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Freedom from Discrimination in Credit Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1159
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2013-06-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer credit
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: 
Freedom from Discrimination in Credit Act of 2013 - Amends the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to prohibit discrimination on account of sexual orientation or gender identity when extending credit. 
 
Defines: (1) &quot;gender identity&quot; as the gender-related identity, appearance, or mannerisms or other gender-related characteristics of an individual with or without regard to the individual's designated sex at birth; (2) &quot;person&quot; as a natural person, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, trust, estate, partnership, cooperative, or association; and (3) &quot;sexual orientation&quot; as homosexuality, heterosexuality, or bisexuality.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Complete America's Great Trails Act

Bill: 113-s-1160
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2013-06-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Government studies and investigations
Income tax credits
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: 
Complete America's Great Trails Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for the fair market value of any National Scenic Trail conservation contribution. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to study the efficacy of such tax credit in completing, extending, and increasing the number of National Scenic Trails. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide certain funds to eligible entities for activities undertaken to address the marine debris impacts of the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-1162
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2013-06-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Asia
Japan
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation
Marine pollution
Natural disasters
Solid waste and recycling
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: 
Authorizes the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide funds to any state, local, or tribal government impacted by the events, including marine debris impacts, resulting from the March 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in the Tohoku region of Japan to assist with the costs of any activity carried out to address the effects of such event. 
 
Permits the Administrator to provide such funds using any funds provided by the government of Japan for such purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act

Bill: 113-s-1163
Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2013-06-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Fires
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: 
Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) 100% expensing in a current taxable year of the cost of automated fire sprinkler system retrofit property, as defined by this Act; and (2) accelerated depreciation (i.e., a 15-year recovery period) of automated fire sprinkler system retrofit property that is installed in a building or structure where the floor of any occupiable story is greater than 75 feet above the lowest level of fire department vehicle access and that has a certain classification by the National Fire Protection Association. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Church Health Plan Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1164
Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2013-06-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of the Treasury
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Income tax credits
Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: 
Church Health Plan Act of 2013 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to include qualified church plans, established and maintained for employees or their beneficiaries, by a church or by a convention or association of churches, as qualified health plans that provide essential health benefits packages.
 
Excludes such plans from participation in American Health Benefits Exchanges established by states.
 
Allows such plans to: (1) differentiate premiums using methods and criteria consistent with those used to assess charges and payments to other qualified health plans based on PPACA risk adjustment requirements and regulations concerning rates and payments, and (2) develop additional methods and criteria to define and account for the actuarial risk associated with the prohibition against qualified church plans enrolling a larger number and more diverse pool of enrollees as long as such additional methods and criteria are consistent with the risk adjustment methods.
 
Provides standards for deeming an employer participating in such a plan as an eligible small employer for purposes of the income tax credit for employee health insurance expenses.
 
Deems an individual receiving minimum essential coverage under such a plan to: (1) satisfy the individual responsibility requirements of the Internal Revenue Code, and (2) qualify for premium tax credits and reductions in cost-sharing if the household income requirements are met.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Access to Appropriate Immunizations for Veterans Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1165
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2013-06-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Immunology and vaccination
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: 
Access to Appropriate Immunizations for Veterans Act of 2013 - Includes within authorized preventive health services available to veterans through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) immunizations against infectious diseases, including each immunization on the recommended adult immunization schedule established by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
 
Requires the inclusion, in an annual report from the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on VA preventive health services, of programs conducted to ensure that veterans have received each immunization on such immunization schedule at the appropriate time.
 
Directs the Secretary to develop and implement quality measures and metrics to ensure that veterans receiving VA medical services receive each immunization at the time indicated on the schedule. Requires statistics related to such quality measures and metrics to be included in the annual report described above. Provides deadlines for the establishment and implementation of the measures and metrics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-280.
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Representation Fairness Restoration Act

Bill: 113-s-1166
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2013-06-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Labor-management relations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: 
Representation Fairness Restoration Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to revise requirements for determination by the National Labor Relation Board (NLRB) of an appropriate bargaining unit before an election of collective bargaining representation. (In effect reverses the NLRB's August 26, 2011, decision in 
Specialty Healthcare and Rehabilitation of Mobile
 and its June 22, 2011, rulemaking regarding proposed changes to procedures involving the election of collective bargaining representation.)
 
