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Airport Security Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3484
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2013-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Firearms and explosives
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: 
Airport Security Act of 2013 - Directs the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration [TSA]) to establish a program to prohibit all but specified authorized individuals from possessing a firearm at a covered airport, including any individual who enters the airport, or exits public transportation at it, for air travel, meeting another individual, picking up cargo, or employment.
 
Directs the Assistant Secretary to require airport operators to: (1) display conspicuous notices summarizing the program at each airport entrance, and (2) require law enforcement personnel to monitor the airport to prevent violations and escort air travelers who are authorized to carry a firearm.
 
Prescribes criminal penalties for nonauthorized individuals who knowingly possess a firearm at a covered airport.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-11-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 1341 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal the funding mechanism for the transitional reinsurance program in the individual market, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-3489
Sponsor: Rep. Tiberi, Patrick J. [R-OH-12]
Introduced: 2013-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: 
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to eliminate the funding mechanism for the three-year transitional reinsurance program, under which group health plans are required to pay a fee to reinsurance entities for plan years beginning January 1, 2014. (The fees are distributed to individual health plans that cover high-risk individuals.) Authorizes appropriations for such reinsurance program instead.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
Teacher Tax Deduction Enhancement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3490
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2013-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Income tax deductions
Preschool education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: 
Teacher Tax Deduction Enhancement Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend until 2020 the tax deduction for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school educators (i.e., teachers, instructors, counselors, principals, or aides); (2) increase to $500 the allowable amount of such deduction for full-time educators (working at least 900 hours during the school year); and (3) allow such tax deduction for educators in preschool programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
River Paddling Protection Act

Bill: 113-hr-3492
Sponsor: Rep. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Interior
Lakes and rivers
Marine and inland water transportation
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: 
River Paddling Protection Act - Declares specified regulations regarding vessels on streams and rivers in Yellowstone National Park and on lakes and rivers in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming to have no force or effect with regard to hand-propelled vessels. Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from issuing substantially similar regulations that apply to such vessels. 
 
Considers the use of hand-propelled vessels on rivers and streams in the National Elk Refuge in Wyoming as a wildlife-dependent recreational use.

action_date: 2014-02-28
text: 
 River Paddling Protection Act - Opens the rivers and streams of Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming to hand-propelled vessels. Declares specified regulations to have no force or effect with regard to the closing of rivers and streams of such Parks to such vessels. 
 
Requires the Fish and Wildlife Service to coordinate any recreational use of hand-propelled vessels on the Gros Ventre River within the National Elk Refuge in Wyoming with Grand Teton National Park to ensure that use is consistent with the requirements of the National Wildlife Refuge Administration Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-28
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 275.
action_date: 2014-02-28
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-369.
action_date: 2014-02-28
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-369.
action_date: 2014-01-28
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2014-01-28
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2014-01-28
text: Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs Discharged.
action_date: 2014-01-28
text: Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Discharged.
action_date: 2013-11-21
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
Servicemembers Transition Improvement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3493
Sponsor: Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2013-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
State and local government operations
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: 
Servicemembers Transition Improvement Act of 2013 - Requires the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to carry out a pilot program to assess the feasibility and advisability of providing information on members of the Armed Forces who are separating from service to state veterans agencies to facilitate the transition of such members to civilian life. Authorizes such agencies to share such information with appropriate county veterans service offices.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 23, United States Code, with respect to the establishment of performance measures for the highway safety improvement program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-3494
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2013-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Performance measurement
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: 
Revises the highway safety improvement program.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT), under the highway safety improvement program, to establish performance measures for states to use to assess significant reductions in the number of serious injuries and fatalities (as under current law) specifically for both motorized and nonmotorized transportation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1667)
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to make improvements to the food safety education program carried out under such Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-3495
Sponsor: Rep. Cárdenas, Tony [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2013-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural education
Department of Agriculture
Executive agency funding and structure
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: 
Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to authorize appropriations for the food safety education program.
 
Includes in such program education: (1) about practices that prevent bacterial contamination of food, how to identify sources of food contamination, and other means of decreasing food contamination; and (2) aimed at farm workers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development, and Credit.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
POST Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3496
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2013-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: 
Protecting Our Students and Taxpayers Act of 2013 or the POST Act of 2013 - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require proprietary institutions of higher education to derive at least 15% of their revenue from sources other than federal funds or become ineligible for title IV funding. (Currently, the 90/10 rule requires these schools to derive at least 10% of their revenue from sources other than title IV or become ineligible for title IV funding.)
 
