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Freedom and Mobility in Consumer Banking Act

Bill: 113-hr-3137
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2013-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Congressional oversight
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: 
Freedom and Mobility in Consumer Banking Act - Amends the Truth in Savings Act to prohibit depository institutions from: (1) prohibiting a consumer from closing a covered account (a checking, savings, or any other account that the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection [CFPB] may include), regardless of whether the balance is positive, zero, or negative; (2) charging any fee to close such account; or (3) reopening such an account to apply subsequent debits after a consumer has requested the account to be closed, unless the consumer requests that the account be reopened.
 
Requires depository institutions to provide consumers with a description of the policies and procedures in place to close such accounts at the time the account is opened, upon request, and on the websites of such institutions.
 
Directs the CFPB to prescribe regulations relating to the closure of such accounts, including: (1) allowing consumers to receive available funds from a closed account in the form of a cashier's check, electronic funds transfer, or any other means offered by the institution or determined appropriate by the CFPB; (2) requiring depository institutions to provide consumers with certain information regarding any preauthorized transactions or direct deposits associated with an account before it is closed; (3) prohibiting a depository institution from reporting adverse information regarding such account to any consumer reporting agency if, at the time the account is closed, the account has a negative balance resulting solely from any fee assessed by the depository institution; and (4) establishing the terms under which a depository institution may report to a consumer reporting agency that an account had a negative closing balance, provided that the institution notifies the consumer and provides a reasonable period for repayment of the balance. 
 
Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to report to Congress and the CFPB regarding additional barriers that could limit the ability of a consumer to close a covered account. Requires the CFPB, after receiving such report, to determine whether regulations should be issued to remove such barriers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Satisfying Energy Needs and Saving the Environment Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3138
Sponsor: Rep. Rothfus, Keith J. [R-PA-12]
Introduced: 2013-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Coal
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Lighting, heating, cooling
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: 
Satisfying Energy Needs and Saving the Environment Act of 2013 or the SENSE Act of 2013 - Makes certain emission limits for hydrogen chloride and sulfur dioxide, in regulations entitled &quot;Emission Limits for Existing EGUs,&quot; inapplicable to an electric utility steam generating unit in the subcategory &quot;Coal-fired unit not low rank virgin coal&quot; if the unit: (1) is in operation as of the date of enactment of this Act, (2) utilizes circulating fluidized bed technology to convert coal refuse into energy, and (3) derives at least 75 percent of its heat input from coal refuse or is a qualifying small power production or cogeneration facility as defined by the Federal Power Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network Reauthorization Act

Bill: 113-hr-3139
Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2013-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Chesapeake Bay
Historic sites and heritage areas
Historical and cultural resources
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network Reauthorization Act - Amends the Chesapeake Bay Initiative Act of 1998 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network through FY2018.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Ensure Reliable and Affordable American Energy Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3140
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2013-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: 
Ensure Reliable and Affordable American Energy Act of 2013 - Amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit a regulation concerning emissions of carbon dioxide from a fossil fuel-fired electric generating unit to address climate change from taking effect until the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) certifies that a sufficient number of countries have put into effect regulations concerning such emissions that are at least as stringent as the regulation under the Act.
 
Defines &quot;sufficient number&quot; to mean a number of countries that, in the aggregate, account for at least 80% of global carbon dioxide emissions, excluding those in the United States, in the calendar year immediately preceding the year in which the regulation under the Act would be enforced.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Biometric Exit Improvement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3141
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Candice S. [R-MI-10]
Introduced: 2013-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Border security and unlawful immigration
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Criminal justice information and records
Government studies and investigations
Homeland security
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: 
Biometric Exit Improvement Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS): (1) within 180 days, to submit an implementation plan to establish a biometric exit data system in accordance with the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004; (2) within 2 years, to establish such a system at the 10 U.S. airports and the 10 U.S. seaports that support the highest volume of international air and sea travel, respectively; and (3) within 3 years, to submit a report that analyzes the effectiveness of such system at such airports and seaports.
 
Directs the Secretary: (1) within 18 months, to establish a 6-month pilot program to test such system on non-pedestrian outbound traffic at not fewer than three land ports of entry with significant cross-border traffic, including two on the southern border and one on the northern border; (2) after receiving a Government Accounting Office (GAO) review of such program, to submit a plan to implement such a system at all land ports of entry for non-pedestrian outbound traffic; (3) within 3 years, to expand the system to all land ports of entry to apply only to pedestrians; and (4) within 5 years, to expand the system to all air and sea ports of entry. 
 
Requires the Secretary: (1) to ensure that the collection of biometric data causes the least possible disruption to the movement of passengers or cargo in air, sea, or land transportation; and (2) upon this Act's enactment, to terminate the proceeding entitled &quot;Collection of Alien Biometric Data Upon Exit From the United States at Air and Sea Ports of Departure,&quot; issued on April 24, 2008. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
STEM Readiness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3142
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2]
Introduced: 2013-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Science and engineering education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: 
STEM Readiness Act of 2013 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive merit-based scholarships to students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) with concurrent certification as kindergarten, elementary, and secondary school teachers.
 
Requires scholarship recipients to work for at least five academic years as a full-time STEM teacher at a public or private kindergarten or elementary or secondary school during the seven-year period beginning within one year after they complete their studies.
 
Awards scholarships for one academic year of study at a time, but makes them renewable on an annual basis if their recipients meet certain measures of academic progress.
 
Allows scholarship recipients to enter into agreements with the Secretary that provide them with a bonus in exchange for performing their service in a high-need local educational agency for a period equivalent to the period for which they receive the bonus.
 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary to award competitive matching grants to up to 50 institutions of higher education to establish, strengthen, and operate four-year undergraduate degree programs that enable students to concurrently: (1) earn a STEM bachelor's degree; and (2) be certified to teach kindergarten, elementary, or secondary school.
 
Awards those grants one fiscal year at a time, but makes them renewable on an annual basis for up to five years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act

Bill: 113-hr-3143
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-2]
Introduced: 2013-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Crime victims
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Federal district courts
Government liability
Jurisdiction and venue
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: 
Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act - Amends the federal judicial code to include among the exceptions to U.S. jurisdictional immunity of foreign states any statutory or common law tort claim arising out of an act of extrajudicial killing, aircraft sabotage, hostage taking, terrorism, or the provision of material support or resources for such an act, or any claim for contribution or indemnity relating to a claim arising out of such an act. 
 
Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) impose liability on, and grant U.S. district courts personal jurisdiction over, any person who commits, or aids, abets, or conspires with a person who commits, an act of international terrorism that injures a U.S. national; and (2) repeal provisions prohibiting civil actions against foreign states or foreign officials for damages related to acts of terrorism.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Fairness for Beneficiaries Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3144
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2013-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Health care coverage and access
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: 
Fairness for Beneficiaries Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise requirements for Medicare coverage for extended care services which are not post-hospital extended care services (that is, without regard to the requirement for a 3-day prior hospitalization).
 
Limits such coverage to extended care services in a skilled nursing facility (SNF), but only if, before the individual is admitted to the SNF, a physician or other qualified health care practitioner determines and certifies that extended care services for the individual are medically necessary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1349)
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit students who were homeless youths or homeless veterans to occupy low-income housing units.

Bill: 113-hr-3145
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2013-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Income tax credits
Low- and moderate-income housing
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the low-income housing tax credit, to allow a student who is a homeless child or youth or a student who is a homeless veteran to occupy low-income housing units. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1349)
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Protect America's Credit Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3148
Sponsor: Rep. Peters, Scott H. [D-CA-52]
Introduced: 2013-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: 
Protect America's Credit Act of 2013 - Modifies public debt limit requirements to specify that the debt limit amount applies only to debt held by the public. 
 
Reduces the public debt limit by the excess of: (1) the face amount of obligations issued under the federal government's borrowing authority and the face amount of obligations whose principal and interest are guaranteed by the federal government (except guaranteed obligations held by the Secretary of the Treasury), over (2) the face amount of obligations issued under such borrowing authority to the public and the face amount of obligations issued to the public whose principal and interest are guaranteed by the federal government.
 
Requires an increase in the public debt limit each year by an amount equal to the product of such amount as in effect as of the close of the preceding calendar year multiplied by the percentage, if any, by which the Current-Dollar GDP for the third quarter of the preceding calendar year exceeds the Current-Dollar GDP for the third quarter of the second preceding calendar year. 
 
Defines &quot;Current-Dollar GDP&quot; as the current-dollar gross domestic product as computed and published by the Department of Commerce. 
 
Directs the Secretary to report to Congress annually regarding the increase in the debt limit that will take effect the next calendar year, including a description of how each increase in the statutory limit compares to the actual increase in debt. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Help Extend Auditory Relief (HEAR) Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3150
Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2013-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: 
Help Extend Auditory Relief (HEAR) Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover aural rehabilitation services, hearing aids as durable medical equipment (DME), audiology rehabilitation services, and related hearing services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2013-09-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Promoting Assistance with Transitional Help Act

Bill: 113-hr-3151
Sponsor: Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2013-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Child care and development
Child safety and welfare
Energy assistance for the poor and aged
Food assistance and relief
Housing finance and home ownership
Intergovernmental relations
Low- and moderate-income housing
Poverty and welfare assistance
Separation, divorce, custody, support
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: 
Promoting Assistance with Transitional Help Act - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act, with respect to the state maintenance of effort required to avoid a reduction in its TANF grant, to include as qualified state expenditures transitional cash assistance provided for up to one year to otherwise eligible families who have exceeded the five-year limitation on TANF assistance.
 
Specifies as transitional cash assistance an amount necessary to replace the loss of any food assistance, rent assistance, low-income energy assistance, and childcare assistance lost as a result of increased family income from earnings or child support payments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
RAISE Act

Bill: 113-hr-3154
Sponsor: Rep. Rokita, Todd [R-IN-4]
Introduced: 2013-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
Labor-management relations
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: 
Rewarding Achievement and Incentivizing Successful Employees Act or RAISE Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to declare that neither its prohibition against interference by an employer with employees' right to bargain collectively, nor the terms of a collective bargaining agreement entered into between employees and an employer after enactment of this Act, shall prohibit an employer from paying an employee higher wages, pay, or other compensation than the agreement provides for.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Public Access to Public Science Act

Bill: 113-hr-3157
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2013-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Commerce
Government information and archives
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Science Foundation
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: 
Public Access to Public Science Act - Directs each of the covered agencies (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA], National Science Foundation [NSF], National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST], and National Weather Service [NWS]) to formulate and implement a public access policy to make covered works publicly available, without charge, on the day after the end of an embargo period. 
 
Defines: (1) &quot;covered work&quot; as any peer-reviewed research results published in scholarly publications, with certain exceptions, that are based on research funded in whole or in part by a covered agency; and (2) &quot;embargo period&quot; as the period of time no more than 12 months after the initial date of publication of a covered work, unless modified. 
 
Specifies that the public access policy shall: (1) allow the public to read, download, and analyze by machine covered works in digital form; (2) facilitate easy public search of, analysis of, and access to covered works; (3) encourage public-private collaboration; (4) ensure that attribution to authors, journals, and original publishers is maintained; and (5) ensure that publications and metadata are stored in an archive. 
 
Requires a covered agency's public access policy to ensure full public access to covered works' metadata, without charge, upon first publication. 
 
Requires each covered agency, in coordination with specified stakeholders, to provide a mechanism for a stakeholder to petition to change the embargo period for specific covered works by presenting evidence that the public will be substantially and uniquely harmed under the agency's public access policy related to that work. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Introduced in House