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Medicare Drug Savings Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-740
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2013-04-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Medicaid
Medicare
Prescription drugs
Public contracts and procurement
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-16
text: 
Medicare Drug Savings Act of 2013 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require drug manufacturers to pay the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) drug rebates for rebate eligible (low-income) individuals. Excludes from Medicare coverage as a part D drug any drug or biological manufactured by a manufacturer that has not entered into and have in effect a rebate agreement with the Secretary.
 
Requires a rebate agreement to require a drug or biological manufacturer to provide to the Secretary a rebate, determined according to a specified formula, for each rebate period ending after December 31, 2011, for any covered Medicare part D drug dispensed after that date to any rebate eligible individual for which payment was made by a prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsor or MedicareAdvantage (MA) organization for such period. 
 
Specifies a formula for determination of Medicaid rebate amounts for such drugs or biologicals.
 
Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to exclude any amounts paid under a rebate agreement from the determination of best price and average manufacturer price under the Medicaid program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-04-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2687)
action_date: 2013-04-16
text: Introduced in Senate
North American Wetlands Conservation Extension Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-741
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2013-04-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Water resources funding
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-16
text: 
North American Wetlands Conservation Extension Act of 2013 - Amends the North American Wetlands Conservation Act to extend through FY2017 the authorization of appropriations for allocations to carry out approved wetlands conservation projects.

action_date: 2014-06-05
text: 
North American Wetlands Conservation Extension Act of 2014 - Reauthorizes the North American Wetlands Conservation Act through FY2019.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-05
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 417.
action_date: 2014-06-05
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 113-187.
action_date: 2014-06-05
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 113-187.
action_date: 2014-02-06
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2013-04-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-04-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Promotion and Expansion of Private Employee Ownership Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-742
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2013-04-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Department of the Treasury
Employee benefits and pensions
Executive agency funding and structure
Income tax deferral
Securities
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-16
text: 
Promotion and Expansion of Private Employee Ownership Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend to all domestic corporations, including S corporations, provisions allowing deferral of tax on gain from the sale of employer securities to an S corporation-sponsored employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish the S Corporation Employee Ownership Assistance Office to foster increased employee ownership of S corporations.
 
Amends the Small Business Act to define "ESOP business concern" and allow such a concern to continue to qualify for loans, preferences, and other programs under such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-04-16
text: Introduced in Senate
National Forest Insect and Disease Treatment Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-745
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2013-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Insects
Pest management

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: 
 National Forest Insect and Disease Treatment Act of 2013 - Amends the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) or the Secretary of the Interior, as appropriate, to designate as part of an insect and disease treatment and research pilot program at least one subwatershed in at least one national forest in each state that is experiencing an insect or disease epidemic and characterized by: (1) substantially increased tree mortality due to infestation; (2) the risk of substantially increased tree mortality over the next 15 years due to infestation; or (3) presence in an area in which the risk of hazard trees poses an imminent risk to public infrastructure, health, or safety. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to carry out priority projects on federal land in the designated subwatersheds to reduce the risk or extent of, or increase the resilience to, insect or disease infestation in the subwatersheds. Deems such projects to be authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects. 
 
Extends the authorization of appropriations for the insect infestation and related diseases program through FY2018.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to establish a market-driven inventory system.

Bill: 113-s-746
Sponsor: Sen. Cowan, William M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2013-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Grain

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: 
Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), for each of the 2014-2018 crops of each market commodity, to make recourse loans available to producers on a farm electing to participate in the program. 
 
Sets forth: (1) the recourse loan rate for corn, oats, barley, grain sorghum, wheat, and soybeans; and (2) market commodity-specific limitations on participation (inventory caps) for such crops.
 
Requires participating producers, until the Secretary authorizes loan repayment and release, to: (1) store and maintain the market commodity, and (2) not sell or otherwise release the commodity into the market.
 
Provides that during such storage period: (1) title to the commodity shall remain with the producers, and (2) the Secretary shall have a first lien on the commodity for which a recourse loan is received.
 
Provides USDA payments to producers at $0.40 per bushel per crop year. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to establish a partial commodity release if the market release of all of the stored commodity would depress prices below the release level.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to establish a set-aside program under which qualifying producers on a farm may remove acres from production for the following crop year if the inventory cap for a commodity is reached and such commodity's market price is below the recourse loan rate. Requires participating producers to maintain a cover crop on all enrolled acreage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to grant exclusive fishery management authority over the red snapper fish in the Gulf of Mexico to certain States.

