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Decrease Spending Now Act

Bill: 113-hr-828
Sponsor: Rep. Price, Tom [R-GA-6]
Introduced: 2013-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: 
Decrease Spending Now Act - Rescinds $45 billion of unobligated balances of current discretionary appropriations.
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to: (1) determine which appropriation accounts the rescission shall apply to and the amount that each such account shall be reduced, and (2) report to the Secretary of the Treasury and Congress a list of the accounts reduced by the rescission, including the amounts rescinded from each such account.
 
Exempts from such rescission the Department of Defense (DOD), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the Social Security Administration (SSA).
 

 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of Illabot Creek in Skagit County, Washington, as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Bill: 113-hr-829
Sponsor: Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2013-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Washington State
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: 
Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a specified segment of the Illabot Creek in Skagit County, Washington, as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. 

action_date: 2013-05-17
text: 

 
Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a specified segment of the Illabot Creek in Skagit County, Washington, as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. 
 
Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) from acquiring lands or interests within the boundaries of the Illabot Creek Wild and Scenic River by condemnation. 
 
Specifies this Act's effect on the creation of protective perimeters and buffer zones. 
 
Prohibits the inclusion of private and non-federal property within the River's boundaries without the owner's written consent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 50.
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-74.
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-74.
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Discharged.
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E193)
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-831
Sponsor: Rep. Harper, Gregg [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: 
Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Labor to discontinue issuing to any new profit or non-profit or governmental entity special wage certificates (which permit individuals with disabilities, including individuals employed in agriculture, to be paid at lower than minimum wages).
 
Prescribes requirements for a three-year phase-out of all certificates.
 
Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to repeal authority and requirements for the issuance of such certificates three years after enactment of this Act. Requires revocation of any certificates remaining at that time.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation and Improvement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-832
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2013-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Department of the Interior
Executive agency funding and structure
Floods and storm protection
Pipelines
Texas
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: 
Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation and Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends the Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation and Improvement Act of 2000 to authorize specified additional projects, including projects for water conservation and improvement in Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy, Hudspeth, and El Paso counties, Texas.

Permits each project that the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, conducts or participates in to include: (1) the replacement of irrigation canals and lateral canals with buried pipelines; (2) the impervious lining of irrigation canals and lateral canals; (3) the installation of water level, flow measurement, pump control, and telemetry systems; (4) the renovation and replacement of pumping plants; and (5) other activities that will result in water conservation or an improved water supply.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to require that the Purple Heart occupy a position of precedence above the new Distinguished Warfare Medal.

Bill: 113-hr-833
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan D. [R-CA-50]
Introduced: 2013-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Conflicts and wars
Department of Defense
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: 
Requires the Purple Heart to be placed in precedence above the Distinguished Warfare Medal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Efficiencies Through Savings Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-834
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2013-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Health facilities and institutions
Performance measurement
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: 
Veterans' Efficiencies Through Savings Act of 2013 or VETS Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the provision of medical care by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for: (1) any 75 square mile area where three or more VA outpatient clinics are located, and (2) any 100 square mile area where two or more VA hospitals are located.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Energy Assistance for American Families Act

Bill: 113-hr-835
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2013-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Energy assistance for the poor and aged

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: 
Energy Assistance for American Families Act - Amends the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to authorize appropriations for FY2014-FY2018. 
 
Permits a state to use any allotment from such appropriations to assist households whose income does not exceed 75% of the state median income.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2013-02-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Sunshine on Conflicts Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-836
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Gary G. [R-CA-31]
Introduced: 2013-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Licensing and registrations
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: 
Sunshine on Conflicts Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a rule within 60 days to prohibit any member of a board or body that approves permit applications for the discharge of pollutants from seeking to influence the approval of any permit in which that member has a financial interest.
 
Provides that the requirement that state national pollutant discharge elimination system programs ensure that any board or body that approves permits excludes as a member any person who receives or has received during the previous two years a significant portion of income from permit holders or applicants shall have no force or effect after the earlier of the date on which such rule is issued or 120 days after this Act's enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Savings for American Families' Future Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-837
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-1]
Introduced: 2013-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: 
Savings for American Families' Future Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the rate of the tax credit for retirement savings contributions, (2) make such credit refundable, and (3) direct the Secretary of the Treasury to pay matching credit amounts into taxpayer retirement accounts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Racial Profiling Prevention Act

Bill: 113-hr-838
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Freedom of information
Government information and archives
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Racial and ethnic relations
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: 
Racial Profiling Prevention Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to make a grant to a state that: (1) has enacted and is enforcing a law that prohibits a state or local law enforcement officer from using the race or ethnicity (racial profiling) of the driver or passengers in making routine or spontaneous law enforcement decisions, such as ordinary traffic stops on federal-aid highways; and (2) allows and maintains public inspection statistical information for each motor vehicle stop made by a law enforcement officer on a federal-aid highway regarding the race and ethnicity of the driver and any passengers. Requires grant-receiving states to provide assurances to the Secretary that they are undertaking activities to comply with such requirements.
 
Requires a state to use such grants for the costs of: (1) collecting, maintaining, and evaluating the results of data on traffic stops; and (2) activities to comply with the requirements of this Act.
 
Declares that nothing in this Act shall alter the manner in which a state or local law enforcement officer considers race or ethnicity whenever there is trustworthy information that links persons of a particular race or ethnicity to an identified criminal incident, scheme, or organization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E195-196)
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Prompt Notification of Short Sales Act

Bill: 113-hr-839
Sponsor: Rep. Rooney, Thomas J. [R-FL-17]
Introduced: 2013-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: 
Prompt Notification of Short Sales Act - Requires each servicer of a home mortgage to provide in writing to a mortgagor of a residential mortgage loan specified prompt notifications and decisions regarding a written request of the mortgagor for a short sale of the dwelling or residential real property that is subject to the mortgage, deed of trust, or other security interest securing the mortgage loan.
 
Authorizes an aggrieved individual to bring a civil action for equitable relief and a monetary award of $1,000 for any violation of this Act. 
 
Declares this Act inapplicable to certain residential mortgages entered into before its enactment whose mortgage agreements explicitly provide a procedure or terms for a short sale approval.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
To improve services for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.

Bill: 113-hr-840
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: American Samoa
Appropriations
Crime victims
Crimes against women
District of Columbia
Guam
Law enforcement administration and funding
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Sex offenses
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: 
Amends the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 to increase from 0.125% to 1.5% the allocation of appropriations to each of the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands for grants to support the establishment, maintenance, and expansion of rape crisis centers and other programs and projects to assist those victimized by sexual assault. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Functional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders Research Enhancement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-842
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2013-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Digestive and metabolic diseases
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: 
Functional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders Research Enhancement Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand, intensify, and coordinate NIH activities with respect to functional gastrointestinal and motility disorders (FGIMDs), including by: (1) expanding basic and clinical research into FGIMDs by implementing the research recommendations of the National Commission on Digestive Diseases, (2) providing support for the establishment of centers of excellence on FGIMDs, (3) directing the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to provide the necessary funding for the continued expansion and advancement of the FGIMDs research portfolio through intramural and extramural research, and (4) directing such Institute and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to expand research into FGIMDs that impact children.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to engage in public awareness and education activities to increase understanding and recognition of FGIMDs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
San Francisco Bay Restoration Act

Bill: 113-hr-843
Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2013-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: California
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Water quality
Watersheds
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: 
San Francisco Bay Restoration Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide funding for activities, studies, or projects, including restoration projects and habitat improvement for fish, waterfowl, and wildlife, that are identified in an annual priority list and that advance the goals and objectives of the comprehensive management plan for the San Francisco estuary. 
 
Authorizes funding to be provided through cooperative agreements, grants, or other means to state and local agencies, special districts, public or nonprofit agencies, institutions, and organizations. Prohibits funding from being used for the administration of a management conference for the San Francisco estuary under the National Estuary Program.
 
Requires the Administrator, in developing the priority list, to consult with and consider the recommendations of: (1) the San Francisco Estuary Partnership, (2) the state of California and affected local governments in the San Francisco Bay estuary watershed, and (3) any other relevant stakeholder involved with the protection and restoration of such estuary.
 
Limits funding amounts under this Act to 75% of the total cost of eligible activities to be carried out using those amounts.
 
Authorizes the Administrator to carry out this Act for each of FY2013-FY2017. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
VetSuccess Enhancement Act

Bill: 113-hr-844
Sponsor: Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-41]
Introduced: 2013-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: 
VetSuccess Enhancement Act - Extends from 12 to 17 years after discharge or release from active-duty service the authorized period for veterans with service-connected disabilities to enroll in certain Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) vocational training and rehabilitation programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2013-04-10
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-845
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2013-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Civil actions and liability
Higher education
Intellectual property
Legal fees and court costs
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-27
text: 
Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of 2013 - Amends federal patent law, with respect to the remedies available in actions involving validity or infringement of a patent, to allow a party asserting invalidity or noninfringement to move for a judgment that the adverse party is not: (1) the inventor, a joint inventor, or in the case of a patent filed by, and awarded to, an assignee of the original inventor or joint inventor, the original assignee of the patent; (2) able to provide documentation of substantial investment made in the exploitation of the patent through production or sale of an item covered by the patent; or (3) an institution of higher education or a technology transfer organization.
 
Directs courts making such a judgment to award the recovery of full costs to any prevailing party asserting invalidity or noninfringement, including reasonable attorney's fees, other than the United States, unless exceptional circumstances make an award unjust.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet.
action_date: 2013-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-27
text: Introduced in House