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Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-209
Sponsor: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2013-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Congressional oversight
Federal Reserve System
Government studies and investigations
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: 
Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2013 - Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to: (1) complete, within 12 months of enactment of this Act, the required audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) and of the Federal Reserve Banks; and (2) submit to Congress, within 90 days of audit completion, a detailed report of audit findings and conclusions.
 
Repeals certain limitations placed upon such audit.
 
Instructs the Comptroller General (GAO) to audit and report on the review of loan files of homeowners in foreclosure in 2009 or 2010, required as part of the enforcement actions taken by the Board against supervised financial institutions. Prescribes audit contents, including: (1) the guidance given by the Board to independent consultants retained by the supervised financial institutions regarding procedures to be followed in conducting the file reviews, (2) the factors considered by independent consultants when evaluating loan files and the results obtained pursuant to those reviews, and (3) the determinations made by such consultants regarding the nature and extent of financial injury sustained by each homeowner as well as the level and type of remediation offered. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-07
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 12.
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Stolen Valor Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-210
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2013-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: 
Stolen Valor Act of 2013 - Amends the federal criminal code to rewrite provisions relating to fraudulent claims about military service to subject to a fine, imprisonment for not more than one year, or both an individual who, with intent to obtain money, property, or other tangible benefit, fraudulently holds himself or herself out to be a recipient of:
 
 
a Congressional Medal of Honor, 
 
a distinguished-service cross, 
 
a Navy cross, 
 
an Air Force cross, 
 
a silver star, 
 
a Purple Heart, 
 
a Combat Infantryman's Badge, 
 
a Combat Action Badge, 
 
a Combat Medical Badge, 
 
a Combat Action Ribbon, 
 
a Combat Action Medal, or
 
 any replacement or duplicate medal for such medal as authorized by law. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to approve the transfer of Yellow Creek Port properties in Iuka, Mississippi.

Bill: 113-s-212
Sponsor: Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS]
Introduced: 2013-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Mississippi
Navigation, waterways, harbors

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: 
Approves the conveyance of the Yellow Creek Port properties in the custody of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) at Iuka, Mississippi, from the TVA to the state of Mississippi.

action_date: 2014-06-05
text: 

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

 
Approves the conveyance of the Yellow Creek Port properties in the custody of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) at Iuka, Mississippi, from the TVA to the state of Mississippi.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-05
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 414.
action_date: 2014-06-05
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer without amendment. With written report No. 113-184.
action_date: 2014-06-05
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer without amendment. With written report No. 113-184.
action_date: 2014-02-06
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Telephone Excise Tax Elimination Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-213
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2013-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Sales and excise taxes
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: 
Telephone Excise Tax Elimination Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the excise tax on communication services (i.e., local telephone service, toll telephone service, and teletypewriter exchange service). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Reserve Single Mandate Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-215
Sponsor: Sen. Corker, Bob [R-TN]
Introduced: 2013-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Federal Reserve System
Inflation and prices
Monetary policy
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: 
Federal Reserve Single Mandate Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Reserve Act to eliminate maximum employment and stable prices as goals for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Open Market Committee to promote in maintaining long run growth of monetary and credit aggregates. Replaces such goals with long-term price stability and a low rate of inflation. (Retains the current third goal of moderate long-term interest rates.)
 
Requires the Board to: (1) establish an explicit numerical definition of the term &quot;long-term price stability,&quot; and (2) maintain monetary policy that effectively promotes such long-term price stability. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S471-472)
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-216
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2013-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Disability and health-based discrimination
Education programs funding
Educational guidance
Government information and archives
Higher education
Racial and ethnic relations
School administration
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: 
Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act of 2013 - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require each institution of higher education (IHE) participating in a title IV program (except a foreign school) to include in its annual security report a statement of policy regarding harassment that includes: (1) a prohibition of harassment of students by other students, faculty, and staff; (2) a description of its programs to prevent harassment; (3) a description of the procedures that students should follow if harassment occurs; and (4) a description of the procedures it will follow once an incident of harassment has been reported.
 
Defines &quot;harassment&quot; to include certain conduct undertaken through technological means that limits a student's ability to benefit from the IHE's programs, or creates a hostile or abusive educational environment at the school.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to IHEs to initiate, expand, or improve programs to: (1) prevent the harassment of students; (2) provide counseling or redress services to students who have been harassed or accused of subjecting other students to harassment; and (3) train students, faculty, or staff to prevent harassment or address harassment if it occurs.
 
Directs the Secretary to publish a report of best practices for combating harassment at IHEs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
High School Data Transparency Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-217
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2013-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Athletes
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Minority education
School administration
School athletics
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: 
High School Data Transparency Act of 2013 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to collect the following information annually from each coeducational elementary and secondary school that receives federal financial assistance and has an interscholastic athletic program: (1) the number, gender, and race or ethnicity of students that attended the school; and (2) for each team that competed in athletic competition, the number, gender, and race or ethnicity of participants, the total expenditures, the number, gender, and employment status of trainers, medical personnel, and coaches, the number of competitions, and postseason record.
 
Requires such schools to: (1) make such information available to students, potential students, and their parents, upon request, and to the public by October 15 of each school year; (2) ensure that all students and parents at the school are informed of their right to request such information; and (3) annually provide such information to the Secretary.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) ensure that such information is posted on the Department of Education's website, (2) notify all elementary and secondary schools regarding the availability of the information, and (3) issue guidance to the schools on how to collect and report the information required under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Harbor Maintenance Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-218
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2013-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Appropriations
Government trust funds
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Sales and excise taxes
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: 
 Harbor Maintenance Act of 2013 - Requires the total budget resources for expenditures from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for harbor maintenance programs to equal the level of receipts plus interest credited to such Fund for that fiscal year. Limits the use of such resources to such programs only.
 
Declares that it shall be out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that would cause total budget resources for the Fund in a fiscal year for harbor maintenance programs to be less than the level of receipts plus interest credited to the Fund for that fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Susquehanna Gateway National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 113-s-219
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2013-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Historical and cultural resources
Outdoor recreation
Pennsylvania

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: 
Susquehanna Gateway National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Susquehanna Gateway National Heritage Area in Pennsylvania. 
 
Designates the Susquehanna Heritage Corporation as the local coordinating entity for the Area. 
 
Requires the Corporation to prepare and submit a management plan for the Area. 


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.
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Citrus Disease Research and Development Trust Fund Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-220
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2013-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Agricultural research
Agricultural trade
Animal and plant health
Congressional oversight
Corporate finance and management
Customs enforcement
Fruit and vegetables
Government trust funds
Pest management
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Tariffs
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Trade agreements and negotiations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: 
Citrus Disease Research and Development Trust Fund Act of 2013 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to establish the Citrus Disease Research and Development Trust Fund, consisting of revenues from duties paid on imported citrus or citrus products, to support scientific research, technical assistance, and development activities to combat both domestic and invasive citrus diseases and pests harming the United States.
 
 Establishes the Citrus Disease Research and Development Trust Fund Advisory Board.
 
Makes Fund amounts available to the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a coordinated program of research and product development relating to: (1) scientific research of both domestic and invasive diseases and pests afflicting the citrus industry; and (2) support for the dissemination and commercialization of relevant information, techniques, and technologies discovered through Fund research or other research projects intended to solve problems caused by citrus production diseases and invasive pests.
 
Requires the President to notify certain congressional committees before entering into a trade agreement that could result in a decrease in the amount of: (1) duties paid on imported citrus or citrus products, and (2) funds transferred into the Fund.
 
Prescribes a formula for required estimated tax payments otherwise due in each of the quarters of 2018 from corporations with assets of at least $1 billion. 
 
Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) to extend certain customs users fees for the processing of merchandise entered into the United States between October 23, 2021, and November 6, 2021, and other specified customs users fees for merchandise entered between October 30, 2021, and November 13, 2021.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Saving Fishing Jobs Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-221
Sponsor: Sen. Ayotte, Kelly [R-NH]
Introduced: 2013-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Atlantic Ocean
Department of Commerce
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Small business
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: 
Saving Fishing Jobs Act of 2013 - Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, with respect to multispecies fishing permits in the Gulf of Mexico, to remove a provision limiting the eligible signers (fishermen constituting more than 50% of the permit holders, or holding more than 50% of the allocation in the fishery) of a petition to the Secretary of Commerce requesting that the appropriate Regional Fishery Management Council or Councils be authorized to initiate the development of a limited access privilege program to only those participants who have substantially fished the species proposed to be included in the program.
 
Sets forth procedures for the Secretary to: (1) certify a fishery management plan (or amendment) requested by a percentage of eligible fisherman to establish a limited access privilege program to harvest in fisheries under the authority of the New England, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, or Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; (2) terminate such a program in effect on or established after enactment of this Act for a fishery under the authority of such Councils when, within specified periods, the number of eligible fishermen is at least 15% less than the number of such fishermen previously in the fishery; and (3) collect fees, including observer costs, pursuant to modified fee-setting requirements for such programs.
 
Directs the appropriate Council, within a one-year period, to develop an alternative fishery management plan for any such terminated program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to clarify that uncertified States and Indian tribes have the authority to use certain payments for certain noncoal reclamation projects and acid mine remediation programs.

Bill: 113-s-222
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM]
Introduced: 2013-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Indian lands and resources rights
Land use and conservation
Mining
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: 
 Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, with respect to the allocation of surface mining reclamation funds to states and Indian tribes, to authorize uncertified states and Indian tribes to use certain unexpended and unappropriated balance amounts for: (1) acid mine drainage abatement and treatment, and (2) noncoal abandoned mine land reclamation. 
 
 Modifies limitations placed upon the allocation of such surface mining reclamation funds to provide for payments for filling voids and sealing tunnels and entryways of noncoal mines as well as coal mines.
 
 (&quot;Uncertified states and Indian tribes&quot; are those which have not certified to the Secretary of the Interior completion of their abandoned coal mine reclamation work.)

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 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, with respect to the allocation of surface mining reclamation funds to states and Indian tribes, to authorize uncertified states and Indian tribes to use certain unexpended and unappropriated balance amounts for: (1) acid mine drainage abatement and treatment, and (2) noncoal abandoned mine land reclamation. 
 
 Modifies limitations placed upon the allocation of such surface mining reclamation funds to provide for payments for filling voids and sealing tunnels and entryways of noncoal mines as well as coal mines.
 
 (&quot;Uncertified states and Indian tribes&quot; are those which have not certified completion of their abandoned coal mine reclamation work to the Secretary of the Interior.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-22
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 51.
action_date: 2013-04-22
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Wyden without amendment. With written report No. 113-20.
action_date: 2013-04-22
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Wyden without amendment. With written report No. 113-20.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Visa Waiver Program Enhanced Security and Reform Act

Bill: 113-s-223
Sponsor: Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2013-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional oversight
Department of Homeland Security
Government information and archives
Immigration status and procedures
Judicial review and appeals
Terrorism
Travel and tourism
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: 
Visa Waiver Program Enhanced Security and Reform Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act regarding the visa waiver program to: (1) authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to designate any country as a program country; (2) adjust visa refusal rate criteria, including addition of a 3% maximum overstay rate; and (3) revise probationary and termination provisions.
 
Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress: (1) an evaluation of the security risks of aliens who enter the United States without an approved Electronic System for Travel Authorization verification, and (2) a description of any improvements needed to minimize the number of aliens who enter the United States without such verification.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Parental Bereavement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-226
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2013-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee leave
Family relationships
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text:  
 
Parental Bereavement Act of 2013 - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to entitle an eligible employee to up to 12 workweeks of leave during any 12-month period because of the death of a son or daughter.
 
Allows such an employee to substitute any available paid leave for any leave without pay.
 
Applies the same leave entitlement to federal employees. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate