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Multispecies Habitat Conservation Plan Implementation Act

Bill: 113-s-757
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2013-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Lakes and rivers
Land transfers
Nevada
Water quality
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: 
 Multispecies Habitat Conservation Plan Implementation Act - Amends P.L. 99-548, commonly known as the Mesquite Lands Act of 1986, to require proceeds from sales of parcels of public lands in Mesquite, Nevada, to be used for the implementation of a multispecies habitat conservation plan for the Virgin River in Clark County, Nevada, including any associated groundwater monitoring plan.
 
Amends the Lincoln County Land Act of 2000 to require implementation of a multispecies habitat conservation plan in Lincoln County, Nevada. 
 
Extends, until November 29, 2021, withdrawal and purchase authority with respect to the fifth and sixth areas. 

action_date: 2013-06-27
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
 Multispecies Habitat Conservation Plan Implementation Act - Amends P.L. 99-548, commonly known as the Mesquite Lands Act of 1986, to require proceeds from sales of parcels of public lands in Mesquite, Nevada, to be used for the implementation of a multispecies habitat conservation plan for the Virgin River in Clark County, Nevada, including any associated groundwater monitoring plan.
 
Amends the Lincoln County Land Act of 2000 to require implementation of a multispecies habitat conservation plan in Lincoln County, Nevada. 
 
Extends, until November 29, 2021, withdrawal and purchase authority with respect to the fifth and sixth areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-27
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 122.
action_date: 2013-06-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Wyden without amendment. With written report No. 113-68.
action_date: 2013-06-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Wyden without amendment. With written report No. 113-68.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-28.
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Spouse Job Continuity Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-759
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2013-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Licensing and registrations
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: 
Military Spouse Job Continuity Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces (military spouse) who moves with such member to another state under a permanent change of station order a tax credit for up to $500 of qualified relicensing costs incurred by such spouse. Defines "qualified relicensing costs" as costs for a state license or certification to engage in the profession that such military spouse engaged in while residing in the former state. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Government Customer Service Improvement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-760
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2013-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: 
Government Customer Service Improvement Act of 2013 - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to develop government-wide standards for customer service delivery, which shall be included in the Federal Government Performance Plan. Requires such standards to include: (1) government-wide goals for continuous service improvements and efforts to modernize service delivery; and (2) government-wide target response times for telephone calls, electronic mail, mail, benefit processing, and payments. 
 
Directs: (1) the Chief Performance Officer for each executive agency to establish customer service standards in accordance with such government-wide standards, which shall be included in Agency Performance Plans; (2) the Performance Improvement Officer for each agency to collect information from customers of the agency regarding the quality of customer service provided; and (3) the Director to include agency achievements in meeting such standards and customer service performance measures in each required update on agency performance.
 
Requires: (1) the Director to establish a two-year Service Improvement Unit Pilot Program to provide assistance to agencies that do not meet such government-wide standards, and (2) the Administrator of General Services (GSA) to provide administrative and other support to implement such Program.
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to: (1) submit to Congress and the Comptroller General (GAO) and issue publicly every month a report on information submitted by each federal agency regarding its employees who are retiring and pending applications for retirement benefits, (2) establish a timetable for completion of OPM's retirement systems modernization project and a deadline by which all federal payroll processing entities will electronically transmit all personnel data to OPM, and (3) include in each annual budget request a statement on OPM's progress in completing such project and resources needed to implement it.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to improve the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

Bill: 113-s-762
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2013-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Energy assistance for the poor and aged
Food assistance and relief
Government information and archives
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: 
Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to make eligible for the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP, formerly the food stamp program) households in which each member receives cash assistance under the temporary assistance to needy families program (TANF), cash assistance under the supplemental security income program (SSI), or aid to the aged, blind, or disabled program (AABD). (Current law bases categorical SNAP eligibility upon state benefits received rather than such assistance.) 
 
Requires an eligible household that previously received SNAP benefits and applies for program reenrollment to complete a new application and verify that household income and assets are in program compliance. 
 
Limits the employment requirement waiver to areas with an unemployment rate over 10%.
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to develop a centralized database to facilitate USDA-state agency cooperation in order to ensure that individuals do not enroll for benefits in more than one state.
 
Requires states that are sanctioned for three consecutive years of improper payments to pay the entire liability amount, with no alternative payment option available.
 
Eliminates: (1) the exclusion of low-income home energy assistance from SNAP household income determinations, (2) funding of employment and training programs, and (3) bonuses for states with low SNAP allocation error rates. 
 
Provides funding for state nutrition and obesity prevention grant programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Underground Gas Storage Facility Safety Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-763
Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2013-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Energy storage, supplies, demand
Federal preemption
Oil and gas
Pipelines
State and local government operations
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: 
Underground Gas Storage Facility Safety Act of 2013 - Revises federal pipeline safety requirements to authorize states to enforce state requirements for the safe construction and operation of underground gas storage wellbores and underground hazardous liquid storage wellbores if: (1) the requirement has been approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), or (2) FERC fails to approve such requirement within 30 days after its submission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Patients' Right to Know Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-764
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2013-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health promotion and preventive care
Insurance industry and regulation
Sales and excise taxes
User charges and fees
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: 
Patients Right to Know Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require health plans to disclose in writing to consumers: (1) the annual fee on health insurance providers under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, (2) the annual fees imposed on health insurance policies, (3) required contributions by health plans to the reinsurance program, (4) user fees on health plans participating in health insurance exchanges, (5) payments by health plans whose costs are lower than the target amount (premiums collected minus administrative costs), and (6) charges assessed by states on health plans whose enrollees have a lower actuarial risk than the average actuarial risk of all enrollees in a state. Allows such costs to be calculated separately for individual, small group, or large group markets.
 
Requires the Comptroller General (GAO) to study the methods of calculating the impact on average premium costs associated with: (1) guaranteed issuance of coverage and community rated premiums, (2) limitations on age rating, (3) required coverage of preventive services, and (4) the requirement that plans cover at least 60% of the actuarial value of essential health benefits.
 
Requires Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make the disclosures under this Act and the GAO study available to the general public through an Internet website.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2799-2800)
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Native American Indian Education Act

Bill: 113-s-765
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2013-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Appropriations
Education programs funding
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Minority education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: 
Native American Indian Education Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to pay institutions of higher education the out-of-state tuition of their Indian students if the schools are required to provide a tuition-free education, with the support of their state, to Native American Indian students in fulfillment of a condition under which the college or state received its original grant of land and facilities from the federal government.
 
Limits that payment each fiscal year to the institution's total out-of-state tuition for Native American Indian students in academic year 2012-2013.
 
Treats such payments as reimbursements to such institutions from their states.
 
Rescinds unobligated discretionary appropriations to offset the costs of this program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend section 520 of the Housing Act of 1949 to revise the census data and population requirements for areas to be considered as rural areas for purposes of such Act.

Bill: 113-s-766
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2013-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Housing and community development funding
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: 
Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to extend certain requirements for consideration as a rural area with respect to assistance for farm housing.
 
 Declares that any area classified as &quot;rural&quot; or a &quot;rural area&quot; before October 1, 1990, and determined not to be one as a result of data received from or after the 2010 decennial census, and any area deemed to be a &quot;rural area&quot; for purposes of the Act under any other provision of law at any time between January 1, 2000, and December 31, 2010, shall continue to be so classified until the receipt of data from the decennial census in the year 2020, if that area has a population of between 10,000 and 35,000 (currently, between 10,000 and 25,000), is rural in character, and has a serious lack of mortgage credit for lower and moderate-income families.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Social Security Totalization Agreement Reform Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-767
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2013-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Foreign labor
International law and treaties
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: 
Social Security Totalization Agreement Reform Act of 2013 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide that any agreement to establish a totalization arrangement which is entered into with another country shall enter into force with respect to the United States if (and only if): (1) the President, at least 90 calendar days before the date on which he enters into the agreement, notifies each House of Congress of his intention to enter into it, and promply thereafter publishes notice of such intention in the Federal Register; (2) he transmits the text of such agreement to each House of the Congress; and (3) a joint resolution regarding such agreement has passed both Houses of Congress and been enacted into federal law.
 
Sets forth procedures for the consideration of such a joint resolution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Sound Money Promotion Act

Bill: 113-s-768
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2013-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Currency
Income tax exclusion
Metals

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: 
Sound Money Promotion Act - Exempts gold and silver coins declared to be legal tender by the federal government or any state government from taxation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-769
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2013-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Utah
Water use and supply
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2013 - Designates specified lands in the following areas of Utah as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: (1) Great Basin, (2) Grand Staircase-Escalante, (3) Moab-La Sal Canyons, (4) Henry Mountains, (5) Glen Canyon, (6) San Juan-Anasazi, (7) Canyonlands Basin, (8) San Rafael Swell, and (9) Book Cliffs and Uinta Basin. 
Sets forth administrative provisions regarding: (1) the exchange of state-owned lands within such areas, (2) federal reservation of water rights, (3) measurement of setbacks for roads with wilderness, (4) authorized livestock grazing, and (5) withdrawal of such lands from disposition under certain public land laws.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2800-2804)
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2800)
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
President Street Station Study Act

Bill: 113-s-770
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2013-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Historic sites and heritage areas
Land use and conservation
Maryland
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Railroads

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: 
President Street Station Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the President Street Station, a railroad terminal in Baltimore, Maryland, to evaluate the terminal's national significance and determine its feasibility for designation as a unit of the National Park System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2805)
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2804-2805)
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Soledad Canyon Settlement Act

Bill: 113-s-771
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2013-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Mining
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: 
Soledad Canyon Settlement Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to cancel Bureau of Land Management (BLM) mineral contracts CA-20139 and CA-22901 (located in Soledad Canyon, California) and compensate the contract holder for the cancellation of such contracts with proceeds from the sale of lands near Victorville, California. Withdraws affected areas from mining. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-20
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-342.
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Traditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-772
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2013-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: 
Traditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to exempt traditional large and premium cigars from regulation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and from user fees assessed on tobacco products by the FDA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Comptroller General of the United States to submit a report to Congress on the effectiveness of the Federal Communications Commission's universal service reforms.

Bill: 113-s-774
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2013-04-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Government studies and investigations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Performance measurement
Telecommunication rates and fees
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-22
text: 
Directs the Comptroller General (GAO), beginning on or before December 31, 2013, and annually thereafter for the following five years, to prepare a report to aid Congress in monitoring and measuring the effects of a series of reforms by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) intended to promote the availability and affordability of broadband service throughout the United States.
 
Requires such report to include measurements, statistics, and metrics with respect to: 
 
 
the implementation progress on the reforms adopted in the FCC's Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking adopted on October 27, 2011; 
 
any effects of such reforms on retail end-user rates for local voice telephony, interconnected VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol), long distance voice, mobile wireless voice, bundles of voice telephony or VoIP, fixed broadband Internet access, and mobile broadband Internet access services; 
 
any disparities or trends with respect to the relative average (such as per consumer) retail rates charged for each service to residential and business consumers located in rural and urban areas as well as between incumbent local exchange carriers subject to price cap regulation and those subject to rate-of-return regulation; 
 
any effects on average fixed and mobile broadband Internet access speeds available to residential and business consumers as well as speed disparities between rural and urban areas; 
 
any effects on the magnitude and pace of investments in broadband-capable networks in rural areas, including investments financed by the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Rural Utilities Service under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, and investment disparities between rural and urban areas; 
 
any disparities or trends with respect to the magnitude and pace of investments in broadband-capable networks in areas served by carriers subject to price cap regulation and areas served by carriers subject to rate-of-return regulation; 
 
any effects on adoption of broadband Internet access services by end users; and
 
 any effects on state universal service funds or initiatives, including carrier-of-last-resort requirements. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2013-04-22
text: Introduced in Senate