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Prize Fund for HIV/AIDS Act

Bill: 113-s-626
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2013-03-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug therapy
HIV/AIDS
Health care costs and insurance
Insurance industry and regulation
Intellectual property
Manufacturing
Marketing and advertising
Medical research
Prescription drugs
Research administration and funding
Research and development
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-20
text: 
Prize Fund for HIV/AIDS Act - Denies any person the exclusive right to manufacture, distribute, sell, or use in interstate commerce a qualifying treatment for HIV/AIDS, or to a manufacturing process for such a treatment, including the exclusive right to rely on health registration data or the 30-month stay-of-effectiveness period for Orange Book patents. Prescribes remuneration, in the form of prize payments from a Prize Fund for HIV/AIDS, in lieu of such market exclusivity.
 
Exempts from this elimination of exclusive rights any dual use product that is a qualifying treatment for HIV/AIDS which also has a significant use for other diseases, but only with respect to its use for other diseases. Applies the elimination of exclusive rights with respect to a qualifying HIV/AIDS treatment even in a dual use product.
 
Establishes the Prize Fund for HIV/AIDS. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to designate a Prize Fund Director to administer the Fund.
 
Directs the Prize Fund Director to award prize payments for medical innovation relating to a qualifying treatment for HIV/AIDS, or a new manufacturing process for such a treatment, to: (1) the first person to receive market clearance with respect to the drug or biological product; (2) the holder of the patent with respect to a manufacturing process; or (3) persons or communities that as an open source contribution openly shared knowledge, data, materials, and technology on a royalty-free and nondiscriminatory basis.
 
Allows the Prize Fund Director to authorize multiple nonprofit intermediaries to manage Fund payments to reward projects for: (1) interim research and development of new qualifying treatments for HIV/AIDS, or (2) open source dividend prizes.
 
Establishes an annual fee for health insurers to fund this Act.
 
Establishes the Donor Innovation Prize Fund to enable the Secretary to reward owners and developers of products that permit open competition for low-cost generic drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS in developing countries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-03-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Medical Innovation Prize Fund Act

Bill: 113-s-627
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2013-03-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Health care costs and insurance
Immunology and vaccination
Insurance industry and regulation
Intellectual property
Manufacturing
Marketing and advertising
Medical research
Prescription drugs
Research administration and funding
Research and development
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-20
text: 
Medical Innovation Prize Fund Act - Denies any person the exclusive right to manufacture, distribute, sell, or use in interstate commerce a drug, a biological product, or a drug or biological product manufacturing process, including the exclusive right to rely on health registration data or the 30-month stay-of-effectiveness period for Orange Book patents. Prescribes remuneration, in the form of prize payments from a Fund for Medical Innovation Prizes, in lieu of such market exclusivity.
 
Establishes: (1) the Fund for Medical Innovation Prizes; and (2) a Board of Trustees for such Fund, which shall award prize payments for medical innovation and establish independent expert advisory committees.
 
Directs the Board to award prize payments for medical innovation relating to a drug, a biological product, or a new manufacturing process for a drug or biological product to: (1) the first person to receive market clearance with respect to the drug or biological product; (2) the holder of the patent with respect to a manufacturing process; or (3) persons or communities that as an open source contribution openly shared knowledge, data, materials, and technology on a royalty-free and nondiscriminatory basis.
 
Requires the Board to establish and periodically modify minimum levels of funding for such awards for priority research and development, including global neglected diseases, orphan diseases, and global infectious diseases and other global public health priorities.
 
Allows the Board of Trustees to authorize multiple nonprofit intermediaries to reward projects for interim research and development of products or for open source dividend prizes.
 
Requires the Comptroller General (GAO) to conduct annual audits to determine the Board's effectiveness in bringing to market new drugs, vaccines, biological products, and manufacturing processes in a cost-effective manner and in addressing society's global medical needs.
 
Establishes an annual fee for health insurers to fund this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-03-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Servicemember Mental Health Review Act

Bill: 113-s-628
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2013-03-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Defense
Disability and paralysis
Lawyers and legal services
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
Personnel records
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-20
text: 
Servicemember Mental Health Review Act - Extends through 2014 (under current law, through 2009) the authority of the Physical Disability Board of Review (Board) to review the disability determinations of individuals who, since September 11, 2001, are separated from the Armed Forces due to unfitness for duty because of a mental condition with a disability rating of 20% or less and are found to be ineligible for retirement. Adds to those eligible for such review individuals who, before December 31, 2014, are separated due to unfitness because of a mental condition not amounting to disability, including separation based on a personality or adjustment disorder. Requires the Board to: (1) review, upon request, the findings and decisions of the appropriate physical evaluation board with respect to such latter individuals; and (2) include as Board members at least one licensed psychologist and one licensed psychiatrist who have had no fiduciary relationship to the Department of Defense (DOD) since December 31, 2001. Allows the Board to review disability determinations of non-requesting individuals, after obtaining their consent.
 
Requires the Secretary of the military department concerned to correct the military records of individuals in accordance with Board recommendations, unless such Secretary finds that the Board has made a clearly erroneous recommendation.
 
Requires the Secretary of Defense to ensure that eligible individuals receive notification of their right to a separation review by the Board, including the right to obtain counsel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-03-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Honor America's Guard-Reserve Retirees Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-629
Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2013-03-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: National Guard and reserves
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-20
text: 
Honor America's Guard-Reserve Retirees Act of 2013 - Honors as a veteran any person entitled to retired pay for nonregular (reserve) service or, but for age, would be so entitled.
 
Provides that such person shall not be entitled to any benefit by reason of such recognition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-12
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2013-03-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-03-20
text: Introduced in Senate
FAIR Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-630
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2013-03-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alabama
Alaska
Alternative and renewable resources
Energy revenues and royalties
Gulf of Mexico
Louisiana
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mississippi
Oil and gas
State and local finance
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-20
text: 
Fixing America's Inequities with Revenues Act of 2013 or FAIR Act of 2013 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit in the Treasury 37.5% of all revenues derived from all rentals, royalties, bonus bids, and other sums payable to the United States from energy development on the outer Continental Shelf (OCS) areas of coastal states (those within 200 nautical miles of a leased tract in the OCS which are not, however, in a Gulf producing state). Excludes from deposit under these terms any revenues generated from the leasing of lands within three miles of seaward boundaries of coastal states.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to disperse: (1) 27.5% of these revenues to coastal states and their political subdivisions; and (2) 10% of such revenues to coastal states that establish funds in their treasuries to support projects relating to alternative and renewable energy, energy research and development, energy efficiency, or conservation.
 
Prescribes requirements for allocating such revenues to coastal states and their coastal subdivisions, with a special rule for Alaska. Limits the allocable share of each coastal state to the revenues collected from a leased tract located no more than 200 nautical miles from the coastline of the state.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to disburse 50% of all revenues derived from all rentals, royalties, bonus bids, rights-of-way, and other amounts payable to the United States from the development of alternative and renewable onshore energy sources to the state within the boundaries of which the energy source is located.
 
Amends the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 by: (1) redefining the term &quot;qualified outer Continental Shelf revenues,&quot; and (2) revising the cap on the amount of such qualified revenues that may be made available to Gulf producing states.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy Families Act

Bill: 113-s-631
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2013-03-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Civil actions and liability
Congressional agencies
Congressional officers and employees
Congressional oversight
Domestic violence and child abuse
Employee leave
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government liability
Government studies and investigations
Library of Congress
Marriage and family status
Merit Systems Protection Board
Sex offenses
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-20
text: 
Healthy Families Act - Requires certain employers, who employ 15 or more employees for each working day during 20 or more workweeks a year, to permit each employee to earn at least 1 hour of paid sick time for every 30 hours worked.
 
Declares that an employer shall not be required to permit an employee to earn more than 56 hours of paid sick time in a calendar year, unless the employer chooses to set a higher limit.
 
Allows employees to use such time to: (1) meet their own medical needs; (2) care for the medical needs of certain family members (including a domestic partner or the domestic partner's parent or child); or (3) seek medical attention, assist a related person, take legal action, or engage in other specified activities relating to domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
 
Prohibits an employer from interfering with an employee's exercise of such rights.
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to exercise certain investigative and enforcement authority for employees covered by the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 or the Government Employee Rights Act of 1991. Grants the same authority, for employees under their jurisdiction, to the Librarian of Congress, the Comptroller General (GAO), the Board of Directors of the congressional Office of Compliance, and the Merit Systems Protection Board.
 
Authorizes civil actions by employees, individuals, or their representatives for damages or equitable relief against employers who violate this Act.
 
Waives a state's sovereign immunity with respect to a suit brought by an employee of a federally-assisted state program or activity for relief authorized under this Act.
 
Requires the Commissioner of Labor Statistics to annually compile information on paid sick time and the Comptroller General to study related matters.
 
Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to discourage employers from adopting or retaining more generous leave policies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2030-2035)
action_date: 2013-03-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2029-2030)
action_date: 2013-03-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to repeal a duplicative program relating to inspection and grading of catfish.

Bill: 113-s-632
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural marketing and promotion
Aquaculture

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Repeals a provision of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 establishing an inspection and grading program for catfish and other species of farm-raised fish shellfish effective on the date of enactment of such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for coverage under the beneficiary travel program of the Department of Veterans Affairs of certain disabled veterans for travel in connection with certain special disabilities rehabilitation, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-633
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disability and paralysis
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Neurological disorders
Transportation costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Authorizes payment under the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) beneficiary travel program of travel expenses in connection with medical examination, treatment, or care of a veteran with vision impairment, a spinal cord injury or disorder, or double or multiple amputations whose travel is in connection with care provided through a VA special disabilities rehabilitation program, if such care is provided: (1) on an inpatient basis, or (2) while a veteran is provided temporary lodging at a VA facility in order to make such care more accessible.
 
Requires a report from the Secretary to the congressional veterans committees on the travel program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-203.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Service Members Student Loan Relief Act

Bill: 113-s-634
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Government lending and loan guarantees
Military operations and strategy
Military personnel and dependents
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Service Members Student Loan Relief Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow members of the Armed Forces and National Guard to defer payments of principal on their Federal Family Education Loans, William D. Ford Federal Direct Loans, and Federal Perkins Loans for the period (up to 180 days) beginning on the date they receive a call or order to duty in connection with a war, military operation, or national emergency and ending on their first day of service. (Currently, the payment of principal on those loans is also deferred during their period of service and for the 180-day period after their demobilization date.)
 
Allows individuals whose call to duty is cancelled before their first day of service: (1) due to a service training injury, to defer payments of principal on those loans through what would have been their period of service; and (2) for a reason other than a service training injury, to defer payments of principal on those loans for 14 days after that cancellation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Privacy Notice Modernization Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-635
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
 Privacy Notice Modernization Act of 2013 - Amends the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to exempt from its annual written privacy policy notice requirement any financial institution which: (1) provides nonpublic personal information only in accordance with specified requirements, (2) has not changed its policies and practices with respect to disclosing nonpublic personal information from those disclosed in the most recent disclosure sent to consumers, and (3) otherwise provides customers access to such most recent disclosure in electronic or other form permitted by specified regulations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Puerto Rico Hospital HITECH Amendments Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-636
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Caribbean area
Computers and information technology
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicare
Puerto Rico
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Puerto Rico Hospital HITECH Amendments Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to apply Medicare HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act) payments to subsection (d) hospitals in Puerto Rico to allow them to qualify for incentives for adoption and meaningful use of certified electronic health record (EHR) Technology.
 
(Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system [IPPS] when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Collaborative Academic Research Efforts for Tourette Syndrome Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-637
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Neurological disorders
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Collaborative Academic Research Efforts for Tourette Syndrome Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand, intensify, and coordinate NIH programs and activities regarding Tourette syndrome. 
 
Requires the Director to develop a system to collect data on Tourette syndrome, including epidemiological information regarding its incidence and prevalence in the United States, primary data, and data on the availability of medical and social services for individuals with Tourette syndrome and their families.
 
 Requires the Director to award grants and contracts to public or nonprofit private entities to pay costs of planning, establishing, improving, and providing basic operating support for between four and six centers of excellence in different regions of the United States to conduct basic and clinical research on Tourette syndrome. 
 
Requires the Director to designate a portion of the amounts made available to carry out NIH programs and activities for a fiscal year to carry out programs and activities with respect to Tourette syndrome.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Railroad Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-638
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Competition and antitrust
Railroads
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Railroad Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2013 - Amends the Clayton Act to grant the United States exclusive authority to bring suit for injunctive relief against a common carrier that is not a rail common carrier subject to the jurisdiction of the Surface Transportation Board (STB).
 
Revises provisions prohibiting anticompetitive transactions except for those approved by specified federal agencies acting under certain statutes to eliminate the exemption for certain STB approved transactions.
 
Provides that, in any civil action against a rail common carrier, the U.S. district court shall not be required to defer to the primary jurisdiction of the STB.

Empowers the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to regulate, and engage in antitrust enforcement regarding, collective rate agreements and certain transactions, including railroad mergers and acquisitions.
 
Permits treble damages against railroad common carriers in antitrust suits to parties injured by antitrust violations without regard to whether such railroads have filed rates or whether a complaint challenging rates has been filed.
 
Amends federal transportation law to terminate the exemptions from antitrust laws for collective ratemaking agreements.
 
Requires the STB, when reviewing a proposed agreement, to take into account its impact upon shippers, consumers, and affected communities.
 
Revises STB authority to provide that a rail carrier, corporation, or a person participating in an approved transaction is not exempt from specified antitrust laws. Makes such provision inapplicable to any transaction relating to the pooling of railroad cars approved by the STB or its predecessor agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate