducting business to determine compliance with this Act. 
Increases penalties for: (1) serious record-keeping violations by licensees, and (2) violations of criminal background check requirements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Health Relief Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-24
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2013-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Small business
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: 
Small Business Health Relief Act of 2013 - Repeals provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), as added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), that: (1) impose fines on large employers (those with more than 50 full-time employees) who fail to offer their full-time employees the opportunity to enroll in minimum essential health insurance coverage, and (2) require such large employers to file a report with the Secretary of the Treasury on health insurance coverage provided to their full-time employees.
 
Repeals provisions of PPACA that: (1) set limits on the annual deductible on health plans offered in the small group market, (2) allow catastrophic plans to be offered in the individual market to individuals under the age of 30, and (3) impose an annual fee on health insurance entities.
 
Deems high deductible health plans to meet essential health benefits coverage requirements if the enrollee has established a health savings account.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act, as amended by PPACA, to repeal the allowance of a premium rate variance by age in the individual or small group market.
 
Repeals restrictions on payments for medications from health savings accounts, medical savings accounts, and health flexible spending arrangements.
 
Repeals the limitation to $2,500 of annual salary reduction contributions by an employee to a health flexible spending arrangement under a cafeteria plan.
 
Allows a health plan to maintain its status as a grandfathered health plan regardless of any modification to the cost-sharing levels, employer contribution rates, or covered benefits. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to promulgate regulations to clarify the application of such allowance. Makes this allowance effective as if included in PPACA. Voids any regulations promulgated pursuant to current related provisions before enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Hill Creek Cultural Preservation and Energy Development Act

Bill: 113-s-27
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2013-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: 
Hill Creek Cultural Preservation and Energy Development Act - Authorizes Utah to relinquish for the benefit of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation certain of its school trust or subsurface mineral lands south of the border between Grand County and Uintah County, Utah, in exchange for certain federal subsurface mineral lands north of that border.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to reserve an overriding interest in that portion of the mineral estate composed of minerals subject to leasing under the Mineral Leasing Act in the mineral lands conveyed to Utah. Delineates the extent of that interest.
 
Requires Utah to reserve, for the benefit of its school trust, an overriding interest in that portion of the mineral estate composed of minerals subject to leasing under the Mineral Leasing Act in the mineral lands it relinquished to the federal government. Delineates the extent of that interest.
 

action_date: 2013-06-27
text: 

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

 
Hill Creek Cultural Preservation and Energy Development Act - Authorizes Utah to relinquish for the benefit of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation certain of its school trust or subsurface mineral lands south of the border between Grand County and Uintah County, Utah, in exchange for certain federal subsurface mineral lands north of that border.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to reserve an overriding interest in that portion of the mineral estate composed of minerals subject to leasing under the Mineral Leasing Act in the mineral lands conveyed to Utah. Delineates the extent of that interest.
 
Requires Utah to reserve, for the benefit of its school trust, an overriding interest in that portion of the mineral estate composed of minerals subject to leasing under the Mineral Leasing Act in the mineral lands it relinquished to the federal government. Delineates the extent of that interest.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-27
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 103.
action_date: 2013-06-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Wyden without amendment. With written report No. 113-49.
action_date: 2013-06-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Wyden without amendment. With written report No. 113-49.
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: 2013-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
End Government Shutdowns Act

Bill: 113-s-29
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2013-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: 
End Government Shutdowns Act - Makes specified provisional (automatic) continuing appropriations in the event that any regular appropriation bill for a fiscal year is not enacted before the beginning of such fiscal year, or a joint resolution making continuing appropriations is not in effect. (Thus prevents a federal government shutdown.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Congressional Pay Freeze Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-30
Sponsor: Sen. Ayotte, Kelly [R-NH]
Introduced: 2013-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Inflation and prices
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: 
Congressional Pay Freeze Act of 2013 - Amends the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 to prohibit the statutory pay adjustment made by the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2013 from taking effect on March 27, 2013, through December 31, 2013, for:
 
 
 employees in Senior Executive Service positions or levels I through V in Executive Schedule positions (including positions placed on level IV or V of the Executive Schedule by the President), and
 
the Vice President or a Member of Congress.
 
