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Health Care Waiver Fairness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2700
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike J. [R-MI-8]
Introduced: 2013-07-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Comprehensive health care
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Labor
Department of the Treasury
Employee benefits and pensions
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: 
Health Care Waiver Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Treasury to establish waiver processes under which the administrator of a health plan, an employer, an individual, or other entity may seek to waive the application of a health insurance coverage requirement under PPACA. Sets forth PPACA requirements that may be waived, including those related to minimum essential coverage and employers offering health care coverage to employees.
 
Establishes requirements for the waiver process, including requiring submission of a statement describing how the imposition of the PPACA requirement would result in a significant decrease in access to coverage or a significant increase in premiums or other costs for such plan, employer, individual, or entity. Deems to be approved any waiver including such a statement.
 
Requires the Secretary of HHS to conduct a public awareness campaign of the waiver process with funds made available for the Prevention and Public Health Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and 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: 2013-07-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and 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: 2013-07-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and 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: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
United States-Israel Missile Defense Cooperation Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2701
Sponsor: Rep. Roskam, Peter J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2013-07-16 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Israel
Middle East
Military assistance, sales, and agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: 
United States-Israel Missile Defense Cooperation Act of 2013 - Authorizes the President, acting through the Secretary of Defense (DOD) and the Secretary of State, to provide assistance, upon request of the Israeli government, for the procurement of the Iron Dome anti-rocket defense system, as well as authorization for cooperation on the development, maintenance, enhancement, and sustainment of the David's Sling, Arrow, and Arrow 3 anti-missile defense systems, for the purposes of intercepting rockets, missiles, and projectiles launched against Israel.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
Family Health Care Accessibility Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2703
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Tim [R-PA-18]
Introduced: 2013-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Government liability
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: 
Family Health Care Accessibility Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to deem a health professional volunteer providing primary health care to an individual at a community health center to be an employee of the Public Health Service for purposes of any civil action that may arise from providing services to patients. Sets forth conditions for such liability protection, including: (1) the service is provided to the individual at a community health center or through offsite programs or events carried out by such center; and (2) the health care practitioner does not receive any compensation for providing the service, except repayment for reasonable expenses.
 
Considers an entity as sponsoring the health care practitioner if the entity submits an application to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Secretary determines that the health care practitioner is deemed to be an employee of the Public Health Service.
 
Requires the Attorney General to submit to Congress an estimate of the amount of claims (together with related fees and expenses of witnesses) that, by reason of the actions or omissions of health professional volunteers, will be paid pursuant to this Act annually. Requires the Secretary to transfer such estimated amount from the claims fund to the appropriate accounts in the Treasury, subject to the extent of amounts in the fund.
 
Makes this Act effective on October 1, 2014. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
Department of Veterans Affairs Budget Planning Reform Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2704
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2013-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: 
Department of Veterans Affairs Budget Planning Reform Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to submit annually to Congress a future-years veterans program (program) reflecting estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations included in the budget for that fiscal year. Requires each program to set forth a five-year VA plan to address the U.S. commitment to veterans and the resources necessary to meet that commitment.
 
Requires the Secretary, in 2017 and quadrennially thereafter, to conduct a review of the strategy for meeting such commitment and resources requirement (quadrennial veterans review). Requires each review to be coordinated with the above program. Directs the Secretary to report to the congressional veterans committees on each review.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide annually to the appropriate VA officials written policy guidance for the preparation and review of the planning and program recommendations and budget proposals of the VA elements of such officials.
 
Requires the Secretary to designate a Chief Strategy Officer to advise the Secretary on long-range VA strategy and implications.
 
Directs the Secretary to study (through an independent contractor) and report to the veterans committees on the functions and organizational structure of the Office of the Secretary and the VA, including the most efficient and economical allocation and structure for assisting the Secretary in carrying out duties and responsibilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
Stanislaus River Native Anadromous Fish Improvement Act

Bill: 113-hr-2705
Sponsor: Rep. Denham, Jeff [R-CA-10]
Introduced: 2013-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
California
Dams and canals
Federal preemption
Fishes
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Lakes and rivers
Licensing and registrations
Pest management
Water storage
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: 
Stanislaus River Native Anadromous Fish Improvement Act - Directs the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, the Oakdale Irrigation District, and the South San Joaquin Irrigation District to jointly develop and conduct a pilot non-native predator fish removal program to remove non-native striped bass, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, black bass, and other non-native predator fish from the Stanislaus River. 
 
Requires the program to: (1) be scientifically based; (2) include methods to quantify the number and size of predator fish removed each year, the impact of such removal on the overall abundance of predator fish, and the impact of such removal on the populations of certain juvenile anadromous fish found in the Stanislaus River; and (3) be implemented for five consecutive years. 
 
Requires such Districts to be responsible for the cost of such program. 
 
Directs the Commissioner to post a monthly summary of the raw data on the Bureau website. 
 
Requires the Commissioner and districts, following the completion of the program, to publish a peer reviewed report that discusses findings and makes recommendations for further study and action. 
 
Voids and preempts any California legal restriction imposed on the catch, take, or harvest of any non-native or introduced aquatic or terrestrial species that preys upon specified stocks of anadromous fish and that occupies or is found in the Stanislaus River.
 
Defines &quot;anadromous fish&quot; as native stocks of salmon (including steelhead) that, as of October 30, 1992, were present in and had not been extirpated from the Stanislaus River and that ascend such river to reproduce after maturing in San Francisco Bay or the Pacific Ocean. Excludes any stock, strain, or member of American shad, sockeye salmon, or striped bass. 
 
Prohibits a definition of &quot;anadromous fish&quot; provided in the Central Valley Project Improvement Act from applying to the operation of New Melones Dam and Reservoir or to any federal action in the Stanislaus River. 
 
Requires this Act and the authorities provided under this Act to expire seven years after implementation of the pilot program begins.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2013-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
LEARN Act

Bill: 113-hr-2706
Sponsor: Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3]
Introduced: 2013-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Language arts
Preschool education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: 
 Literacy Education for All, Results for the Nation Act or the LEARN Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to states to develop or improve a comprehensive plan to improve the literacy of children from birth through grade 12. 
 
Directs the Secretary to award grants to states to implement their comprehensive literacy plans for such children through: 
 
 
 competitive subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) or early learning programs for specified activities that support early language and literacy development in children from birth through kindergarten entry; 
 
 competitive subgrants to LEAs that have the highest numbers or percentages of disadvantaged students and students reading or writing below grade level for specified activities to improve the literacy of students in kindergarten through grade 12, including the provision of family literacy services; and 
 
 additional state activities that include providing technical assistance to subgrantees, coordinating literacy programs and resources throughout the state, disseminating information on promising literacy programs, and enhancing the credentials of literacy instructors. 
 
 
Allots implementation grants to states on the basis of each state's share of disadvantaged students.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) perform a five-year national evaluation of the implementation and effect of the literacy initiatives supported by this Act, and (2) provide technical assistance and information on literacy instruction to educational entities.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to withhold this Act's funding from states and subgrantees, and states to withhold funding from subgrantees, whose initiatives are not making significant progress in improving student literacy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4533)
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
Clean Water Compliance and Ratepayer Affordability Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2707
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2013-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Intergovernmental relations
Licensing and registrations
State and local government operations
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: 
Clean Water Compliance and Ratepayer Affordability Act of 2013 - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to carry out a pilot program to work cooperatively with and facilitate the efforts of municipalities to develop and implement integrated plans to meet their wastewater and stormwater obligations under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) in a cost-effective and flexible manner and consistent with the Integrated Municipal Stormwater and Wastewater Approach Framework issued by EPA in May 2012.
 
Directs the Administrator, in consultation with states that have approved National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System programs, to select at least 15 municipalities to participate in the program. Sets forth selection factors, including by giving a priority to those with a history of knowledgeable, detailed, and comprehensive efforts to develop integrated and adaptive clean water management practices, without regard to the municipality's status in the process of planning or implementing them.
 
Provides standards for approval of a municipality's integrated plan under the pilot program, including concerning financial capability, prioritization of obligations under the Clean Water Act, and the use of innovative and flexible approaches to meet obligations.
 
