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Detectives Nemorin and Andrews Anti-Gun Trafficking Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-722
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-2]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Congressional oversight
Crimes against property
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Firearms and explosives
Government information and archives
Licensing and registrations
Retail and wholesale trades
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Detectives Nemorin and Andrews Anti-Gun Trafficking Act of 2013 - Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) impose a fine and/or prison term of up to 20 years for the sale, transfer, or barter of a stolen firearm or a firearm with an altered serial number or for the sale of such firearms to persons prohibited from possessing them; (2) impose an additional five-year prison term for possession of a stolen or altered firearm during the commission of a felony; (3) require licensed firearms importers, manufacturers, or dealers to contact the national instant stolen gun check system before receiving firearms from any unlicensed person; and (4) increase criminal penalties for the use of a stolen or altered firearm during the commission of a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime.
 
Amends the 21st Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act to: (1) include illegal gun trafficking in Department of Justice (DOJ) programs to combat violations of federal firearms laws, and (2) authorize appropriations for FY2013 to hire additional assistant U.S. attorneys.
 
Directs the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to make the National Crime Information Center Gun File available to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to complete crime gun traces. Requires the ATF to: (1) notify law enforcement agencies of information relating to stolen firearms, and (2) return stolen firearms to persons who reported them as stolen. 

Requires the Attorney General to establish a national instant stolen gun check system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to reauthorize a provision to ensure the survival and continuing vitality of Native American languages.

Bill: 113-hr-726
Sponsor: Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Department of the Interior
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Indian social and development programs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Amends the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to reauthorize appropriations, for FY2013-FY2017, for a grant program to ensure the survival and continuing vitality of Native American languages. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Forest Stewardship and Fire Fuels Reductions Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-727
Sponsor: Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Land use and conservation
Public contracts and procurement
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
 Forest Stewardship and Fire Fuels Reductions Act of 2013 - Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 to extend, through FY2023, the authority of the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to enter into stewardship end result contracting projects with private persons or other public or private entities to perform services to achieve land management goals for national forests and public lands that meet local and rural community needs. 
 
Permits the land management goals of such a project to include restoration work, fire fuels reduction, and clearing of overgrowth on snowpack watersheds. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Access to Birth Control Act

Bill: 113-hr-728
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Family planning and birth control
Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Access to Birth Control Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require pharmacies to comply with certain rules related to contraceptives, including: (1) providing a customer a contraceptive without delay if it is in stock; (2) immediately informing a customer if the contraceptive is not in stock and either transferring the prescription to a pharmacy that has the contraceptive in stock or expediting the ordering of the contraceptive and notifying the customer when it arrives, based on customer preference, except for pharmacies that do not ordinarily stock contraceptives in the normal course of business; and (3) ensuring that pharmacy employees do not take certain actions relating to a request for contraception, including intimidating, threatening, or harassing customers, interfering with or obstructing the delivery of services, intentionally misrepresenting or deceiving customers about the availability of contraception or its mechanism of action, breaching or threatening to breach medical confidentiality, or refusing to return a valid, lawful prescription. 
 
Provides that a pharmacy is not prohibited from refusing to provide a contraceptive to a customer if: (1) it is unlawful to dispense the contraceptive to the customer without a valid, lawful prescription and no such prescription is presented; (2) the customer is unable to pay for the contraceptive; or (3) the employee of the pharmacy refuses to provide the contraceptive on the basis of a professional clinical judgment.
 
Provides that this Act does not preempt state law or any professional obligation of a state board that provides greater protections for customers.
 
Sets forth civil penalties and establishes a a private cause of action for violations of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E148)
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Medical Research Protection Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-729
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Medical research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Medical Research Protection Act of 2013 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to exempt the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from any sequestration ordered by the President for FY2013.
 
Directs the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for FY2013 to lower the amount calculated for a sequestration by the amount for which NIH would have been reduced if it were not exempt from sequestration.
 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E157)
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
PESTT Act

Bill: 113-hr-730
Sponsor: Rep. Mulvaney, Mick [R-SC-5]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Mammals
Pest management
Public contracts and procurement
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Pest Elimination Services Transparency and Terminology or the PESTT Act - Amends the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1988, with respect to nuisance animal control activities and agreements of the Department of Agriculture (USDA), to define &quot;urban rodent control&quot; (excepted from such activities) as efforts to directly control any mammal in the order Rodentia in a location that is not an airport or in a rural area.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to submit a report to Congress on activities carried out by the Wildlife Services program of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service that: (1) identifies activities that can be carried out by private sector entities, (2) prioritizes those vital to the protection of public health and safety and agricultural production and that can be performed by such entities, and (3) recommends ways to avoid duplication by the Wildlife Services program and the private sector.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Americans Abroad Act

Bill: 113-hr-731
Sponsor: Rep. Radel, Trey [R-FL-19]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Protection of officials
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Protecting Americans Abroad Act - Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to allow the Department of State to use a best-value contracting method in awarding local guard or protective service contracts in high risk areas abroad under the diplomatic security program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act

Bill: 113-hr-732
Sponsor: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-27]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Abortion
Child health
Civil actions and liability
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Family relationships
Health personnel
Separation, divorce, custody, support
Teenage pregnancy

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit transporting a minor child across a state line to obtain an abortion (deems such transporting to be a de facto abridgment of the right of a parent under any law in the minor&#146;s state of residence that requires parental involvement in the minor&#146;s abortion decision). Makes an exception for an abortion necessary to save the life of the minor. 
 
Makes it an affirmative defense to a prosecution or civil action under this Act that a defendant: (1) reasonably believed that before the minor obtained the abortion, the required parental consent or notification or judicial authorization took place; or (2) was presented with documentation showing that a court waived parental notification requirements or authorized the minor's abortion.
 
Defines &quot;abortion&quot; to mean the use or prescription of any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance or device: (1) to intentionally kill the unborn child of a woman known to be pregnant; or (2) to intentionally prematurely terminate the pregnancy of a woman known to be pregnant with an intention other than to increase the probability of a live birth or of preserving the life or health of the child after live birth, or to remove a dead unborn child. 
 
Imposes a fine and/or prison term of up to one year on a physician who performs or induces an abortion on an out-of-state minor in violation of parental notification requirements. Requires such physician to give 24-hour actual or constructive notice to a parent of the minor seeking an abortion, subject to certain exceptions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Access to Veterans Benefits Improvement Act

Bill: 113-hr-733
Sponsor: Rep. Runyan, Jon [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government information and archives
Right of privacy
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Access to Veterans Benefits Improvement Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide veterans' case-tracking information access to employees of a Member of Congress or of a state or local governmental agency assisting veterans with benefit claims. Directs the Secretary to ensure that such access does not: (1) allow the employee to modify the data in the case-tracking system, and (2) include access to medical records. Requires such employees to complete a certification course on privacy issues before receiving such access.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-16
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Creating Manufacturing Jobs and Promoting Fair Trade Act

Bill: 113-hr-734
Sponsor: Rep. Stivers, Steve [R-OH-15]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Creating Manufacturing Jobs and Promoting Fair Trade Act - Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to increase the duty on polyurethane sponges.
 
Prescribes requirements for the duty treatment of steel wool cleaning pads.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Responsible Homeowner Refinancing Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-736
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing supply and affordability
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Responsible Homeowner Refinancing Act of 2013 - Requires the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (government sponsored enterprises or GSEs), in carrying out the Home Affordable Refinance Program, to adopt specified criteria pertaining to: (1) borrower eligibility, (2) representations and warranties, (3) prohibition on up-front fees, (4) alternative streamlined methods to determine the value of a property, (5) the purchase or guarantee of any new mortgage resulting from the refinancing of an eligible mortgage, and (6) guarantee fees.
 
Requires the GSEs to notify all borrowers with a mortgage owned or guaranteed by a GSE about the Program and its eligibility criteria, and inform borrowers of the website required below.
 
Directs the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to establish a single website where borrowers may: (1) determine their potential eligibility for participation in the Program, (2) see a complete list of and links to qualified lenders, (3) use a mortgage refinance calculator to calculate potential payment savings based on different interest rates, and (4) obtain tips on refinancing their loan. 
 
Directs the Director of FHFA to issue guidance to require the GSEs to make their refinancing guidelines consistent to ease the compliance requirements of qualified lenders, and in particular with respect to loans with less than 80% loan-to-value ratio and closing cost policies of the GSEs, which regulations or guidance shall be put into effect not later than 90 days after the enactment of this Acts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Homeowners' Defense Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-737
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Frederica S. [D-FL-24]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Disaster relief and insurance
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Housing finance and home ownership
Life, casualty, property insurance
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
 Homeowners' Defense Act of 2013 - Establishes the National Catastrophe Risk Consortium, as a non-federal, non-profit entity, to ensure the availability and affordability of homeowners' insurance coverage for catastrophic events. 
 
Directs the Consortium to: (1) maintain an inventory of catastrophe risk obligations held by state reinsurance funds, state residual insurance market entities, and state-sponsored providers of natural catastrophe insurance; (2) issue, on a conduit basis, securities and other financial instruments linked to catastrophe risks insured or reinsured through Consortium members; (3) coordinate reinsurance contracts; (4) act as a centralized repository of state risk information accessible by certain private-market participants; and (5) establish a database to perform research and analysis that encourages standardization of the risk-linked securities market.
 
 Shields the federal government and the Consortium from liability for Consortium actions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to eliminate the requirement that certain former members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces be at least 60 years of age in order to be eligible to receive health care benefits.

Bill: 113-hr-738
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military medicine
National Guard and reserves
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Eliminates the requirement that a member or former member of the Armed Forces entitled to retired pay for non-regular (reserve) service be at least 60 years of age before being eligible for medical and dental care in a military health care facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Chiropractic Health Parity for Military Beneficiaries Act

Bill: 113-hr-741
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike D. [R-AL-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-15
text: 
Chiropractic Health Parity for Military Beneficiaries Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD), no later than August 31, 2013, to complete development of a plan to provide chiropractic health care services and benefits, as a permanent part of the TRICARE program (a DOD managed health care program), for covered beneficiaries. Requires plan implementation by January 31, 2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2013-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act

Bill: 113-hr-743
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2013-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Competition and antitrust
Health care costs and insurance
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-15
text: 
Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act - Amends the McCarran-Ferguson Act to provide that nothing in that Act shall modify, impair, or supersede the operation of any of the antitrust laws with respect to the business of health insurance.
 
Applies prohibitions against using unfair methods of competition to the business of health insurance without regard to whether such business is carried on for profit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2013-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-15
text: Introduced in House