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Grand Portage Band Per Capita Adjustment Act

Bill: 113-s-2249
Sponsor: Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Hunting and fishing
Income tax exclusion
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Indian social and development programs
Minnesota
Poverty and welfare assistance
Social security and elderly assistance
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
Grand Portage Band Per Capita Adjustment Act - Amends the Indian Tribal Judgment Funds Use or Distribution Act to exclude funds paid by Minnesota to members of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, pursuant to the agreements of such Band to voluntarily restrict tribal rights to hunt and fish in territory ceded under the Treaty of September 30, 1854, from: (1) federal or state income taxes; or (2) use in denying or reducing a member's benefits under the Social Security Act or, except for payments in excess of $2,000, a federal or federally-assisted program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Care for Vulnerable Older Citizens through Workforce Advancement Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2251
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aging
Health care costs and insurance
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Home and outpatient care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
Improving Care for Vulnerable Older Citizens through Workforce Advancement Act of 2014 - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to direct the Assistant Secretary of Aging to carry out a program awarding grants to eligible entities to carry out six separate demonstration projects that focus on care coordination and service delivery for older individuals with chronic illness or at risk of institutional placement by: (1) designing and testing new models of care coordination and service delivery that thoughtfully and effectively deploy advanced aides to improve efficiency and quality of care for frail older individuals; and (2) giving direct-care workers opportunities for career advancement through additional training, an expanded role, and increased compensation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Bank Preservation Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2252
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Reserve System
Federal officials
Monetary policy

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
Community Bank Preservation Act of 2014 - Amends the Federal Reserve Act to require that membership on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve include at least one person with demonstrated experience working in or supervising community banks having less than $10 billion total assets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Care Fairness and Stability Act

Bill: 113-s-2253
Sponsor: Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Comprehensive health care
Department of Health and Human Services
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
Health Care Fairness and Stability Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to provide a temporary shift in the scheduled collection of payments for the transitional reinsurance program intended to help stabilize premiums for coverage in the individual health insurance markets from 2014 through 2016.
 
Amends PPACA to delay the collection of reinsurance payments from health insurance issuers and third party administrators of certain self-insured group health plans until January 1, 2018.
 
Amends PPACA to change the formula for determining the amount of contributions collected for payments to health insurance issuers that cover high risk individuals in the individual market. 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in Senate
COPS Improvements Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2254
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime prevention
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Elementary and secondary education
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Military facilities and property
School administration
Terrorism
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
COPS Improvements Act of 2014 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to modify the public safety and community policing grant program (COPS ON THE BEAT grant program) to: (1) establish within the Department of Justice (DOJ), under the general authority of the Attorney General, the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services to be headed by a Director; and (2) authorize the Attorney General to carry out more than one such program. 
 
Repeals provisions authorizing: (1) the Attorney General to give preferential consideration to applications for hiring and rehiring additional career law enforcement officers that involve a non-federal contribution exceeding a 25% minimum; and (2) the use of such grants to develop and implement either innovative programs to permit members of the community to assist state, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies in the prevention of crime in the community or new administrative and managerial systems to facilitate the adoption of community-oriented policing as an organization-wide philosophy.
 
Authorizes the use of such grants to: (1) hire school resource officers and establish local partnerships to combat crime, gangs, drug activities, and other problems in elementary and secondary schools; (2) establish and implement innovative programs to reduce and prevent illegal drug manufacturing, distribution, and use; (3) meet emerging law enforcement needs; (4) hire former members of the Armed Forces to serve as career law enforcement officers for deployment in community-oriented policing; (5) pay for additional community prosecuting programs to handle cases from specific geographic areas and to address counter-terrorism problems and violent crime in local communities; and (6) develop new technologies to assist state and local law enforcement agencies in crime prevention and training.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to extend grant periods and to renew grants if the grant recipient can demonstrate significant progress in achieving the objectives of the initial grant application.
 
Includes officers for the Amtrak Police Department within the definition of &quot;career law enforcement officer&quot; for purposes of such grant program.
 
Increases and extends the authorization of appropriations for the program for FY2014-FY2019.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to remove the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan from treatment as terrorist organizations and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-2255
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Immigration status and procedures
Iraq
Middle East
Political movements and philosophies
Political parties and affiliation
Terrorism
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
Declares that the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan shall not be considered terrorist organizations under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Authorizes the Secretary of State, however, to suspend this declaration for either or both groups.
 
