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Healthcare.gov Spending Accountability Act

Bill: 113-hr-3373
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Bill [R-OH-6]
Introduced: 2013-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Comprehensive health care
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: 
Healthcare.gov Spending Accountability Act - Prohibits any federal official, including the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), from incurring any obligations respecting the repair or maintenance of the healthcare.gov website, unless: (1) the President submits to Congress proposed reductions in Affordable Care Act federal spending commensurate with the amount of obligations to be so incurred, and (2) Congress enacts a law that effects spending reductions commensurate with that amount. 
 
States that, for purposes of such prohibition, Affordable Care Act spending is federal spending to carry out the provisions of, including amendments made by, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or title I or subtitle B of title II of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Fairness for Lost Coverage Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3376
Sponsor: Rep. Long, Billy [R-MO-7]
Introduced: 2013-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: 
Fairness for Lost Coverage Act of 2013 - Prohibits any of the 12 months beginning with the first month of an applicable individual's loss of health insurance coverage from being taken into account in applying the Internal Revenue Code requirement to maintain minimum essential coverage.
 
Defines &quot;applicable individual&quot; as an individual who: (1) has coverage (whether as a principal or a dependent of another individual) under an employer-sponsored health plan or individual health insurance coverage for the last month of a plan year beginning during 2013, and (2) loses such coverage beginning with the first month of the subsequent plan year because of the plan's or coverage's termination and not because of any termination or change of the individual's employment, the individual's failure to pay premiums, or any other reasons within the individual's control. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the nonbusiness energy property credit to include the insulation component of insulated siding.

Bill: 113-hr-3378
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Building construction
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Income tax credits
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonbusiness energy tax credit for the insulation portion of any building cladding system (including vinyl siding with integral insulating material) that has a minimum thermal resistance of R-2.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Federal Submerged Lands Transportation Development Act

Bill: 113-hr-3379
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Coast guard
Land use and conservation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: 
Federal Submerged Lands Transportation Development Act - Authorizes the Commandant of the Coast Guard to lease tidelands and submerged lands under the control of the Coast Guard for periods longer than five years. (Currently, the Commandant is limited to renting or leasing real property under the Coast Guard's control for a period of up to five years, provided that such property may not be required for immediate use, with specified amounts of rental or lease monies received to be deposited in the Treasury.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-29
text: Introduced in House
To delay any increases in premium rates for flood insurance coverage under the National Flood Insurance Program until the Federal Emergency Management Agency completes a comprehensive review and updating of all flood insurance rate maps and the Army Corps of Engineers reviews and certifies that such maps include all flood mitigation and flood control projects completed by the Corps.

Bill: 113-hr-3380
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Prohibits the risk premium rates for flood insurance coverage made available under the National Flood Insurance Program from being increased from such rates in effect as of September 30, 2013, until: (1) the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) completes a first comprehensive review and updating of all flood insurance rate maps for such Program pursuant to the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012, and (2) the Chief of Engineers reviews and certifies that such updated rate maps accurately reflect all flood mitigation and flood control projects completed within the affected watershed by the Army Corps of Engineers.
 
Directs the Administrator to refund to insureds any premiums for flood insurance coverage under the National Flood Insurance Program collected in excess of the rates required under this Act.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Caregivers Expansion and Improvement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3383
Sponsor: Rep. Esty, Elizabeth H. [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Caregivers Expansion and Improvement Act of 2013 - Extends to all veterans with a serious service-connected injury the eligibility to participate in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) program of comprehensive assistance to family caregivers of such veterans. (Under current law, such eligibility is limited to those veterans who incurred such an injury on or after September 11, 2001.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Entry to Apprenticeship Act

Bill: 113-hr-3384
Sponsor: Rep. Bentivolio, Kerry L. [R-MI-11]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Veterans' Entry to Apprenticeship Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to treat a pre-apprenticeship program as a program of apprenticeship, for purposes of providing educational assistance, if such pre-apprenticeship program: (1) is recognized under or compliant with relevant state standards for a postsecondary pre-apprenticeship program, or (2) is in a state that does not require such standards and the curriculum of the program is approved by a sponsor who certifies that the program will prepare an individual with skills and competencies needed to enroll in a registered apprenticeship program and the pre-apprenticeship program maintains conduct and attendance policies in accordance with such sponsor.
 
Requires that a covered individual enrolled in a pre-apprenticeship program receive the same amount and kind of educational assistance the individual would receive if the individual were enrolled in a program of apprenticeship, with an exception of specified housing assistance if the individual is not paid as part of such pre-apprenticeship program.
 

 
 
 
 
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Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
SAVINGS Act

Bill: 113-hr-3385
Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Financial services and investments
Income tax exclusion
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Securities
State and local taxation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Save Access to a Valuable Investment Needed to Generate Savings Act of 2013 or the SAVINGS Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) allow individual taxpayers an option to purchase U.S. savings bonds in paper form with a portion or all of a tax refund during the period ending on December 31, 2018; or (2) implement an alternative option that allows for the gifting of U.S. savings bonds, serves the unbanked, and retains the ability to sign-up on the return of tax. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Accuracy for Adoptees Act

Bill: 113-hr-3386
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Citizenship and naturalization
Health information and medical records

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Accuracy for Adoptees Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require that a certificate of citizenship or other federal document issued, or requested to be amended, reflect the child's name and date of birth as indicated on a state court order, birth certificate, certificate of foreign birth, certificate of birth abroad, or similar state vital records document issued by the child's U.S. state of residence after the child has been adopted or readopted in that state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Classified Veterans Access to Care Act

Bill: 113-hr-3387
Sponsor: Rep. Sinema, Kyrsten [D-AZ-9]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Veterans Affairs
Health information and medical records
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Mental health
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Classified Veterans Access to Care Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to: (1) establish standards and procedures to ensure that a veteran who participated in a classified mission or served in a sensitive unit while in the Armed Forces may access mental health care provided by the VA in a manner that fully accommodates the veteran's obligation to not improperly disclose classified information; (2) disseminate guidance to employees of the Veterans Health Administration, including mental health professionals, on such standards and procedures and on how to best engage such veterans during the course of mental health treatment with respect to classified information; and (3) ensure that an individual may elect to identify as such a veteran on an appropriate form.
 

 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-27
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-11-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Child and Elderly Missing Alert Program Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3388
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aging
Child safety and welfare
Crimes against children
Disability and paralysis
Emergency communications systems
Human trafficking
Law enforcement administration and funding
Neurological disorders
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Child and Elderly Missing Alert Program of 2013 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to award public safety and community policing grants to eligible nonprofit organizations to assist federal, state, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies in the rapid recovery of missing children and elderly and disabled individuals through the use of a rapid telephone and cellular alert call system. Defines an "elderly individual" as an individual 60 years of age or older.
 
Permits the use of grant funds to: (1) maintain and expand technologies and techniques to ensure the highest level of performance of services; (2) provide both centralized and on-site training, and to distribute information, to law enforcement agency officials about missing individuals and use of a rapid telephone and cellular alert call system; (3) provide services to Child Abduction Response Teams; (4) assist law enforcement agencies to combat human trafficking through the use of rapid telephone and cellular alert calls; (5) share appropriate information on cases with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the AMBER Alert, Silver Alert, and Blue Alert programs, and law enforcement; and (6) assist appropriate organizations with education and prevention programs related to missing individuals.
 
Directs the Attorney General to annually: (1) require each grantee to submit the results of monitoring and evaluations of grant recipients, and (2) publish a report regarding such results and the effectiveness of activities carried out under each grant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
CFPB Slush Fund Elimination Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3389
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Financial services and investments
Government trust funds

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
CFPB Slush Fund Elimination Act of 2013 - Amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to repeal the Consumer Financial Civil Penalty Fund, into which are deposited any civil penalties paid in judicial or administrative actions under federal consumer financial laws. 
 
 Requires the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to deposit all such civil penalties, and all amounts currently in the Civil Penalty Fund, into the Treasury's general fund. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-11
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 31 - 27.
action_date: 2014-06-11
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Prior to Referral.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Indian Health Service Health Professions Tax Fairness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3391
Sponsor: Rep. Valadao, David G. [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax exclusion
Indian social and development programs
Medical education
Minority health
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Indian Health Service Health Professions Tax Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income amounts received under the Indian Health Service Loan Repayment Program and the Indian Health Professions Scholarships Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Part D Patient Safety and Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3392
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health information and medical records
Insurance industry and regulation
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Medicare
Prescription drugs
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
Medicare Part D Patient Safety and Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 2013 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to establish a safe pharmacy access program under which a prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsor (or a Medicare Advantage (MA) organization offering an MA-PD plan) shall have in place procedures designed to prevent fraud and abuse in the dispensing of certain controlled substances under Medicare part D.
 
Allows a PDP sponsor to suspend payments and clean claim notifications to a pharmacy pending an investigation of a credible allegation of fraud against the pharmacy, unless the Secretary determines there is a good cause not to suspend payments.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), under contracts entered into under the Medicare integrity program with Medicare drug integrity contractors (MEDICs), to authorize such MEDICs to obtain prescription and medical records directly from entities such as pharmacies, PDPs, and physicians. Requires a MEDIC to acknowledge receipt of a PDP sponsor referral of information for investigation, report back to the sponsor the investigation results within 45 days, and share them with appropriate agencies.
 
Requires electronic transmission (e-prescribing) of prescriptions for certain covered Medicare part D controlled substances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-10-30
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: 2013-10-30
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: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
American Job Opportunity Act

Bill: 113-hr-3394
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee hiring
Income tax credits
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
American Job Opportunity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the work opportunity tax credit permanent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
VOW to Hire Heroes Extension Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3395
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2013-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: American Samoa
Congressional oversight
Employment taxes
Government trust funds
Income tax credits
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Social security and elderly assistance
U.S. territories and protectorates
Unemployment
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Virgin Islands
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: 
VOW to Hire Heroes Extension Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2017 the work opportunity tax credit for hiring a qualified veteran (defined as an unemployed veteran who is certified as being a member of a family receiving food stamp assistance and who is entitled to compensation for a service-connected disability), (2) revise tax credit eligibility requirements for documenting the status of veterans and their receipt of unemployment compensation, and (3) extend the payroll tax offset for such credit to certain for-profit employers.
 
 Directs the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor, to make annual reports on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of this Act in increasing the employment of veterans.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to pay: (1) each U.S. possession (i.e., American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) with a mirror code tax system amounts equal to the loss to such possession due to this Act; and (2) each U.S. possession without such a tax system an amount estimated to equal the loss to such possession that would have occurred due to this Act if such a tax system had been in effect in that possession.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-30
text: Introduced in House