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American Fuel Protection Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2267
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2013-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Civil actions and liability
Federal district courts
Government liability
Jurisdiction and venue
Motor fuels

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-05
text: 
American Fuel Protection Act of 2013 - Deems a claim for liability against a qualified entity as a claim against the United States for damages resulting from, or aggravated by, the use of transportation fuel containing ethanol in concentrations greater than 10% to operate an internal combustion engine. Abrogates U.S. sovereign immunity and makes the United States exclusively liable for such claims. Limits awards to actual damages sustained by a claimant.
 
Defines &quot;qualified entity&quot; to mean an entity engaged in the manufacture, use, sale, or distribution of: (1) transportation fuel or renewable fuel, or (2) products which use transportation fuel.
 
Grants U.S. district courts exclusive jurisdiction of any civil actions on such claims.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-06-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-05
text: Introduced in House
Engaging Students Through Service Learning Act

Bill: 113-hr-2268
Sponsor: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2]
Introduced: 2013-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
National and community service
Research administration and funding
State and local government operations
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-05
text: 
Engaging Students Through Service Learning Act - Amends title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish an Enhancing the Effectiveness of K-12 Education through Service Learning grant program.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to reserve a portion of program funds to: (1) establish a National Center for K-12 Service Learning; and (2) conduct research and evaluation activities, including a study on the effects of academic service-learning on instructional quality and the success of students in low-performing schools; and (3) assist states in developing exemplary service-learning programs.
 
Requires the Secretary to award grants to states to: (1) support a service-learning specialist who acts as a conduit of information between the state and local level, (2) implement a statewide cascade professional development model and support local service-learning efforts, and (3) award competitive subgrants to local educational agencies. 
 
Requires subgrantees to use: (1) the service-learning model to strengthen the content area disciplines and implement key educational innovations in schools with a high percentage of underperforming youth, and (2) a cascade professional development model to bring practice to scale.
 
Describes the cascade professional development model as one that trains high-quality professional development specialists who then train educators who are then responsible for training, mentoring, and supporting their peers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-06-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-05
text: Introduced in House
Multi-Hazard School Disaster Planning and Response Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2269
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2013-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency planning and evacuation
Government information and archives
Higher education
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-05
text: 
Multi-Hazard School Disaster Planning and Response Act of 2013 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to allow funds provided under the Matching Grant Program for School Security to be used for the following law enforcement and school information sharing activities: (1) establishing or improving an electronic data management system for the purpose of sharing specified emergency response plan data with first responders; (2) assisting local law enforcement and local schools with costs associated with collecting information on, evaluating, updating, and digitizing such plan data and making plans electronically available to local dispatch centers and first responders through mobile data terminals and mobile data computers; and (3) enabling law enforcement to consult with schools to develop emergency plans, including such plan data, to ensure that plans are comprehensive, complete, and current. 
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services to give preferential consideration to an application for a grant for such an activity from a jurisdiction that demonstrates that: (1) the activity will cover a significant number of schools, (2) such jurisdiction uses (or will use such grant to develop) an electronic record management system that is compatible across multiple jurisdictions, or (3) there is community interest with respect to such activity.
 
Reauthorizes such Program for FY2014-FY2017.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-06-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-05
text: Introduced in House
To impose enhanced penalties for certain drug offense that take place on Federal property.

Bill: 113-hr-2270
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2013-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Crimes against property
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Firearms and explosives
Forests, forestry, trees
General public lands matters
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Lakes and rivers
Land use and conservation
U.S. Sentencing Commission

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-05
text: 
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to: (1) impose an additional term of up to ten years' imprisonment for cultivating or manufacturing controlled substances on federal property; (2) prohibit a person, while cultivating or manufacturing a controlled substance on federal property, from clear cutting timber or diverting, obstructing, or draining an aquifer, spring, stream, river or body of water; and (3) apply the prohibition against assembling, maintaining, or placing a boobytrap on federal property where a controlled substance is being manufactured to federal property where a controlled substance is being cultivated. 
 
Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to amend the Federal Sentencing Guidelines to provide an additional penalty increase of two offense levels if the offense of manufacturing, distributing, or dispensing, or possessing with intent to manufacture, distribute, or dispense a controlled substance or a counterfeit substance: (1) includes the use of a poison, chemical, or other hazardous substance to cultivate or manufacture controlled substances on federal property; (2) creates a hazard to humans, wildlife, or domestic animals; (3) degrades or harms the environment or natural resources; (4) pollutes an aquifer, spring, stream, river, or body of water; (5) involves the diversion, redirection, obstruction, or draining of an aquifer, spring, stream, river, or body of water or the clear cut of timber while cultivating or manufacturing a controlled substance on federal property; or (6) involves the possession of a firearm while cultivating or manufacturing controlled substances on federal lands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-06-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2013-06-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2013-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-05
text: Introduced in House
Champion Hill, Port Gibson, and Raymond Battlefields Addition Act

Bill: 113-hr-2271
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2013-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Land transfers
Military history
Mississippi
Parks, recreation areas, trails
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-05
text: 
Champion Hill, Port Gibson, and Raymond Battlefields Addition Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire land or interests within the area identified as the modified core battlefield for the Port Gibson, Champion Hill, and Raymond battlefields of the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War and the area identified as Golden West Cemetery for inclusion in the Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-06-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-05
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Defense to establish an electronic means by which members of the Ready Reserves of the Armed Forces may track their active-duty service.

Bill: 113-hr-2272
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2013-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government information and archives
National Guard and reserves
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to establish an electronic means by which members of the Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces can track their operational active-duty service performed after January 28, 2008.
 
Requires the tour calculator to specify early retirement credit authorized for each qualifying tour of active duty, as well as cumulative early reserve retirement credit authorized to date.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in House
Great Lakes Navigation System Sustainability Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2273
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Candice S. [R-MI-10]
Introduced: 2013-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Great Lakes
Lakes and rivers
Marine and inland water transportation
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Water resources funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: 
Great Lakes Navigation System Sustainability Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to manage and allocate funding for all commercial and recreational navigation projects in the Great Lakes Navigation System as components of a single system, recognizing the interdependence of the projects.
 
Directs the Secretary, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to: (1) establish a program to fund eligible operations and maintenenace projects of the System to their authorized depths and widths, and (2) give higher priority to projects at certain harbors in which a 50% non-federal share of costs of eligible operations and maintenance expenses is provided.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in House
Fallen Firefighters Assistance Tax Clarification Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2275
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-25]
Introduced: 2013-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
New York State
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: 
Fallen Firefighters Assistance Tax Clarification Act of 2013 - Treats payments made on or after December 24, 2012, and before December 31, 2013, by a tax-exempt organization on behalf of any firefighter who died or was injured as a result of the ambush of firefighters responding to an emergency on December 24, 2012, in Webster, New York, as related to the purpose or function forming the basis of such organization's tax-exempt status, if such payments are made in good faith using a reasonable and objective formula which is consistently applied. 
 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in House
To eliminate the sporting purposes distinction in the gun laws.

Bill: 113-hr-2277
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Doug [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2013-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Firearms and explosives
Historical and cultural resources
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: 
Repeals provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and the federal criminal code distinguishing firearms used or suitable for sporting, recreational, or cultural purposes from firearms used generally.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2013-06-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in House
Infrastructure Facilitation and Habitat Conservation Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2280
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-42]
Introduced: 2013-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Endangered and threatened species
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Government lending and loan guarantees
Infrastructure development
Land transfers
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: 
Infrastructure Facilitation and Habitat Conservation Act of 2013 - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury (Secretary) to establish a program to provide loans and loan guarantees to enable state political subdivisions to acquire interests in real property pursuant to habitat conservation plans approved by the Secretary of the Interior under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Requires the Secretary to: (1) submit loan applications for the Secretary of the Interior's review, which shall include a determination that the subdivision has adopted a complementary plan for sustainable infrastructure development that provides for the mitigation of environmental impacts; and (2) give preference to such subdivisions located in biologically rich regions in which rapid growth and development threaten successful implementation of approved habitat conservation plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 4, United States Code, to authorize members of the Armed Forces not in uniform and veterans to render a military salute during the recitation of the pledge of allegiance.

Bill: 113-hr-2284
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2013-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents
National symbols

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: 
Allows members of the Armed Forces not in uniform and veterans to render the military salute during the recitation of the pledge of allegiance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in House
Commuter Parity Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2288
Sponsor: Rep. Grimm, Michael G. [R-NY-11]
Introduced: 2013-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commuting
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Inflation and prices
Pedestrians and bicycling
Public transit
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: 
Commuter Parity Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the exclusion from gross income, for income tax purposes, of certain transportation benefits provided by an employer to an employee, to allow a monthly exclusion amount of: (1) $220 for transportation in a commuter highway vehicle from home to work and any transit pass, (2) $220 for qualified parking, and (3) $35 for qualified bicycle commuting reimbursement. Allows an annual cost-of-living adjustment to such exclusion amounts after 2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in House
PROTECT Act

Bill: 113-hr-2292
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2013-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business records
Civil actions and liability
Commodities markets
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Computers and information technology
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Licensing and registrations
Securities
Technology assessment

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: 
Protection from Rogue Oil Traders Engaging in Computerized Trading Act or PROTECT Act - Amends the Commodities Exchange Act to make it unlawful to engage in an activity that the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has defined as high frequency trading, unless the person has registered with the CFTC as a high frequency trader, and the registration has neither expired nor been suspended or revoked.
 
Prescribes requirements governing high frequency trading.
 
Requires the fine for a high frequency trading violation to be based on the number of seconds, including fractions of seconds, during which the violation continued.
 
Authorizes the CFTC to define the scope of any violation for purposes of determining the number involved in any civil case arising under this Act.
 
Increases the civil penalties for violations of the prohibition against manipulation and false information with respect to swaps and commodities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E817)
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in House
To remove from the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System certain properties in North Carolina.

Bill: 113-hr-2294
Sponsor: Rep. McIntyre, Mike [D-NC-7]
Introduced: 2013-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
North Carolina

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to revise the Coastal Barrier Resources System maps relating to the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System units in North Carolina to remove the following properties from such system:
 
 
Lot Number 3, Waters Edge in Hampstead, NC 28443;
 
182 S Beach Road, Wilmington, NC 28405;
 
 311 Windchase Lane, Wilmington, NC 28409; and 
 
225 Chimney Lane Wilmington, NC 28411. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in House
Basel III CASE Act

Bill: 113-hr-2295
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick [D-FL-18]
Introduced: 2013-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Department of the Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Reserve System
Financial services and investments
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: 
Basel III Commonsense Approach for Small Entities Act or Basel III CASE Act - Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, before issuing any final rule in relation to proposals they have issued for the International Basel III agreement on general risk-based capital requirements, to conduct an empirical study that includes: (1) a quantitative analysis of the rule's impact on the U.S. financial services sector, specifically community, mid-size, and regional financial institutions; and (2) a determination of the long-term impact of the rule, including changes to the current risk weight framework.
 
Permits a financial institution to provide information voluntarily for the study upon agency request, but prohibits agencies from requiring such information.
 
Requires the study to be made available to the public for notice and comment.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-06-06
text: Introduced in House