 
Prohibits a Member of Congress from receiving a cost-of-living adjustment to his or her salary under the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 for any fiscal year in which the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) determines there is a federal budget deficit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-31
Sponsor: Sen. Ayotte, Kelly [R-NH]
Introduced: 2013-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Intergovernmental relations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: 
Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act of 2013 - Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to make permanent the ban on state and local taxation of Internet access and on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Child Custody Protection Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-32
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2013-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Abortion
Child health
Civil actions and liability
Family relationships
Separation, divorce, custody, support
Teenage pregnancy

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: 
Child Custody Protection Act of 2013 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit knowingly transporting a minor child across a state line to obtain an abortion (deems such transporting to be a de facto abridgment of the right of a parent under any law in the minor's state of residence that requires parental involvement in the minor's abortion decision). Makes an exception for an abortion necessary to save the life of the minor. 
 
Makes it an affirmative defense to a prosecution or civil action under this Act that a defendant reasonably believed that before the minor obtained the abortion, the required parental consent or notification or judicial authorization took place.
 
Imposes a fine and/or prison term of up to one year on anyone who has committed an act of incest with a minor and knowingly transports such minor across a state line to obtain an abortion. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-33
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2013-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Firearms and explosives
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: 
Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act of 2013 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit: (1) the transfer or possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device, except for such a device lawfully possessed within the United States on or before the date of this Act's enactment; and (2) the importation or bringing into the United States of such a device.
 
Exempts: (1) the transfer or possession of such a device by a federal, state, or local agency or law enforcement officer; (2) certain transfers to licensees under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954; (3) possession of such a device transferred to an individual upon retirement from a law enforcement agency if such individual is not otherwise prohibited from receiving ammunition; and (4) the manufacture, transfer, or possession of such a device by a licensed manufacturer or importer for authorized testing or experimentation purposes.
 
Sets penalties for violations. Subjects devices used or involved in knowing violation of such Act to seizure and forfeiture.
 
Requires a large capacity ammunition feeding device manufactured after this Act's enactment to be identified by a serial number and the date it was manufactured.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-34
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2013-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Civil actions and liability
Criminal justice information and records
Firearms and explosives
Judicial review and appeals
Licensing and registrations
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: 
Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2013 - Amends the federal criminal code to authorize the Attorney General to deny the transfer of a firearm or the issuance of a firearms or explosives license or permit (or revoke such license or permit) if the Attorney General: (1) determines that the transferee is known (or appropriately suspected) to be engaged in terrorism or has provided material support or resources for terrorism; and (2) has a reasonable belief that the transferee may use a firearm in connection with terrorism. Allows any individual whose firearms or explosives license application has been denied to bring legal action to challenge the denial. 
 
Extends the prohibition against the sale or distribution of firearms or explosives to include individuals whom the Attorney General has determined to be engaged in terrorist activities. Imposes criminal penalties on individuals engaged in terrorist activities who smuggle or knowingly bring firearms into the United States.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to withhold information in firearms and explosives license denial revocation lawsuits and from employers if the Attorney General determines that the disclosure of such information would likely compromise national security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-35
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2013-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Criminal justice information and records
Firearms and explosives
Licensing and registrations
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: 
Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2013 - Amends the federal criminal code to require the licensing of ammunition dealers.
 
Prohibits any person except a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer from: (1) selling ammunition, with an exception for a sale of ammunition to a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer; or (2) engaging in the business of importing or manufacturing ammunition, or in the course of such business, from shipping, transporting, or receiving ammunition. Prohibits a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer from: (1) transferring ammunition to a person without verifying the person's identity by examining a valid identification document containing a photograph of such person; or (2) selling or delivering any ammunition (currently, any armor-piercing ammunition) to any person unless the licensee notes in his records the person's name, age, and place of residence, if the person is an individual, or the person's identity and principal and local places of business, if the person is a business entity.
 
Applies prohibitions applicable to the shipping or transport of firearms, and record-keeping requirements applicable to the importation, production, shipment, receipt, sale, or other disposition of firearms, to ammunition. 
 
Requires each licensee to: (1) prepare a report of multiple sales or other dispositions whenever the licensee sells or otherwise disposes of more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition to an unlicensed person at one time or during any five consecutive business days; and (2) forward such report to the specified office and to the department of state police, the state law enforcement agency, or the local law enforcement agency of the jurisdiction in which the sale took place by the close of business on the day the multiple sale occurs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Alemseghed Mussie Tesfamical.

Bill: 113-s-36
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2013-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Provides for the relief of Alemseghed Mussie Tesfamical.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate