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Jumpstart GSE Reform Act

Bill: 113-s-563
Sponsor: Sen. Corker, Bob [R-TN]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Housing finance and home ownership
Securities
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2012-03-14
text: 
Jumpstart GSE Reform Act - Prohibits the use of an increase in the guarantee fee required to be charged by the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), or any affiliate of such organizations (enterprises) to offset an increase in outlays or a reduction in revenues for any purposes other than those related to the enterprises' business functions under: (1) the congressional budget, (2) the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act), or (3) the Statutory Pay-As-You-Act 2010. 
 
Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from selling, transferring, relinquishing, liquidating, divesting, or otherwise disposing of any outstanding shares of senior preferred stock acquired pursuant to a specified Senior Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement between the Department of the Treasury and an enterprise until Congress has passed and the President has signed into law legislation that includes a specific instruction to the Secretary regarding the sale, transfer, relinquishment, liquidation, divestiture, or other disposition of the senior preferred stock so acquired.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Federal Power Act to remove the authority of the Federal Energy Commission to collect land use fees for land that has been sold, exchanged, or otherwise transferred from Federal ownership but that is subject to a power site reservation.

Bill: 113-s-564
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Electric power generation and transmission
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Amends the Federal Power Act regarding annual charges payable by licensees to the United States for use of federal lands to exclude land that has been sold, exchanged, or otherwise transferred from federal ownership, yet remains subject to a power site reservation under the Act. 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1856)
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Mississippi River Navigation Sustainment Act

Bill: 113-s-565
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Atmospheric science and weather
Birds
Dams and canals
Floods and storm protection
Government studies and investigations
Illinois
Lakes and rivers
Land transfers
Marine and inland water transportation
Mississippi River
Missouri
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Transportation safety and security
Water storage
Water use and supply
Watersheds
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Mississippi River Navigation Sustainment Act - Directs the Chief of Engineers to carry out a study of the Mississippi River Basin to: (1) improve the coordinated and comprehensive management of water resource projects in the greater Mississippi River Basin relating to extreme weather conditions, and (2) evaluate the feasibility of modifications to those projects and develop new projects to improve the reliability of navigation and more effectively reduce flood risk.
 
Directs the Chief to improve forecasting on the Mississippi River by: (1) updating forecasting technology deployed on the River and its tributaries, (2) constructing additional sedimentation ranges on the River and tributaries, and (3) deploying additional automatic identification system base stations at river gage sites. Requires the Chief to prioritize the sections of the River on which additional and more reliable information would have the greatest impact on maintaining navigation.
 
Authorizes the Chief to: (1) construct, operate, and maintain ingress and egress paths to docks, loading facilities, fleeting areas, and other critical locations outside of the authorized navigation channel on the Mississippi River upon determining such actions to be critical to maintaining safe and reliable navigation; and (2) mitigate, through dredging, any incidental impacts to loading or fleeting areas outside of such channel that result from operation and maintenance of the channel. 
 
Directs the Chief: (1) in accordance with the project for navigation, Mississippi River between the Ohio and Missouri Rivers (Regulating Works), Missouri and Illinois, to carry out a 10-year pilot program to restore and protect fish and wildlife habitat in the middle Mississippi River; and (2) as part of such program, to conduct activities necessary to improve navigation through such project while restoring and protecting fish and wildlife habitat.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1857-1858)
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1856-1857)
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
WIN P3 Act

Bill: 113-s-566
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Army Corps of Engineers
Atmospheric science and weather
Congressional oversight
Dams and canals
Department of Defense
Floods and storm protection
Government studies and investigations
Licensing and registrations
Marine and inland water transportation
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Public-private cooperation
Water resources funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Water Infrastructure Now Public-Private Partnership Act or the WIN P3 Act - Directs the Chief of Engineers to establish a pilot program to evaluate the cost-effectiveness and project delivery efficiency of allowing non-federal interests to carry out authorized flood damage reduction, hurricane and storm damage reduction, and navigation projects. Requires the Chief: (1) to identify not more than 15 projects authorized for construction; (2) to develop a detailed project management plan for each identified project that outlines the scope, budget, design, and construction resource requirements necessary for the non-federal interest to execute the project or an element of the project; (3) to enter into a project partnership agreement with the non-federal interest at such interest's request to provide full project management control for construction of the project or element in accordance with plans approved by the Chief; (4) following execution of such agreement, to transfer specified amounts to the non-federal interest to carry out project construction; and (5) to regularly monitor and audit each such project being constructed by a non-federal interest.
 
