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Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-942
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2013-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability and paralysis
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Government information and archives
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health technology, devices, supplies
Licensing and registrations
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases
Neurological disorders
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: 
Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover, as medical and other health services, complex rehabilitation technology items designed and configured for a specific qualified individual to meet that individual's unique: (1) medical, physical, and functional needs related to a medical condition; and (2) capacities for basic activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental ADLs.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) designate complex rehabilitation technology items (excluding adaptive equipment to operate motor vehicles or certain prosthetic devices and orthotics); and (2) establish eligibility criteria for them. 
 
Prescribes requirements for payments for CRT items. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish standards for clinical conditions for CRT item payment as well as quality standards for suppliers of such items.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a Healthcare Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) coding subset that uses specified HCPCS codes for CRT items.
 
Requires payment for replacement of a CRT item (or any part of one), without regard to certain continuous use or useful lifetime restrictions established for items of durable medical equipment (DME), if a qualified ordering practitioner determines that a replacement item (or part) is necessary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-03-04
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: 2013-03-04
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: 2013-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Crop Insurance Subsidy Reduction Act

Bill: 113-hr-943
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2013-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural insurance
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: 
Crop Insurance Subsidy Reduction Act - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to reduce crop insurance premium subsidy rates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Venezuelan Liberty Act

Bill: 113-hr-944
Sponsor: Rep. Garcia, Joe [D-FL-26]
Introduced: 2013-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Immigration status and procedures
Latin America
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Venezuela

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: 
Venezuelan Liberty Act - Provides for the adjustment to permanent resident status of a national of Venezuela who has maintained a required physical presence in the United States during the period beginning on February 2, 1999, and ending on March 4, 2013, and who, during such period, applied for asylum and was placed in exclusion, deportation, or removal proceedings. 
 
Requires individuals to apply for adjustment before April 1, 2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security.
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Introduced in House
To remove from the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System the areas included in Indian Peninsula Unit FL-92 and Cape San Blas Unit P-30 in Florida.

Bill: 113-hr-945
Sponsor: Rep. Southerland, Steve II [R-FL-2]
Introduced: 2013-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Florida
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: 
Amends the Coastal Barrier Resources Act to remove from the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System and related maps the areas comprising Indian Peninsula Unit FL-92 and Cape San Blas Unit P-30 in Florida.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Introduced in House
National Right-to-Work Act

Bill: 113-hr-946
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2013-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
Labor-management relations
Railroads
Transportation employees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: 
National Right-to-Work Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to repeal those provisions that permit employers, pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement that is a union security agreement, to require employees to join a union as a condition of employment (including provisions permitting railroad carriers to require, pursuant to such an agreement, payroll deduction of union dues or fees as a condition of employment). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Accounting and Tax Simplification Act

Bill: 113-hr-947
Sponsor: Rep. Schock, Aaron [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2013-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Small business
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: 
Small Business Accounting and Tax Simplification Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt certain small business taxpayers from the requirements of using the accrual method of accounting and of using inventories. Allows such taxpayers to use a cash method of accounting if they meet the gross receipts test and are not engaged in farming as a corporation. Increases the amount of the gross receipts test to $10 million (currently, $5 million) and permits an annual inflation adjustment of that amount. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Standard DATA Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-948
Sponsor: Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2013-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Computers and information technology
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Labor
Government information and archives
Poverty and welfare assistance
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: 
Standard Data and Technology Advancement Act of 2013 or Standard DATA Act of 2013 - Amends part A of title XI of the Social Security Act to direct the head of the department or agency responsible for administering certain human services programs to designate, by rule, nonproprietary and interoperable data exchange standards for any category of information required to be reported.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-05
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: 2013-03-05
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: 2013-03-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E243-244)
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Protecting America's Civilian Employees Act

Bill: 113-hr-950
Sponsor: Rep. Farenthold, Blake [R-TX-27]
Introduced: 2013-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: 
Protecting America's Civilian Employees Act or PACE Act - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to report to Congress, within 30 days after enactment of this Act, on how amounts could be transferred within federal agencies and departments for FY2013 to avoid all furloughs or reductions in force without increasing the federal deficit for that fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Women and Workforce Investment for Nontraditional Jobs

Bill: 113-hr-951
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2013-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: 
Women and Workforce Investment for Nontraditional Jobs or Women WIN Jobs - Requires the Secretary of Labor, in any fiscal year in which the total authorization of appropriations to carry out this Act exceeds $50 million, to allocate grants to states with approved state plans to provide funding to eligible entities (partnerships) to increase low-income women's participation in high-wage, high-demand occupations in which women make up less than 25% of the current workforce.
 
Authorizes states to use grants for statewide activities, including to: (1) provide technical assistance to eligible entities and to state registered apprenticeship programs and sponsors and joint apprenticeship training councils in meeting their enrollment goal for low-income women in nontraditional occupations, (2) develop policies and protocols that set goals for hiring specific percentages of women into registered apprenticeships and permanent employment openings in publicly assisted projects, and (3) engage in outreach activities and provide training to overcome stereotypes about women in nontraditional occupations as well as gender inequity among employers.
 
Authorizes the allocation of grant funds to eligible entities to support the recruitment, training, placement, and retention of low-income women in nontraditional occupations.
 
Directs the Secretary to convene a national commission to examine and make recommendations for improving the status of women in high-demand, high-wage nontraditional occupations.
 
Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to collect data on the status of women's participation in underrepresented sectors of the economy, and examine the status of women in relation to that of men.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a national clearinghouse to collect and distribute best practices. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Main Street Revival Act

Bill: 113-hr-952
Sponsor: Rep. Swalwell, Eric [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2013-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economic performance and conditions
Employment taxes
Small business
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: 
Main Street Revival Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a specified small business to pay its first-year employment taxes in four annual installments. Defines "specified small business" as any HUBZone business (a business operating in a historically underutilized business zone as defined by the Small Business Act) that is not reasonably expected to employ more than 25 full-time employees in its first year of operation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Local Courthouse Safety Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-953
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2013-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
State and local courts

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: 
Local Courthouse Safety Act of 2013 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to permit the Director of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Bureau of Justice Assistance to carry out a training and technical assistance program to teach employees of state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies how to anticipate, survive, and respond to violent encounters during the course of their duties, including duties relating to security at state, county, and tribal courthouses.
 
Amends the State Justice Institute Act of 1984 to require the State Justice Institute (a private nonprofit organization established to improve judicial administration in state courts) to include the improvement of the safety and security of state and local courts as a factor in the national assistance program under which it provides funding to state courts and related national and nonprofit organizations. Requires state or local courts that do not have magnetometers available for use to use grant matching funds to acquire magnetometers.
 
Directs the Administrator of General Services (GSA) to ensure that state or local courthouses having less security equipment than such courthouses require have an opportunity to request surplus security equipment (metal detectors, wands, baggage screening devices) before such equipment is made available to any other individual or entity. Requires that priority be given to courthouses that have no security equipment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
WISE Investment Act

Bill: 113-hr-954
Sponsor: Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2013-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Performance measurement
Small business
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: 
Workforce Infrastructure for Skilled Employees Investment Act or WISE Investment Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to authorize the Secretary of Labor to award competitive grants to local boards, community colleges, postsecondary vocational institutions, community-based organizations, and apprenticeship programs and joint labor-management training programs, to promote local economic growth and eliminate gaps between the workforce skills available and the workforce skills needed with respect to small businesses in local areas or regions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
PHIT Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-956
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2013-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health promotion and preventive care
Income tax deductions
Physical fitness and lifestyle

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: 
Personal Health Investment Today Act of 2013 or the PHIT Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a medical care tax deduction for up to $1,000 ($2,000 for married couples filing jointly or heads of household) of qualified sports and fitness expenses. Defines "qualified sports and fitness expenses" as amounts paid for fitness facility memberships, physical exercise programs, and exercise equipment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
American Soda Ash Competitiveness Act

Bill: 113-hr-957
Sponsor: Rep. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Mining
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: 
American Soda Ash Competitiveness Act - Sets at 2%, for a five-year period, the royalty rate on the quantity or gross value of the output of sodium compounds and related products at the point of shipment to market from federal land.

action_date: 2013-07-22
text: 

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

 
 American Soda Ash Competitiveness Act - Sets at 2%, for a five-year period, the royalty rate on the quantity or gross value of the output of sodium compounds and related products at the point of shipment to market from federal land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-22
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 123.
action_date: 2013-07-22
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-169.
action_date: 2013-07-22
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-169.
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 28 - 13.
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2013-05-15
text: Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Discharged.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-03-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Accountability in Grants Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-959
Sponsor: Rep. Whitfield, Ed [R-KY-1]
Introduced: 2013-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Public contracts and procurement
Research administration and funding
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: 
Accountability in Grants Act of 2013 - Amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from awarding grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, or other financial assistance under the national research and development program for the prevention and control of air pollution for any program, project, or activity to occur outside the United States and its territories and possessions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
action_date: 2013-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2013-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Flood Victim Premium Relief Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-960
Sponsor: Rep. Grimm, Michael G. [R-NY-11]
Introduced: 2013-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: 
Flood Victim Premium Relief Act of 2013 - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, with respect to adjustments to flood insurance premiums to reflect the current risk of flood, to limit premium rate increases on specified residential property in federally declared major disaster areas.
 
Requires premium rate increases or new premium rates on such properties which become effective after July 6, 2012, to be phased in over an 8-year period, at the rate of 5% for each of the first 4 years and 20% for each of the last 4s.
 
Defines such properties as those located within a major disaster area: (1) for which revised or updated flood insurance rate maps become effective during the 2-year period beginning upon the occurrence of the disaster; or (2) that upon enactment of this Act are eligible for preferred risk rate method premiums for flood insurance coverage, or that were eligible for them at any time during the 12-month period ending upon the occurrence of the disaster.
 
Requires such a property also to be: (1) owned by the same owner who owned the property at the time of the disaster; and (2) the owner's primary residence since the disaster (except for any periods of non-occupancy resulting from it).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-05
text: Introduced in House