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Consumer Learning through Electronically-Accessible and Reasonable Cost Information Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-2005
Sponsor: Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK]
Introduced: 2014-02-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Hospital care
Medicare
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-02-06
text: 
Consumer Learning through Electronically-Accessible and Reasonable Cost Information Act of 2013 [
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] or CLEAR Cost Information Act of 2013 [
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] - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require service providers, in order to be qualified to participate and receive Medicare payments under any agreement filed with the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), to report to the Secretary payment data on &quot;subsection (d) hospitals.&quot;
 
(Generally, a subsection (d) hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)
 
Requires a subsection (d) hospital to submit to the Secretary data on the actual amounts it has collected from uninsured and insured patients over the preceding two years for each of the 50 most common diagnosis-related groups and ambulatory payment classification groups for which payment is made in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.
 
Requires each annual report submitted to Congress by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MEDPAC) to contain information on the percentage that charity care makes up of the total care furnished by hospitals and critical access hospitals.
 
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to post data on trends in the levels of charity care provided by certain hospitals on a publicly accessible and searchable website. Amends SSA title XVIII to require hospitals and critical access hospitals to include a link to such data on their home Internet websites.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-02-06
text: Introduced in Senate
National Rare Earth Cooperative Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2006
Sponsor: Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO]
Introduced: 2014-02-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Energy storage, supplies, demand
Federally chartered organizations
Manufacturing
Marketing and advertising
Metals
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Mining
Strategic materials and reserves
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2014-02-06
text: 
National Rare Earth Cooperative Act of 2014 - Establishes the Thorium-Bearing Rare Earth Refinery Cooperative to provide for the domestic processing of thorium-bearing rare earth concentrates as residual unprocessed and unrefined ores. 
 
Requires the Cooperative's Board to establish a refinery and a Thorium Storage, Energy, and Industrial Products Corporation to develop uses and markets for thorium, including energy. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to coordinate with other federal agencies to advance and protect: (1) domestic rare earth mining, (2) the refining of rare earth elements, (3) basic rare earth metals production, and (4) the development and commercialization of thorium. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to acquire and maintain a 10% equity stake in the Cooperative in accordance with the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act for the purpose of accessing strategic rare earth materials and eliminating the need to acquire them under such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-02-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Preventing Regulatory Overreach To Enhance Care Technology Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2007
Sponsor: Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE]
Introduced: 2014-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Computers and information technology
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies

Summary:
action_date: 2014-02-10
text: 
Preventing Regulatory Overreach To Enhance Care Technology Act of 2014 or the PROTECT Act of 2014 - Expresses the sense of Congress concerning:
 
 
interagency coordination to foster health information technology and mobile health innovation,
 
development of legislation to establish a risk-based regulatory framework for clinical software and health software,
 
oversight by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of technical standards used by clinical software, and
 
work by NIST on next steps regarding health information technology, such as collaborating with nongovernmental entities to develop certification processes and to promote best practice standards.
 
 
 Excepts clinical software and health software from regulation under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and excludes the terms from the meaning of &quot;device.&quot;
 
Defines &quot;clinical software&quot; as clinical decision support software or other software intended for human or animal use that: (1) captures, analyzes, changes, or presents patient or population clinical data or information and may recommend courses of clinical action, but does not directly change the structure or any function of the body; and (2) is intended to be marketed for use only by a health care provider in a health care setting.
 
 Defines &quot;health software&quot; as software: (1) that captures, analyzes, changes, or presents patient or population clinical data or information; (2) that supports administrative or operational aspects of health care and is not used in the direct delivery of patient care; or (3) whose primary purpose is to act as a platform for a secondary software, to run or act as a mechanism for connectivity, or to store data.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-02-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S853-854)
action_date: 2014-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
SCORE for Small Business Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2008
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2014-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business education
Executive agency funding and structure
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Right of privacy
Small Business Administration
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-02-10
text: 
SCORE for Small Business Act of 2014 - Amends the Small Business Act, with respect to the SCORE program (Service Corps of Retired Executives), to: (1) reauthorize such program for FY2015-FY2017; (2) modify requirements of such program with respect to the role of participating volunteers, program plans and goals, and reporting; and (3) outline privacy requirements pertaining to the disclosure of information of businesses assisted under such program. 
 
