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To amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian tribes, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-279
Sponsor: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]
Introduced: 2013-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: 
Amends the Indian Reorganization Act to make it applicable to all federally recognized Indian tribes, regardless of when any tribe became recognized. (This effectively overrules the Supreme Court's decision in 
Carcieri v. Salazar, 
which held that the Secretary of the Interior could not take land into trust for a specified tribe because that tribe had not been under federal jurisdiction when the Act was enacted.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Same Day Registration Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-280
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2013-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: 
Same Day Registration Act of 2013 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require states with a voter registration requirement to make same-day voter registration, or revision of an individual's voter registration information, available at the polling place on the date of election itself (or on the day of voting under early voting).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Voter Access Protection Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-281
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2013-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Photography and imaging
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: 
Voter Access Protection Act of 2013 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit a state or local election official from requiring an individual to: (1) present a photo identification (or a copy if voting by mail) as a condition for receiving or casting a ballot in any election for federal office, or (2) cast a provisional ballot solely on the grounds that the individual does not present a photo identification at the polling place. 
 Prohibits a state or local election election official from requiring an individual to provide a photo identification (or a copy if registering by mail) as a condition of registering to vote in an election for federal office.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
REFUND Act

Bill: 113-hr-282
Sponsor: Rep. Fleischmann, Charles J. "Chuck" [R-TN-3]
Introduced: 2013-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: 
Returned Exclusively For Unpaid National Debt Act or REFUND Act - Rescinds unwanted amounts, as identified by a state from a projected allocation, from any federal funds required to be allocated by formula among all states that agree to use them for a specified purpose.
 
Prescribes a procedure by which a state legislature may identify a projected federal allocation as unwanted funds.
 
 Requires such rescinded amounts to: (1) be deposited by the Secretary of the Treasury in the special fund account entitled &quot;Gifts to Reduce Debt Held by the Public, Bureau of the Public Debt, Treasury&quot;; and (2) be used to reduce the federal debt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
ACCOUNT Act

Bill: 113-hr-283
Sponsor: Rep. Fleischmann, Charles J. "Chuck" [R-TN-3]
Introduced: 2013-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: 
Agency Conferences and Conventions Operating Under Necessary Transparency Act of 2013 or the ACCOUNT Act - Requires the head of a federal agency to: (1) approve in writing any conference costing more than $25,000, (2) approve such a conference only upon determining that it is necessary to the core mission of the agency, and (3) publish a summary on the agency website of the conference that includes the purpose and total cost of the conference and the cost per employee that attended the conference. Excludes conferences held entirely at a government facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Congressional Accountability Pay Act

Bill: 113-hr-284
Sponsor: Rep. Forbes, J. Randy [R-VA-4]
Introduced: 2013-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: 
Congressional Accountability Pay Act - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to revise the method of adjusting the annual rate of pay of Members of Congress.
 
Requires a decrease in the rate of pay for each Member by a specified percentage if outlays for any fiscal year are greater than outlays for the preceding fiscal year.
 
Amends the Federal Salary Act of 1967 to require that recommendations by the Citizens' Commission on Public Service and Compensation conform with this Act, except those for the salaries of the Chief Justice of the United States, judges of U.S. district courts, and judges of the U.S. Court of International Trade.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-01-15
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Housing Fairness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-285
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2013-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Disability and health-based discrimination
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Housing and community development funding
Housing discrimination
Housing finance and home ownership
Military personnel and dependents
Racial and ethnic relations
Religion
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: 
Veterans, Women, Families with Children, Race, and Persons with Disabilities Housing Fairness Act of 2013 or Housing Fairness Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to conduct a nationwide testing program to: (1) detect and document differences in the treatment of persons seeking to rent or purchase housing or obtain or refinance a home mortgage loan; (2) measure patterns of adverse treatment because of the race, color, religion, sex, familial status, disability status, or national origin of a renter, home buyer, or borrower; and (3) measure the prevalence of such discriminatory practices across housing and mortgage lending markets.
 
 Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to require that only qualified private nonprofit fair housing enforcement organizations receive funds under the fair housing initiatives program for investigations of violations of the rights granted under the Civil Rights Act of 1968. 
 
Requires the design of the national education and outreach program to provide for the development and dissemination of websites and other media outlets among its fair housing media products.
 
Requires private entities that formulate or carry out programs to prevent or eliminate discriminatory housing practices to be nonprofit in order to be eligible for contracts to establish or support education and outreach programs and to support community-based education and outreach activities.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish minimum standards for the training of testers of organizations funded with any amounts made available under this Act. 
 Directs the Secretary to implement a competitive matching grant program to assist public and private nonprofit organizations in: (1) conducting comprehensive studies of the causes and effects of housing discrimination and segregation on education, poverty, and economic development or on veterans and military personnel; and (2) implementing pilot projects that test solutions to help prevent or alleviate housing discrimination and segregation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income certain State foster care program payments made to the biological parents of disabled children.

Bill: 113-hr-286
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2013-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Disability assistance
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow biological parents of handicapped children to exclude from their gross incomes difficulty of care payments made to them under a state or local foster care program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act

Bill: 113-hr-287
Sponsor: Rep. Matheson, Jim [D-UT-4]
Introduced: 2013-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child safety and welfare
Consumer affairs
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Lease and rental services
Product safety and quality
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: 
Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act - Prohibits shipping or distributing in interstate commerce, selling, or renting a video game the outside packaging of which does not display a label containing an age-based content rating determined by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB).
 
Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to require all retail establishments that sell video games to display information about the ESRB content rating system.
 
Prohibits any person from selling or renting video games containing the ESRB content rating of: (1) &quot;adults only&quot; to any person under the age of 18, or (2) &quot;mature&quot; to any person under the age of 17.
 
Treats violations of such requirements and prohibitions as an unfair or deceptive act or practice subject to a civil penalty of not more than $5,000 per violation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
CHAMPVA Children's Protection Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-288
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2013-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Child health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: 
CHAMPVA Children's Protection Act of 2013 - Increases from 23 to 26 the maximum age of eligibility for certain dependent children of veterans for medical care under CHAMPVA (the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs [VA]).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
VOTE Act

Bill: 113-hr-289
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2013-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional elections
Election Assistance Commission
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Right of privacy
State and local government operations
Telephone and wireless communication
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: 
 Value Our Time Elections Act or VOTE Act - Amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) to require each state to make available official public websites for online voter registration.
 
Authorizes automated voter registration of certain individuals and establishes other initiatives to promote voter registration, such as same day registration and voter registration of individuals under 18 years of age.
 
Sets forth requirements for maintenance, privacy, and security of voter registration lists, including establishing deadlines for transmittal of change of address or other identifying information.
 
Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) to direct each state to provide, according to standards issued by the Election Assistance Commission, for the minimum required number of voting systems, poll workers, and other election resources (including all other physical resources) for each voting site on the day of any federal election and on any days during which such state allows early voting for a federal election. 
 
Require each state to submit a written plan to the Commission describing the measures it is implementing to ensure, to the greatest extent possible, an equitable waiting time for all voters in the state and a waiting time of less than one hour at any polling place in the election. 
 
Requires each jurisdiction for which the Commission determines that a substantial number of voters waited more than 90 minutes to cast a vote in a federal election, or in which there were substantial violations of certain established standards, to comply with a state remedial plan established by the Commission to provide for the effective allocation of resources to administer elections in the state and to reduce voter waiting times.
 
Requires provision of an emergency paper ballot to any requesting voter in the event of a failure of voting equipment or other circumstances at a polling place that causes an unreasonable delay.
 
Requires each state to allow individuals to vote during the seven day period (or, at state option, a longer period) before a federal election in the same manner as voting is allowed on election day.
 
Establishes minimum early voting requirements.
 
Directs the Commission to issue standards for the administration of early voting.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Full Faith and Credit Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-290
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2013-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: 
Full Faith and Credit Act of 2013 - Repeals public debt limit requirements. Limits the issuance of obligations for the public debt only to fund commitments incurred by the federal government that require current funding. (Thus eliminates the statutory cap on the public debt.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
To expand retroactive eligibility of the Army Combat Action Badge to include members of the Army who participated in combat during which they personally engaged, or were personally engaged by, the enemy at any time on or after December 7, 1941.

Bill: 113-hr-293
Sponsor: Rep. Nugent, Richard B. [R-FL-11]
Introduced: 2013-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commemorative events and holidays
Conflicts and wars
Military personnel and dependents
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to award the Army Combat Action Badge to any member of the Army who participated in combat during which the person actually engaged, or was personally engaged by, the enemy at any time between December 7, 1941, and September 18, 2001, as long as such person has not been previously recognized for such participation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
To revoke a requirement of Executive Order 13618 with respect to the use of privately owned communications resources by the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-294
Sponsor: Rep. Nugent, Richard B. [R-FL-11]
Introduced: 2013-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Congressional oversight
Emergency communications systems
Homeland security
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: 
Revokes a provision of Executive Order 13618 (entitled &quot;Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions&quot;) to the extent that it requires the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to satisfy priority communications requirements through the use of privately owned communications resources.
 
Prohibits: (1) any federal agency or instrumentality from satisfying priority communications requirements through the use of privately owned communications resources, or (2) appropriated funds from being used to take any action that expands the federal government's authority to control such resources.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Protect and Save Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-295
Sponsor: Rep. Nugent, Richard B. [R-FL-11]
Introduced: 2013-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Consumer credit
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Crime prevention
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of the Treasury
Evidence and witnesses
Executive agency funding and structure
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Freedom of information
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Law enforcement administration and funding
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: 
Protect and Save Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to disclose tax return information to federal and state law enforcement agencies to assist in the investigation of the misuse of the identity of another person for purposes of filing a false or fraudulent tax return, (2) direct the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to establish within the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) the position of Local Law Enforcement Liaison to coordinate the investigation of tax fraud with state and local law enforcement agencies, and (3) make permanent the authority of the Secretary to disclose tax return information to federal and state prison officials to prevent the filing of false or fraudulent tax returns by prison inmates. 
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) implement an identity theft tax fraud prevention program; and (2) review whether current tax laws and regulations related to the confidentiality and disclosure of tax return information prevent the effective enforcement of federal, state, and local identity theft statutes.
 
Requires the Comptroller General (GAO) to conduct a study and report on: (1) the role of prepaid debit cards and commercial tax preparation software in facilitating fraudulent tax returns through identity theft, and (2) the role e-filing and electronic tax returns play in either facilitating or preventing fraudulent tax returns through identity theft.
 
Prohibits the Secretary of Commerce from disclosing information contained on the Death Master File relating to a deceased individual to persons who are not certified to access such information.
 
Requires the head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to submit a detailed plan to Congress on how information obtained from the IRS will be used to reduce prison tax fraud. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Introduced in House