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Kerry Rose Fire Sprinkler Notification Act

Bill: 113-hr-4675
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3]
Introduced: 2014-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Educational facilities and institutions
Fires
Higher education

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: 
Kerry Rose Fire Sprinkler Notification Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education (IHEs) participating in title IV programs to include in their annual fire safety report: (1) the number and percentage of beds at their student housing facilities that are protected by an automatic fire sprinkler system in the bedroom, and (2) the number and percentage that are not so protected.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to make publicly available statistics on the number and percentage, in the aggregate and by state, of:
 
 
student housing facilities at IHEs with less than 100% of the beds protected by an automatic fire sprinkler system in the bedroom,
 
student housing facilities at IHEs with less than 50% of the beds so protected,
 
beds at student housing facilities at IHEs that are so protected, and 
 
beds at such facilities that are not so protected.
 
 
Defines &quot;student housing facilities&quot; to include facilities that are campus facilities and facilities that are noncampus buildings or properties.
 
Requires IHEs that maintain student housing facilities to:
 
 
include in all materials relating to such facilities information on whether they are equipped with a fire safety system that includes an automatic fire sprinkler system in each bedroom,
 
give students who are selecting a student housing facility written notice as to whether or not the facility has such a system, and
 
give students written notice on the date they move into a student housing facility as to whether the facility has such a system and how its fire safety system is described in the IHE's annual fire safety report.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Physician Self-Referral Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4676
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2014-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Health personnel
Medicaid
Medical ethics
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: 
Medicaid Physician Self-Referral Act of 2014 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to physician self-referral limitations to repeal the prohibition against payment of federal funds to a state for medical assistance expenditures for a designated health service furnished to an individual on the basis of a referral (self-referral) that would result in denial of payment under SSA title XVIII (Medicare).
 
Requires a state plan for medical assistance to prohibit payment for a Medicaid designated health service furnished to an individual on the basis of a physician's referral if the physician (or an immediate family member) has an ownership or investment interest or a compensation arrangement with the entity furnishing the service that would not comply with Medicare requirements.
 
Requires application of certain reporting requirements and sanctions to a provider of a Medicaid designated health service the same way they apply under Medicare.
 
Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) apply the False Claims Act to violations of the self-referral prohibition, and (2) declare the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue regulations under Medicaid limited to the application of self-referral limitations to state plan requirements. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a protocol consistent with the Medicare self-referral disclosure protocol required under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that enables health care providers to disclose an actual or potential violation of Medicare self-referral limitations as applied to Medicaid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2014-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2014-05-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E761)
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Introduced in House
State Exchange Accountability Act

Bill: 113-hr-4677
Sponsor: Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2014-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: 
State Exchange Accountability Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require a state to reimburse the federal government for the amount of establishment or early innovator grants the state received to operate a health care exchange if it operated an exchange in 2014 but subsequently elected to provide for enrollment in qualified health plans solely through the federal health care exchange.
 
Requires that: (1) reimbursement be made in full within 10 years of such election, pursuant to an agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); and (2) in case of failure to enter such an agreement, the Secretary of HHS shall reduce the state's Medicaid funding for 10 fiscal years in an aggregate amount equal to the reimbursement amount.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Federal Financial Statement Transparency Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4678
Sponsor: Rep. Renacci, James B. [R-OH-16]
Introduced: 2014-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Securities
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: 
Federal Financial Statement Transparency Act of 2014 - Establishes in the executive branch an independent Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) to develop federal financial accounting concepts or standards, giving consideration to the budgetary information needs of executive agencies and the needs of users of federal financial information.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a FASAB operations fund to enable the FASAB to carry out its duties.
 
Requires the Secretary to assess a fee on each sale of a security for deposit into the fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2014-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Stop Corporate Inversions Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4679
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-9]
Introduced: 2014-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Corporate finance and management
Department of the Treasury
Foreign and international corporations
Income tax rates
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: 
Stop Corporate Inversions Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise rules for the taxation of inverted corporations (i.e., U.S. corporations that acquire foreign companies to reincorporate in a foreign jurisdiction with income tax rates lower than the United States) to provide that a foreign corporation that acquires the properties of a U.S. corporation or partnership after May 8, 2014, shall be treated as an inverted corporation and thus subject to U.S. taxation if, after such acquisition: (1) it holds more than 50% of the stock of the new entity (expanded affiliated group), or (2) the management or control of the new entity occurs primarily within the United States and the new entity has significant domestic business activities.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Infant and Toddler Care Improvement Act

Bill: 113-hr-4680
Sponsor: Rep. Clark, Katherine M. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2014-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Child care and development
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Preschool education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: 
Infant and Toddler Care Improvement Act - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to enable eligible states (including Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) to improve the quality of care for infants and toddlers, especially those from low-income families.
 
Authorizes the use of grant funds to: (1) make grants to organizations with expertise in providing child care and related technical assistance, to establish new staffed family child care networks or to operate existing staffed family child care networks or systems that offer, to family child care providers who are eligible infant and toddler care providers, technical assistance, training, administrative support, or direct services including monitoring visits to providers; (2) support a statewide network of infant and toddler care specialists; and (3) support initiatives to improve the quality of the provider workforce.
 
Allows the use of such funds also to: (1) develop infant and toddler components for the State's Quality Rating and Improvement System or a similar rating system, child care licensing regulations, or voluntary early learning guidelines; (2) improve the ability of parents to obtain information about high-quality infant and toddler care; or (3) assist eligible infant and toddler care providers seeking to increase their ranking on the state's Quality Rating and Improvement System or similar rating system, meet performance standards applicable to an Early Head Start agency, or become accredited by a national accrediting body.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4482)
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Veterans TRICARE Choice Act

Bill: 113-hr-4682
Sponsor: Rep. Stewart, Chris [R-UT-2]
Introduced: 2014-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: 
Veterans TRICARE Choice Act - Allows an individual who is eligible to participate in the TRICARE program (a Department of Defense [DOD] managed health care program) to: (1) elect to be ineligible to enroll in such program, (2) make tax deductible contributions to a health savings account during the period such individual elects to be ineligible for TRICARE coverage, and (3) enroll in the TRICARE program at a later date during a special enrollment period.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2014-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Lifespan Respite Care Reauthorization Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4683
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2014-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Disability assistance
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Home and outpatient care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: 
Lifespan Respite Care Reauthorization Act of 2014 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize lifespan respite care programs (services for family caregivers of children and adults with special needs) through FY2019.
 
Requires each state agency awarded a grant or cooperative agreement for such purposes to collect, maintain, and report data and records in a manner as the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) may require to enable monitoring and evaluation of the lifespan programs and activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Bureau Guidance Transparency Act

Bill: 113-hr-4684
Sponsor: Rep. Stutzman, Marlin A. [R-IN-3]
Introduced: 2014-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer affairs
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: 
Bureau Guidance Transparency Act - Amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to direct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), before issuing any guidance, to: (1) provide for a public notice and comment period before issuing the guidance in final form; and (2) make available to the public, when issuing guidance in final form, all studies, data, and other analysis relied upon by the CFPB in preparing and issuing such guidance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Central Coast Heritage Protection Act

Bill: 113-hr-4685
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-24]
Introduced: 2014-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Government studies and investigations
Indian lands and resources rights
Lakes and rivers
Land transfers
Motor vehicles
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Property rights
Religion
Roads and highways
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: 
Central Coast Heritage Protection Act - Designates specified Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and National Forest System lands in California as wilderness areas and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. 
 
Designates certain land in Los Padres National Forest in California, comprising approximately 2,174 acres, as the Machesna Mountain Potential Wilderness Area. Requires such Area to be incorporated into the Machesna Mountain Wilderness Area. 
 
Designates specified segments of the Indian, Mono, Matilija, Sespe, and Piru Creeks and Sisquoc River in California as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. 
 
Designates certain land in the Los Padres National Forest in California, comprising approximately 41,617 acres, as the Fox Mountain Potential Wilderness Area. Requires such Area to be incorporated into the San Rafael Wilderness. 
 
Designates specified land: (1) in Los Padres National Forest comprising approximately 18,666 acres, as the Condor Ridge Scenic Area; and (2) in Los Padres National Forest and in the Bakersfield Field Office of the BLM, comprising approximately 15,846 acres, as the Black Mountain Scenic Area. 
 
Designates the Condor Trail in Monterey County, California, as the Condor National Recreation Trail. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to study: (1) connecting the northern and southern parts of the Los Padres National Forest using a trail corridor across parts of the Northern and Southern Santa Lucia Mountains of the Southern California Coastal Range; and (2) nonmotorized recreation trail opportunities (including mountain bicycling) on land not designated as wilderness by this Act within the Santa Barbara, Ojai, and Mt. Pinos ranger districts. 
 
Ensures that Indian tribes have access to the wilderness areas, scenic areas, and potential wilderness areas designated by this Act for traditional cultural and religious purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in House
To remove from the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System an area included in Unit TX-15P in Texas, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-4686
Sponsor: Rep. Farenthold, Blake [R-TX-27]
Introduced: 2014-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to revise maps of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System to remove from Texas System Unit P-15 the area known as the Preserve at Mustang Island (also known as Tortuga Dunes on Mustang Island) in Nueces County, Texas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Pipeline Inspection Enforcement Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4687
Sponsor: Rep. Hahn, Janice [D-CA-44]
Introduced: 2014-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Oil and gas
Pipelines
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: 
Pipeline Inspection Enforcement Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to require the person purchasing or operating a gas or hazardous liquid pipeline facility to inspect it to confirm the pipeline's status as active or abandoned.
 
Directs the Secretary to require also, by regulation, that the regulatory authority responsible for inspections of the facility ensure that such an inspection is conducted. Applies this inspection requirement with respect to newly listed abandoned pipelines as well.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2014-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2014-05-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E783)
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Gold Star Families Equality Act

Bill: 113-hr-4688
Sponsor: Rep. Keating, William R. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2014-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military facilities and property
Military personnel and dependents
National symbols
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: 
Gold Star Families Equality Act - Requires a lapel button to be designed to identify widows, parents, and next of kin of members of the Armed Forces who die, under circumstances not already prescribed for under existing eligibility standards for a gold star lapel button, while serving on active duty or while assigned to a reserve component in a drill status.
 
Makes such next of kin button available retroactively to survivors of members of the Armed Forces who have died since September 10, 2001.
 
Directs the Secretary of each military department and the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to provide for the issuance of a Gold Star Installation Access Card to family members with gold or next of kin buttons to expedite their ability to gain unescorted access to military installations for the purpose of obtaining on-base services and benefits.
 
Requires regulations to be prescribed to permit parents (including stepparents, parents though adoption, or foster parents who stood in loco parentis) with such buttons to use commissary stores and other military retail facilities on the same basis as surviving spouses or children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-20
text: Introduced in House