Amends the Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994 to repeal the program of assistance to microenterprises (i.e., businesses that have fewer than five employees and generally lack access to conventional loans, equity, or other banking services).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2014-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2011
Sponsor: Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2014-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Treasury
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-02-11
text: 
Stop Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act of 2014 - Requires the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) standards and definitions in effect on January 1, 2010, for determining whether an organization qualifies for tax-exempt status as an organization operated exclusively for social welfare to apply to such determinations after enactment of this Act. Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury, or any delegate of the Secretary, from issuing, revising, or finalizing any regulation (including proposed regulations), revenue ruling, or other guidance not limited to a particular taxpayer relating to such standards and definitions. Terminates this Act one year after its enactment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Designer Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2012
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2014-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Trade restrictions
U.S. Sentencing Commission

Summary:
action_date: 2014-02-11
text: 
Designer Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2014 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to: (1) expand the list of substances defined as "anabolic steroids&quot;; (2) authorize the Attorney General to issue a temporary order adding a drug or other substance to the list of anabolic steroids; (3) impose enhanced criminal and civil penalties for possessing or trafficking in any anabolic steroid, or product containing an anabolic steroid, unless it bears a label clearly identifying the anabolic steroid by the nomenclature used by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; and (4) authorize the Attorney General to collect data and analyze products to determine whether they contain anabolic steroids and are properly labeled.
 
Specifies that a substance shall not be considered to be a drug or hormonal substance that is considered to be an anaboloic steroid if it is: (1) an herb or other botanical; (2) a concentrate, metabolite, or extract of, or a constituent isolated directly from, an herb or other botanical; (3) a combination of two or more such substances (i.e., botanical or concentrate, metabolite, or extract); or (4) a dietary ingredient for purposes of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Provides that any person claiming the benefit of an exemption or exception from being considered a drug or hormonal substance shall bear the burden of providing the appropriate evidence.
 
Directs: (1) the United States Sentencing Commission to review and amend federal sentencing guidelines with respect to offenses involving anabolic steroids, and (2) the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to report every two years on what anabolic steroids have been scheduled on a temporary basis under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-02-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S891-892)
action_date: 2014-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Department of Veterans Affairs Management Accountability Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2013
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2014-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2014-02-11
text: 
Department of Veterans Affairs Management Accountability Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) remove any employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from a Senior Executive Service position upon determining such individual's performance warrants removal, and (2) remove such individual from the civil service or appoint the individual to a General Schedule position at any grade that the Secretary deems appropriate.
 
Requires: (1) the Secretary to notify the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs committees within 30 days after removing such an individual, and (2) such removal to be done in the same manner as the removal of a professional staff member employed by a Member of Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
GI Education Benefit Fairness Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2014
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2014-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Family relationships
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-02-11
text: 
GI Education Benefit Fairness Act of 2014 - Expands the definition of &quot;children,&quot; for purposes of provisions allowing members or former members of the uniformed services who served on active duty for specified periods beginning on or after September 11, 2001, to transfer their entitlement to educational assistance, to mean an unmarried person who: (1) is placed in the legal custody of a member or former member by court order for at least 12 consecutive months, (2) has not attained the age of 21, (3) has not attained the age of 23 and is enrolled in a full-time course of study at an institution of higher learning, (4) is incapable of self support due to a mental or physical incapacity that occurred while such person was a dependent of the member or former member, (5) is dependent on the member or former member for over one-half of his or her support, (6) resides with the member or former member unless separated due to military service or institutionalization for a disability or incapacitation, and (7) is not a dependent of a member or former member under any other provision defining dependent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S943)
action_date: 2014-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S892)
action_date: 2014-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
LINE Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2017
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2014-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Justice
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: 
Lines Interfere with National Elections Act of 2014 or LINE Act of 2014 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require each jurisdiction where a substantial number of voters waited more than 30 minutes to cast a vote in the federal election held on November 6, 2012, or any federal election held after that date, to comply with a state remedial plan to minimize voter waiting times.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Committee on Rules and Administration. Hearings held.
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
River Paddling Protection Act

Bill: 113-s-2018
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2014-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Interior
Lakes and rivers
Marine and inland water transportation
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: 
 River Paddling Protection Act - Opens the rivers and streams of Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming to hand-propelled vessels. Declares specified regulations to have no force or effect with regard to the closing of rivers and streams of such Parks to such vessels.
 