Allows priority to be given to municipalities seeking to develop and implement approaches that adapt to changed or future uncertain circumstances.
 
Provides additional authorities regarding selected municipalities concerning: (1) extension of the allowable national pollutant discharge elimination system permit term, (2) modification of implementation terms of a consent decree, and (3) additional regulatory flexibility in approving and implementing an integrated plan that includes adaptive approaches.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
United States Job Creation and Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2708
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2013-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: 
United States Job Creation and Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2013 - Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend or reduce temporarily certain rates of duty on specified chemicals and other items.
 
Extends through December 31, 2015, certain existing duty suspensions, reductions, and other modification for specified chemicals, food, and other items.
 
Directs U.S. Customs and Border Protection to liquidate or reliquidate certain entries of: (1) orange juice, (2) industrial nitrocellulose from the United Kingdom, (3) polyester fleece sheet sets, (4) top-of-the-stove stainless steel cooking ware from the Republic of Korea, and (5) digital still image video cameras.
 
Makes a technical correction to the article description for stainless steel single-piece exhaust gas manifolds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
To extend the Generalized System of Preferences.

Bill: 113-hr-2709
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2013-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: 
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to extend duty-free treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) through September 30, 2015.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
Restoration of Parental Rights and State Sovereignty Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2710
Sponsor: Rep. Culberson, John Abney [R-TX-7]
Introduced: 2013-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: 
Restoration of Parental Rights and State Sovereignty Act of 2013 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to prohibit the Secretary of Education from forcing a state to satisfy any requirement imposed as a condition of receiving assistance under an ESEA grant program.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from releasing assistance to a state under an ESEA grant program unless the state's legislature has by law expressly approved the program. Allows that approval to be accomplished by a vote to affirm a state budget that includes the use of such federal funds, but requires that budget to expressly include any requirement imposed as a condition on the state's receipt of those funds.
 
Prohibits ESEA funds that are not allocated to a state due to the state's failure to affirmatively agree to their receipt from being reallocated among the other states.
 
Expresses the intent of Congress that control over public education and parental rights to control their children's education is vested exclusively within the authority reserved to the states and individual Americans by the Constitution, except when states expressly approve federal terms or conditions on educational assistance or the federal government is obliged to enforce minimum federal equal protection or due process standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
Nuclear Power Licensing Reform Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2712
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2013-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Emergency planning and evacuation
Licensing and registrations
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Nuclear power
Radioactive wastes and releases
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: 
Nuclear Power Licensing Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require, for a commercial license for an atomic power production or utilization facility, that: (1) the facility does not pose an unreasonable threat to persons or the environment because of safety or security vulnerabilities (including vulnerability to terrorist attacks), and (2) there exist adequate evacuation plans for emergency events which have been approved by the relevant federal agencies and states within 50 miles of the facility.
 
Conditions renewal of any such license on the same criteria and requirements applicable to an original application for initial construction.
 
Directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to ensure that any changes in the size or distribution of the surrounding population, or seismic or other scientific data not available at the time of original licensing, have not resulted in the facility's being located at a site at which a new facility would not be allowed to be built.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
Capital Gains Easement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2713
Sponsor: Rep. Meadows, Mark [R-NC-11]
Introduced: 2013-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax exclusion
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: 
Capital Gains Easement Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income, for income tax purposes, any gain from the sale or grant of a qualified real property interest to a tax-exempt organization made exclusively for conservation purposes. Defines &quot;qualified real property interest&quot; as any interest in real property which is: (1) the entire interest of the taxpayer, (2) a remainder interest, or (3) a restriction (granted in perpetuity) on the use which may be made of the real property. Exempts such a sale or grant of a qualified real property interest from the application of estate tax property valuation rules.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
American Conservation Empowerment Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2714
Sponsor: Rep. Meadows, Mark [R-NC-11]
Introduced: 2013-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Income tax deductions
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: 
American Conservation Empowerment Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer to assign to any other person excess amounts of charitable contributions of real property interests made for conservation purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in House