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Embassy Security Funds Transfer Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-227
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2013-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Department of State
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Executive agency funding and structure
Protection of officials

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: 
Embassy Security Funds Transfer Act of 2013 - Authorizes funds appropriated under the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act of 2012 under the headings &quot;Diplomatic and Consular Programs&quot; and &quot;Embassy Security, Construction, and Maintenance&quot; to be transferred between such headings.

action_date: 2013-02-04
text: 

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

 
Embassy Security Funds Transfer Act of 2013 - Authorizes funds appropriated under the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act of 2012 under the headings &quot;Diplomatic and Consular Programs&quot; and &quot;Embassy Security, Construction, and Maintenance&quot; to be transferred between such headings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S476-477; text as passed Senate: CR S477)
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S476-477; text as passed Senate: CR S477)
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta National Heritage Area Establishment Act

Bill: 113-s-228
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2013-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Historic sites and heritage areas
Lakes and rivers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: 
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta National Heritage Area Establishment Act - Establishes the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta National Heritage Area in California. 
 
Designates the Delta Protection Commission as the management entity for the Heritage Area. 
 
Requires the Commission to submit a proposed management plan for the Heritage Area to the Secretary of the Interior for approval. 
 
Bars approval of the management plan until the Secretary has received certification from the Commission that the Delta Stewardship Council has reviewed such plan for consistency with the plan adopted by the Council pursuant to state law. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-27.
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S474-476)
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S473-474)
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Medical Device Access and Innovation Protection Act

Bill: 113-s-232
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2013-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health technology, devices, supplies
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: 
Medical Device Access and Innovation Protection Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the excise tax on medical device manufacturers and importers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 815 County Road 23 in Tyrone, New York, as the "Specialist Christopher Scott Post Office Building".

Bill: 113-s-233
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2013-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Military personnel and dependents
New York State
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 815 County Road 23 in Tyrone, New York, as the "Specialist Christopher Scott 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 S6258-6259)
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 S6258-6259)
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 156.
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: 2013-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Retired Pay Restoration Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-234
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2013-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: 
Retired Pay Restoration Act of 2013 - Allows the receipt of both military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation with respect to any service-connected disability (under current law, only a disability rated at 50% or more).
 
Makes eligible for the full concurrent receipt of both veterans' disability compensation and either military retired pay or combat-related special pay those individuals who were retired or separated from military service due to a service-connected disability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S521-522)
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S521)
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Land Transfer Act

Bill: 113-s-235
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2013-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Health facilities and institutions
Land transfers
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: 
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Land Transfer Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to convey to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium specified property in Anchorage, Alaska, for use in connection with health and related programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2013-07-31
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-126.
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Patient Empowerment Act

Bill: 113-s-236
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2013-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Contracts and agency
Federal preemption
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: 
Medicare Patient Empowerment Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to allow any Medicare beneficiary to enter into a contract with a non-participating (as well as with a participating) physician or practitioner for any item or service covered by Medicare. Allows such beneficiaries to submit a claim for Medicare payment in the amount that would otherwise apply if the claim had been filed by a participating physician or practitioner in the payment area where the physician or practitioner covered by the contract resides.
 
Requires a Medicare beneficiary to agree in writing in such a contract to: (1) pay the physician or practitioner for a Medicare-covered item or service; and (2) submit (in lieu of the physician or practitioner) a claim for Medicare payment. Allows a beneficiary, however, to negotiate, as a term of the contract, for the physician or practitioner to file such claims on the beneficiary's behalf.
 
Preempts state laws from limiting the amount of charges for physician and practitioner services for which Medicare payment is made.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Advancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act

Bill: 113-s-237
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2013-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Hereditary and development disorders
Indian social and development programs
Judicial procedure and administration
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Lawyers and legal services
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Minority health
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: 
Advancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) programs (as renamed under this Act, previously the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effect programs). Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) establish and carry out a research agenda for FASD; (2) facilitate surveillance, public health research, and prevention of FASD; and (3) continue the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide financial assistance to: (1) establish or expand state FASD programs; (2) implement best practices to educate children with FASD, educate members of the criminal justice system on FASD, and educate adoption or foster care agency officials about services for children with FASD; (3) provide transitional services for those affected by prenatal alcohol exposure; (4) develop public service announcements to raise awareness of the risks associated with alcohol consumption during pregnancy; (5) increase awareness and identification of FASD in federally qualified health centers; and (6) provide respite care for caretakers, recruit mentors, and provide educational and supportive services to families of individuals with FASD.
 
Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to make recommendations regarding the appropriate roles and responsibilities of federal entities with respect to programs and activities related to FASD.
 
Requires the Secretary of Education to direct the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to conduct training on FASD surveillance and disseminate best practices in the education and support of children with FASD.
 
Requires the Attorney General (DOJ) to direct the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to: (1) implement FASD screening procedures, (2) conduct training on surveillance and on identification and support of individuals with FASD, and (3) study the inadequacies of the current system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the frontier extended stay clinic demonstration.