Requires the Fish and Wildlife Service to coordinate any recreational use of hand-propelled vessels on the Gros Ventre River within the National Elk Refuge in Wyoming with Grand Teton National Park to ensure that use is consistent with the requirements of the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
SECURE Water Amendments Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2019
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2014-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Hawaii
Natural disasters
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: 
SECURE Water Amendments Act of 2014 - Amends the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to: (1) include &quot;planning for or addressing the impact of drought&quot; among the activities for which the Secretary may make grants and enter cooperative agreements for water management improvement, (2) include Hawaii among the states in which eligible grant and agreement applicants may be located, (3) authorize appropriations for such grants and agreements for FY2015-FY2023, and (4) authorize appropriations for national water availability and use assessment program grants for FY2014-FY2023.

action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
SECURE Water Amendments Act of 2014 - Amends the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to: (1) include &quot;planning for or addressing the impact of drought&quot; among the activities for which the Secretary may make grants and enter cooperative agreements for water management improvement, (2) include Hawaii among the states in which eligible grant and agreement applicants may be located, (3) authorize appropriations for such grants and agreements, and (4) authorize appropriations for national water availability and use assessment program grants for FY2014-FY2018.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 517.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Landrieu with amendments. With written report No. 113-230.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Landrieu with amendments. With written report No. 113-230.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
action_date: 2014-02-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-284.
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Puerto Rico Status Resolution Act

Bill: 113-s-2020
Sponsor: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Introduced: 2014-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Caribbean area
Congressional districts and representation
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Puerto Rico
State and local government operations
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: 
Puerto Rico Status Resolution Act - Authorizes the State Elections Commission of Puerto Rico to provide for a ratification vote on the admission of Puerto Rico as a state of the United States on an equal footing with the several states in all respects. Requires, if a majority of votes cast in the ratification vote are for the admission of Puerto Rico as a state: (1) the President to submit to Congress legislation to admit Puerto Rico as a state; and (2) Congress to act, through legislation, to admit Puerto Rico as a state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Biodiesel Tax Incentive Reform and Extension Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2021
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2014-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Income tax credits
Motor fuels
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: 
Biodiesel Tax Incentive Reform and Extension Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the income and excise tax credits for biodiesel used as fuel to: (1) allow a $1.00 tax credit for each gallon of biodiesel produced, (2) provide for an increased income tax credit for small biodiesel producers, (3) revise the definitions of "biodiesel" and "small biodiesel producer," (4) treat renewable diesel in the same manner as biodiesel for income tax purposes, and (5) treat biodiesel as a taxable fuel for excise tax purposes. Extends the biodiesel income and excise tax credits through December 31, 2017.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
State Marriage Defense Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2024
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2014-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Intergovernmental relations
Marriage and family status
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: 
State Marriage Defense Act of 2014 - Prohibits, for purposes of determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of U.S. administrative bureaus and agencies, as applied with respect to individuals domiciled in a state or in any other territory or possession of the United States: (1) the term &quot;marriage&quot; from including any relationship that the state, territory, or possession does not recognize as a marriage; and (2) the term &quot;spouse&quot; from including an individual who is a party to a relationship that is not recognized as a marriage by that state, territory, or possession.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-24
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 308.
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income any prizes or awards won in competition in the Olympic Games or the Paralympic Games.

Bill: 113-s-2026
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2014-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Athletes
Disability and paralysis
Income tax exclusion
Olympic games

Summary:
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income, for income tax purposes, the value of any medal or prize money received on account of competition in the Olympic Games or Paralympic Games.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize an additional district judgeship for the district of Idaho.

Bill: 113-s-2027
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2014-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Federal district courts
Idaho
Judges

Summary:
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: 
Requires the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, one additional district judge for the district of Idaho.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate