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All-STAR Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1083
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2013-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Building construction
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Government lending and loan guarantees
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: 
All Students Achieving through Reform Act of 2013 or the All-STAR Act of 2013 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to direct the Secretary of Education to award renewable competitive grants to certain eligible entities and, through them, subgrants to successful public charter schools to allow such schools to expand or replicate to serve additional students.
 
Lists, as eligible grantees, state and local educational agencies, authorized public chartering agencies, and tax-exempt organizations that have successfully supported the replication and expansion of such schools.
 
Sets forth the attributes that are to give such entities grant priority, including their serving or planning to serve a large percentage of low-income students from: (1) public schools with low-graduation rates; (2) schools identified as needing improvement, corrective action, or restructuring under the ESEA; or (3) schools identified by alternative accountability standards as priority schools, focus schools, or schools otherwise in need of significant assistance.
 
Authorizes grantees to use up to 25% of a grant to establish a reserve account to assist them in acquiring and developing new facilities for successful public charter schools through: (1) credit enhancement initiatives, (2) the establishment of revolving loan funds, (3) direct spending or financing, or (4) partnerships with community development or other mission-based financial institutions.
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct an independent, comprehensive, and scientifically sound evaluation of the effect this Act's initiatives have on student achievement and other areas, as determined by the Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3859-3863)
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3859)
action_date: 2013-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Streamlining Energy Efficiency for Schools Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1084
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Mark [D-CO]
Introduced: 2013-06-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Building construction
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Energy efficiency and conservation
Government information and archives
Higher education

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-03
text: 
Streamlining Energy Efficiency for Schools Act of 2013 - Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to direct the Secretary of Energy (DOE), acting through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, to act as the lead federal agency for coordinating and disseminating information on existing federal programs and assistance that may be used to help initiate, develop, and finance energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy retrofitting projects for schools. 
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) carry out a review of existing programs and financing mechanisms available in or from appropriate federal agencies with jurisdiction over energy financing and facilitation that are currently used or may be used for such purposes; (2) establish a federal cross-departmental collaborative coordination, education, and outreach effort to streamline communication and promote available federal opportunities and assistance for such projects that enables states, local educational agencies, and schools to use existing federal opportunities more effectively and to form partnerships with governors, state energy programs, local educational, financial, and energy officials, state and local officials, nonprofit organizations, and other appropriate entities to support project initiation; (3) provide technical assistance for states, local educational agencies, and schools to help develop and finance projects that meet specified requirements; (4) develop and maintain a single online resource website with contact information for relevant technical assistance and support staff in the Office for states, local educational agencies, and schools to effectively access and use federal opportunities and assistance to develop such projects; and (5) establish a process for recognition of schools that have successfully implemented such projects and are willing to serve as resources for other local educational agencies and schools to assist initiation of similar efforts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-70.
action_date: 2013-06-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-06-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Tax Certainty and Growth Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1085
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2013-06-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Business investment and capital
Contracts and agency
Corporate finance and management
Disaster relief and insurance
Economic performance and conditions
Food industry and services
Income tax deductions
Inflation and prices
Public contracts and procurement
Retail and wholesale trades
Small business
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax reform and tax simplification

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-03
text: 
Small Business Tax Certainty and Growth Act of 2013 - Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should undertake comprehensive tax reform to make the tax system fairer and simpler and to promote economic growth.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the increased tax deductions for business start-up expenditures, organizational expenditures, and organization and syndication fees; (2) allow the cash accounting method for businesses whose gross receipts do not exceed $10 million (currently, $5 million); (3) exempt businesses whose gross receipts do not exceed $10 million from the requirement to use inventories; (4) make permanent the $250,000 allowance for expensing business assets, including computer software; (5) extend for one year the additional depreciation allowance for business assets; and (6) extend through 2014 the 15-year straight-line depreciation allowance for qualified leasehold, restaurant, and retail improvements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-06-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3908)
action_date: 2013-06-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1088
Sponsor: Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN]
Introduced: 2013-06-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Civil actions and liability
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government liability
Legal fees and court costs
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: 
Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 - Prohibits public school students from being excluded from participating in, or subject to discrimination under, any federally-assisted educational program on the basis of their actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity or that of their associates.
 
Considers harassment to be a form of discrimination.
 
Prohibits retaliation against anyone for opposing conduct made unlawful under this Act.
 
Authorizes federal departments and agencies to enforce these prohibitions by cutting off the educational assistance of recipients found to be violating them.
 
Allows an aggrieved individual to assert a violation of this Act in a judicial proceeding and recover reasonable attorney's fees should they prevail.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to institute a civil action in any appropriate U.S. district court for a violation of this Act.
 
Deems a state's receipt of federal educational assistance for a program to constitute a waiver of sovereign immunity for conduct prohibited under this Act regarding such program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Servicemembers and Veterans Prescription Drug Safety Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1089
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2013-06-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
Prescription drugs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: 
Servicemembers and Veterans Prescription Drug Safety Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) and the Attorney General (AG) to jointly carry out a program under which a member of the Armed Forces (member), an individual receiving or entitled to military retired or retainer pay, a dependent-beneficiary of a member, or any person lawfully entitled to dispose of the property of any of such individuals may deliver a personal-use controlled substance (the prescription medication of a deceased individual) for disposal at a facility to be specified by the Secretary and the AG. Requires the Secretary and AG, in implementing the program, to develop appropriate guidelines and procedures to prevent the diversion, misuse, theft, or loss of such delivered substances.
 
Directs the Secretary and the AG to jointly carry out a program under which a veteran, a veteran's spouse or dependent, a person in receipt of medical services at a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facility, or any person lawfully entitled to dispose of the property of any of such individuals may deliver such a controlled substance for disposal at a specified facility, subject to the same guidelines and procedures with respect to such delivered substances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3957)
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Higher Education and Skills Obtainment Act

Bill: 113-s-1090
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2013-06-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Income tax credits
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: 
Higher Education and Skills Obtainment Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning tax credits with a tax credit for full and part-time post-secondary students equal to 100% of qualified tuition and related expenses up to $2,000, plus 25% of such expenses as exceeds $2,000 but not more than $4,000. Reduces the allowable amount of such credit to the extent that household income exceeds 400% of the federal poverty line. Repeals the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that any revenue saved by the enactment of this Act shall be applied to the currently projected Pell Grant funding shortfall in 2015 and to deficit reduction. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the issuance of an Alzheimer's Disease Research Semipostal Stamp.

Bill: 113-s-1091
Sponsor: Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2013-06-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Medical research
Neurological disorders
Postal service
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: 
Directs the United States Postal Service (USPS) to issue and sell an Alzheimer's Disease Research Semipostal Stamp.
 
Requires proceeds from the sale of the stamp to be transferred to the National Institutes of Health.
 
Requires the stamp to be made available to the public for six years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to require an Inspector General investigation of allegations of retaliatory personnel actions taken in response to making protected communications regarding sexual assault.

Bill: 113-s-1092
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2013-06-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Coast guard
Crimes against women
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Evidence and witnesses
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations
Military law
Military personnel and dependents
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: 
Requires the Inspector General of the Department of Defense (DOD), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with respect to the Coast Guard, or any of the military departments to investigate allegations of retaliatory personnel actions taken in response to making protected communications to such Inspector General regarding alleged instances of rape, sexual assault, or other forms of sexual misconduct in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Introduced in Senate
IDEA MOE Adjustment Act

Bill: 113-s-1095
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM]
Introduced: 2013-06-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Intergovernmental relations
Special education
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: 
IDEA MOE Adjustment Act - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to limit the penalty imposed on a state that reduces its level of funding for special education from one fiscal year to the next to a reduction of federal special education funds for one fiscal year. (Currently, that penalty may be imposed on a state for any fiscal year after the fiscal year the state reduces its special education funding.)
 
Redistributes the federal special education funding that is denied to a penalized state to states that have not reduced their level of special education funding.
 
