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To provide for the revision of certification requirements for the labeling of certain electronic products under the Energy Star program.

Bill: 113-hr-4921
Sponsor: Rep. Womack, Steve [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2014-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental technology
Licensing and registrations
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: 
Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revise the Energy Star program to exempt program partners that have complied with all program requirements for a period of at least 18 months from third-party certification requirements for the labeling of consumer, home, and office electronic products. Allows the EPA to require that test data and other product information be submitted to facilitate product listing and performance verification for a sample of products.
 
Terminates the exemption from third-party certification provided to a program partner if the partner is found to have violated program requirements with respect to at least two separate models during a two-year period. Resumes the exemption if the partner complies with all program requirements for at least three years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Introduced in House
GI Internship Program Act

Bill: 113-hr-4922
Sponsor: Rep. Schneider, Bradley Scott [D-IL-10]
Introduced: 2014-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: 
GI Internship Program Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a career transition internship program to match individuals who are eligible for veterans' educational assistance with employers to: (1) provide such individuals with work experience in the civilian sector, (2) address the growing skills gap in the U.S. economy, (3) increase the marketable skills of such individuals, and (4) assist such individuals in obtaining long-term employment.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish criteria employers must meet to participate in the program. Excludes as program employers: (1) federal, state, and local government agencies; (2) employers who cannot provide the Secretary with certain assurances, including their intention to retain interns after their internship ends; and (3) employers that have previously participated in the program and failed to abide by its requirements.
 
Directs the Secretary to pay individuals who are full-time participants in such an internship the amount of educational assistance they are due.
 
Requires each internship to last for at least 180 days but for no more than one year.
 
Considers each intern to be an employee of the VA for purposes of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
 
Requires each intern and employer to provide the Secretary with a monthly certification that the intern worked at least 35 hours each week performing functions that provided the individual with valuable experience.
 
Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Labor to create and publicize an Internet website to serve as a portal for eligible individuals and employers to learn about the program and apply. Allows individuals to apply within 180 days of their expected discharge or release from the Armed Forces.
 
Directs the VA Secretary to minimize the administrative burdens incurred by employers due to their participation in the program and ensure that employer participation is at no cost to the employer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5882-5883)
action_date: 2014-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Introduced in House
TIFIA 2.0 Act

Bill: 113-hr-4925
Sponsor: Rep. Webster, Daniel [R-FL-10]
Introduced: 2014-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Government trust funds
Infrastructure development
Roads and highways
Securities
Transportation programs funding
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: 
TIFIA 2.0 Act - Amends the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) to revise the Department of Transportation (DOT) TIFIA program of direct loans, loan guarantees, and credit for surface transportation projects.
 
Establishes in the Treasury a TIFIA Revolving Fund.
 
Requires the set-aside of up to 10% of Fund amounts for rural infrastructure projects (as similarly required in current funding law).
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to transfer from the Fund to the general fund of the Treasury amounts equal to moneys deposited in the Fund as a result of the repayment of principal and interest on direct loans for transportation infrastructure projects before enactment of this Act.
 
Revises project eligibility requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14 3rd Avenue, NW., in Chisholm, Minnesota, as the "James L. Oberstar Memorial Post Office Building".

Bill: 113-hr-4927
Sponsor: Rep. Nolan, Richard M. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2014-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Minnesota
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14 3rd Avenue, NW, in Chisholm, Minnesota, as the "James L. Oberstar Memorial Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Introduced in House
ROTC Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4928
Sponsor: Rep. Barrow, John [D-GA-12]
Introduced: 2014-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Higher education
Military education and training
National Guard and reserves
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: 
Readying Our Troops for Combat Act of 2014 or the ROTC Act of 2014 - Prohibits the Secretary of the Army from disestablishing, or initiating the disestablishment of, a Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program of the Army pursuant to specified administrative instructions of the Department of Defense (DOD) until July 1, 2020.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Computer Science Career Education Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4929
Sponsor: Rep. Cárdenas, Tony [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2014-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational guidance
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Minority education
Public-private cooperation
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: 
Computer Science Career Education Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to consortia composed of at least one local educational agency, at least one institution of higher education (IHE), and community representatives for the development and operation of four- or six-year computer science career education programs.
 
