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To save at least $10,000,000,000 by consolidating some duplicative and overlapping Government programs.

Bill: 113-hr-504
Sponsor: Rep. Culberson, John Abney [R-TX-7]
Introduced: 2013-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), not later than 150 days after the enactment of this Act, to coordinate with the heads of federal agencies to: (1) use available administrative authority to eliminate, consolidate, or streamline federal programs and agencies with duplicative and overlapping missions as identified in the February 2012 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report entitled &quot;Opportunities to Reduce Duplication, Overlap and Fragmentation, Achieve Savings, and Enhance Revenue&quot; and the March 2011 GAO report entitled &quot;Opportunities to Reduce Potential Duplication in Government Programs, Save Tax Dollars, and Enhance Revenue&quot; and apply any savings towards deficit reduction; (2) report to Congress any legislative changes required to further eliminate, consolidate, or streamline such programs and agencies; (3) determine the total cost savings to each agency from the implementation of this Act; and (4) rescind from appropriate accounts the greater of $10 billion or the total amount of such cost savings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2013-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Jane's Law

Bill: 113-hr-506
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2013-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against property
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Separation, divorce, custody, support

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: 
Jane's Law - Amends the federal criminal code to impose a fine and/or a prison term of up to two years on any person who travels in interstate or foreign commerce to evade compliance with a court-ordered property distribution in a divorce proceeding involving more than $5,000. Requires payment of restitution equal to the total unpaid property distribution from any person convicted of evading payment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
TRIA Reauthorization Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-508
Sponsor: Rep. Grimm, Michael G. [R-NY-11]
Introduced: 2013-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Insurance industry and regulation
Life, casualty, property insurance
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: 
Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 Reauthorization Act of 2013 or the TRIA Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to extend the Terrorism Insurance Program until December 31, 2019 (under current law the Program expires on December 31, 2014).
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to collect all required terrorism loss risk-spreading premiums for any act of terrorism that occurs on or after January 1, 2012, by September 30, 2024 (currently, by September 30, 2017).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
TEAM-Employment Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-509
Sponsor: Rep. Harper, Gregg [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Vocational and technical education
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: 
Transition toward Excellence, Achievement, and Mobility through Employment Act of 2013 or TEAM-Employment Act of 2013 - Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to extend from 18 to 48 months the length of time a designated state unit may provide supported employment services, including: (1) activities related to customized employment, or (2) a set of activities implemented during the search for employment leading to an integrated employment outcome for an individual with a disability.
 
Authorizes the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration of the Department of Education to make up to ten grants to or contracts with eligible entities to pay all or part of the cost of special demonstration programs that expand and improve rehabilitation, employment, and other services for adults and youths with disabilities. 
 
Authorizes the Assistant Secretary of Education for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to provide, for FY2014-FY2018, grants to eligible entities to carry out certain activities to help youths between the ages of 14 and 26 with significant disabilities to transition to adulthood.
 
Includes among such activities development and provision of: (1) innovative and effective practices through person-centered planning processes for attaining integrated employment experiences, including customized employment, supported employment services, and employment experiences after school, on weekends, and in the summer months; (2) certain educational-, work-, and family-related objectives and activities based upon the highest expectations of such youths; (3) appropriate and effective curricula and the deployment of professionals with expertise to provide training to school personnel to assist such youths to obtain integrated employment at the greater of minimum or competitive wages; and (4) assistance to such youths and their families to help determine appropriate services under federal and state programs.
 
Limits an eligible entity to one grant or contract during a five-year period.
 
Prohibits the use of grant funds for activities that result in such youths being placed in facility-based segregated services as an employment outcome or post-secondary outcome.
 
Establishes a National Coordination Center on Systems Change and Transformation in the Transition of Youths with Significant Disabilities into Adulthood.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
TEAM-Education Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-510
Sponsor: Rep. Harper, Gregg [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: 
Transition toward Excellence, Achievement and Mobility through Education Act of 2013 or TEAM-Education Act of 2013 - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to allow states to use special education grant funds to contract with entities that have the experience to assist disabled children in accomplishing the transition objectives outlined in their Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).
 
Conditions a state's eligibility for such grant funds on its having a plan to coordinate state efforts to transition disabled youth into adulthood. 
 
Requires local educational agencies (LEAs) to provide a disabled child and his or her parents, when the child's secondary education ends, with a comprehensive record of the child's work experiences and skills that would be relevant to prospective employers, post-secondary education programs, career placement services, and mentors.
 
Requires IEPs, after a child attains age 14, to describe: (1) the transition services to be provided to assist the child in reaching postsecondary goals, and (2) the training the child will receive to empower the child to act on his or her own behalf. (Currently, IEPs are to address postsecondary goals and transition services when children turn 16.)
 
Requires an IEP team: (1) to include a representative of the state intellectual and developmental disabilities agency after a disabled child attains age 14, if the child is expected to be eligible to receive certain adult services upon reaching adulthood; (2) to consider the transition services necessary to assist the child to attain postsecondary education, integrated employment, independent living, and community participation; (3) at the request of a 14 year old disabled child, to take certain steps to enable his or her parents to advocate at IEP team meetings on the child's behalf; and (4) after the child attains age 14, to evaluate the progress made in meeting, and discuss any additional services that may be needed to meet, the child's transition objectives.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide grants to states to assist LEAs in establishing transition service coordinators.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
TEAM-Empowerment Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-511
Sponsor: Rep. Harper, Gregg [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Special education
State and local government operations
Vocational and technical education
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: 
Transition toward Excellence, Achievement, and Mobility through Empowerment Act of 2013 or the TEAM-Empowerment Act of 2013 - Amends the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award competitive grants to states for the development and implementation of an individual transition plan (ITP) for each individual with a developmental disability in the state who is transitioning from secondary school into adulthood. 
 
Requires ITPs to assist the developmentally disabled achieve integrated employment, postsecondary education, independent living, and community engagement.
 
Requires each grantee to establish a transition planning and services (TPS) administrative unit within its intellectual and developmental disabilities agency to develop, and assist in the implementation of, ITPs. Requires that unit to offer strategies, training, and information to the developmentally disabled and their families that facilitates their participation in the transition process.
 
States that ITPs are to: (1) apply until an individual's 26th birthday; (2) be reviewed annually and updated as needed; (3) be developed during in-person meetings that include the individual and his or her family; and (4) address the individual's needs in the areas of postsecondary education, career preparation and work-based learning, development and leadership, connecting activities, and family involvement and supports.
 
Requires the TPS administrative unit to use transition brokers to: (1) facilitate coordination among state agencies in the development of ITPs; and (2) assist the developmentally disabled, consistent with their ITPs, in navigating the complex system of supports and services available through federal and state programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Dr. Rita Hocog Inos Territorial Fellowship Act

Bill: 113-hr-512
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: American Samoa
Congressional officers and employees
Education programs funding
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Guam
Higher education
Northern Mariana Islands
Policy sciences
State and local government operations
Student aid and college costs
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: 
Dr. Rita Hocog Inos Territorial Fellowship Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Dr. Rita Hocog Inos Fellowship Program to award local government and federal government fellowships to qualified students from American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, or the U.S. Virgin Islands.
 
Allows a fellow to receive either a specified stipend or academic credit toward graduation for participating in an internship. 
 
Defines a &quot;qualified student&quot; as a student who is a U.S. citizen, domiciled in American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, or the U.S. Virgin Islands, and enrolled in a degree or certificate program at an institution of higher education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Harriet Tubman National Historical Parks Act

Bill: 113-hr-513
Sponsor: Rep. Harris, Andy [R-MD-1]
Introduced: 2013-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Maryland
New York State
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: 
Harriet Tubman National Historical Parks Act - Establishes in Caroline, Dorchester, and Talbot Counties, Maryland, the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park as a unit of the National Park System.
 
Establishes in Auburn, New York, the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park also as a unit of the National Park System.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with certain entities for the historical preservation and interpretation of such parks. 
 
Requires the Secretary to complete a general management plan for such parks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Donate for Disaster Relief Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-514
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20]
Introduced: 2013-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Government trust funds
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: 
Donate for Disaster Relief Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers to designate an amount (not less than $1) of any overpayment of income tax to a Disaster Relief Fund, established by this Act, for the purpose of providing relief for major disasters declared under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2013-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2013-02-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E96)
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Parental Bereavement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-515
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee leave
Family relationships
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-05
text:  
 
Parental Bereavement Act of 2013 or Sarah Grace-Farley-Kluger Act - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to entitle an eligible employee to up to 12 workweeks of leave during any 12-month period because of the death of a son or daughter.
 
Allows such an employee to substitute any available paid leave for any leave without pay.
 
Applies the same leave entitlement to federal employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2013-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2013-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Middle Class Payroll Tax Relief Act

Bill: 113-hr-516
Sponsor: Rep. Maffei, Daniel B. [D-NY-24]
Introduced: 2013-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment taxes
Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: 
Middle Class Payroll Tax Relief Act - Amends the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 to extend through 2013 the 2% reduction in employment tax rates for employees and self-employed individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-517
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2013-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Adoption and foster care
Congressional agencies
Congressional officers and employees
Employee leave
Family relationships
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Library of Congress
National Guard and reserves
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: 
Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2013 - Allows federal employees to substitute any available paid leave for any leave without pay available for either the: (1) birth of a child, or (2) placement of a child with the employee for either adoption or foster care. Makes available (subject to specified requirements) for any of the 12 weeks of leave an employee is entitled to for such purposes: (1) four administrative weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth or placement involved, and (2) any accumulated annual or sick leave.
 
Authorizes the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to promulgate regulations to increase the amount of paid parental leave available to such an employee to a total of eight administrative workweeks, based on the consideration of: (1) the benefits to the federal government, including enhanced recruitment and employee retention; (2) the cost to the government; (3) trends in the private sector and in state and local governments; (4) the federal government's role as a model employer; and (5) the impact of increased paid parental leave on lower-income and economically disadvantaged employees and their children.
 
Amends the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 and the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to allow the same substitution for covered congressional employees, Government Accountability Office (GAO) employees, and Library of Congress employees. Counts certain service by an employee of the executive branch, Congress, GAO, or the Library of Congress while on active duty as a member of the National Guard or Reserves as service for that branch or agency for purposes of determining such employee's eligibility to take or substitute leave as provided under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2013-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2013-02-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E99)
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 for the purposes of extending the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 through 2018, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-518
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2013-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Climate change and greenhouse gases
Disaster relief and insurance
Natural disasters
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: 
Amends the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 to: (1) extend authority for the drought program under such Act through FY2018, (2) authorize appropriations for such Act through FY2018, and (3) require cooperative drought contingency plans under such Act to provide for periodic review to address projected long-term climate variability and change.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-05
text: Introduced in House