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To require certain certifications before funds may be awarded for the operation of a Navigator program under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-2980
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Consumer affairs
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Insurance industry and regulation
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
 Prohibits the award by states of American Health Benefit Exchange grant funds under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to an entity for the operation of a Navigator program (to raise awareness of the availability of qualified health plans) or for facilitation or advocacy for enrollment in a qualified health plan, until the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) certifies to Congress that the entity has certified that it will not use such funds to: (1) provide advice concerning benefits, terms, and features of a particular qualified health plan or offer advice about which such plan is better or worse or suitable for a particular individual or employer; (2) recommend or endorse a particular qualified health plan or advise consumers about which plan to choose; (3) accept any compensation or consideration dependent, in whole or in part, on whether an individual enrolls in or purchases such a plan; or (4) violate any applicable insurance law or regulation of the applicable state or any subpoena or order of the state's insurance commissioner.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2983
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures
Government information and archives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Oil and gas
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2013 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require states, in order to obtain primary enforcement responsibility for a state underground injection control program, to prohibit the underground injection of fluids or propping agents pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations related to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities unless the person proposing to conduct the hydraulic fracturing operations agrees to conduct testing and report data in accordance with this Act.
 
Directs regulations under such Act for state underground injection control programs to require any person conducting such hydraulic fracturing operations to: (1) conduct testing of underground sources of drinking water in accordance with sampling and testing requirements described in this Act, and (2) report to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the results of such testing.
 
Exempts hydraulic fracturing operations from such testing and reporting requirements if there is no accessible underground source of drinking water within a radius of one mile of the site where the operations occur.
 
Requires the Administrator to establish and maintain a publicly accessible and searchable database of such results.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5353)
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Bureau of Corrections Renaming Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2984
Sponsor: Rep. Chaffetz, Jason [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Department of Justice
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Bureau of Corrections Renaming Act of 2013 - Renames the Bureau of Prisons in the Department of Justice (DOJ) as the Bureau of Corrections. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Combination Drug Development Incentive Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2985
Sponsor: Rep. Chaffetz, Jason [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Prescription drugs
Product development and innovation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Combination Drug Development Incentive Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the five-year bar on a new drug application (or abbreviated drug application) by anyone that has not obtained a right of reference or use from the original and approved drug approval applicant by or for whom investigations under the original, subsequently approved application were conducted.
 
Applies this five-year bar, and the requirement of a grant of a right of reference or use, with respect to an approved drug application (or abbreviated drug application) if: (1) the application contains reports of new clinical investigations (other than bioavailability studies) essential to the approval of the application and conducted or sponsored by the applicant, (2) the application is for a drug which contains a combination of active ingredients (combination drug), and (3) no such combination of active ingredients has been approved in any other application.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Access to Primary Care Act

Bill: 113-hr-2986
Sponsor: Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Protecting Access to Primary Care Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to extend to nurse practitioners, physician assistants, clinical nurse specialists, and certified nurse midwives payment for primary care services furnished in 2013 and 2014 at a rate not less than 100% of the Medicare payment rate applicable to physician for such services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
PTC Certainty and Phaseout Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2987
Sponsor: Rep. Fitzpatrick, Michael G. [R-PA-8]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
PTC Certainty and Phaseout Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for production of electricity from wind facilities, to: (1) extend until December 31, 2019, the date by which construction of wind facilities eligible for such credit must begin, and (2) provide for a annual reduction in the percentage rate of such credit between 2015 and 2019. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Forty Hours Is Full Time Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2988
Sponsor: Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Forty Hours is Full Time Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the employer mandate to provide health care coverage, to: (1) modify the formula for calculating the number of full-time employees employed by an applicable large employer subject to the mandate; and (2) define a &quot;full-time employee&quot; as an employee who is employed on average at least 40 hours per week (currently, 30 hours).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Latin America Military Training Review Act

Bill: 113-hr-2989
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Educational facilities and institutions
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Human rights
Latin America
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Military education and training
Military personnel and dependents
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Latin America Military Training Review Act - Directs the Secretary of the Army to suspend operation of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (Institute). Suspends the authority of the Secretary of Defense to operate such an education and training facility until submission of a report containing the results of an investigation in response to violations of human rights to which training at such Institute contributed. 
 
Establishes: (1) a joint congressional task force to assess appropriate education and training for DOD to provide to military personnel of Latin American nations, and (2) a commission to investigate activities of the United States Army School of the Americas and its successor institution, the Institute.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
STOP Act

Bill: 113-hr-2990
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-35]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Department of the Treasury
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Indian lands and resources rights
Law enforcement administration and funding
Licensing and registrations
Manufacturing
Retail and wholesale trades
Sales and excise taxes
Smuggling and trafficking
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Smuggled Tobacco Prevention Act of 2013 or the STOP Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to restrict the sale, lease, export or import, or delivery of tobacco production machines to persons lawfully engaged in: (1) the sale, lease, export or import, or delivery of such machines; (2) the manufacture or packaging of tobacco products or processed tobacco; or (3) the application of unique identification markings onto tobacco products or processed tobacco packages. Requires every person having possession or control of such machines to register then immediately with the Secretary upon installation. Defines "tobacco production machine" as a machine used to manufacture or package tobacco products or processed tobacco or to apply unique identification markings or other tax-payment indicia to packages of tobacco products or processed tobacco. Extends record keeping requirements to wholesalers and retailers of tobacco products and processed tobacco. 
 