Sets forth restrictions on projects selected. Authorizes the Chief to: (1) provide technical assistance to the non-federal interests for compensation, and (2) waive or modify applicable federal regulations if doing so would provide public and financial benefits.
 
Directs the Chief, before entering into a project partnership agreement, to enter into an arrangement with an independent third party to conduct an assessment and provide justification that the proposed agreement would represent a better public and financial benefit than a similar transaction using public funding.
 
Terminates authority to commence a project under this Act five years after its enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1858-1859)
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1856-1857)
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Strengthening Social Security Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-567
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aging
Employment taxes
Inflation and prices
Self-employed
Social security and elderly assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Strengthening Social Security Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prescribe special rules for the determination of taxable wages and self-employment income above the contribution and benefit base after 2013.
 
Amends SSA title II to include surplus average indexed monthly earnings (AIME) in the determination of primary OASDI amounts.
 
Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the Department of Labor to prepare and publish the Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers (CPI-EC) that indicates changes over time in expenditures for consumption which are typical for individuals in the United States who have attained early retirement age for purposes of an old-age, wife's, or husband's insurance benefit.
 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to make the CPI-EC the applicable Consumer Price Index (CPI) for computation of cost-of-living increases in OASDI benefits for such individuals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Smithsonian American Latino Museum Act

Bill: 113-s-568
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: District of Columbia
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Racial and ethnic relations
Smithsonian Institution

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Smithsonian American Latino Museum Act - Establishes a museum to be known as the Smithsonian American Latino Museum in the Smithsonian Institution. 
 
Designates the Arts and Industries Building of the Smithsonian Institution, which is located on the National Mall in Washington, DC, including a new underground annex facility, as the location of the Museum. 
 
Authorizes the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to plan and construct the Museum and to prepare a plan of action for the Museum. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Board of Regents to enter into an agreement that allows for the construction of the underground annex facility by the Board in a manner that is harmonious with, and protects the open space and visual sight lines of, the National Mall. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-569
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to count a period of receipt of outpatient observation services in a hospital toward the three-day inpatient hospital requirement for coverage of skilled nursing facility services under Medicare. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Clean Energy Race to the Top Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-570
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Income tax deductions
Oil and gas
Rural conditions and development
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Clean Energy Race to the Top Act of 2013 - Establishes in the Department of Energy (DOE) a program to provide grants to eligible entities, on a competitive basis, to develop and carry out clean energy and carbon reduction measures, such as renewable electricity standards, regional or statewide climate action plans, and participation in a regional greenhouse gas reduction program.
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy, in establishing criteria for grants, to take into account: (1) regional disparities in the ways in which energy is produced and used, and (2) the clean energy resource potential of the measures. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to decrease the tax deduction for oil related qualified production activities income of major integrated oil companies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act

Bill: 113-s-572
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Firearms and explosives
Licensing and registrations
Mental health
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act - Prohibits, in any case arising out of the administration of laws and benefits by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), any person who is mentally incapacitated, deemed mentally incompetent, or experiencing an extended loss of consciousness from being considered adjudicated as a mental defective for purposes of the right to receive or transport firearms without the order or finding of a judicial authority of competent jurisdiction that such person is a danger to himself or herself or others.

action_date: 2013-09-04
text: 

