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SAFE in Our Schools Act

Bill: 113-hr-3158
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M., Jr. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2013-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Emergency planning and evacuation
Homeland security
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: 
Secure America for Education in Our Schools Act or the SAFE in Our Schools Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to require that each state include in its application for funds under the Homeland Security Grant Program a certification that the state requires each institution of education for kindergarten through 12th grade to develop an emergency response plan that includes provisions for evacuation relocation, family-child reunification, children with special needs, and addressing multiple disasters by the earlier of the beginning of the academic year for 2015 or September 1, 2015.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications.
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Government Shutdown Fairness Act

Bill: 113-hr-3160
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Chris [R-NY-27]
Introduced: 2013-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: 
Government Shutdown Fairness Act - Requires a reduction in the annual rate of pay of a Member of Congress during a government shutdown equal to the product of 1 day's worth of pay under such annual rate and the number of 24-hour periods during which the government shutdown is in effect. Makes such reduction applicable to days occurring after the date of the general election for federal office held in November 2014. 
 
Requires any amount of pay of a Member of Congress in the 113th Congress that is reduced due to a government shutdown to be held in escrow until the last day of the 113th Congress and released for payment to Members at that time. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5844)
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-09-20
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Introduced in House
To protect the Social Security and Medicare trust funds from the public debt limit.

Bill: 113-hr-3161
Sponsor: Rep. Forbes, J. Randy [R-VA-4]
Introduced: 2013-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Government trust funds
Medicare
Securities
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: 
Prohibits disinvestment of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund amounts from public debt obligations, any refraining from making such investments, or any delay in making normal deposits in such Trust Funds for public debt limit-related purposes. Authorizes, with certain conditions, the sale of Trust Fund public debt obligations for the payment of cash benefits and administrative expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Black Lung Benefits Act to provide equity for certain eligible survivors, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-3162
Sponsor: Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9]
Introduced: 2013-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Coal
Disability assistance
Mining
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: 
 Amends the Black Lung Benefits Act, with respect to claims filed on or after the effective date of the Black Lung Benefits Amendments of 1981, to eliminate exceptions to: (1) the applicability of certain provisions regarding rebuttable presumptions; and (2) the prohibition against requiring eligible survivors of a miner determined to be eligible for black lung benefits to file a new claim or refile or otherwise revalidate the miner's claim. 
 
Applies the amendments made by this Act to claims filed after January 1, 2005, that were pending on or after March 23, 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Playing Fair on Trade and Innovation Act

Bill: 113-hr-3167
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2013-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Intellectual property
Normal trade relations, most-favored-nation treatment
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: 
Playing Fair on Trade and Innovation Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to revise Generalized System of Preferences Program eligibility requirements.
 
Prohibits the President from designating a country a beneficiary developing country in order for its products to receive duty-free treatment if that country: (1) fails to provide adequate protection for intellectual property rights; and (2) maintains local content requirements, other than requirements applicable only to the procurement of products by governmental agencies and not with a view to commercial resale or to use in the production of goods for commercial sale.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Established Provider Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3168
Sponsor: Rep. Williams, Roger [R-TX-25]
Introduced: 2013-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Department of Health and Human Services
Health information and medical records
Licensing and registrations
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: 
Medicare Established Provider Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop a system to designate service providers and suppliers who meet specified criteria representing a low risk for submitting fraudulent Medicare claims as established providers afforded certain special treatment in the claim review process.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Introduced in House
IRS Rulemaking Fairness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3169
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2013-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Small business
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-23
text: 
IRS Rulemaking Fairness Act of 2013 - Expands requirements relating to review of federal agency actions that have a significant economic impact on small entities (e.g., small organizations and businesses) to include rulemaking by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2013-09-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2013-09-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2013-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Regulator Accountability Act

Bill: 113-hr-3170
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2013-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of the Treasury
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-23
text: 
Health Care Regulator Accountability Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to prohibit the federal government from making any health care plan available to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), or any other federal executive agency employees responsible for the administration of the Act except a health plan created under it or offered through an American Health Benefit Exchange.
 
Prohibits the Secretary of HHS, the IRS Director, and the head of any other agency involved in promulgating rules or regulations to carry out or to enforce PPACA, or any amendments made by it, from obligating or expending, in any fiscal year, more than 90% of the funds made available for the salaries and expenses of their offices unless those regulations are promulgated and take effect before the fiscal year's close. Requires rescission of any amounts which remain precluded from obligation or expenditure on that last day of the fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-09-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, House Administration, and Appropriations, 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: 2013-09-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, House Administration, and Appropriations, 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: 2013-09-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, House Administration, and Appropriations, 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: 2013-09-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, House Administration, and Appropriations, 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: 2013-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Provider Tax Administrative Simplification Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3171
Sponsor: Rep. Womack, Steve [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2013-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Health and Human Services
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Intergovernmental relations
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-23
text: 
Provider Tax Administrative Simplification Act of 2013 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to approve a waiver of the uniform tax requirement (whether or not the tax is broad based), regardless of whether the state concerned satisfies certain requirements, for any state with a provider tax that does not apply to continuing care retirement communities or life care communities that: (1) have no beds certified to provide medical assistance under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, or (2) do not provide services for which Medicaid payment may be made.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-23
text: Introduced in House
BEST Practices Act

Bill: 113-hr-3172
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2013-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Medical education
Military education and training
Military medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: 
Battlefield Excellence through Superior Training Practices Act or the BEST Practices Act - Requires the Secretary of Defense (DOD), no later than: (1) October 1, 2016, to develop, test, and validate human-based training methods for training members of the Armed Forces in the treatment of combat trauma injuries, with the goal of replacing live animal-based training methods; and (2) October 1, 2018, to use only use human-based training methods for such purposes. Prohibits the use of animals in such training after the latter date.
 
Requires an annual report from the Secretary to the congressional defense committees on the development and implementation of the human-based training methods.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Introduced in House
Children's Consignment Event Recognition Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3173
Sponsor: Rep. Griffin, Tim [R-AR-2]
Introduced: 2013-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Labor standards
Retail and wholesale trades
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: 
Children's Consignment Event Recognition Act of 2013 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exclude from the meaning of &quot;employee&quot; subject to minimum wage and maximum hours requirements any individuals who volunteer their services at a children's consignment event with or without the assistance of a facilitator and meet certain other conditions.
 
Defines &quot;children's consignment event&quot; to mean a sale or other event in which: (1) at least 90% of the aggregate fair market value of items offered for sale are children's or maternity clothing, and resale items are offered for sale on consignment; and (2) the event is held open to the public in a single location for the sale of goods for 8 or fewer sale days within any 30-day period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to obligate funds for emergency relief projects arising from damage caused by severe weather events in 2013, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-3174
Sponsor: Rep. Gardner, Cory [R-CO-4]
Introduced: 2013-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Appropriations
Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to obligate any funds made available to implement federal-aid highway emergency relief for projects arising from damage caused by severe weather events in 2013, without any limitation on obligations for such projects resulting from a single natural disaster or catastrophic failure in a state.

action_date: 2013-09-30
text: 

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

 
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to obligate any funds made available to implement federal-aid highway emergency relief for projects arising from damage caused by severe weather events in 2013, without any limitation on obligations for such projects resulting from a single natural disaster or catastrophic failure in a state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-11-18
text: For Further Action See H.R.2775.
action_date: 2013-11-18
text: Provisions of HR 3174 were incorporated in HR 2775. See HR 2775 for further action.
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6016)
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H6016)
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3174.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6016-6019)
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Mr. Petri moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2013-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Introduced in House
Making appropriations for fiscal year 2014 to ensure that members of the Armed Forces, including reserve components thereof, continue to receive pay and allowances for active service performed during a Government shutdown.

Bill: 113-hr-3175
Sponsor: Rep. Amash, Justin [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2013-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Coast guard
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: 
Provides that if a funding gap occurs during FY2014 impacting the Armed Forces, amounts shall be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, at a rate for operations as provided for military personnel accounts by the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013 (division C of P.L. 113-6), for the purpose of providing pay and allowances to members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including reserve components, who perform active service during such funding gap.
 
Defines &quot;funding gap&quot; as any period after September 30, 2013, for which interim or full-year appropriations for the military personnel accounts of the Armed Forces for FY2014 have not been enacted by a law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Introduced in House
To reauthorize the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-3176
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2013-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Natural disasters
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: 
Amends the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 to extend the authorities and authorization of appropriations under such Act through FY2018.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-10
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Introduced in House
PEPFAR Stewardship and Oversight Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3177
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2013-09-25 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child health
Congressional oversight
Foreign aid and international relief
Government studies and investigations
HIV/AIDS
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Performance measurement
Women's health
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: 
PEPFAR Stewardship and Oversight Act of 2013 - Amends the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 to extend requirements that: (1) the Inspectors General of the Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors, of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) jointly develop oversight plans to combat global HIV/AIDS; (2) the Global AIDS Coordinator complete a study of treatment providers; and (3) no U.S. contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria may cause the total amount of U.S. government contributions to the Fund to exceed 33% of the total amount of Fund contributions.
 
Extends the funding set-aside for orphans and other children affected by, or vulnerable to, HIV/AIDS. 
 
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to revise the annual HIV/AIDS report requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Introduced in House