Bill: 113-s-747
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2013-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alabama
Fishes
Florida
Gulf of Mexico
Intergovernmental relations
Louisiana
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mississippi
State and local government operations
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to grant to Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas exclusive fishery management authority over red snapper fish in the Gulf of Mexico in the area located between the coast line of each such state and the point that is 200 miles seaward of the coast line, consistent with the jurisdictional limit of the exclusive economic zone. 
 
Conditions the grant of authority on the governors of such states agreeing on a fishery management plan, certified to the Secretary within a specified period, to govern the management of such red snapper fish.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Pension Protection Act

Bill: 113-s-748
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2013-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: 
 Veterans Pension Protection Act - Provides that if a veteran eligible for a pension for service or for a non-service-connected disability, or the spouse of such veteran, disposes of a resource that was part of such veteran's estate for less than its fair market value within three years before applying for such pension, then the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) shall deny or discontinue the pension payment for months beginning on the date of such disposition and ending when the uncompensated value of such resource is reached. Provides the same denial or discontinuance in the case of a veteran eligible for an increased pension payment on account of a child, unless the Secretary determines that such denial or discontinuance would work an undue hardship.
 
Applies the same denial or discontinuance, with the same undue hardship exception, in the case of: (1) a veteran's surviving spouse who disposes of a covered resource for less than fair market value within such period, and (2) an increased pension for such spouse on account of a child.
 
Requires the Secretary, at the time a veteran, surviving spouse, or child applies for such a pension, to: (1) inform the individual of such requirements, and (2) obtain information to determine whether a period of ineligibility for such payments will be required.
 
Requires annual reports from the Secretary, through 2018, on the administration of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-12
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-111.
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 15-year recovery period for qualified leasehold improvement property, qualified restaurant property, and qualified retail improvement property.

Bill: 113-s-749
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2013-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Food industry and services
Income tax deductions
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the 15-year recovery period classification for qualified leasehold improvement, restaurant, and retail improvement property, for purposes of the depreciation tax deduction. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Campus Fire Safety Education Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-750
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2013-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Emergency planning and evacuation
Fires
Higher education

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: 
Campus Fire Safety Education Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a program to award grants, on a competitive basis, to institutions of higher education or consortiums of such institutions for: (1) initiating, expanding, or improving fire safety education programs; and (2) increasing fire safety awareness among enrolled students. 
 
Directs the Secretary to give priority to institutions that plan to use funds to initiate, expand, or improve fire safety education programs that include educational material specifically prepared for students with physical, sensory, or cognitive disabilities. Sets forth provisions regarding grant periods, limits on awards, and matching and other requirements.
 
Requires an institution to use grant funds to initiate, expand, or improve a fire safety education program that: (1) reaches all enrolled students; (2) ensures maximum exposure to and increased awareness of, and that effectuates change in behavior regarding, fire safety by students through conducting outreach to students a minimum of twice per academic year and through measures that provide fire safety information to any student upon request; (3) includes minimum instruction regarding fire behavior, fire injury and death, ignition scenarios, fire safety systems and equipment, the importance of means of egress, fire prevention techniques, and actions to be taken if a fire occurs to minimize the potential for death, injury, and property damage; and (4) includes a mechanism for carrying out evaluations of program effectiveness. 
 
Requires the Secretary to publish a report of best practices for initiating, expanding, or improving fire safety education programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Farming Flexibility Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-751
Sponsor: Sen. Coats, Daniel [R-IN]
Introduced: 2013-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Fruit and vegetables

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: 
Farming Flexibility Act of 2013 - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to consider mung beans and pulse crops as covered commodities whose planting on base acres is prohibited unless the commodity, if planted, is destroyed before harvest.
 
Provides that: (1) as of crop year 2014 producers on a farm may reduce the base acres for any covered commodity for a crop year by one acre for each acre used for the production of fruits or vegetables (other than potatoes) for processing; (2) such acres devoted to fruits or vegetables shall be included in base acres for the covered commodity for the subsequent crop year unless the producers on the farm make the election to produce fruits and vegetables for the subsequent crop year; and (3) if a farm's base acres are recalculated the production of fruits or vegetables shall be considered to be the same as the planting, prevented planting, or production of a covered commodity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Cody Miller Initiative for Safer Prescriptions Act

Bill: 113-s-752
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2013-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: 
Cody Miller Initiative for Safer Prescriptions Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to promulgate regulations regarding the authorship, content, format, and dissemination requirements for patient medication information (PMI) for prescription drugs.
 
Requires such regulations to require the PMI for such a drug: (1) to be scientifically accurate and to be based on the approved professional labeling and authoritative, peer-reviewed literature; and (2) to include plain language that is not promotional in tone or content. Requires that such language include: (1) the established name of the drug; (2) drug uses and clinical benefits; (3) general directions for proper use; (4) contraindications, common side effects, and the most serious risks of the drug; (5) measures patients may take to reduce the side effects and risks; (6) when a patient should contact his or her health care professional; (7) instructions not to share medications; (8) any key storage requirements; (9) recommendations relating to proper disposal of any unused portion of the drug; and (10) known clinically important interactions with other drugs and substances.
 
Requires such regulations to: (1) include standards related to performing timely updates of drug information, ensuring that common information is applied consistently and simultaneously across similar drug products and for drugs within classes of medications, and developing a process to assess the quality and effectiveness of PMI in promoting patient understanding and safe and effective use; and (2) provide for the development of a publicly accessible electronic repository for all PMI. 
 
Requires the Secretary to publish on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website a link to the Daily Med website.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for national security benefits for White Sands Missile Range and Fort Bliss.

Bill: 113-s-753
Sponsor: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Introduced: 2013-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Military facilities and property
New Mexico
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: 
Withdraws parcels 1, 2, 3, and 4 and any lands acquired by the federal government within the boundaries of those parcels with respect to White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and Fort Bliss in Texas and New Mexico from specified public land laws. 
 
Bars the withdrawal of parcel 4 for purposes of the issuance of oil and gas pipeline rights-of-way. 
 
Reserves parcel 1 for use by the Secretary of Army (the Secretary) for military purposes in accordance with a specified public land order. 
 
Transfers administrative jurisdiction over parcel 2 from the Secretary to the Secretary of the Interior (acting through the Bureau of Land Management [BLM]). 
 
Requires the Secretary to reimburse the Secretary of the Interior for the costs incurred by such Secretary in the implementation of this Act with regard to parcel 1. 
action_date: 2014-05-14
text: 
Withdraws 5,100 acres of land near White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Reserves the land for use by the Army for military purposes. Requires the Secretary of the Army to reimburse the Secretary of the Interior for any costs in implementing this Act with respect to this land.
 
Withdraws 37,600 acres of land near Fort Bliss in Texas and New Mexico. Allows the issuance of oil and gas pipeline rights of way on part of this land.
 
Revokes the withdrawal of 2,050 acres of land (part of Fillmore Canyon located in New Mexico) that was reserved for the Army's use. Gives the Secretary of the Interior authority for managing this land. 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-14
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 376.
action_date: 2014-05-14
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Landrieu with an amendment. With written report No. 113-159.
action_date: 2014-05-14
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Landrieu with an amendment. With written report No. 113-159.
action_date: 2013-11-14
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2013-07-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-85.
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Shellfish Marketing Assistance Fairness Act

Bill: 113-s-754
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2013-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Aquaculture
Seafood

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: 
Shellfish Marketing Assistance Fairness Act - Amends the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 to include farmed shellfish as a specialty crop.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Enhanced Access to Medicaid Services Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-755
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2013-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicaid
Mental health
Neurological disorders
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: 
Enhanced Access to Medicaid Services Act of 2013 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to apply the Medicaid primary care payment rate in 2013 and 2014 to additional physicians with a primary specialty designation of neurology, psychiatry, or obstetrics and gynecology.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Helping Schools Protect Our Children Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-756
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2013-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Crimes against children
Domestic violence and child abuse
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
School administration
Sex offenses
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: 
Helping Schools Protect Our Children Act of 2013 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to include the training of school personnel to recognize child sexual abuse among the uses of grants to states and subgrants to local educational agencies and partnerships under part A (Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting Fund) of title II.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate