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Savings for Working Families Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2964
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Business investment and capital
Financial literacy
Higher education
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion
Indian social and development programs
Poverty and welfare assistance
Small business
Student aid and college costs
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Savings for Working Families Act of 2013 - Allows certain low-income individuals between age 18 and 61 to establish tax-exempt individual development accounts (IDAs) to pay for certain qualified expenses, including education expenses, first-time homebuyer costs, and business capitalization or expansion costs. Sets forth rules for the establishment, maintenance, and termination of IDAs. Permits tax-free withdrawals from IDAs for qualified expenses, but requires IDA beneficiaries to complete one or more financial education courses prior to making an IDA withdrawal.

Allows certain financial institutions, tax-exempt organizations, and Indian tribes to sponsor and administer IDAs. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow such entities a business-related tax credit for the cost of administering IDAs and for making matching contributions to IDAs in parallel accounts. 

Provides that IDA amounts shall be disregarded for purposes of determining eligibility for assistance under certain means-tested federal programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Help Kids Save for College Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2965
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Higher education
Income tax exclusion
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Help Kids Save for College Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an employee amounts, up to $1,000, paid by an employer to a qualified college savings assistance plan for a designated beneficiary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
PLUS Loan Accessibility Act

Bill: 113-hr-2966
Sponsor: Rep. Richmond, Cedric L. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer credit
Department of Education
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
PLUS Loan Accessibility Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to suspend the provision making individuals with an adverse credit history ineligible for Federal Direct PLUS Loans until the Secretary of Education implements final rules on the proposed rules for federal student aid programs developed by a specified negotiated rulemaking committee. (PLUS Loans are provided to graduate or professional students or the parents of dependent undergraduate students.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
INFORM Act

Bill: 113-hr-2967
Sponsor: Rep. Schock, Aaron [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Economic performance and conditions
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Government information and archives
Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Intergenerational Financial Obligations Reform Act or INFORM Act - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to provide certain information on any legislation or resolution considered in either chamber which would impact revenues or mandatory spending by greater than 0.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) over the following 10-fiscal-year period, and upon request by the Chairmen or Ranking Members of the congressional budget committees.
 
Requires such information to comprise:
 
 
 a fiscal gap and generational accounting analysis, including any change in the analysis relative to the baseline; and
 
 the federal deficit, at current spending levels, in the fiscal year that is 75 years after the fiscal year in which the legislation is being considered, as well as the stock of the debt in that 75th year.
 
 
Requires: (1) CBO to produce an annual fiscal gap and generational accounting analysis within its annual &quot;Long-Term Budget Outlook&quot; and post it on the CBO public website, and (2) the Comptroller General to produce a separate similar analysis within its annual &quot;Long-Term Fiscal Outlook&quot; and post it on the General Accountability Office (GAO) public website.
 
Requires the President's budget submission to Congress to include:
 
 
 a fiscal gap and generational accounting analysis of the full budget proposal;
 
 the same kind of analysis of specific policy changes that would impact revenues or mandatory spending by greater than 0.5% of GDP over the following 10-fiscal year period; and
 
 the federal deficit, at current spending levels, in the fiscal year that is 75 years after the fiscal year in which the legislation is being considered, as well as the stock of the debt in that 75th year.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Commute Less Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2968
Sponsor: Rep. Sires, Albio [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Commuting
Congressional oversight
Emergency planning and evacuation
Employee benefits and pensions
Public transit
Regional and metropolitan planning
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Commute Less Act of 2013 - Requires metropolitan planning organization (MPO) transportation plans to include, among other things, employer and transportation management organization outreach activities and strategies to help create and expand employer-based commuter programs.
 
Defines &quot;employer-based commuter program&quot; to mean a program implemented by employers to provide their employees with alternatives to driving to and from work in a vehicle occupied by a single individual.
 
Requires each MPO to establish an employer advisory council consisting of representatives of employers in the transportation management area. Requires each council to develop and maintain a commuter trip reduction plan that identifies area goals for the reduction of vehicle miles traveled during peak commuting hours.
 
Requires MPO transportation improvement programs (TIPs) to include, among other things, a list of projects identified in a commuter trip reduction plan that help achieve such reduction goals.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to make a grant to a national nonprofit organization or other entity engaged in efforts relating to employer-based commuter programs to establish and operate an information clearinghouse for employer investment in transportation and employer-based commuter programs.
 
Requires recipients of federal assistance for the construction of federal-aid highway projects costing $75 million or more, or that will reduce traffic flow for more than 120 days, to prepare congestion mitigation plans that include funding for projects to reduce vehicle miles traveled during peak commuting hours along impacted corridors.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop and implement a plan to expand and promote employer-based commuter programs; and (2) report to Congress recommendations on how to better integrate such programs into disaster emergency planning, preparedness, and response activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Patient Access to Hospice Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2969
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Medicare Patient Access to Hospice Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to recognize attending physician assistants as attending physicians to serve hospice patients. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Good Samaritan Cleanup of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2970
Sponsor: Rep. Tipton, Scott  R. [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Licensing and registrations
Mining
Pollution liability
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Good Samaritan Cleanup of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act of 2013 - Encourages the partial or complete remediation of inactive and abandoned mine sites for the public good by good samaritans (defined as individuals or entities who had no role in the creation of the historic mine residue or any resulting environmental pollution and are not legally responsible for the remediation of the historic mine residue). Defines &quot;inactive or abandoned mine site&quot; as a mine site located in the United States that is no longer actively mined and that was used for the production of a mineral other than coal and has historic mine residue.
 
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to authorize a permitting authority (i.e., the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] or a state or Indian tribe with an approved good samaritan program) to issue good samaritan discharge permits. Sets forth requirements for the issuance of such permits, including the applicant's submission of a detailed remediation plan and a determination by a permitting authority that such plan preserves water quality. Grants a release from liability under such Act to good samaritans who comply with a discharge permit approved under the terms of this Act. 
 
Terminates the authority to issue good samaritan discharge permits ten years after enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Innovative Energy Systems Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2971
Sponsor: Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Income tax credits
Lighting, heating, cooling

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Innovative Energy Systems Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an energy tax credit for highly efficient combined heat and power system property. Defines such property as property at an industrial, commercial, or institutional facility comprising a system that is placed in service before January 1, 2017, and that: (1) uses the same energy source for the simultaneous or sequential generation of electrical power, mechanical shaft power, or both, in combination with the generation of steam or other forms of useful thermal energy; and (2) has a system design that provides an energy efficiency percentage of at least 70%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Heat is Power Act

Bill: 113-hr-2972
Sponsor: Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Income tax credits
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Heat is Power Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow through 2017: (1) an energy tax credit for investment in wasted heat to electricity property, and (2) a tax credit for the production of electricity from renewable resources for wasted heat. Defines "wasted heat to electricity property" as property comprising a system which generates electricity through the recovery of a qualified wasted heat resource (e.g., exhaust heat or flared gas from any industrial process or waste gas or industrial tail gas, but not a heat resource from a process whose primary purpose is the generation of electricity using a fossil fuel).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the eligibility for beneficiary travel for veterans seeking treatment or care for military sexual trauma in specialized outpatient or residential programs at facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-2974
Sponsor: Rep. Walorski, Jackie [R-IN-2]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Home and outpatient care
Mental health
Sex offenses
Transportation costs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Makes eligible for beneficiary travel through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) a veteran whose travel to a specialized outpatient or residential program at a VA facility is in connection with treatment or care for military sexual trauma.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-27
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Act

Bill: 113-hr-2975
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aging
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Neurological disorders

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to public and nonprofit private health care providers to expand training and support services for families and caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program Reauthorization Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2976
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aging
Department of Justice
Emergency communications systems
Executive agency funding and structure
Law enforcement administration and funding
Neurological disorders

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to revise provisions concerning the Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program to direct the Attorney General: (1) through the Bureau of Justice Assistance and in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), to award competitive grants to nonprofit organizations to assist in paying for the costs of planning, designing, establishing, and operating locally based, proactive programs to protect and locate missing patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias; and (2) in awarding grants, to give preference to national nonprofit organizations that have experience working with patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and their families. 
 
Authorizes appropriations for such grants for FY2014-FY2018.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Safe Needle Disposal Coverage Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2977
Sponsor: Rep. Whitfield, Ed [R-KY-1]
Introduced: 2013-08-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Medicare
Prescription drugs
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: 
Medicare Safe Needle Disposal Coverage Act of 2013 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover as a part D drug any devices approved for home use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the safe and effective containment, removal, decontamination, and disposal of home-generated needles, syringes, and other sharps through a sharps container, decontamination/destructive device, or sharps-by-mail program or similar program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-08-01
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: 2013-08-01
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: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-01
text: Introduced in House
Let the People Draw the Lines Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2978
Sponsor: Rep. Lowenthal, Alan S. [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Congressional districts and representation
Federal district courts
Judicial procedure and administration
Legal fees and court costs
Political parties and affiliation
Public participation and lobbying
State and local courts
State and local government operations
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Let the People Draw the Lines Act of 2013 - Prohibits a state that has been redistricted after an apportionment from being redistricted again until after the next apportionment of Representatives, unless the state is ordered by a court to conduct such a subsequent redistricting in order to comply with the Constitution or enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Requires any congressional redistricting to be conducted according to: (1) a plan developed by the independent redistricting commission established in the state; or (2) if such plan is not enacted into law, the redistricting plan selected by the state's highest court or developed by a U.S. district court.
 
Requires each state to establish an independent redistricting commission to develop a redistricting plan for the state in accordance with specified criteria, including requirements that districts: (1) have equal population per representative as nearly as practicable; (2) comply with the Voting Rights Act of 1965; (3) are geographically contiguous; (4) have boundaries that minimize the division of any municipality, county, neighborhood, or community of interest; and (5) are geographically compact and use visible geographic features. Prohibits consideration, in developing a redistricting plan, of the political party affiliation of the population of a district or the residence of any Member of the House of Representatives or candidate. Sets forth requirements for public notice and hearings on redistricting plans and a process for enactment of a final redistricting plan. 
 
Sets forth alternative procedures for the the development of a redistricting plan by a state's highest court or a federal district court if a plan developed by a state independent redistricting commission is not enacted into law by a specified date.
 
Provides for: (1) Election Assistance Commission payments to states for carry out redistricting, and (2) civil enforcement to carry out this Act by the Attorney General or an individual state elector who is aggrieved by a violation of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5375)
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Guardians for Children Act

Bill: 113-hr-2979
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-35]
Introduced: 2013-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption and foster care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: 
Guardians for Children Act - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to declare that, in the event of the death or incapacity of the relative guardian, the eligibility of a child for a kinship guardian assistance payment shall not be affected by reason of the replacement of the relative guardian with a successor legal guardian named in the kinship guardianship assistance agreement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-08-02
text: Introduced in House