Bill: 113-s-239
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2013-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: 
Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to extend from three to six years the frontier extended stay clinic demonstration project.
 
Sets April 15, 2014, as the deadline for the report to Congress on the project.
 
Makes appropriations for FY2013-FY2015 to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for Rural Health Research/Policy Development within the Office of Rural Health Policy to support frontier extended stay clinics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Reserve Retirement Deployment Credit Correction Act

Bill: 113-s-240
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2013-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: 
Reserve Retirement Deployment Credit Correction Act - Requires the days of active duty or active service used to reduce the minimum age at which a member of the reserves may retire for non-regular (reserve) service to occur in in any two consecutive fiscal years (under current law, in the same fiscal year).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide assistance for watersheds adversely affected by qualifying natural disasters.

Bill: 113-s-243
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2013-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Disaster relief and insurance
Water resources funding
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: 
Provides assistance, from Treasury funds not otherwise appropriated, for watersheds adversely affected by qualifying natural disasters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to modify the Pilot Project offices of the Federal Permit Streamlining Pilot Project.

Bill: 113-s-244
Sponsor: Sen. Hoeven, John [R-ND]
Introduced: 2013-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Department of the Interior
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
Montana
New Mexico
Oil and gas
Utah
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to revise the list of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Federal Permit Streamlining Pilot Project offices. Replaces the Miles City, Montana, field office with the Montana/Dakotas State Office, Montana (Billings). 

action_date: 2013-04-22
text: 

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

 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to revise the list of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Federal Permit Streamlining Pilot Project offices. Replaces the Miles City, Montana, field office with the Montana/Dakotas State Office, Montana (Billings). 

action_date: 2013-06-19
text: 

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

 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to revise the list of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Federal Permit Streamlining Pilot Project offices. Replaces the Miles City, Montana, field office with the Montana/Dakotas State Office, Montana (Billings). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-20
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2013-06-20
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2013-06-20
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2013-06-19
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4717-4722; text as passed Senate: CR S4720)
action_date: 2013-06-19
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S4717-4722; text as passed Senate: CR S4720)
action_date: 2013-04-22
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 53.
action_date: 2013-04-22
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Wyden without amendment. With written report No. 113-22.
action_date: 2013-04-22
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Wyden without amendment. With written report No. 113-22.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Communications Commission Collaboration Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-245
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2013-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Lawyers and legal services
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: 
Federal Communications Commission Collaboration Act of 2013 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to allow a bipartisan majority of Commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), notwithstanding a specified open meeting provision, to hold a meeting that is closed to the public to discuss official business if: (1) no agency action is taken, (2) each person present is an FCC Commissioner or employee or a member or person on the staff of a joint board to which the FCC has referred a matter under such Act, and (3) an attorney from the FCC's Office of General Counsel is present. 
 
Defines &quot;bipartisan majority of Commissioners&quot; as at least three Commissioners including at least one Commissioner for each political party of which any Commissioner is a member and at least one unaffiliated Commissioner if any Commissioner has no political affiliation. 
 
Requires public disclosure of the meeting, attendees, and matters discussed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Prevention of Escapement of Genetically Altered Salmon in the United States Act

Bill: 113-s-246
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2013-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Ecology
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fishes
Genetics
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Seafood
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: 
Prevention of Escapement of Genetically Altered Salmon in the United States Act - Prohibits a person from: (1) shipping, transporting, offering for sale, selling, or purchasing a covered fish, or a food product containing such fish, in interstate or foreign commerce; (2) having custody, control, or possession of, with the intent to ship, transport, offer for sale, sell, or purchase such fish or food products, in interstate or foreign commerce; (3) releasing such fish into a natural environment; or (4) having custody, control, or possession of such fish with the intent to release it into a natural environment. 
 
 Defines &quot;covered fish&quot; as a salmon or other anadromous or marine fish (live or dead, including the gametes, fertilized eggs, offspring, and descendants) that is modified or produced through the application of recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) technologies, using DNA from an organism's own genome or that of another species, which overcome natural physiological reproductive barriers and which are not techniques used in traditional breeding and selection.
 
Exempts from such prohibitions fish, fish parts, or products confined for scientific research or collected to enforce this Act. Sets forth an additional exception if the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, upon reviewing any application requesting a federal agency to permit activity prohibited by this Act: (1) prepares a finding of no significant impact in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, or (2) finds the application to be consistent with an environmental impact statement that includes an environmental risk analysis and specified assessments of costs and potential economic damage.
 
Directs each federal agency to promptly notify the Under Secretary when an action involving such covered fish or food products is first identified.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to enforce penalties for violations of this Act under specified provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require labeling of genetically engineered fish.

Bill: 113-s-248
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2013-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Fishes
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Genetics
Seafood

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: 
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem a food to be misbranded if it contains genetically-engineered fish unless the food bears a label stating that fact.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate