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IRS Equal Treatment Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2683
Sponsor: Rep. Griffin, Tim [R-AR-2]
Introduced: 2013-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Business expenses
Civil actions and liability
Department of the Treasury
Evidence and witnesses
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: 
IRS Equal Treatment Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require each officer and employee of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to substantiate any expense incurred in carrying out official duties and responsibilities, (2) make IRS officers and employees jointly and severally liable for all expenses for which substantiation requirements are not met, and (3) require the Inspector General for Tax Administration of the Department of the Treasury to report annually on a review of the expense substantiation records required by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
Telephone Surveillance Accountability Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2684
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2013-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Evidence and witnesses
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Specialized courts
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: 
Telephone Surveillance Accountability Act of 2013 - Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978 to prohibit a person from searching telephony metadata acquired pursuant to an order to produce any tangible thing, unless: (1) the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) makes an application to a FISA court judge that includes a statement of facts showing a reasonable, articulable suspicion that the basis of the search is material and specifically relevant to an authorized investigation; and (2) the judge finds that there is such a reasonable, articulable suspicion and enters an order authorizing such search.
 
Defines "telephony metadata" to mean communications routing information, including session identifying information, an original or terminating telephone number, an International Mobile Subscriber Identity, an International Mobile Station Equipment Identity, a trunk identifier, a telephone calling card number, and the time or duration of a call.
 
Requires the Director to submit to the House and Senate intelligence committees a monthly report describing each search of telephony metadata made during the preceding month pursuant to such an order.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 31, United States Code, to provide that the President's annual budget submission to Congress list the current fiscal year spending level for each proposed program and a separate amount for any proposed spending increases, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-2686
Sponsor: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2013-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: 
Requires the President's budget submission to Congress to: (1) list each program, and its proposed funding level, that will be a one-time expense for the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted; and, in addition to the performance standards required, (2) a proposal, by budget function and agency, for reductions in spending for each of the four ensuing fiscal years.
 
Requires the President, for each budget item being conducted in the current fiscal year, to provide: (1) the amount appropriated or otherwise made available for the item in that year, and (2) the amount of any proposed adjustment in the funding level for the item and its justification.
 
 Requires the President, if he proposes an adjustment resulting in a funding increase for a budget item, to include with the proposal the amount of the adjustment that is a result of inflation and the amount that is a result of an increase in employees' salaries or benefits.
 
Requires the President to provide for each major program in a budget function specified in the required estimated budget outlays and proposed budget authority: (1) the amount appropriated or otherwise made available for it in the current fiscal year; and (2) a separate amount (if any) of its expected increase in the following fiscal year owing to inflation, pay increases, or benefit increases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-11
text: Introduced in House
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2687
Sponsor: Rep. Palazzo, Steven M. [R-MS-4]
Introduced: 2013-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Accidents
Accounting and auditing
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Atmospheric science and weather
Aviation and airports
Biological and life sciences
Congressional oversight
Earth sciences
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
General science and technology matters
Government information and archives
Government liability
Government studies and investigations
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Higher education
International organizations and cooperation
Materials
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Nuclear power
Public contracts and procurement
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Science and engineering education
Small business
Solid waste and recycling
Space flight and exploration
Spacecraft and satellites
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Technology transfer and commercialization
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-15
text: 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2013 - Authorizes appropriations for FY2014-FY2015 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). 
 
Authorizes programs, activities and reports respecting NASA, including those with regard to human exploration, the Space Launch System, the Orion multipurpose crew vehicle, the International Space Station (ISS), radioisotope thermoelectric generators, extrasolar planet research and exploration, the James Webb Space Telescope, the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope, near-Earth objects, space weather, the Deep Space Climate Observatory, land imaging remote sensing data, aeronautics research, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, project and program reserves, and orbital debris mitigation. 
 
Establishes a space technology program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 22 - 17.
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2013-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2013-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-10
text: Consideration and Mark-up Session Held by the Subcommittee on Space Prior to Introduction.
To amend certain appropriation Acts to repeal the requirement directing the Administrator of General Services to sell Federal property and assets that support the operations of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in Plum Island, New York, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-2691
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Timothy H. [D-NY-1]
Introduced: 2013-07-16 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property
Land transfers
New York State
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: 
Repeals provisions of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2009, and the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2012, authorizing the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to direct the Administrator of General Services (GSA) to sell all real and personal property and transportation assets of the National Bio and Agro-defense Facility at Plum Island, New York. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
Saving America's Pollinators Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2692
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2013-07-16 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Animal and plant health
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Forests, forestry, trees
Government information and archives
Grain
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Horticulture and plants
Insects
Licensing and registrations
Pest management

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: 
Saving America's Pollinators Act of 2013 - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to suspend the registration of imidacloprid, clothianidin, thiamethoxam, dinotafuran, and any other members of the nitro group of neonicotinoid insecticides to the extent such insecticide is registered under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) for use in seed treatment, soil application, or foliar treatment on bee attractive plants, trees, and cereals until the Administrator has made a determination that such insecticide will not cause unreasonable adverse effects on pollinators. Requires such a determination to be based on: (1) an evaluation of the published and peer-reviewed scientific evidence on whether the use or uses of such neonicotinoids cause unreasonable adverse effects on pollinators, including native bees, honeybees, birds, bats, and other species of beneficial insects; and (2) a completed field study that meets the criteria required by the Administrator and evaluates residues, including residue build-up after repeated annual application, chronic low-dose exposure, and cumulative effects of multiple chemical exposures.
 
Prohibits the Administrator from issuing any new registrations of the pesticides listed in this Act for any seed treatment, soil application, and foliar treatment on bee attractive plants, trees, and cereals under FIFRA until the Administrator has made such determination with respect to such insecticide.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior, in coordination with the Administrator, to: (1) regularly monitor the health and population status of native bees, (2) identify the scope and likely causes of unusual native bee mortality, and (3) submit to Congress and make public an annual report on such health and population status.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1066)
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
Save Dignity Act

Bill: 113-hr-2693
Sponsor: Rep. Cook, Paul [R-CA-8]
Introduced: 2013-07-16 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Congressional oversight
Disability and health-based discrimination
Disability and paralysis
Homeland security
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: 
Screening Amputees and Veterans with Efficiency and Dignity Act or Save Dignity Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to report to Congress on Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security screening of Armed Forces veterans and other airline passengers with amputations, with or without prosthesis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
Buy Smarter and Save Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2694
Sponsor: Rep. Griffin, Tim [R-AR-2]
Introduced: 2013-07-16 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Congressional oversight
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Veterans Affairs
General Services Administration
Government studies and investigations
Manufacturing
Military procurement, research, weapons development
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Performance measurement
Public contracts and procurement
Small Business Administration
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: 
Buy Smarter and Save Act of 2013 - Directs the President to establish: (1) an annual government-wide goal to procure goods and services using strategic sourcing, and (2) an annual government-wide goal for savings from the use of strategic sourcing. Defines &quot;strategic sourcing&quot; as a structured and collaborative process of critically analyzing an organization's spending patterns to better leverage its purchasing power, reduce costs, and improve overall value and performance. 
 
Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to: (1) issue guidance to executive agencies for implementing the strategic sourcing goals established by this Act, and (2) report on spending for goods and services that was strategically sourced and the extent of the savings realized. 
 
Directs the Departments of Defense (DOD), Homeland Security (DHS), Energy (DOE), Veterans Affairs (VA), and Health and Human Services (HHS), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the General Services Administration (GSA), and the Small Business Administration (SBA) to take certain actions to support strategic sourcing, including establishing department wide-goals and savings targets for strategic sourcing efforts and a strategic sourcing accountability official.
 
Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to: (1) conduct studies on contract utilization fees and on establishing strategic sourcing initiative contract vehicles, and (2) assess and report on the performance of executive agencies in implementing the strategic sourcing goals required by this Act and the amounts saved through the use of strategic sourcing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
American Public Housing Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2695
Sponsor: Rep. Jeffries, Hakeem S. [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2013-07-16 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Executive agency funding and structure
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Indian social and development programs
Low- and moderate-income housing
Public housing

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: 
American Public Housing Act of 2013 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to exempt from reduction, under any sequestration ordered by the President, the following Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) accounts:
 
 
Choice Neighborhoods Initiative,
 
Indian Housing Loan Guarantee Fund Program Account,
 
Native American Housing Block Grants,
 
Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant,
 
Project-Based Rental Assistance,
 
Public Housing Capital Fund,
 
Public Housing Operating Fund, and
 
Tenant-Based Rental Assistance.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
To increase transparency of agencies by requiring a report describing any proposed conference.

Bill: 113-hr-2696
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2013-07-16 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Business expenses
Congressional oversight
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Transportation costs
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: 
Requires the head of a federal agency who is hosting a conference or sending an agency employee to a conference to submit to Congress, not later than 30 days before the conference, a report that includes: (1) an itemized statement of the cost of attending the conference, (2) the total cost to the agency hosting the conference, (3) the names of keynote speakers, (4) a list of conference attendees, (5) the location of the conference, (6) a summary of the purposes and goals of the conference, and (7) a conference itinerary. Defines &quot;conference&quot; as a meeting, retreat, seminar, symposium, training, or other event that involves travel for 50 or more attendees. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
Airline Pilot Pension Fairness Act

Bill: 113-hr-2697
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-11]
Introduced: 2013-07-16 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Employee benefits and pensions
Transportation employees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: 
Airline Pilot Pension Fairness Act - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), with regard to both single-employer and multiemployer plan guaranteed benefits, to require the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), in the case of commercial airline pilots required by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulation to retire before age 65, to compute the actuarial value of monthly benefits in the form of a life annuity commencing at the required retirement age.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1068-1069)
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
Federal Employee Short-Term Disability Insurance Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2698
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-07-16 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Disability assistance
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: 
Federal Employee Short-Term Disability Insurance Act of 2013 - Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to establish and administer a program for short-term (i.e., up to 12 months) disability insurance coverage for federal employees for: (1) an injury or disability that is not work related, (2) leave to care for a family member, and (3) leave to make arrangements to become a foster parent or to adopt a child. Disqualifies an employee for such insurance if an injury or disability is caused by willful misconduct, a self-inflicted injury, or intoxication. 
 
Requires the Director to contract with one or more insurance carriers for disability insurance coverage plans, without regard to competitive bidding requirements. Requires such plans to contain a detailed statement of benefits offered, the premiums charged, and the duration of the enrollment period.
 
Authorizes the Director to prescribe reasonable minimum standards for benefits offered by such plans, including a prohibition against excluding or penalizing an employee for a preexisting condition. 
 
Requires individuals eligible for coverage under a disability insurance plan to be responsible for 100% of the premiums for the coverage offered. 
 
Establishes in the Employees' Life Insurance Fund a Non-Work Related Disability Insurance Administrative Account, which shall be available to OPM to defray reasonable expenses incurred in administering this Act and to which contracted carriers shall make contributions necessary to cover such expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1063-1064)
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
To extend the hold harmless provisions of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program pending reauthorization of the overall program.

Bill: 113-hr-2699
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2013-07-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
HIV/AIDS
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: 
 Provides, for any fiscal year after FY2013 for which appropriations are made to carry out the program under title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act (popularly known as the Ryan White CARE Act), regarding emergency relief under the HIV Health Care Services Program, but for which the authorizations of appropriations have not been extended, that: (1) requirements limiting the reduction of grants from the prior fiscal year are extended, and (2) certain funding rules applicable to metropolitan areas that are transitional areas and to states shall apply in the same manner as they apply for FY2013.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in House