Defines &quot;federal funds&quot; as federal financial assistance provided through a grant, contract, subsidy, loan, guarantee, insurance, or other means to a proprietary institution, including federal financial assistance that is provided to an institution on behalf of a student or to a student to attend the institution. Excludes monthly housing stipends provided under the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance program from consideration as federal funds.
 
Limits what a proprietary institution may treat as revenue to the school in calculating whether it derives at least 15% of its revenue from non-federal funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
Child Care Flex Spending Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3497
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2013-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adult day care
Child care and development
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: 
Child Care Flex Spending Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $5,000 to $10,000 the limitation on the tax exclusion for employer-provided dependent care assistance for taxpayers whose modified adjusted gross income is less than $100,000. Provides for an annual inflation adjustment beginning after 2014 for the increased limitation amount and the modified adjusted gross income amount. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
To allow individuals to choose to opt out of the Medicare part A benefit and to allow individuals opting out of such benefit to be eligible for health savings accounts.

Bill: 113-hr-3498
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2013-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: 
Allows any individual who is otherwise entitled to benefits under part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to elect to opt out of such entitlement.
 
Allows an individual who has opted out of Medicare to opt back in without penalty.
 
Prohibits any requirement to opt out of SSA title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) as a condition for opting out of Medicare.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make individuals who opt out of Medicare part A eligible for health savings accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
Rural Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act

Bill: 113-hr-3499
Sponsor: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2013-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Licensing and registrations
Medical education
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: 
Rural Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act - Amends appropriations authorities for veterans' benefits to provide advanced appropriations for information technology relating to medical services, support, compliance, and facilities of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).
 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to include, as a component of VHA health-care personnel education and training programs, education and training of marriage and family therapists as well as licensed professional mental health counselors.
 
Amends the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010 to require the Secretary, through VA medical centers, to provide mental health services, including outpatient care, to the immediate families of certain veterans returning from Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
 
Requires the Secretary to report to Congress regarding telemedicine services (the use by a health care provider of telecommunications to assist in the diagnosis or treatment of a patient's medical condition) for veterans, including updates on VA teleconsultation and telemedicine initiatives, training, and partnerships with primary care providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
Low-Wage Federal Contractor Employee Back Pay Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3500
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Public contracts and procurement
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: 
Low-Wage Federal Contractor Employee Back Pay Act of 2013 - Amends the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014 to require the federal government to provide compensation to the employees of federal contractors that provide retail, food, custodial, and security services to the federal government who were placed on unpaid leave as a result of any lapse in appropriations beginning on or about October 1, 2013. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1664)
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
GRAND Act

Bill: 113-hr-3501
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2013-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Building construction
Child care and development
Family relationships
Housing and community development funding
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Housing supply and affordability
Low- and moderate-income housing
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: 
Generational Residences and Nurturing Dwellings Act or GRAND Act - Establishes in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) a program to provide need-based assistance for each fiscal year, made available on a competitive basis, to up to five eligible nonprofit organizations to expand the supply of specialized housing and social services for qualified elderly relatives, age 60 or older, who are raising a child of which they are not a parent either by blood or marriage.
 
Provides such assistance in the form of:
 
 
financing for the construction, reconstruction, moderate or substantial rehabilitation, or acquisition of a structure or a portion of a structure to be used as specialized housing in accordance with the program;
 
tenant-based rental (voucher) assistance under the United States Housing Act of 1937 for use only by qualified relatives who are raising a child and are eligible for such assistance for rental of a dwelling unit that qualifies as specialized housing;
 
elderly housing project rental assistance under the Housing Act of 1959 in connection with dwelling units that qualify as specialized housing and are made available for occupancy only by qualified relatives who are raising a child and are eligible for occupancy in such housing; and 
 
help with ongoing operational expenses of any specialized housing, including costs of supportive services required for such housing.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
Nicole's Law of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3502
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2013-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime victims
Law enforcement administration and funding
Sex offenses
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: 
Nicole's Law of 2013 - Requires states to have in effect laws and policies to extend protections similar to those afforded to victims of domestic violence to victims of a sex offense who are not in a familiar or dating relationship with the perpetrator of such offense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the award of the Distinguished Service Cross to Robert L. Towles for acts of valor during the Vietnam War.

Bill: 113-hr-3503
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2013-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to award the Distinguished Service Cross to Robert L. Towles for acts of valor during the Vietnam War, notwithstanding otherwise applicable time limitations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Introduced in House