Prohibits the Secretary of Education from considering those penalties or redistributions when calculating a state's share of federal special education funds for subsequent fiscal years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Office of Rural Education Policy Act

Bill: 113-s-1096
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2013-06-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Education
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government information and archives
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: 
Office of Rural Education Policy Act - Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish an Office of Rural Education Policy (Office) in the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. 
 
Requires the Office to be headed by a Director who advises the Secretary of Education on the characteristics and needs of rural schools, and the effects current policies and proposed statutory, regulatory, administrative, and budgetary changes have on states and local educational agencies (LEAs) that serve such schools.
 
Requires the Director to: 
 
 
 establish and maintain a clearinghouse for collecting and disseminating certain information on rural education; 
 
 identify innovative research and demonstration projects on topics of importance to rural schools; 
 
 coordinate rural education activities within the Department; 
 
 inform the Department of other federal agency activities related to rural education; 
 
 coordinate its activities with Indian schools and the Department of the Interior's responsibilities regarding such schools; 
 
 provide technical assistance and other support for rural education improvement efforts; and 
 
 produce an annual report, for Congress and the public, on the condition of rural education.
 
 
Requires the Director to prepare regulatory impact analyses of the Secretary's proposed and final rules that may have a significant impact on states or LEAs that serve rural schools.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3959-3960)
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3958-3959)
action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Protect America's Cities from Government Blacklist Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1097
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2013-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Public contracts and procurement
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: 
Protect America's Cities from Government Blacklist Act of 2013 - Prohibits a federal agency from establishing or implementing a policy that discourages or prohibits the selection of a location for travel, an event, a meeting, or a conference because the location is perceived to be a resort or vacation destination.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Reducing Overlapping Payments Act

Bill: 113-s-1099
Sponsor: Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK]
Introduced: 2013-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Social security and elderly assistance
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: 
Reducing Overlapping Payments Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to require reduced to zero the total of an individual's monthly disability insurance benefits and any spouse's, surviving spouse's, child's, widow's, widower's, or parent's OASDI benefits based on the individual's wages and self-employment income for any month before the individual attains retirement age in which that individual is entitled to both disability insurance benefits and unemployment compensation. (Thus allows only unemployment compensation in such a situation.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
North American Alternative Fuels Act

Bill: 113-s-1100
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2013-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Motor fuels
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: 
North American Alternative Fuels Act - Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to repeal the requirement that any federal agency procurement contract for an alternative or synthetic fuel, including those from nonconventional petroleum sources, for any mobility-related use (except research or testing) specify that lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with the fuel must, on an ongoing basis, be less than or equal to such emissions from equivalent conventional fuel produced from conventional petroleum sources.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Export-Import Bank Termination Act

Bill: 113-s-1102
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2013-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Department of the Treasury
Executive agency funding and structure
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government lending and loan guarantees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: 
Export-Import Bank Termination Act - Abolishes the Export-Import Bank of the United States three years after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
LNG Excise Tax Equalization Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1103
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2013-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Motor fuels
Oil and gas
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: 
LNG Excise Tax Equalization Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to adjust the excise tax on liquefied natural gas to 24.3 cents per energy equivalent of a gallon of diesel. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Currency Optimization, Innovation, and National Savings Act

Bill: 113-s-1105
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2013-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Currency
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: 
Currency Optimization, Innovation, and National Savings Act - Requires the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve Board) to sequester all $1 coins bearing the design common to those $1 coins minted and issued from 1979-1981 and again in 1999.
 
Allows the release of such sequestered coins to collectible coin dealers and countries that have adopted the U.S. dollar as their base unit of exchange.
 
Directs the Federal Reserve Board to: (1) undertake efforts to improve, and remove barriers to, the circulation of all other $1 coins; and (2) work with the U.S. Mint, consumer groups, media outlets, and schools to publicize the Presidential $1 Coin Program.
 
Declares it is U.S. policy that after consumers and retailers are comfortable using and able to obtain adequate supplies of $1 coins, such $1 coins should replace $1 Federal Reserve notes as the only $1 monetary unit issued and circulated by the Federal Reserve System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate