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Wasatch Wilderness and Watershed Protection Act

Bill: 113-hr-2808
Sponsor: Rep. Matheson, Jim [D-UT-4]
Introduced: 2013-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Outdoor recreation
Utah
Water use and supply
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: 
 Wasatch Wilderness and Watershed Protection Act - Designates specified federal lands in the vicinity of the Lone Peak Wilderness and the Mount Olympus Wilderness, and specified federal lands comprising the Wayne Owens Grandeur Peaks/Mount Aire Wilderness within the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forests in Salt Lake County, Utah, as wilderness and as either a new component or as an addition to an existing component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. 
 
Establishes specified federal lands within the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forests as the Mt. Aire, Mt. Olympus, Twin Peaks, and Lone Peak Special Management Areas. 
 
Requires the Special Management Areas to be managed to maintain their presently existing wilderness character and potential for inclusion in the System.
 
 Allows the commercial helicopter-assisted skiing and snowboarding activities (known as heliskiing) that have been authorized on the federal lands included within the Special Management Areas to continue. Permits the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), except as provided below, upon the expiration of such an authorization that was in effect for heliskiing, to reissue such authorizations in accordance with Forest Service procedures. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, within one year from the time in which all heliskiing activities within any special management area are no longer authorized or have otherwise been terminated, to publish a notice in the Federal Register to that effect. Designates the federal lands included within such an Area for which such a notice has been published as wilderness and adds them to the System as described in this Act. 
 
Requires a land exchange involving certain federal and non-federal lands concerning the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forests. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Research First Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2811
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2013-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Afghanistan
Appropriations
Asia
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Military operations and strategy
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: 
Research First Act of 2013 - Appropriates, for FY2013, an additional $1.55 billion to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
 
Rescinds: (1) $400 million from the Department of Defense--Overseas Contingency Operations--Operation and Maintenance--Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund account, and (2) $1.15 billion from the Department of Defense (DOD) account. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Justice Exists for All of Us Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2812
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2013-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Crime prevention
Firearms and explosives
Government studies and investigations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Racial and ethnic relations
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: 
Justice Exists for All of Us Act of 2013 - Prohibits a state, for each fiscal year beginning three years after enactment of this Act, from having in effect a law or policy that: (1) allows a person to use deadly force when such person is threatened and that does not impose a duty to retreat before using such force in any place where that person is lawfully present (commonly known as a &quot;stand your ground law&quot;), except where the person is a victim of domestic violence; or (2) allows the establishment, organization, or operation of, or participation in, a Neighborhood Watch program that is not registered with the local law enforcement agency and the Department of Justice (DOJ). Allows the Attorney General to authorize up to two one-year extensions of such deadline.
 
Provides that a state that fails to substantially implement this Act for any fiscal year shall not receive 20% of the funds that would otherwise be allocated to it under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program. Provides for alternative procedures for compliance by a state that is unable to substantially implement this Act because of a conflict with the state's constitution. 
 
Directs the Attorney General to conduct a study of state stand your ground laws, including by examining: (1) the effect that such laws have on rates of violent deaths, and (2) whether women and minorities are targets of the force authorized by such laws at a higher rate than the general population.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Water Supply Act of 1958 to establish a mechanism to permit State and local interests to release to the United States future water storage rights associated with Corps of Engineers reservoir projects.

Bill: 113-hr-2813
Sponsor: Rep. Cotton, Tom [R-AR-4]
Introduced: 2013-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations
Water storage

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: 
Amends the Water Supply Act of 1958 to permit an interested state or local interest to submit to the Secretary of the Army by January 1, 2016, a plan for the utilization of future use water storage under such Act.
 
Requires such plan to include: (1) a 10-year timetable for conversion of future use storage to present use; and (2) a schedule of actions that the state or local interest agrees to carry out over a 10-year period, in cooperation with the Corps of Engineers, to seek new and alternative users of future water storage that is contracted to the state or local interest on the date of this Act's enactment.
 
Allows a state or local interest that the Secretary determines has carried out its obligations under such plan, for Corps projects for the period from January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2028, to notify the Secretary that it seeks to release to the United States any right of the state or local interest to future water storage that was allocated for future use water supply prior to November 17, 1986, and that has not been allocated or used as of December 31, 2025. Provides that on receipt of such notification by the Secretary: (1) the request of the applicable state or local interest to release future water storage rights shall be considered to be approved, and (2) such interest shall not be responsible for the cost of any water storage rights released under such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 North Main Street in Strawberry, Arkansas, as the "Noel Austin Harris, Jr. Post Office".

Bill: 113-hr-2814
Sponsor: Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1]
Introduced: 2013-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Arkansas
Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Military personnel and dependents
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 North Main Street in Strawberry, Arkansas, as the "Noel Austin Harris, Jr. Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Introduced in House
FHA In-Person Servicing Improvement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2815
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2013-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: 
FHA In-Person Servicing Improvement Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to carry out a pilot program to use authority under the National Housing Act to pay insurance benefits to compensate a mortgagee for any costs of taking loss mitigation actions providing an alternative to foreclosure of a mortgage in default or facing imminent default.
 
Requires the Secretary to make payments to a qualified entity or entities to compensate for their costs of making in-person contact with mortgagors whose payments under covered mortgages are more than 60 days past due.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Introduced in House
FHA Alternative Credit Pilot Program Reauthorization Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2816
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2013-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Consumer credit
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: 
FHA Alternative Credit Pilot Program Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Amends the National Housing Act to extend from five to 10 years the pilot program to establish for mortgagees an automated process for providing alternative credit rating information on mortgagors and prospective mortgagors under mortgages on 1- to 4-family residences who have insufficient credit histories for determining their creditworthiness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Protect Patient Access to Quality Health Professionals Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2817
Sponsor: Rep. Harris, Andy [R-MD-1]
Introduced: 2013-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: 
Protect Patient Access to Quality Health Professionals Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to remove prohibitions enacted under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that prohibit a health plan from discriminating with respect to participation under the plan or coverage against any health care provider who is acting within the scope of that provider's license or certification under applicable state law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 275 Front Street in Marietta, Ohio, as the "Veterans Memorial Post Office Building".

Bill: 113-hr-2819
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Bill [R-OH-6]
Introduced: 2013-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Ohio
Postal service
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 275 Front Street in Marietta, Ohio, as the "Veterans Memorial Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-09
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2014-09-08
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2014-09-08
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7251)
action_date: 2014-09-08
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H7251)
action_date: 2014-09-08
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2819.
action_date: 2014-09-08
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7250-7251)
action_date: 2014-09-08
text: Mr. Collins (GA) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2014-07-24
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2014-07-24
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Health Equity Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2820
Sponsor: Rep. Ribble, Reid J. [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2013-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Employment taxes
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax exclusion
Physical fitness and lifestyle

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: 
Health Equity Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the tax deduction allowed to self-employed individuals for health insurance costs; (2) allow a new tax deduction for the health care insurance costs of a taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, and dependents; and (3) expand the tax deduction for medical expenses to include costs for a membership in a fitness program or athletic club, fitness equipment, or weight loss program up to $1,200 in a taxable year and allow tax-free reimbursements for such expenses up to $1,200 a year under flexible spending arrangements and health reimbursement arrangements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Global Food Security Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2822
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2013-07-25 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural education
Agricultural practices and innovations
Agricultural research
Alternative and renewable resources
Armed Forces and National Security
Child health
Congressional oversight
Executive Office of the President
Executive agency funding and structure
Food assistance and relief
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Foreign aid and international relief
Forests, forestry, trees
Infrastructure development
Land use and conservation
Nutrition and diet
Pest management
Rural conditions and development
Sex and reproductive health
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Water use and supply
Watersheds
Women's employment
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: 
Global Food Security Act of 2013 - Directs the President to designate an individual to serve as the Special Coordinator for Food, Nutrition, and Agricultural Development to: (1) advise the President on global food security, nutrition security, and agricultural development; and (2) ensure coordination of related U.S. programs.
 
Makes the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) the lead agency in implementing a comprehensive food security, nutrition security, and agricultural development strategy. Sets forth the elements of such strategy.
 
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to revise bilateral agriculture, rural development, and nutrition assistance programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5097)
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Gas Accessibility and Stabilization Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2823
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2013-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Energy prices
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Government studies and investigations
Motor fuels
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: 
Gas Accessibility and Stabilization Act of 2013 - Amends the Clean Air Act to revise procedures for waiver by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of a control or prohibition regarding the use of a fuel or fuel additive by: (1) allowing waiver if the Administrator determines that extreme and unusual fuel or fuel additive supply circumstances are the result of a problem with distribution or delivery equipment necessary for the transportation or delivery of such fuel or additives, (2) allowing extension of a waiver for more than 20 days if it is determined that the waiver conditions will exist beyond 20 days, and (3) deeming a request for a waiver that is not approved or denied within 3 days to be approved for the period requested.
 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to modify a fuel system requirements harmonization study to: (1) include consideration of biofuels, (2) add consideration of the projected effects of EPA Tier III requirements on air quality and motor fuel prices, and (3) extend to June 1, 2014, the date for submission to Congress of a report on the results of the study.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Closing Loopholes and Ending Arbitrary and Needless Evasion of Regulations Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2825
Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2013-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Alternative and renewable resources
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Oil and gas
Solid waste and recycling
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: 
CLEANER Act of 2013 or the Closing Loopholes and Ending Arbitrary and Needless Evasion of Regulations Act of 2013 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act, with respect to the regulation of wastes associated with the exploration, development, or production of crude oil, natural gas, or geothermal energy, to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), within one year, to:
 
 
determine whether drilling fluids, produced waters, and other wastes associated with such activities meet the criteria promulgated for the identification or listing of hazardous waste;
 
identify or list as hazardous waste any of such energy-associated wastes that the Administrator determines meet the identification or listing criteria; and
 
promulgate regulations regarding standards applicable to generators, transporters, and owners and operators of facilities for the treatment, storage, or disposal of wastes described under this Act (except that the Administrator may modify the requirements for such regulations to consider such wastes' special characteristics so long as the requirements protect human health and the environment).
 
 
Directs the Administrator to promulgate revisions of the criteria regarding sanitary landfills and practices of open dumping for facilities that receive the energy-associated wastes described under this Act not identified as hazardous waste. Requires such revisions to:
 
 
 be those necessary to protect human health and the environment, allowing consideration of the practicable capability of such facilities; and
 
include, at minimum, groundwater monitoring as necessary to detect contamination, criteria for the acceptable location of new or existing facilities, and provision for corrective action and financial assurance.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Permanently Ending Receipt by Prisoners Act

Bill: 113-hr-2826
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2013-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal justice information and records
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: 
Permanently Ending Receipt by Prisoners Act - Amends title III (Grants to States for Unemployment Compensation Administration) of the Social Security Act to require the state agency charged with administering a state's unemployment compensation law to seek from the Commissioner of Social Security, and through additional appropriate means, information necessary to carry out any provision of that law which renders ineligible for regular compensation, because he or she is unable to satisfy work requirements, any individual confined in a jail, prison, or other penal institution or correctional facility for conviction of a criminal offense.
 Directs the Secretary of Labor to notify any state whose unemployment compensation agency fails to comply substantially with such requirements that further payments (for unemployment benefits) will not be made to the state until there is no longer any such failure.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (E1141)
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: Introduced in House