Replaces the current restriction in the meaning of collective bargaining unit to employer unit, craft unit, plant unit, or subdivision. Requires the NLRB, instead, to determine a unit as appropriate for collective bargaining if it consists of employees that share a sufficient community of interest. Specifies factors the NLRB must consider when making such determinations.
 
Prohibits exclusion of employees from the unit unless the group's interests are sufficiently distinct from those of other employees to warrant the establishment of a separate unit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Elko Motocross and Tribal Conveyance Act

Bill: 113-s-1167
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2013-06-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Gambling
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Motor vehicles
Nevada
Pedestrians and bicycling
Sports and recreation facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: 
Elko Motocross and Tribal Conveyance Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to Elko County, Nevada, without consideration, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to approximately 275 acres of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Elko District, Nevada, as depicted on the map as &quot;Elko Motocross Park.&quot; Requires the land conveyed to be used only: (1) as a motocross, bicycle, off-highway vehicle, or stock car racing area; or (2) for any other public purpose consistent with the Recreation and Public Purposes Act.
 
Holds approximately 373 acres of BLM administered land in trust for the Te-moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada. Makes such land part of the Tribe's reservation. Prohibits class II or III gaming on such land. Limits the use of such land to: (1) traditional and customary uses, (2) stewardship conservation for the benefit of the Tribe, and (3) residential or recreational development. Requires the Tribe to pay the Secretary of the Interior the fair market value of any portion of such land used for another purpose.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Restore Our Privacy Act

Bill: 113-s-1168
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2013-06-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Business records
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Evidence and witnesses
Government information and archives
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: 
Restore Our Privacy Act - Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to authorize the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to apply for an order requiring the production of any tangible things only: (1) for an investigation to obtain foreign intelligence information not concerning a U.S. person; or (2) for an investigation concerning international terrorism (currently, to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities).
 
Requires the application for such an order to include specific and articulable facts giving reason to believe (currently, a statement of facts showing that there are reasonable grounds to believe) that each tangible thing sought is relevant to an authorized investigation. 
 
Eliminates as presumptively relevant to such an investigation tangible things that pertain to an individual in contact with, or known to, a suspected agent of a foreign power who is the subject of such authorized investigation. Requires the judge, for each tangible thing to be released, to enter a finding that the Director has presented specific and articulable facts giving reason to believe that the thing is relevant to an authorized investigation (other than a threat assessment).
 
Requires the Attorney General to: (1) fully inform Congress semiannually (currently, annually) concerning the total number of applications made for orders approving requests for the production of tangible things and the total number of such orders either granted, modified, or denied; (2) include in such information a description with respect to each application of the specific purpose for such production and an analysis of the effectiveness of each application that was granted or modified in protecting U.S. citizens against terrorism; and (3) make such information available to the public in a manner consistent with the protection of national security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Youth Jobs Act

Bill: 113-s-1170
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2013-06-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Adult education and literacy
Education of the disadvantaged
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Government trust funds
Performance measurement
State and local government operations
Temporary and part-time employment
Unemployment
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: 
Youth Jobs Act - Establishes in the Treasury the Youth Jobs Fund, with an initial appropriation of $3 billion for FY2014.
 
Requires the Secretary of Labor to make certain Fund allocations to each state with an approved workforce investment system plan modification, other specified requests for funds, and Native American program grantees to provide summer and year-round employment opportunities to low-income youth.
 
Requires the Secretary to award allocations and competitive grants to local entities for work-based training and other work-related and educational strategies and activities of demonstrated effectiveness to provide unemployed, low-income young adults and low-income youths with skills that will lead to employment.
 
Subjects activities funded under this Act to federal labor standards and nondiscrimination protections.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Controlled Substances Act to allow a veterinarian to transport and dispense controlled substances in the usual course of veterinary practice outside of the registered location.

Bill: 113-s-1171
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2013-06-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Licensing and registrations
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-17
text: 
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to prohibit a veterinarian who is registered to manufacture or distribute controlled substances from being required to have a separate registration in order to transport and dispense controlled substances in the usual course of veterinary practice at a site other than such veterinarian's principal place of business or professional practice, as long as the site of transporting and dispensing is located in a state where the veterinarian is licensed to practice.

action_date: 2014-01-08
text: 

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

 
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to prohibit a veterinarian who is registered to manufacture or distribute controlled substances from being required to have a separate registration in order to transport and dispense controlled substances in the usual course of veterinary practice at a site other than such veterinarian's principal place of business or professional practice, as long as the site of transporting and dispensing is located in a state where the veterinarian is licensed to practice.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2014-01-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2014-01-08
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S185)
action_date: 2014-01-08
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S185)
action_date: 2014-01-08
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S185)
action_date: 2014-01-08
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S185)
action_date: 2013-06-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-06-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Law Enforcement Officers Retirement Equity Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1172
Sponsor: Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2013-06-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Department of the Treasury
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Law enforcement officers
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-18
text: 
Law Enforcement Officers Retirement Equity Act of 2013 - Amends the definition of the term "law enforcement officer" under provisions of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) and the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) to include: (1) federal employees not otherwise covered by such term whose duties include the investigation or apprehension of suspected or convicted individuals and who are authorized to carry a firearm, and (2) such employees of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whose duties are primarily the collection of delinquent taxes and the securing of delinquent returns.
 
Requires such service that is performed by an incumbent law enforcement officer: (1) on or after enactment of this Act to be treated for all purposes other than retirement as service performed as a law enforcement officer; and (2) before, on, or after enactment of this Act to be treated for federal retirement purposes as service performed as such an officer if an appropriate written election is submitted to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) not later than the earlier of the date that is five years after enactment of this Act and the day before the date on which the incumbent separates from government service. 
 
Provides that nothing under current law respecting mandatory separation from government service under CSRS or FERS shall cause the involuntary separation of an officer before the end of the three-year period following enactment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-06-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Independent Agency Regulatory Analysis Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1173
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2013-06-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Department of the Treasury
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Federal Housing Finance Agency
Federal Maritime Commission
Federal Reserve System
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
Postal Regulatory Commission
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Surface Transportation Board

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-18
text: 
Independent Agency Regulatory Analysis Act of 2013 - Authorizes the President to require an independent regulatory agency to: (1) comply, to the extent permitted by law, with regulatory analysis requirements applicable to other federal agencies; (2) publish and provide the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs with an assessment of the costs and benefits of a proposed or final economically significant rule (i.e., a rule that is likely to have an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more and is likely to adversely affect sectors of the economy in a material way) and an assessment of costs and benefits of alternatives to the rule; and (3) submit to the Administrator for review any proposed or final economically significant rule.
 
Prohibits judicial review of the compliance or noncompliance of an independent regulatory agency with the requirements of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-06-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the 65th Infantry Regiment, known as the Borinqueneers.

Bill: 113-s-1174
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2013-06-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Caribbean area
Congressional tributes
Military personnel and dependents
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Puerto Rico
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-18
text: 
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to make appropriate arrangements for the award, on behalf of Congress, of a single gold medal in honor of the 65th Infantry Regiment, known as the Borinqueneers, in recognition of its pioneering military service, devotion to duty, and many acts of valor in the face of adversity.
 
Requires the medal to be given to the Smithsonian Institution (Smithsonian) for display. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Smithsonian shall make the medal available for display elsewhere, particularly at appropriate locations associated with the 65th Infantry Regiment, including locations in Puerto Rico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-06-18
text: Introduced in Senate