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Job Creation through Energy Efficient Manufacturing Act

Bill: 113-s-1501
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2013-09-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Industrial facilities
Manufacturing
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-12
text: 
Job Creation through Energy Efficient Manufacturing Act - Requires the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to establish a Financing Energy Efficient Manufacturing Program to provide grants to states to establish or expand programs to finance energy efficiency retrofit, onsite clean and renewable energy, smart grid, and alternative vehicle fleet projects for industrial businesses (covered programs).
 
Defines &quot;state&quot; as a state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any other territory or possession of the United States.
 
Requires the Secretary to consult with states and stakeholders to establish a process to identify financing opportunities for manufacturing and industrial business with asset portfolios across multiple states.
 
Requires states that receive such funding to give a higher priority to covered programs that: (1) leverage private and nonfederal sources of funding, and (2) aim to expand the use of energy efficiency project financing using private sources of funding.
 
Requires: (1) states receiving such grants to collect, share, and report on data resulting from covered programs carried out under this Act; and (2) the Secretary to incorporate the data into appropriate DOE databases, with provisions for the protection of confidential business data. 
 
Requires grant funds to be provided to the state office responsible for developing the state energy plan under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-09-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Safe Meat and Poultry Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1502
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2013-09-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Agricultural education
Agricultural research
Animal and plant health
Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of Agriculture
Food industry and services
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Livestock
Meat
Trade restrictions
User charges and fees
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-12
text: 
Safe Meat and Poultry Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act (the Acts) to include in the definition of &quot;adulterated&quot; a product bearing or containing a pathogen or contaminant associated with serious illness or death.
 
Amends the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 to: (1) define specified food safety terms, and (2) set forth civil penalties for food safety law violations.
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to: (1) identify significant foodborne disease pathogens, (2) determine levels of food product contamination, (3) establish public health goals to reduce foodborne illness, (4) prescribe pathogen reduction performance standards and implement a sampling program to determine food establishment compliance, (5) establish an accredited meat and meat food product testing program, and (6) implement adulterated food tracing protocols. 
 
 Requires certain food establishments to sample for the presence of identified pathogens at any production or processing point.
 
Permits banning food imports from countries refusing inspections by the Secretary.
 
Sets forth notice and recall provisions.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) maintain an active surveillance system of food, food products, and epidemiological evidence; (2) assess the frequency and sources of food-caused human illness; (3) establish guidelines for a system to take and analyze food samples; (4) establish a national public education program on food safety; and (5) conduct specified research concerning food safety.
 
Establishes penalties under the Acts for the introduction into commerce of unsafe or misbranded products of up to $100,000, 20 years' imprisonment, or both.
 
Requires a study of worker safety in the meat packing and poultry processing industry, including the relationship between line speed and worker safety.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2013-09-12
text: Introduced in Senate
School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act

Bill: 113-s-1503
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2013-09-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Allergies
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child health
Civil actions and liability
Drug therapy
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health programs administration and funding
School administration
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-12
text: 
School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act, with respect to asthma-related grants for child health services, to give an additional preference to a state that allows self-administration of asthma and anaphylaxis medication and makes a certification concerning the adequacy of the state's civil liability protection law to protect trained school personnel who may administer epinephrine to a student reasonably believed to be having an anaphylactic reaction.
 
Requires elementary and secondary schools in such a state to: (1) permit trained personnel to administer epinephrine to a student reasonably believed to be having such a reaction, (2) maintain a supply of epinephrine in a secure location that is easily accessible to trained personnel for such treatment, and (3) have in place a plan for having on the school premises during operating hours one or more designated personnel trained in administration of epinephrine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6449)
action_date: 2013-09-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6448-6449)
action_date: 2013-09-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to increase funds set aside for off-system bridges.

Bill: 113-s-1504
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2013-09-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-12
text: 
Increases from 15% to 25% the amount a state is required to set-aside, from funds apportioned for the highway bridge program for FY2009, for off-system bridge replacement and rehabilitation activities for FY2013 and each subsequent fiscal year. (An &quot;off-system bridge&quot; is a highway bridge not located on a federal-aid highway.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-09-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Hunting, Fishing, and Recreational Shooting Protection Act

Bill: 113-s-1505
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2013-09-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Hunting and fishing
Outdoor recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: 
Hunting, Fishing, and Recreational Shooting Protection Act - Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to exclude from the definition of "chemical substance" for purposes of such Act: (1) any component of any pistol, revolver, firearm, shell, or cartridge the sale of which is subject to federal excise tax, including shot, bullets and other projectiles, propellants, and primers; and (2) any sport fishing equipment the sale of which is subject to federal excise tax and sport fishing equipment components. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Gulf Coast Oil Recovery Zone Tax Relief and Economic Recovery Act

Bill: 113-s-1506
Sponsor: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Introduced: 2013-09-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alabama
Business investment and capital
Civil actions and liability
Florida
Food industry and services
Gulf of Mexico
Hunting and fishing
Income tax exclusion
Life, casualty, property insurance
Louisiana
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Mississippi
Oil and gas
Pollution liability
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: 
Gulf Coast Oil Recovery Zone Tax Relief and Economic Recovery Act - Allows non-recognition, for income tax purposes, of proceeds or payments from insurance received in connection with the Gulf oil spill or any payment for damages attributable to the oil spill under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 that are invested in a qualified recovery zone trade or business within five years after the later of an oil spill payment or the enactment of this Act. Defines: (1) "Gulf oil spill' as the discharge of oil by reason of the explosion on, and sinking of, the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon; (2) "recovery zone" as certain counties in Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama and specified parishes in Louisiana that were affected by the oil spill; and (3) "qualified recovery zone trade or business" as any commercial or charter fishing business or any hotel, lodging, recreation, entertainment operating in, or restaurant business located in, the recovery zone.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1507
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2013-09-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Advisory bodies
Federal-Indian relations
Income tax exclusion
Indian social and development programs
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: 
Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income, for income tax purposes, the value of an Indian general welfare benefit. Defines &quot;Indian general welfare benefit&quot; as any payment made or services provided to or on behalf of a member of an Indian tribe under an Indian tribal government program if: (1) such program is administered under specified guidelines and does not discriminate in favor of members of the governing body of the Indian tribe; and (2) the program benefits are available to any tribal member, are for the promotion of general welfare, are not lavish or extravagant, and are not compensation for services. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) establish a Tribal Advisory Committee to advise the Secretary on the taxation of Indians, (2) establish and require training and education for Internal Revenue Service (IRS) field agents on federal Indian law and the implementation of this Act, and (3) suspend audits and examinations of Indian tribal governments and members of Indian tribes and waive any interest or tax penalties related to the exclusion from gross income of Indian general welfare benefits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Water Infrastructure Resiliency and Sustainability Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1508
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2013-09-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Energy efficiency and conservation
Floods and storm protection
Hydrology and hydrography
Infrastructure development
Labor standards
Land use and conservation
Public contracts and procurement
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water storage
Water use and supply
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: 
Water Infrastructure Resiliency and Sustainability Act of 2013 - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) establish the Water Infrastructure Resiliency and Sustainability Program to provide grants to owners or operators of water systems for programs or projects to increase the resiliency or adaptability of the systems to any ongoing or forecasted changes to the hydrologic conditions of a U.S. region, and (2) give priority to owners or operators of water systems that are at the greatest and most immediate risk of facing significant negative impacts due to changing hydrologic conditions. 
 
Requires the Administrator to ensure that the list of grant applications funded includes a substantial number that propose to utilize innovative approaches that meet at least one of these goals: (1) promote more efficient water use, water conservation, water reuse, or recycling; (2) use decentralized, low-impact development technologies and nonstructural approaches, including practices that use, enhance, or mimic the natural hydrological cycle or protect natural flows; (3) reduce stormwater runoff or flooding by protecting or enhancing natural ecosystem functions; (4) modify, upgrade, enhance, or replace existing water system infrastructure in response to changing hydrologic conditions; (5) improve water quality or quantity for agricultural and municipal uses, including through salinity reduction; and (6) provide multiple benefits, including to water supply enhancement or demand reduction, water quality protection or improvement, increased flood protection, and ecosystem protection or improvement. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6522)
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Removing Barriers to Adoption and Supporting Families Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1511
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2013-09-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Congressional oversight
Family relationships
Family services
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: 
Removing Barriers to Adoption and Supporting Families Act of 2013 - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to reauthorize the adoption incentive payment program through FY2018.
 
Adds a new adoption incentive payment for states involved in sending and receiving interstate adoptions. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to pay each state that was a receiving state for an interstate adoptive placement for a fiscal year a pro rata share of the portion of the adoption incentive payment paid to the sending state.
 
Requires a state to report to the Secretary data on interstate adoptions.
 
Directs the Secretary to develop national standards for home studies for use in evaluating potential foster and adoptive parents.
 
Establishes a matching rate for states adopting home study in compliance with national standards.
 