Requires each program to include the development of computer science programs for both secondary and postsecondary education that:
 
 
are aligned with rigorous computer science standards for kindergarten through grade 12 computer science education;
 
link secondary schools and IHEs through non-duplicative sequences of courses in computer science career fields;
 
use, if appropriate and available, work-based or worksite learning in conjunction with business;
 
use educational technology and distance learning, as appropriate, to involve all members of the consortium more fully in the development and operation of the programs;
 
stay current with business needs, expectations, and methods; and
 
create innovative opportunities for students that lead to student attainment of industry-recognized credentials.
 
 
Requires each program to also provide: (1) professional development for teachers, (2) career and academic counseling for students, and (3) equal access to the full range of career education programs to members of underrepresented groups and special populations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Introduced in House
ACE Kids Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4930
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2014-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Federal preemption
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Hospital care
Medicaid
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: 
Advancing Care for Exceptional Kids Act of 2014 or the ACE Kids Act of 2014 - Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (Children's Health Insurance) (CHIP) of the Social Security Act to extend medical assistance to payment for items and services furnished under a Medicaid Children's Care Coordination (MCCC) Program which the state may elect to provide to eligible children with complex medical conditions.
 
Requires an MCCC program, among other things, to coordinate, integrate, and provide for the furnishing of the full range of MCCC program services to enrolled children, as well as designate pediatric care management services and pediatric focused care coordination and health promotion.
 
Requires eligible children to be enrolled prospectively in an MCCC program through initial assignment to a nationally designated children's hospital network.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Angel Tax Credit Act

Bill: 113-hr-4931
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2014-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Business investment and capital
Income tax credits
Manufacturing
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: 
Angel Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a new business-related tax credit for 25% of equity investments of $25,000 or more in a domestic corporation or partnership that: (1) has its headquarters in the United States, (2) has gross revenues for the taxable year of less than $1 million, (3) employs fewer than 25 full-time employees, (4) has been in existence for less than 7 years as of the date of the investment, (5) has more than 50% of its employees performing substantially all of their services in the United States, and (6) is engaged in a high technology trade or business. Limits the allowable amount of such credit to $250,000 in any taxable year and imposes an overall limitation on such credit of $500 million for each of calendar years 2013 through 2017.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Increasing Technology Skills Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4932
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M., Jr. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2014-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Government trust funds
Income tax credits
Public-private cooperation
Science and engineering education
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Vocational and technical education
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: 
Increasing Technology Skills Act of 2014 - Establishes in the Department of Labor the Information Technology Certification Fund. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a work opportunity tax credit for any employer who hires a certified information technology certification program graduate. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to award competitive grants to states through state boards for the payment of costs of qualified individuals to participate in the program.
 
Directs the Secretary to create an introductory program for use in one-stop centers to provide background information via the Internet to participants on information technology certification programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2014-06-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2014-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Motorsports Fairness and Permanency Act

Bill: 113-hr-4933
Sponsor: Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2014-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Motor vehicles
Sports and recreation facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: 
Motorsports Fairness and Permanency Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the accelerated depreciation (seven-year recovery period) of motorsports entertainment complexes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Regulatory Agency Demilitarization Act

Bill: 113-hr-4934
Sponsor: Rep. Stewart, Chris [R-UT-2]
Introduced: 2014-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Firearms and explosives
Law enforcement administration and funding
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: 
Regulatory Agency Demilitarization Act - Prohibits a federal agency from purchasing or using a firearm. Excludes the Departments of Defense (DOD), Justice (DOJ), and Homeland Security (DHS), the military departments, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the U.S. Capitol Police, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
 
Directs the Comptroller General to submit a report to Congress annually that includes:
 
 
information regarding each federal agency that has specialized units that receive special tactical or military-style training or use hard-plated body armor, shields, or helmets and that respond to high-risk situations that fall outside the capabilities of regular law enforcement officers; 
 
a description of each such unit; 
 
a description of the training and weapons of each such unit; 
 
the criteria for activating each such unit and how often each such unit was activated for each of the previous ten years; 
 
the annual cost of equipping and operating each such unit; and 
 
any other information that is relevant to understanding the usefulness and justification for the units. 

 
Amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to repeal provisions authorizing law enforcement powers for an Inspector General, any Assistant Inspector General for Investigations under an Inspector General, and any special agent supervised by such an Assistant Inspector General.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Vulnerable Immigrant Voice Act

Bill: 113-hr-4936
Sponsor: Rep. Jeffries, Hakeem S. [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2014-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Disability and paralysis
Immigration status and procedures
Lawyers and legal services
Legal fees and court costs
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: 
Vulnerable Immigrant Voice Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require that counsel at the government's expense in a removal or related appeal proceeding shall be provided only for an alien who is: (1) an unaccompanied child, or (2) incompetent to represent himself or herself due to a serious mental disability. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Protection Against Wasteful Spending Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4937
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2014-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Public contracts and procurement
Roads and highways
Transportation costs
Transportation programs funding
Travel and tourism
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: 
Protection Against Wasteful Spending Act of 2014 - Requires the head of a federal agency to: (1) implement in each of fiscal years 2014-2020 all of the recommendations of the agency's inspector general (IG) regarding wasteful and excessive spending, or duplicative programs causing wasteful and excessive spending, except for any recommendation that would violate an existing law; and (2) report to Congress on such implementation. 
 
Prohibits an agency that fails to implement an IG recommendation in a timely manner from obligating funds for: (1) convention or seminar attendance and international or domestic travel by any politically-appointed official, or (2) any bonus or salary increase for such official. 
 
Directs that such funds that are prohibited from being obligated and amounts saved by the implementation of IG recommendations be credited or transferred equally to: (1) the Highway Trust Fund, and (2) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for capitalization grants for state water pollution control revolving funds under the Clean Water Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2014-06-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2014-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Guantanamo Bay Detainee Transfer Suspension Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4938
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2014-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Caribbean area
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Cuba
Detention of persons
Latin America
Middle East
Military facilities and property
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Qatar
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: 
Guantanamo Bay Detainee Transfer Suspension Act of 2014 - Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds to transfer or release any covered detainee at the U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Guantanamo) to the custody or control of such individual's country of origin, any other foreign country, or any other foreign entity until the earlier of 90 days after the submittal to Congress of a report required by this Act or 180 days after this Act's enactment, except pursuant to an order issued by a court or competent tribunal of the United States having lawful jurisdiction.
 
Makes a U.S. officer or employee liable in his or her individual capacity for a civil penalty of $10,000 for each covered detainee transferred or released in violation of such prohibition. Prohibits the U.S. government from providing representation to, or retaining or reimbursing private counsel for the representation of, such officer or employee.
 
Authorizes a person to bring a civil action for a violation of such prohibition in the name of the government, subject to specified requirements.
 
Requires the Secretary to submit a report regarding the risk that the five detainees transferred from Guantanamo to Qatar on May 31, 2014, would reengage in terrorist activity after transfer.
 
Prohibits the transfer or release of a covered detainee from Guantanamo to a foreign country without the President's express written authorization.
 
Defines a "covered detainee" as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who: (1) is not a U.S. citizen or a member of the U.S. Armed Forces; (2) is or was held on January 20, 2009, at Guantanamo by the Department of Defense (DOD); and (3) is held as of the date of enactment of this Act at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by DOD.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: Introduced in House