Requires manufacturers and importers of tobacco products to affix a unique identification marking to each package of tobacco products or processed tobacco prior to sale or distribution in the United States or prior to export. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to design a system of unique identification markings that does not interfere with state, local, or tribal tax stamps and markings and that provides a unique serial number or tracking code for each tobacco product.
 
Requires wholesalers of tobacco products to obtain permits for selling or exporting tobacco products.
 
Establishes new criminal offenses relating to the licensing and distribution of tobacco products or processed tobacco. Increases the civil penalty for tobacco-related infractions from $1,000 to $10,000.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to coordinate with other federal agencies and officials to prevent and reduce tobacco tax evasion and contraband trafficking in tobacco products and processed tobacco.
 
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to impose a civil penalty for the importation of tobacco products and cigarette papers and tubes by fraudulent means.
 
Provides for the enforcement of this Act in Indian tribal areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians Restoration Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2991
Sponsor: Rep. Daines, Steve [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Indian social and development programs
Land transfers
Montana

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians Restoration Act of 2013 - Extends federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana. Makes the Tribe and each member eligible for all services and benefits provided by the United States to Indians and federally recognized Indian tribes, without regard to the existence of a reservation for the Tribe or the location of the residence of any member on or near an Indian reservation. 
 
Considers the federal service area of the Tribe to be the area comprised of Blaine, Cascade, Glacier, and Hill Counties, Montana.
 
 Directs the Tribe, as a condition of receiving recognition, services, and benefits pursuant to this Act, to submit to the Secretary of the Interior a membership roll consisting of the name of each individual enrolled as a member of the Tribe. Requires the Tribe to maintain such membership roll. 
 
Directs the Secretary to acquire, for the benefit of the Tribe, trust title to 200 acres of land within the Tribe's service area to be used for a tribal land base. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Business Activity Tax Simplification Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2992
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Business Activity Tax Simplification Act of 2013 - Expands the federal prohibition against state taxation of interstate commerce to: (1) include taxation of out-of-state transactions involving all forms of property, including intangible personal property and services (currently, only sales of tangible personal property are protected); and (2) prohibit state taxation of an out-of-state entity unless such entity has a physical presence in the taxing state. Sets forth criteria for: (1) determining that a person has a physical presence in a state, and (2) the computation of the tax liability of affiliated businesses operating in a state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-26
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Taxpayer Conscience Protection Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2993
Sponsor: Rep. Olson, Pete [R-TX-22]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Medicaid
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Taxpayer Conscience Protection Act of 2013 - Directs each state that makes a Medicaid payment from federal funds during the fiscal year for any items or services furnished by an abortion provider to: (1) report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) on all such payments, and (2) publish the report on a public Internet website of the state.
 
Requires an annual report to specified congressional committees on such reports, which shall also be published on a public Internet HHS website. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Mortgage Forgiveness Tax Relief Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2994
Sponsor: Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Mortgage Forgiveness Tax Relief Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2014 the exclusion from gross income of income attributable to the discharge of indebtedness on a principal residence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Unnecessary Cap Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2995
Sponsor: Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Unnecessary Cap Act of 2013 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal the annual limitation on deductibles under the essential health benefits of employer-sponsored qualified health plans of: (1) $2,000 in the case of a plan covering a single individual, and (2) $4,000 in the case of any other plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
One In, Two Out Act

Bill: 113-hr-2997
Sponsor: Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
One In, Two Out Act - Prohibits a federal agency from: (1) issuing a new rule unless such agency has repealed two or more existing rules that impose a cost or responsibility on a nongovernmental person or state or local government and that are, to the extent practicable, related to the new rule; or (2) issuing a major rule (generally, a rule that has an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more) unless such agency has repealed two or more rules that are related to such major rule and the cost of the new major rule is less than or equal to the cost of the rules being repealed. Requires any rule that is repealed to be published in the Federal Register.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Investor Choice Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2998
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Financial services and investments
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Investor Choice Act of 2013 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to revise the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to prohibit, or impose conditions or limitations on the use of, agreements that require customers or clients of any broker, dealer, or municipal securities dealer to arbitrate any future dispute between them arising under the federal securities laws, related rules and regulations, or the rules of a self-regulatory organization if it finds that prohibition, imposition of conditions, or limitations are in the public interest and for the protection of investors. 
 
Declares unlawful for a broker, dealer, funding portal, or municipal securities dealer (entities) to enter into, modify, or extend an agreement with customers or clients governing a future dispute between the parties that would mandate arbitration.
 
Declares likewise unlawful acts by such entities that would restrict, limit, or condition the ability of a customer or client to: (1) select or designate a forum for dispute resolution, or (2) pursue a claim relating to a dispute in an individual or representative capacity or on a class action or consolidated basis. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House