Limits planned permanent living arrangements to children who have attained age 17.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study: (1) the number of children in each state that are assigned a permanency goal of another planned permanent living arrangement for the most recent fiscal year for which data are available; (2) the ages, gender, race, and special needs of children whose permanency goal is another planned permanent living arrangement; (3) a review and analysis of court practices for determining that another planned permanent living arrangement is the appropriate placement for a child; (4) information with respect to foster youths' involvement in deciding to enter into a permanency goal of another planned permanent living arrangement; and (5) a summary of the reasons that reunification, adoption, kinship care, or guardianship were not found to be in the best interests of the child.
 
Requires a state to spend an amount equal to 20% of the amount of savings from adoption assistance de-linkage to provide post-adoption and post-permanency services to children and families.
 
Requires the state foster care and adoption assistance plan to: (1) commit the state to engage in public-private partnerships to promote evidence-based child-focused recruitment practices that focus measurable attention on the adoption of children out of foster care with an emphasis on those children most at risk of aging out of care, and (2) encourage placement of children with siblings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6523-6524)
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Introduced in Senate
401Kids Family Savings Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1515
Sponsor: Sen. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL]
Introduced: 2013-09-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Elementary and secondary education
Employee benefits and pensions
Higher education
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-18
text: 
401Kids Family Savings Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) rename Coverdell education savings accounts as 401Kids savings accounts, (2) allow the use of such accounts to pay the acquisition costs of a first-time homebuyer, and (3) allow tax-free rollovers of amounts in a 401Kids savings account to a Roth individual retirement account (Roth IRA). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-09-18
text: Introduced in Senate
ConTACT Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1516
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2013-09-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child health
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Elementary and secondary education
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Neurological disorders
School athletics

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-18
text: 
Concussion Treatment and Care Tools Act of 2013 or ConTACT Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish guidelines for states on the implementation of best practices for diagnosis, treatment, and management of mild traumatic brain injuries (MTBIs) in school-aged children, including best practices relating to student athletes returning to play after an MTBI.
 
Requires the Pediatric MTBI Guideline Expert Panel of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue a final report on such best practices by March 15, 2015.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to states for: (1) adopting, disseminating, and ensuring school implementation of the guidelines; and (2) ensuring elementary and secondary schools implement computerized preseason baseline and post-injury neuropsychological testing for student athletes.
 
Directs the Secretary to require states receiving grants to utilize, to the extent practicable, applicable expertise and services offered by local chapters of national brain injury organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-09-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Behavioral Health Information Technology Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1517
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2013-09-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicaid
Medicare
Mental health
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-18
text: 
Behavioral Health Information Technology Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to include as a health care provider behavioral and mental health professionals, substance abuse professionals, psychiatric hospitals, certain community mental health centers (including one operated by a county behavioral health agency), and residential or outpatient mental health or substance abuse treatment facilities.
 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA), with respect to incentives for meaningful use of certified electronic health records (EHR) technology under the pay schedule for physician's services, to include as additional eligible professionals clinical psychologists providing qualified psychologist services and clinical social workers. Subjects any additional eligible professionals, including those under a MedicareAdvantage (MA) plan, to reductions in incentive payments after a certain date for failure to be a meaningful EHR user.
 
Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to treat as Medicaid providers the following additional Medicaid providers: (1) public and certain private hospitals that are principally psychiatric hospitals, (2) certain community mental health centers, and (3) certain residential or outpatient mental health or substance abuse treatment facilities.
 
Makes eligible professionals under the Medicaid program certain clinical psychologists providing qualified psychologist services and certain clinical social workers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-09-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Reorganization Plan Codification and Complements Act

Bill: 113-s-1519
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2013-09-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Accidents
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Emergency planning and evacuation
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government studies and investigations
Licensing and registrations
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Nuclear power
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-18
text: 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Reorganization Plan Codification and Complements Act - Codifies and expands the Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1980 governing the administration of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Identifies approval of the distribution of appropriated funds according to programs and purposes proposed by the Executive Director for Operations, in addition to functions concerned with policy formulation, rule making, and orders and adjudications, as functions that remain vested in the Commission.
 
Revises provisions of such Reorganization Act relating to: (1) the appointment and replacement of NRC officers and employees, (2) the role of the NRC Chairman, (3) the scope of the emergency authority of the NRC Chairman, and (4) NRC reporting procedures.
 
Sets forth NRC policy with respect to: (1) certification of documents transmitted to Congress, (2) time limits for review of Atomic Safety and Licensing Board decisions and actions, (3) allegations of wrongdoing on the part of the NRC Chairman, and (4) approval of international travel requests by NRC members. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-09-18
text: Introduced in Senate