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To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Hamlet, North Carolina, as the "Edward 'Ed' James O'Neal Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic".

Bill: 113-hr-5265
Sponsor: Rep. Hudson, Richard [R-NC-8]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Health facilities and institutions
Home and outpatient care
North Carolina
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) community-based outpatient clinic located in Hamlet, North Carolina, as the "Edward 'Ed' James O'Neal Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic."


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-08-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Pet and Women Safety Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5267
Sponsor: Rep. Clark, Katherine M. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Assault and harassment offenses
Crime victims
Crimes against animals and natural resources
Crimes against women
Domestic violence and child abuse
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Sex offenses
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Pet and Women Safety Act of 2014 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit threats or acts of violence against a person's pet under the offenses of stalking and interstate violation of a protection order. Defines &quot;pet&quot; to mean a domesticated animal that is kept for pleasure rather than for commercial purposes.
 
Requires the &quot;full amount of the victim's losses&quot; for purposes of restitution in domestic violence and stalking offenses to include any costs incurred for veterinary services relating to physical care for the victim's pet.
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to award grants to eligible entities to carry out programs to provide specified housing assistance, support services, and training of relevant stakeholders to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and their pets.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that states should encourage the inclusion of protections against violent or threatening acts against the pet of the person in domestic violence protection orders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2014-09-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development, and Credit.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Preventing Government Printing Overreach Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5268
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government Publishing Office (GPO)
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Preventing Government Printing Overreach Act of 2014 - Prohibits the Public Printer from assembling or manufacturing any secure credentials or the component parts of any such credential.
 
Makes such prohibition inapplicable to the following activities: 
 
 
stitching security paper into an already assembled eCover for the Department of State;
 
 manufacturing NEXUS and SENTRI cards pursuant to any existing contract or purchase order until the earlier of the date on which such contract expires or such purchase order is filled, or December 31, 2015;
 
assembling or manufacturing any secure credentials specifically at the request of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or the National Security Agency (NSA) for use in classified programs or activities; and 
 
 manufacturing identification badges for the presidential inauguration. 
 
 
Defines &quot;secure credential&quot; to mean an identification document that includes component security parts designed to authenticate the document or reduce the risk of the unauthorized replication or alteration of the document.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Growing American Shipping Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5270
Sponsor: Rep. Garamendi, John [D-CA-3]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Licensing and registrations
Marine and inland water transportation
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Growing American Shipping Act of 2014 - Amends the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2006 to expand the directive to the Department of Transportation (DOT) to develop and implement a program to promote the transportation of imports of liquefied natural gas to the United States on U.S.-flag vessels to include the promotion of the transportation of exports of the gas from the United States.
 
Amends the Deepwater Port Act of 1974 to require DOT to give top priority to the processing of a license for liquefied natural gas facilities at a deepwater port that will supply the gas to be exported on U.S.-flag vessels in addition to the priority currently given to the processing of licenses for imports of the gas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Post-9/11 Veterans Education Fairness Act

Bill: 113-hr-5273
Sponsor: Rep. Barber, Ron [D-AZ-2]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Family relationships
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Post-9/11 Veterans Education Fairness Act - Allows former members of the Armed Forces and Armed Forces Reserves who are entitled to Post-9/11 Educational Assistance to transfer those benefits to family members within 15 years after their discharge or release from military service. (Currently, this transfer authority is restricted to members of the Armed Forces who transfer such entitlement while serving in the Armed Forces.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-08-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to allow voluntary agreements for Social Security and Medicare coverage of employees of Guam and American Samoa.

Bill: 113-hr-5274
Sponsor: Del. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: American Samoa
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Guam
Intergovernmental relations
Medicare
Social security and elderly assistance
State and local government operations
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Commissioner of Social Security, at the request of Guam or American Samoa, to enter into or modify an agreement extending the OASDI insurance system (including coverage, at territorial option, under SSA title XVIII [Medicare]) to services performed by employees of such territories.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1272-1273)
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
MORE Act

Bill: 113-hr-5275
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Maximizing Opportunities and Retaining Experienced Teachers Act or the MORE Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide up to $17,500 of loan forgiveness under the Federal Family Education Loan and William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan programs to highly qualified elementary and secondary school teachers who are employed in a teacher shortage area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Bike to Work Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5276
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commuting
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Pedestrians and bicycling
Public transit

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Bike to Work Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include a bicycle sharing system as a mass transit facility for purposes of the tax exclusion of employer-paid commuting expenses. Defines "bicycle sharing system" as a public transportation system: (1) consisting of a network of stations at which bicycles are made available to customers for commuting and short-term, point-to-point use within the network's service area; and (2) that is operated or authorized by a government agency or public-private partnership. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
SOS Campus Act

Bill: 113-hr-5277
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against women
Education programs funding
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Evidence and witnesses
Higher education
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Right of privacy
School administration
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Survivor Outreach and Support Campus Act or the SOS Campus Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require each institution of higher education (IHE) that participates in the programs under title IV (Student Assistance) to designate an independent advocate for campus sexual assault prevention and response (Advocate) with experience in providing sexual assault victim services.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to prescribe regulations for IHEs to follow in appointing Advocates.
 