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

 
Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act - Prohibits, in any case arising out of the administration of laws and benefits by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), any person who is mentally incapacitated, deemed mentally incompetent, or experiencing an extended loss of consciousness from being considered adjudicated as a mental defective for purposes of the right to receive or transport firearms without the order or finding of a judicial authority of competent jurisdiction that such person is a danger to himself or herself or others.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-04
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 164.
action_date: 2013-09-04
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Reported by Senator Sanders under authority of the order of the Senate of 08/01/2013 without amendment. With written report No. 113-86.
action_date: 2013-09-04
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Reported by Senator Sanders under authority of the order of the Senate of 08/01/2013 without amendment. With written report No. 113-86.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2013-06-12
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-111.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
FOR VETS Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-573
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property
State and local government operations
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Formerly Owned Resources for Veterans to Express Thanks for Service Act of 2013 or the FOR VETS Act of 2013 - Authorizes the transfer of federal surplus property to a state agency for distribution through donation within the state for purposes of education or public health for organizations whose membership comprises substantially veterans and whose representatives are recognized by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) in the preparation, presentation, and prosecution of claims under laws administered by the Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1861)
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
DREDGE Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-574
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Floods and storm protection
Gulf of Mexico
Lakes and rivers
Louisiana
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation
Mississippi River
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Dredging for Restoration and Economic Development for Global Exports Act of 2013 or the DREDGE Act of 2013 - Modifies the project for navigation, Mississippi River Ship Channel, Gulf of Mexico to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to direct the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to: (1) achieve, operate, and maintain a navigation channel of 50 feet with respect to the portion of the project from Baton Rouge to the Southwest Pass sea buoy; (2) complete such work not later than the last day of the third fiscal year beginning after the enactment of this Act; (3) conduct a pilot disposal and sediment project in the Southwest Pass area to determine the cost-effectiveness of pump-out disposal operations for hopper dredges for environmental enhancement and dredged material disposal; and (4) consult with appropriate federal, state, and local agencies and stakeholders to determine the safe placement and timing of such pump-out disposal operations that protect, create, restore, and nourish coastal wetlands and aquatic habitat.
 
Requires: (1) all costs of such work to be treated as operation and maintenance costs, including the first costs of achieving a navigation channel of 50 feet; (2) the federal cost share of such work to be 100%; and (3) the Secretary to pay 100% of the costs of such work out of amounts made available from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for operation and maintenance expenses.
 
Directs the Secretary, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to report to Congress on: (1) the cost and the environmental, storm damage reduction, and social benefits of the pump-out disposal operation; and (2) the total quantity of dredge material produced during operation and maintenance activities in the New Orleans District and the quantity that is beneficially used.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Judicial Transparency and Ethics Enhancement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-575
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government studies and investigations
Judicial procedure and administration
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Judicial Transparency and Ethics Enhancement Act of 2013 - Amends the federal judicial code to establish the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Judicial Branch of the U.S. government, to be headed by an Inspector General appointed by the Chief Justice. Sets a term of four years, which may be extended by additional reappointments. Authorizes the Chief Justice to remove an Inspector General from office.
 
Requires the OIG to: (1) conduct investigations of alleged misconduct in the judicial branch, including the Supreme Court; (2) conduct and supervise audits and investigations; and (3) prevent and detect waste, fraud, and abuse.
 
Provides for whistleblower protection.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1862-1863)
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1861-1862)
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-577
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Hospital care
Medical education
Medicare
Minority employment
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to distribution of additional resident positions as they affect calculation of payments for direct graduate medical education (DGME) costs.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), for each of FY2015-FY2019 (and each succeeding fiscal year if additional residency positions are available to distribute), to increase the otherwise applicable resident limit for each qualifying hospital.
 
Requires the aggregate number of increases in the otherwise applicable resident limit to be 3,000 in each of FY2015-FY2019, of which 1,500 in each such fiscal year shall be used for full-time equivalent residents training in a shortage specialty residency program.
 
Specifies the process for distributing positions.
 
Declares that, for discharges occurring on or after July 1, 2015, the indirect teaching adjustment factor, with respect to additional payments for subsection (d) hospitals with indirect costs of medical education (IME), insofar as those additional payments are attributable to resident positions distributed to a hospital according to such process, shall be computed in a specified manner with respect to those resident positions.
 
(Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system [IPPS] when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.) 
Directs the National Health Care Workforce Commission to study the physician workforce.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study strategies for increasing the diversity of the health profession workforce.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Maha Dakar.

Bill: 113-s-580
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Provides for the relief of Maha Dakar.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, to require that annual budget submissions of the President to Congress provide an estimate of the cost per taxpayer of the deficit, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-581
Sponsor: Sen. Coats, Daniel [R-IN]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Government information and archives
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Requires the President's annual buget submission to Congress to provide an estimate of the pro rata cost to individuals who file an income tax return of any projected deficit for the fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate