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Strengthening the Child Welfare Response to Human Trafficking Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1732
Sponsor: Rep. Bass, Karen [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Adoption and foster care
Child safety and welfare
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Health and Human Services
Government information and archives
Human trafficking
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Strengthening the Child Welfare Response to Human Trafficking Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and publish guidelines to assist state, Indian tribe, and tribal organization child welfare agencies and juvenile and family courts in efforts to serve appropriately youth who are victims of trafficking and youth at-risk of becoming such.
 
Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require a state plan for foster care and adoption assistance to require reasonable efforts be made to: (1) identify as a victim of trafficking and document appropriately in agency records each child who is such a victim over whom the agency has responsibility for placement, care, or supervision; and (2) specify in agency records the type of trafficking to which the child has been subjected. 
 
Requires the plan to require the agency to report within 72 hours to appropriate law enforcement agencies for entry into the National Crime Information Center database the identity of each child to whom the agency is providing child welfare services who is missing or has been abducted or is identified as a victim of trafficking.
 
Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to require the state plan for use of a grant for a child abuse or neglect prevention program to contain an assurance that the state law has in place provisions and procedures for the assessment and identification of victims of trafficking, as well as comprehensive training and services to serve such victims.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2013-04-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1733
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Evidence and witnesses
Federal preemption
Health care quality
Health personnel
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to shield a health care professional from liability under federal or state law for harm caused by any act or omission if: (1) the professional is serving as a volunteer in response to a disaster; and (2) the act or omission occurs during the period of the disaster, in the professional's capacity as such a volunteer, and in a good faith belief that the individual being treated is in need of health care services.
 
Makes exceptions where: (1) the harm was caused by an act or omission constituting willful or criminal misconduct, gross negligence, reckless misconduct, or a conscious flagrant indifference to the rights or safety of the individual harmed; or (2) the professional rendered the health care services under the influence of intoxicating alcohol or an intoxicating drug.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-04-25
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: 2013-04-25
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: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
In It All Together Act

Bill: 113-hr-1735
Sponsor: Rep. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
In It All Together Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to limit the health plans that the federal government may make available to the President, the Vice President, and executive cabinet officials to those created under the Act or offered through an Exchange established under the Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2013-04-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
School Principal Recruitment and Training Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1736
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Performance measurement
Rural conditions and development
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
School Principal Recruitment and Training Act of 2013 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a principal recruitment and training grant program awarding renewable, matching grants to states, local educational agencies (LEAs), and states and LEAs that partner with each other or with nonprofit organizations or institutions of higher education to recruit, prepare, place, and support principals in eligible schools.
 
Defines "eligible schools" as high-need schools, persistently low-achieving schools, achievement gap schools, schools with middle grades that feed students to high schools with low graduation rates, and rural schools served by high-need LEAs.
 
Requires grantees to work with experts and stakeholders to develop, during the first year of a grant, a leadership training program for principals, mentors, and other school leaders that prepares and supports them in leading effective school reform efforts in persistently low-achieving schools.
 
Requires grantees to use the grants, after that first year, to: (1) implement their leadership training program; (2) ensure that their training program is informed, on an ongoing basis, by consultations with experts and stakeholders and by tracking the performance of program graduates; (3) select cohorts of experienced principals to lead school reform efforts in persistently low-achieving schools; (4) support and encourage interaction among principals who have completed the training program; and (5) disseminate information to principals, mentors, and other school leaders engaging in reform efforts in persistently low-achieving schools.
 
Makes grant renewal decisions dependent on the Secretary of Education's evaluation of the extent to which the principals recruited, prepared, placed, or supported by the grantee have improved school-level student outcomes in eligible schools.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) evaluate the programs funded by this Act, and (2) identify and disseminate research and best practices related to those programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Manufacturing Reinvestment Account Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1737
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Manufacturing

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Manufacturing Reinvestment Account Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish tax-exempt manufacturing reinvestment accounts (MRAs) for taxpayers engaged in a manufacturing business. Allows such manufacturers to make tax deductible cash payments into an MRA of the lesser of their domestic manufacturing gross receipts for the taxable year or $500,000. Permits expenditures from an MRA for expenses for property to be used in the manufacturing business and expenses for employee job training and workforce development. Imposes a 10% tax on amounts in an MRA that are not distributed within 7 years. Terminates the tax deduction for payments to an MRA 10 years after the enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
American Opportunity Tax Credit Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1738
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-35]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
American Opportunity Tax Credit Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning tax credits with a new American Opportunity Tax Credit that: (1) allows an income tax credit of up to $2,500 of the qualified tuition and related expenses of a student who is carrying at least one half of a normal course load, (2) increases the income threshold for reductions in the credit amount based upon modified adjusted gross income, (3) allows a lifetime dollar limitation on such credit of $15,000 for all taxable years, and (4) makes 40% of the credit refundable. Allows an exclusion from gross income of any amount received as a Federal Pell Grant. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Backlog Reduction Act

Bill: 113-hr-1739
Sponsor: Rep. Enyart, William L. [D-IL-12]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disability assistance
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Veterans Backlog Reduction Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), in the case of any claim for veterans' disability compensation that is not adjudicated within 125 days after submission, to pay such claimant provisional benefits, from the period beginning on the date of such deadline and ending on the date on which a final claim decision is made. Provides a conditional provisional benefit amount.
 
Requires the Secretary to reduce any final claim amount covering the same period by the amount of provisional benefits received. Prohibits the Secretary, upon the eventual denial of a claim, from recovering any provisional payments unless the Secretary determines an indication of fraud, misrepresentation, or bad faith in connection with the original claim.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Patients First Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1740
Sponsor: Rep. Forbes, J. Randy [R-VA-4]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Cell biology and embryology
Department of Health and Human Services
Government studies and investigations
Medical ethics
Medical research
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Patients First Act of 2013

 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct and support basic and applied research to develop techniques for the isolation, derivation, production, testing, and human clinical use of stem cells that may result in improved understanding of, or treatments for, diseases and other adverse health conditions, including pluripotent stem cells that have the flexibility of embryonic stem cells (whether or not such pluripotent stem cells have an embryonic source), provided that such techniques will not involve: (1) the creation of a human embryo for research purposes; (2) the destruction or discarding of, or risk of injury to, a living human embryo; or (3) the use of any stem cell the derivation or provision of which would be inconsistent with this Act.
 
Requires the Secretary to issue guidelines implementing this Act to ensure that any research (including any clinical trial) supported under this Act: (1) is clearly consistent with the standards established in this Act, if conducted using human cells; and (2) is prioritized in terms of potential for near-term clinical benefit in human patients.

Requires the Secretary to report on peer reviewed stem cell research proposals that were not funded.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Dairy Freedom Act

Bill: 113-hr-1741
Sponsor: Rep. Goodlatte, Bob [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural insurance
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Agricultural trade
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Food industry and services
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Dairy Freedom Act - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a dairy producer margin insurance program to protect dairy producer income by paying participating dairy producers margin insurance payments when actual dairy producer margins are less than such payments' threshold levels. 
 
Makes the program available to all U.S. dairy producers.
 
Sets forth program provisions.
 
Repeals: (1) the dairy product price support program, (2) the milk income loss contract program, and (3) the dairy export incentive program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development, and Credit.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E554-555)
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Big Oil Bailout Prevention Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1743
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Marine pollution
Oil and gas
Pollution liability

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Big Oil Bailout Prevention Act of 2013 - Amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to remove the limit on liability (currently, the total of all removal costs plus $75 million) of a party responsible for an offshore facility except a deepwater port, from which oil is discharged into or upon navigable waters or adjoining shorelines.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Multispecies Habitat Conservation Plan Implementation Act

Bill: 113-hr-1744
Sponsor: Rep. Horsford, Steven [D-NV-4]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Lakes and rivers
Land transfers
Nevada
Water quality
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Multispecies Habitat Conservation Plan Implementation Act - Amends P.L. 99-548, commonly known as the Mesquite Lands Act of 1986, to require proceeds from sales in the fourth area to be used for the implementation of a multispecies habitat conservation plan for the Virgin River in Clark County, Nevada, including any associated groundwater monitoring plan.
 
Amends the Lincoln County Land Act of 2000 to require implementation of a multispecies habitat conservation plan in Lincoln County, Nevada.
 
Extends, until November 29, 2021, withdrawal and purchase authority with respect to the fifth and sixth areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-26
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to issue regulations regarding secondary cockpit barriers.

Bill: 113-hr-1745
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
Terrorism
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to issue regulations to require: (1) the installation of secondary barriers to prevent access to the flight deck of a commercial aircraft; (2) with respect to an aircraft that is equipped with a cockpit door, that such barriers remain locked while the aircraft is in flight and the cockpit door separating the flight deck and the passenger area is open; and (3) with respect to an aircraft that is not equipped with a cockpit door, that such barriers remain locked as determined by the pilot.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Truth in Employment Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1746
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
Labor-management relations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Truth in Employment Act of 2013 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to provide that nothing in specified prohibitions against unfair labor practices by employers shall be construed as requiring an employer to employ any person who seeks or has sought employment with the employer in furtherance of other employment or agency status.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Workforce Development Investment Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1747
Sponsor: Rep. Kuster, Ann M. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Higher education
Income tax credits
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Workforce Development Investment Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business-related tax credit of $2,000 for each community college or other institution of higher education engaged in a partnership with an employer to improve workforce development and job training for students. Allows a maximum credit of $10,000 in any taxable year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2328)
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
America Votes Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1748
Sponsor: Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government information and archives
State and local government operations
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
America Votes Act of 2013 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to permit an individual required to present identification as a condition for voting in a federal election to meet the requirement by presenting the appropriate state or local election official with a sworn written statement, signed by the individual under penalty of perjury, attesting to the individual's identification and that he or she is registered to vote in the election. Allows an individual desiring to vote by mail to submit such a statement with the ballot.
 
Requires any state subject to this identification requirement to: (1) prepare a pre-printed version of the statement which includes a blank space for an individual to provide a name and signature, (2) make copies of the pre-printed version available at polling places for election officials to distribute to individuals who desire to vote in person, and (3) include a copy of the pre-printed version with each blank absentee or other ballot transmitted to an individual who desires to vote by mail.
 
Prohibits a state from requiring an individual who presents or submits such a sworn written statement to cast a provisional ballot in the election. 
 
Excepts first-time voters registering by mail from application of this Act.
 
Requires states requiring an individual to present identification as a condition of receiving and casting a ballot in a federal election to include the use of a sworn written statement in voting information posted at polling places.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in House