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Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2012
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Gambling
Mammals
Medical ethics
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2013 - Requires: (1) there to be an independent anti-doping organization with responsibility for ensuring the integrity and safety of horse races that are the subject of interstate off-track wagers, and (2) the independent anti-doping organization designated pursuant to the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2006 to serve as such organization.
 
Sets forth as the duties of such organization: (1) developing, publishing, and maintaining rules regarding substances, methods, and treatments that may and may not be administered to a horse participating in such a race; (2) implementing programing relating to anti-doping education, research, testing, and adjudication to prevent any horse participating in such a race from racing under the effect of any prohibited substance, method, or treatment; and (3) excluding from participation in any such race any person who is determined to have violated such a rule or who is subject to a suspension from horse racing activities by any state racing commission. 
 
Prescribes conditions under which such organization may: (1) suspend the period a person is excluded from participation; and (2) permit the use of furosemide by a horse participating in such a race during the two-year period following enactment of this Act.
 
Permits a host racing association to conduct a horse race that is the subject of an interstate off-track wager, and permits an interstate off-track wager to be accepted by an off-track betting system, only if consent is obtained from such organization. Requires such organization to ensure that all costs incurred in carrying out its duties are defrayed pursuant to agreements for such consent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Davis-Bacon Repeal Act

Bill: 113-hr-2013
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Building construction
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Labor standards
Public contracts and procurement
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
Davis-Bacon Repeal Act - Repeals the Davis-Bacon Act (which requires that the locally prevailing wage rate be paid to various classes of laborers and mechanics working under federally-financed or federally-assisted contracts for construction, alteration, and repair of public buildings or public works).
 
States that references in any law to a wage requirement of the Davis-Bacon Act after the enactment of this Act shall be null and void.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Telephone Records Protection Act

Bill: 113-hr-2014
Sponsor: Rep. Amash, Justin [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Evidence and witnesses
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Right of privacy
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
Telephone Records Protection Act - Repeals a provision of the federal criminal code requiring a provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service to disclose to a governmental entity local and long distance telephone connection records, or records of session times and durations, of a subscriber to or customer of such service when such entity uses an administrative subpoena authorized by a federal or state statute or federal or state grand jury or trial subpoena.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
EAC Improvements Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2017
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Robert A. [D-PA-1]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Congressional oversight
Disability and paralysis
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Technology assessment
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
EAC Improvements Act of 2013 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to: (1) reauthorize the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), and (2) require states to participate in post-general election surveys.
 
Requires the EAC to: (1) conduct and publish a survey of each polling place used in an election to determine the percentage of them in compliance with standards under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; (2) establish an escrow account for making payments to accredited laboratories for the costs of the testing carried out in connection with the certification, decertification, and recertification of voting system hardware and software; (3) establish a schedule of fees for such testing; and (4) maintain and publish an updated list of all accredited laboratories.
 
Directs the EAC to analyze various factors that affect the costs to state and local governments of administering elections for federal office.
 
Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to study the administrative operations of the EAC, including various methods for increasing their efficiency and cost-effectiveness. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Honor Those Who Served Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2018
Sponsor: Rep. Stivers, Steve [R-OH-15]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Religion
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
Honor Those Who Served Act of 2013 - Revises veterans' burial benefits provisions to allow a person to request a headstone or marker from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to commemorate an eligible individual if such person is: (1) the decedent's next of kin; (2) a person authorized by the next of kin to make such request; (3) a personal representative authorized by the decedent to make such request; (4) in the case of a decedent for whom there is no person under (1) through (3) identified, a state veterans agency, a military researcher, a local historian, a genealogist, or other person familiar with methods necessary to prove the identity of the decedent; or (5) in the case of a veteran who served on active duty at least 62 years before the date on which the headstone or marker is requested, any person.
 
Allows for the request of a headstone or marker without an emblem of religious belief.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Truth in Tuition Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2020
Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
Truth in Tuition Act of 2013 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education (IHEs) to provide each student admitted to an undergraduate or graduate program: (1) a multi-year tuition and fee schedule; or (2) a single-year tuition and fee schedule, and a nonbinding, multi-year estimate of net costs after all financial aid is awarded.
 
Requires IHEs that choose the second option to include with each multi-year estimate the average deviation, in percentage terms, between previous year estimates and actual net costs for their students.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to waive the application of these requirements to IHEs for which the requirements are not practicable due to events that cause them severe economic distress, a dramatic reduction in state or federal aid, or any other circumstance the Secretary determines to be appropriate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Freedom From Union Violence Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2021
Sponsor: Rep. Broun, Paul C. [R-GA-10]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against property
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Labor-management relations
Organized crime
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Freedom From Union Violence Act of 2013 - Amends the Hobbs Act to authorize imposition of a fine of up to $100,000, 20 years' imprisonment, or both for: (1) obstructing, delaying, or affecting commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce by robbery or extortion (or attempting or conspiring to do so); and (2) threatening physical violence to any person or property in furtherance of a plan or purpose to interfere with commerce by threats or violence. 
Makes provisions regarding any such interference inapplicable to conduct that: (1) is incidental to otherwise peaceful picketing during the course of a labor dispute; (2) consists solely of minor bodily injury, or minor damage to property, or threat or fear of such minor injury or damage; and (3) is not part of a pattern of violent conduct or of coordinated violent activity. Subjects such conduct to prosecution only by the appropriate state and local authorities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the implementation or enforcement of any requirement of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act until certifications are made that taxpayer information is not and will not be used for targeting any individual or group that provides information to the Internal Revenue Service for political reasons or on the basis of political views, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-2022
Sponsor: Rep. Black, Diane [R-TN-6]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Congressional oversight
Employee performance
First Amendment rights
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
Prohibits the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from implementing or enforcing any requirement of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or title I of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 until the Secretary of the Treasury certifies under penalty of perjury that: (1) taxpayer information is not and will not be used for targeting any individual or group for political reasons or on the basis of political views; and (2) the IRS has terminated the employment of all employees found to have violated the constitutional rights of any taxpayer or who knew of abuses related to the targeting of a political group, declined to come forward, or willfully misled investigators.
 
Prohibits taxpayer information from being used for targeting any individual or group that provides information to the IRS for political reasons or on the basis of political views. Prohibits a federal agency from implementing or enforcing any requirement of PPACA or title 1 of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 until the head of such agency certifies under penalty of perjury that the agency has terminated the employment of any employee who is found to have violated the constitutional rights of any taxpayer. Requires such certification to be submitted to Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3102)
action_date: 2013-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Climate Change Health Protection and Promotion Act

Bill: 113-hr-2023
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-24]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental health
Government information and archives
Health personnel
Medical research
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
Climate Change Health Protection and Promotion Act - Expresses the sense of Congress with respect to the impact of climate change on health systems. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) publish and implement a national strategic action plan to assist health professionals in preparing for and responding to the impact of climate change on public health in the United States and other nations, particularly developing nations; (2) revise the plan periodically to reflect new information; (3) establish a permanent science advisory board; and (4) contract with the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine to assess the need for health professionals to prepare for and respond to the impact of climate change on public health. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2812)
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
End Anonymous Patents Act

Bill: 113-hr-2024
Sponsor: Rep. Deutch, Theodore E. [D-FL-21]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Department of Commerce
Government information and archives
Intellectual property

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
End Anonymous Patents Act - Requires entities issued a patent to file with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) a disclosure of the identity of the patent owner and any real parties in interest. Directs patent owners to also make such disclosures to the USPTO upon the payment of maintenance fees.
 
Requires an entity to which a patent, patent application, or interest is sold, granted, or conveyed to file with the USPTO a disclosure of the sale, grant, or conveyance, and any real party in interest in the patent, application, or interest. 
 
Specifies that &quot;real parties in interest&quot; include: (1) any entity that has the legal right to enforce the patent through an infringement action, (2) any ultimate parent entity (not controlled by any other entity) of such an entity, and (3) any entity that has a controlling interest in the enforcement of the patent. 
 
Limits the damages available in a patent infringement action by an entity that fails to comply with the requirements of this Act to only those damages occurring from the date on which the requirements are met. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require the termination of employment of IRS employees for discrimination against any taxpayer on basis of political affiliation, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-2025
Sponsor: Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee performance
First Amendment rights
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government liability
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Legal fees and court costs
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to terminate the employment of any IRS employee for discrimination against any taxpayer on the basis of political affiliation or for threatening to audit a taxpayer for arbitrary or capricious politically-motivated reasons, and (2) award administrative and litigation costs to taxpayers who prevail against the IRS in any legal or administrative proceeding for wrongful discrimination.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Silviculture Regulatory Consistency Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2026
Sponsor: Rep. Herrera Beutler, Jaime [R-WA-3]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Agricultural conservation and pollution
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Forests, forestry, trees
Licensing and registrations
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
Silviculture Regulatory Consistency Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from requiring, or from promulgating regulations that direct a state to require, a permit under the national pollutant discharge elimination system for a discharge of stormwater runoff resulting from the conduct of the following silviculture activities: nursery operations, site preparation, reforestation, thinning, prescribed burning, pest and fire control, harvesting operations, surface drainage, and road use, construction, and maintenance.
 
 Specifies that nothing in this Act exempts a silvicultural activity resulting in the discharge of dredged of fill material from permit requirements for discharges into navigable waters.

action_date: 2014-11-12
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Silviculture Regulatory Consistency Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from requiring, or from promulgating regulations that direct a state to require, a permit under the national pollutant discharge elimination system for a discharge of stormwater runoff resulting from the conduct of the following silviculture activities: nursery operations, site preparation, reforestation, thinning, prescribed burning, pest and fire control, harvesting operations, surface drainage, and road use, construction, and maintenance.
 
 Specifies that nothing in this Act exempts a silvicultural activity resulting in the discharge of dredged of fill material from permit requirements for discharges into navigable waters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 452.
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 113-607.
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 113-607.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Discharged.
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Expanding Patients' Access to Quality Care Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2027
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2013-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Medical ethics
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: 
Expanding Patients' Access to Quality Care Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to: (1) the limitation on certain physician referrals to hospitals in which the physician or an immediate family member has an ownership or investment interest exceeding a specified amount; and (2) the rural provider and hospital exception to the physician ownership or investment prohibition.
 
Extends the rural provider and hospital exception to hospitals that were under construction or development as of December 30, 2010, and hospitals in financial distress.
 
Defines &quot;financial distress&quot; for a cost reporting period as one in which a hospital has had an overall negative combined Medicare inpatient prospective payment system and outpatient prospective payment system operating margin for the most recent three consecutive cost reporting periods for which data are available.
 
Eliminates the process for applying for such an exception for expansions of hospital facility capacity. Limits increases in facility capacity to those hospitals that have had a previous increase.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2013-05-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Introduced in House