 Makes terrorist activity-related inadmissibility criteria inapplicable to an alien's activities undertaken in association with the Kurdistan Democratic Party or the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan if the alien is applying for a nonimmigrant visa, presents himself or herself for inspection at a port of entry as a nonimmigrant, or is applying in the United States for nonimmigrant status unless a consular officer or the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS): (1) knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that the alien poses a threat to U.S. security; or (2) believes that the alien does not warrant a visa, U.S. admission, or a grant of nonimmigrant status. Authorizes the Secretary of State, however, to suspend the application of such relief.
 
Prohibits judicial review of any determination made pursuant to this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Northern Cheyenne Lands Act

Bill: 113-s-2256
Sponsor: Sen. Walsh, John E. [D-MT]
Introduced: 2014-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Coal
Energy revenues and royalties
Federal-Indian relations
Government trust funds
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Metals
Mining
Montana

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-11
text: 
Northern Cheyenne Lands Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to take approximately 1,567 acres of land in Montana depicted on the map entitled &quot;Northern Cheyenne Lands Act - Fee-to-Trust Lands&quot; and dated March 26, 2014, into trust for the Northern Cheyenne Tribe.
 
Requires: (1) Great Northern Properties to convey to the Tribe its coal and iron ore mineral interests underlying the land on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation generally depicted on the map entitled &quot;Northern Cheyenne Land Act - Coal Tracts&quot; and dated February 27, 2014, and (2) the Secretary to convey to Great Northern Properties all of U.S. coal mineral interests underlying the land generally depicted as &quot;Bull Mountains&quot; and &quot;East Fork&quot; on the map entitled &quot;Northern Cheyenne Federal Tracts&quot; and dated February 27, 2014.
 
Conditions those conveyances on the Secretary receiving a notice from the Tribe that: (1) it has a revenue sharing agreement with Great Northern Properties regarding future development of the Northern Cheyenne Federal Tracts, and (2) Great Northern Properties has agreed to convey those coal and iron ore mineral interests to the Tribe.
 
Directs the Secretary to ensure that the deed for those federal coal mineral interests includes a covenant, running with the land, that precludes surface mining of the coal: (1) absent the written consent of the surface owner, and (2) except as determined to be acceptable for further consideration for leasing in a specified Bureau of Land Management (BLM) document.
 
Requires the coal and iron ore mineral interests conveyed to the Tribe under this Act to be held, upon the Tribe's request, in trust for the Tribe.
 
Prohibits Montana from taxing the mineral interests this Act conveys to the Tribe.
 
Requires that, in return for this Act's mineral conveyances:
 
 
the Tribe must waive all of its claims relating to the failure of the United States to acquire those private coal and iron ore mineral interests in trust for the Tribe as part of its Reservation as directed by Congress in 1900, and 
 
 Great Northern Properties must waive any claim against the United States relating to the value of the coal mineral interests it receives under this Act.
 
 
Requires the Northern Cheyenne Trust Fund (Fund) to be transferred to the Tribe and deposited into the Tribe's Permanent Fund. Requires the Tribe, in return for such transfer, to waive all of its claims arising from U.S. management of the Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Correctional Officer Fairness Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2257
Sponsor: Sen. Toomey, Patrick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2014-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Department of Justice
Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Income tax exclusion
Law enforcement officers
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-28
text: 
Correctional Officer Fairness Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the 10% additional tax on early distributions from tax-exempt retirement plans distributions from a thrift savings fund to a qualified federal correctional officer who has reached age 50 or has completed 25 years of credible service, whichever is earlier. Defines "qualified federal correctional officer" as an individual who is employed by the Bureau of Prisons as a correctional officer and has completed 20 years of creditable service. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Helping Military Children Succeed in Schools Act

Bill: 113-s-2259
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2014-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-28
text: 
Helping Military Children Succeed in Schools Act - Amends the school improvement program under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to require states to include in their annual state report cards information regarding the number of, and the academic achievement of, their military-connected students (students who have a parent who serves in the Armed Forces).
 
Prohibits that academic achievement information from being used for school or local educational agency accountability purposes under the ESEA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Wasteful Federal Bonuses Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2263
Sponsor: Sen. Ayotte, Kelly [R-NH]
Introduced: 2014-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-28
text: 
Stop Wasteful Federal Bonuses Act of 2014 - Prohibits a federal agency from awarding a bonus to any employee for five years after the end of a fiscal year in which the Inspector General of the agency or another senior ethics official or the Comptroller General (GAO) makes an adverse finding relating to the employee. Requires repayment of a bonus awarded in any year in which an adverse finding is made. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2014-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
World War I Memorial Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2264
Sponsor: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2014-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Art, artists, authorship
Commemorative events and holidays
Conflicts and wars
District of Columbia
Military history
Military personnel and dependents
Missouri
Monuments and memorials
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-28
text: 
World War I Memorial Act of 2014 - Designates the Liberty Memorial of Kansas City at America's National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, as the National World War I Museum and Memorial.
 
Redesignates Pershing Park in the District of Columbia as the National World War I Memorial (Memorial).
 
Authorizes the World War I Centennial Commission (Commission) to plan, develop, and execute ceremonies to recognize the above designation and redesignation and to enhance the General Pershing Commemorative Work by constructing appropriate sculptural and other elements on the Memorial.
 
Amends the World War I Centennial Commission Act to: (1) allow for completion of construction at the Memorial after termination of the Commission, and (2) revise provisions concerning Commission members and pay rates. Prohibits any federal funds from being obligated or expended for the designation, establishment, or enhancement of a memorial or commemorative work by the Commission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-493.
action_date: 2014-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Stand with Israel Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2265
Sponsor: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2014-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arab-Israeli relations
Conflicts and wars
Congressional oversight
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Foreign aid and international relief
Foreign loans and debt
Government lending and loan guarantees
Israel
Middle East
Palestinians
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: 
Stand with Israel Act of 2014 - Prohibits any direct U.S. assistance, loan guarantee, or debt relief to the Palestinian Authority (PA) or any affiliated governing entity or leadership organization. 
 
States that such prohibition shall have no effect for a fiscal year if the President certifies to Congress that the PA has: 
 
 
formally recognized Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state and publicly recognized the state of Israel, 
 
renounced terrorism and purged all individuals with terrorist ties from the security services, 
 
terminated funding of anti-American and anti-Israel incitement, 
 
publicly pledged to not engage in war with Israel, and 
 
honored previous diplomatic agreements.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Firefighters Fairness Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2266
Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2014-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Blood and blood diseases
Cancer
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Evidence and witnesses
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health personnel
Medical research
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: 
Federal Firefighters Fairness Act of 2014 - Provides that: (1) specified diseases, including heart disease, lung disease, and specified cancers, of federal employees employed in fire protection activities for a minimum of five years shall be presumed to be proximately caused by such employment if the employee is diagnosed with the disease within 10 years of the last active date of employment in fire protection activities; (2) the disability or death of such an employee due to such a disease shall be presumed to result from personal injury sustained while in the performance of duty; and (3) such presumption may be rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence. Allows such presumption for fire protection employees who contract any uncommon infectious disease, including but not limited to tuberculosis, hepatitis A, B, or C, or the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), regardless of the length of employment of such employee.
 
Defines an "employee in fire protection activities" as a firefighter, paramedic, emergency medical technician, rescue worker, ambulance personnel, or hazardous material worker, who: (1) is trained in fire suppression; (2) has the legal authority and responsibility to engage in fire suppression; (3) is engaged in the prevention, control, and extinguishment of fires or response to emergency situations where life, property, or the environment is at risk; and (4) performs such activities as a primary responsibility of his or her job.
 
Directs the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to examine the implementation of this Act and appropriate scientific and medical data related to the health risks associated with firefighting and to report to Congress on: (1) an analysis of the injury claims made under this Act, (2) an analysis of the available research related to the health risks associated with firefighting, and (3) recommendations for any administrative or legislative actions necessary to ensure that those diseases most associated with firefighting are included in the presumption created by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Promoting Partnerships to Transform Opportunities Act

Bill: 113-s-2269
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM]
Introduced: 2014-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Adult education and literacy
Computers and information technology
Economic development
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Financial literacy
Health promotion and preventive care
Higher education
Language arts
Minority education
Minority employment
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: 
Promoting Partnerships to Transform Opportunities Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to direct the Secretary of Labor to make competitive grants to, or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with, eligible institutions, preferably in partnership with a nonprofit organization, to provide support services, job training, and education to individuals with multiple barriers to employment, including underrepresented minorities, to help prepare them to enter the workforce.
 
Defines &quot;eligible institution&quot; to mean a historically Black college or university, a Hispanic-serving Institution, a Tribal College or University, or a Predominantly Black Institution.
 
Requires an eligible institution to submit a program plan to the Secretary in order to receive a grant or enter into such a contract or cooperative agreement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate