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Verify It Act

Bill: 113-hr-4764
Sponsor: Rep. Fincher, Stephen Lee [R-TN-8]
Introduced: 2014-05-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Civil actions and liability
Debt collection
Evidence and witnesses
Government information and archives
Judicial procedure and administration
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: 
Verify It Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit a federal agency from notifying the Secretary of the Treasury of any past-due legally enforceable debt until such agency: (1) notifies by certified mail the person owing such debt that the agency proposes to notify the Secretary of the debt and gives such person at least 60 days to present evidence that such debt is not past-due or legally enforceable, (2) considers such evidence and determines that an amount of such debt is past-due and legally enforceable, and (3) satisfies any other conditions the Secretary may prescribe to ensure that the debt is valid and that the agency has made reasonable efforts to collect such debt. 
 
Prohibits any administrative offset of a claim asserted by the federal government that has been outstanding for more than 10 years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2014-05-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2014-05-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E865)
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Introduced in House
Partnerships for Affordability and Student Success Act

Bill: 113-hr-4767
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2014-05-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Consumer affairs
Education programs funding
Higher education
State and local government operations
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: 
Partnerships for Affordability and Student Success Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require states, for academic year 2014 and each of the succeeding four academic years, to maintain their support for: (1) institutions of higher education (IHEs) (excluding support for capital projects, research and development, or tuition and fees paid by students) at least at the level of such support for academic year 2012, and (2) student postsecondary financial aid at least at the level of such support for academic year 2012.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to waive those requirements if such a waiver would be appropriate due to exceptional or uncontrollable circumstances.
 
Replaces the Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership program with a program that allots matching incentive grants to states, based on each state's share of students eligible for Federal Pell Grants, to assist states in: 
 
 
 providing need-based grants to students attending IHEs or participating in study abroad programs approved for credit by the IHEs, 
 
 providing subgrants to IHEs or consortia of IHEs to improve student outcomes and to develop and implement practices that reduce costs for students, and 
 
 providing public accountability and consumer information on the performance of IHEs in the state.
 
 
Requires each state grantee to have a comprehensive plan for public postsecondary education that: 
 
 
has measurable goals for student outcomes, including enrollment, participation, and completion rates;
 
has measurable college affordability goals;
 
is aligned with the state's workforce and economic development plan;
 
is aligned with the state's elementary and secondary education plan; and
 
addresses the postsecondary education needs of unserved and underserved individuals, including those who are beyond the traditional college age.
 
 
Requires each state grantee to report annually to the public on its progress in meeting its public postsecondary education goals and comprehensive plan for public higher education.
 
Allows private, nonprofit IHEs to participate on a voluntary basis in a state's comprehensive plan for postsecondary education.
 
Requires at least 70% of the funds allocated to a state to be reserved for need-based grants to students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the Export-Import Bank of the United States from providing financial support for certain high carbon intensity energy projects.

Bill: 113-hr-4768
Sponsor: Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2]
Introduced: 2014-05-29 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Corporate finance and management
Electric power generation and transmission
Government lending and loan guarantees

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: 
 Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to prohibit the Export-Import Bank from guaranteeing, insuring, extending credit, or participating in the extension of credit in connection with the purchase or sale of any good or service for a high carbon intensity project that: (1) is designed to generate electricity, and (2) if completed would produce at least 500 grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt-hour of electricity generated by the project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Involved in Police Services Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4769
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2014-05-29 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: 
Veterans Involved in Police Services Act of 2014 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to allow public safety and community policing grants to be used, during the three-year period beginning on the date of this Act's enactment, to hire former honorably-discharged members of the Armed Forces to serve as career law enforcement officers for community-oriented policing, particularly in jurisdictions in which the violent crime rate is higher than the national violent crime rate, according to the uniform crime report compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Introduced in House
Coast Guard Regulation Relief Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4770
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick [D-FL-18]
Introduced: 2014-05-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Business records
Civil actions and liability
Government information and archives
Marine and inland water transportation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: 
Coast Guard Regulation Relief Act of 2014 - Amends federal shipping law to revise requirements for recording of a notice of a claim of a maritime lien.
 
Declares that a notice shall expire three years after it is recorded. (Currently, expires three years after the lien was established.)
 
Authorizes a person to re-record an expired notice if that person submits to the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) a declaration that the information in the notice is accurate to the best of the person's knowledge, information, and belief. Extends the re-recorded notice for another three years.
 
Declares that the expiration of a notice may not be construed to have any effect on the validity of a claim of lien.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Introduced in House
RESPECT Act

Bill: 113-hr-4772
Sponsor: Rep. Holding, George [R-NC-13]
Introduced: 2014-05-29 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Intellectual property
Music
Sound recording

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: 
Respecting Senior Performers as Essential Cultural Treasures Act or the RESPECT Act - Requires digital music services (certain services providing digital transmissions of music by Internet radio, cable, or satellite) that transmit sound recordings under the statutory license provided under federal copyright law to pay royalties for sound recordings fixed before February 15, 1972, in the same manner as they pay royalties for sound recordings protected by federal copyright that are fixed after such date. (Currently, sound recordings fixed before February 15, 1972, are governed by state laws and are not subject to federal copyright laws that require music services to pay a performance royalty for transmitting such recordings.)
 
Provides a remedy under which performance royalties for the transmission of such recordings may be recovered in a civil action in federal court if a digital music service fails to make such payments.
 
Prohibits an infringement action against a transmitting entity from being brought under a state law if the appropriate royalty is paid under this Act.
 
Declares that this Act does not confer federal copyright protection upon such recordings fixed before February 15, 1972 (sound recordings fixed before February 15, 1972, remain under applicable state laws notwithstanding the payment of royalties under federal statutory licensing requirements).
 
Terminates this Act on February 15, 2067.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Health Accountability Act

Bill: 113-hr-4774
Sponsor: Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36]
Introduced: 2014-05-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Public contracts and procurement
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: 
Veterans' Health Accountability Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide a voucher for the market price of the needed service for use at a non-VA facility for any veteran who has been denied health care at any VA facility on a timely basis (defined as one day for procedures and seven calendar days for tests).
 
Makes all veterans eligible for VA-paid care from non-VA facilities, and directs the Secretary of the VA to immediately prepare for the privatization of all VA facilities within one calendar year
, 
if more than 10% of the Veterans Health Administration's budget goes toward such health vouchers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Introduced in House
Safeguarding Classrooms Hurt by ObamaCare's Obligatory Levies

Bill: 113-hr-4775
Sponsor: Rep. Messer, Luke [R-IN-6]
Introduced: 2014-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Comprehensive health care
Congressional oversight
Elementary and secondary education
Employee benefits and pensions
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Higher education
Sales and excise taxes
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: 
Safeguarding Classrooms Hurt by ObamaCare's Obligatory Levies - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude any elementary or secondary school, state or local educational agency, and institution of higher education from the definition of "applicable large employer" for purposes of the employer mandate to provide health care coverage for employees.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to study and report on the impact of the employer health insurance mandate on educational agencies and institutions before and after the enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-30
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: 2014-05-30
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: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit an institution of higher education that participates in a boycott of the Israeli government, economy, or academia from receiving funds from the U.S. Federal Government.

Bill: 113-hr-4776
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2014-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Appropriations
Arab-Israeli relations
Area studies and international education
Cultural exchanges and relations
Education programs funding
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Israel
Middle East
Trade restrictions
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: 
Prohibits federal funds from being used to enter into agreements with, make grants or awards to, or provide loans or loan guarantees to institutions of higher education (IHEs) that participate in a boycott of the Israeli government, economy, or academia.
 
Terminates the application of that prohibition to an IHE that the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Education, determines has ceased participating in such a boycott.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
Health Savings Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4777
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2014-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Child health
Consumer affairs
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Tax treatment of families

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: 
Health Savings Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to health savings accounts (HSAs), to: (1) allow an additional tax deduction for amounts paid to the HSA of a taxpayer's child or grandchild; (2) allow a rollover of HSA funds to the child, parent, or grandparent of an account holder; (3) increase the maximum HSA contribution limit; (4) allow mandatory distributions from an individual retirement account (IRA) to be paid into an HSA; (5) exempt HSAs from creditor claims in bankruptcy; and (6) expand the definition of an HSA compatible plan to include bronze, silver, and catastrophic plans on an insurance exchange.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2014-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
Atomic Veterans Service Medal Act

Bill: 113-hr-4778
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2014-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents
Nuclear weapons
Radiation
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: 
Atomic Veterans Service Medal Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to: (1) design and produce a military service medal, to be known as the Atomic Veterans Service Medal, to honor retired and former members of the Armed Forces who participated in a radiation-risk activity while serving on active duty; and (2) issue the Medal to such veterans or their next-of-kin.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5057-5058)
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Need Timely Access to Care Act

Bill: 113-hr-4779
Sponsor: Rep. Denham, Jeff [R-CA-10]
Introduced: 2014-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Public contracts and procurement
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: 
Veterans Need Timely Access to Care Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to enter into contracts with such non-VA facilities as may be necessary to furnish hospital care or medical services to any veteran enrolled in the VA's patient enrollment system who: (1) has waited 7 days or longer for an appointment for primary care, or 14 days or longer for an appointment for speciality care, in a VA facility; and (2) elects to receive such care in a non-VA facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5060)
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Extension Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4780
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2014-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Health care coverage and access
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: 
Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Extension Act of 2014 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to extend the rural community hospital demonstration program from five through 10 years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4781
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, Lynn [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2014-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: 
Medicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology Act of 2014 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide payment under Medicare part A (Hospital Insurance) on a reasonable cost basis for anesthesia services furnished by a physician who is an anesthesiologist in certain rural hospitals in the same manner as payment is made for anesthesia services furnished by a certified registered nurse anesthetist in such hospitals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
BUILD Career and Technical Education Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4782
Sponsor: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2014-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Public-private cooperation
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: 
Building Understanding, Investment, Learning, and Direction Career and Technical Education Act of 2014 or the BUILD Career and Technical Education Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive two-year grants to local educational agencies to support career and technical education exploration programs that provide middle and high school students with experiential learning opportunities that are connected to their education and career pathways.
 
Requires grant funds to be used for: (1) leasing, purchasing, upgrading, or adapting equipment related to program activities; (2) staff expenses in coordinating or implementing program activities; (3) consultation services that are directly aligned to program goals; (4) professional development programs that are aligned to program goals; (5) minor remodeling to accommodate program equipment; and/or (6) program evaluation.
 
Requires each grantee to develop a plan to evaluate grant activities that includes an evaluation of specified outcomes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House