Requires each Advocate to: (1) report to an individual outside the body responsible for investigating and adjudicating sexual assault complaints at the IHE, (2) submit to such individual an annual report summarizing how the resources supplied to the Advocate were used, and (3) represent the interests of each student victim even when they conflict with the IHE's interests.
 
Directs each Advocate to:
 
 
ensure that sexual assault victims at the IHE receive, with their consent, specified information and services;
 
guide sexual assault victims who request assistance through the reporting, counseling, administrative, medical and health, academic accommodations, or legal processes of the IHE or local law enforcement;
 
attend, at the request of a sexual assault victim, any administrative or IHE-based adjudication proceeding related to such assault as an advocate for the victim;
 
maintain the privacy and confidentiality of the victim and any witness to such sexual assault, without notifying the IHE or any other authority of the identity of the victim or of any such witness or the alleged circumstances surrounding the reported sexual assault, unless otherwise required to do so by state law; and
 
conduct a public information campaign to inform the students enrolled at the IHE of the existence of, contact information for, and services provided by the Advocate.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
SWEET Act

Bill: 113-hr-5279
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Digestive and metabolic diseases
Food industry and services
Government trust funds
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Inflation and prices
Nutrition and diet
Research administration and funding
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Tax Act of 2014 or the SWEET Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on the sale or transfer of any specified sugar-sweetened beverage product by the manufacturer, producer, or importer thereof. Establishes the rate of such tax as 1cent per 4.2 grams of caloric sweetener contained in such product.
 
Transfers revenues from such tax to the Prevention and Public Health Fund for the sole purpose of funding programs and research to reduce the human and economic costs of diabetes, obesity, dental caries, and other diet-related health conditions in priority populations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Employee Empowerment Act

Bill: 113-hr-5280
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Labor standards
Labor-management relations
Legal fees and court costs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Employee Empowerment Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to authorize a person alleging an unfair labor practice by an employer by discrimination regarding hiring or tenure of employment or any term or condition of employment to encourage or discourage membership in any labor organization, in addition to filing a charge alleging an unfair labor practice with the National Labor Relations Board, to bring a civil action against such employer in U.S. district court.
 
Authorizes the court to grant relief (including injunctive and equitable relief, back pay, and compensatory and punitive damages) and allow the prevailing party a reasonable attorney's fee (including expert witness fees) as part of the costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Young Savers Security in Retirement Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5281
Sponsor: Rep. Hanna, Richard L. [R-NY-22]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Young Savers Security in Retirement Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a tax-exempt individual retirement account for taxpayers under age 18, to be known as a young savers account. Treats such accounts as Roth individual retirement accounts for income tax purposes. Allows the tax credit for retirement savings for contributions to a young savers account. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay any overpayment of tax that is attributable to the tax credit for retirement savings to the taxpayer's young savers account. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Medgar Wiley Evers Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 113-hr-5282
Sponsor: Rep. Harper, Gregg [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Mississippi
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Medgar Wiley Evers Congressional Gold Medal Act - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the posthumous presentation of a congressional gold medal in commemoration of Medgar Wiley Evers, in recognition of his contributions and sacrifice in the fight for racial equality in the United States. Requires the medal, following its award, to be given to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, where it is to be available for display or temporary loan to be displayed elsewhere.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Land-Based Marine Debris Reduction Act

Bill: 113-hr-5283
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures
Manufacturing
Marine pollution
Solid waste and recycling
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Land-Based Marine Debris Reduction Act - Declares national goals of: (1) no increase in the generation of solid waste sent to landfills, (2) recycling of at least 50% of the municipal solid waste stream by the end of 2020 and 65% by the end of 2030, and (3) no increase in the flow of marine debris into the ocean.
 
Requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to report on: (1) municipal solid waste generation, waste management methods, and progress in meeting the goals; (2) leakage paths of marine debris into the ocean; and (3) landfill closures.
 
Directs the EPA to develop a list of categories of commonly used products and packaging that are discarded into the municipal solid waste stream and determine with respect to the products or packaging in each category: (1) the percentage of recovered materials used in their manufacture; (2) the source reduction and recovery efficiency; (3) the percentage that is recycled upon discard and the percentage that is littered; and (4) the life cycle environmental effects associated with them, compared to alternatives.
 
Requires the EPA to identify categories to be targeted for regulatory action. Authorizes regulations requiring manufacturers to use recovered materials in the product or packaging.
 
Directs the EPA and the Department of Commerce to develop a voluntary system of packaging standards with respect to materials contained within the packaging and the recyclability of the packaging upon discard. Requires the standard to provide that packaging that meets the standards be eligible to use a label indicating compliance for promotional and educational purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the work opportunity tax credit and to allow the transfer of such credit in the case of contracted veterans.

Bill: 113-hr-5284
Sponsor: Rep. Jolly, David [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Employee hiring
Income tax credits
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the work opportunity tax credit, to: (1) make such credit permanent, and (2) allow the transfer of credit amounts to an individual other than the employer for computer services performed by a qualified veteran (i.e. an unemployed veteran with a service-connected disability).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House