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Exchange Information Disclosure Act

Bill: 113-s-1590
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2013-10-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Income tax credits
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Medicaid
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: 
Exchange Information Disclosure Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to expand reporting requirements related to health care exchanges. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to publish reports weekly through March 31, 2015, on: (1) consumer interactions with healthcare.gov or subsequent sites and any efforts undertaken to remedy problems that impact taxpayers and consumers, (2) calls to the federal customer service call center, including the number of calls received by the call center, problems identified by users, and referrals of those calls; (3) all navigators and certified application counselors that have been trained and certified by health care exchanges; and (4) all agents and brokers who have been trained and certified by the federal health care exchange.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7577-7579)
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Hire A Hero Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1591
Sponsor: Sen. Hagan, Kay R. [D-NC]
Introduced: 2013-10-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee hiring
Income tax credits
National Guard and reserves
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: 
Hire A Hero Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow employers a work opportunity tax credit for hiring a member of the Ready Reserve or the National Guard, and (2) make such credit with respect to the hiring of qualified veterans and members of the Ready Reserve and National Guard permanent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7579)
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Delay Until Fully Functional Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1592
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2013-10-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: 
Delay Until Fully Functional Act of 2013 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Comptroller General (GAO) to: (1) determine whether health care exchanges and all other point of enrollment options are fully functional and operating in a manner consistent with the role envisioned under the Act and report study results to Congress, and (2) conduct subsequent studies every 60 days until the Comptroller General determines that exchanges are fully functional and operating in such manner.
 
 Delays the effective date of the penalty for failure to maintain minimum essential coverage to apply the requirements to taxable years beginning six months after the date on which the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) certifies to Congress the results of the GAO determination that exchanges are operating successfully.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the penalty an individual who is unable to enroll in a qualified health plan because of the technical or customer service issues of an exchange.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 225.
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Servicemember Housing Protection Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1593
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2013-10-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Housing finance and home ownership
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: 
Servicemember Housing Protection Act of 2013 - Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to protect a surviving spouse who is the successor in interest to a servicemember who dies from a service-connected cause while in military service against a mortgage foreclosure or residential lease termination. Extends such protection for the one-month period following the death of the servicemember.
 
Allows the termination of an existing lease by the lessee, without penalties, when the lessee is assigned to or otherwise relocates to federal quarters or military housing. Requires, in such case, the lessee to deliver to the lessor written notice of such termination and a letter from the servicemember's commanding officer indicating such relocation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-19
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-280.
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7579-7580)
action_date: 2013-10-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the United States courthouse located at 101 East Pecan Street in Sherman, Texas, as the Paul Brown United States Courthouse.

Bill: 113-s-1594
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2013-10-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Judges
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: 
Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 101 East Pecan Street in Sherman, Texas, as the "Paul Brown United States Courthouse."


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7618)
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Renewable Electricity Standard Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1595
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM]
Introduced: 2013-10-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Dams and canals
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Forests, forestry, trees
Government trust funds
Public utilities and utility rates
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: 
Renewable Electricity Standard Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) to require a retail electric supplier to submit to the Secretary of Energy (DOE) for 2014 and thereafter one or more of the following: (1) specified federal renewable energy credits, (2) certification of the renewable energy generated and electricity savings, and (3) specified alternative compliance payments. Prescribes, for 2014 through 2039, a schedule of graduated annual percentages of a retail electric supplier's base amount that shall be generated from renewable energy resources (increasing from 6% in 2014 to 25% in 2025). 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a program to: (1) verify and issue federal renewable energy credits to generators of renewable energy; (2) track the sale, exchange, and retirement of the credits; and (3) enforce the federal renewable energy credits program.
 
Directs the Secretary to issue a generator of electric energy one federal renewable energy credit for each kilowatt hour of electric energy generated by the use of a renewable energy resource at an eligible facility.
 
Prescribes rules for federal renewable energy credit trading and for borrowing and repayment of federal renewable energy credits.
 
Provides that this Act does not diminish the authority of a state or its political subdivision to: (1) adopt or enforce any law (including regulations) respecting renewable energy, or (2) regulate the acquisition and disposition of federal renewable energy credits by retail electric suppliers.
 
Permits an electric utility that has sales of electric energy subject to rate regulation to recover the full cost of renewable energy obtained to comply with this Act.
 
Establishes in the Treasury a state renewable energy account for a grant program for promoting renewable energy production and providing energy assistance and weatherization services to low-income consumers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Students from Sexual and Violent Predators Act

Bill: 113-s-1596
Sponsor: Sen. Toomey, Patrick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2013-10-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Assault and harassment offenses
Child safety and welfare
Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Domestic violence and child abuse
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Personnel records
Pornography
School administration
Sex offenses
State and local government operations
Teaching, teachers, curricula
User charges and fees
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: 
Protecting Students from Sexual and Violent Predators Act - Requires states that receive funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to: 
 
 
 require criminal background checks for each school employee that include searches of the criminal registry or repository of the state in which the employee resides, the child abuse and neglect registries and databases of that state, the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the National Sex Offender Registry; 
 
 prohibit the employment of an individual who refuses to consent to, or who makes a false statement in connection with, a background check or who has been convicted of one of specified felonies or of a violent or sexual crime against a minor; 
 
 require background checks to be periodically repeated or updated in accordance with state law or the policies of the state's local educational agencies (LEAs); 
 
 provide school employees who have had a background check with a copy of the background check if they request one and a timely process to appeal the results of the background check if it blocks their service as a school employee;
 
ensure that such policies and procedures are published on state and LEA websites; and
 
allow an LEA to share the results of a recent background check on a school employee with another LEA that is considering that individual for employment.
 
 
Prohibits states and LEAs from knowingly transferring or facilitating the transfer of any school employee if they know, or have substantive reason to believe, that such employee engaged in sexual misconduct with an elementary or secondary school student.
 
Allows: (1) the Attorney General and state law enforcement officials to charge reasonable fees for conducting the background checks, and (2) states and LEAs to use ESEA administrative funds to pay such fees.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Introduced in Senate
American Savings Promotion Act

Bill: 113-s-1597
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2013-10-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Gambling
Marketing and advertising
Organized crime
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: 
American Savings Promotion Act - Amends the Revised Statutes of the United States, the Federal Reserve Act, the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, and the Home Owners' Loan Act to authorize covered financial institutions to conduct a contest, known as a &quot;savings promotion raffle,&quot; in which the sole consideration required for a chance of winning designated prizes is obtained by the deposit of a specified amount of money in a savings account or program, where each ticket or entry has an equal chance of being drawn. Subjects such a drawing contest to regulations promulgated by the appropriate prudential regulator.
 
Excludes such a &quot;savings promotion raffle&quot; from the prohibition against a covered financial institution's dealing in &quot;lottery&quot; tickets.
 
Amends the federal criminal code to exempt savings promotion raffles conducted by an insured depository institution or an insured credit union from specified prohibitions against interstate and foreign travel or transportation in aid of racketeering enterprises.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Pay Our Bills Act

Bill: 113-s-1598
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2013-10-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
Legislative rules and procedure
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: 
Pay Our Bills Act - Authorizes an extension of the presidential authority to modify the public debt ceiling (subject to enactment of a congressional joint resolution of disapproval).
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to borrow an additional amount required to meet existing commitments if the President certifies to Congress that the public debt is within $100 billion of the current limit and that further borrowing is required. (The debt limit was $16.699 trillion before its suspension in the Continuing Appropriations Act, FY2014 [P.L. 113-46].)
 
Authorizes Congress to use current requirements for expedited consideration of the joint resolution. Increases the debt limit by the certified amount if the time for disaproval has lapsed without enactment of the joint resolution.
 
Suspends the debt limit for the period beginning on the date on which the President submits such a certification to Congress and ending on the earlier of:
 
 
15 calendar days after Congress receives the certification, or
 
enactment of a joint resolution disapproving the President's exercise of authority for the debt limit under that certification.
 
 
Increases the debt limit, effective on the day after the certification is submitted, to the extent that:
 
 
 the face amount of public debt obligations and those whose principal and interest are guaranteed by the U.S. government (except guaranteed obligations held by the Secretary) outstanding on the day after such date exceeds
 
 the face amount of such obligations outstanding on the date the President certifies Congress.
 
 
 Excludes from such formula any obligation whose issuance was not necessary to fund a commitment that required payment before the day after the certification is submitted to Congress.
 
Prohibits the debt limit from being increased if a joint resolution of disapproval is enacted within 15 days after receipt by Congress (in session or not) of a presidential certification that the public debt is within $100 billion of the current limit.
 
Provides for expedited consideration of such a joint resolution in the House and Senate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Flood Safe Basements Act

Bill: 113-s-1601
Sponsor: Sen. Hoeven, John [R-ND]
Introduced: 2013-10-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: 
Flood Safe Basements Act - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to rate a covered structure using the elevation difference between the floodproofed elevation and the adjusted base flood elevation of such structure.
 
Defines &quot;covered structure&quot; as a residential structure: (1) located in a community that has adopted flood plain management measures approved by FEMA and satisfying requirements for an exception for floodproofed residential basements, and (2) built in compliance with the applicable flood plain management measures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Health Care Eligibility Expansion and Enhancement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1604
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2013-10-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Conflicts and wars
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disability and paralysis
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Nursing
Prescription drugs
Public contracts and procurement
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: 
Veterans Health Care Eligibility Expansion and Enhancement Act of 2013 - Modifies provisions relating to health care services for veterans to: (1) require (currently, authorize) the Secretary of the Veterans Administration (VA) to furnish health care services to veterans who do not qualify under existing VA programs for veterans with a service-connected disability or other impairment; (2) require the enrollment in VA health care programs by December 31, 2014, of veterans who do not have a service-connected disability rating; (3) extend the period of the eligibility of veterans with certain combat service to enroll in VA health care programs; (4) limit requirements for providing hospital care, nursing home care, extended care services, and prescription medications to veterans based upon the amount provided in advance in appropriation Acts; and (5) revise criteria for treating veterans as low-income families based upon location and income factors for purposes of enrollment in VA health care programs. 
 
Directs the VA Secretary to: (1) use the VA capitation-based resource allocation model (provides for the allocation of health care services based on factors such as population, patient age and sex, and financial need) in entering into contracts for furnishing health care services; (2) afford priority for entry into contracts for Federally Qualified Health Centers and Community Health Centers; and (3) modify guidance for VA health care services contracts to incorporate best practices in such contracts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-19
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Michael G. Faber.

Bill: 113-s-1605
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2013-10-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Provides for the relief of Michael G. Faber.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-433.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7632-7633)
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs to be constructed at 3141 Centennial Boulevard, Colorado Springs, Colorado, as the "PFC Floyd K. Lindstrom Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic".

Bill: 113-s-1606
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Mark [D-CO]
Introduced: 2013-10-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Colorado
Congressional tributes
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Health facilities and institutions
Home and outpatient care
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: 
Designates the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to be constructed at 3141 Centennial Boulevard, Colorado Springs, Colorado, as the &quot;PFC Floyd K. Lindstrom Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Native Small Business Conformity Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1607
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2013-10-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Economic development
Hawaii
Indian social and development programs
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Public contracts and procurement
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: 
Native Small Business Conformity Act of 2013 - Amends the Small Business Act to extend eligibility for HUBZone (historically underutilized business zone) status to a small business concern that is owned and controlled by a Native Hawaiian Organization. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7633)
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Introduced in Senate
SelectUSA Authorization Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1608
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2013-10-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Asia
Business investment and capital
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Foreign and international corporations
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: 
SelectUSA Authorization Act of 2013 - Authorizes appropriations for FY2014-FY2018 for the SelectUSA Initiative (federal assistance aimed at increasing both foreign and domestic investment in U.S. business).
 
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to report to Congress on Initiative activities during each such fiscal year by the following December 31st.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7633)
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Introduced in Senate