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A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to adjust the limits on expensing of certain depreciable business assets.

Bill: 113-s-1298
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2013-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase, for taxable years beginning after 2013: (1) the limitation on the amount of the expensing allowance for depreciable business assets from $25,000 to $200,000, and (2) the threshold amount over which such expensing allowance is reduced from $200,000 to $800,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 23, United States Code, with respect to the operation of vehicles on certain Wisconsin highways, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-1299
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2013-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Motor carriers
Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: 
 Permits the continued operation of trucks on any segment of the U.S. Route 41 corridor in Wisconsin designated as a route on the Interstate System that could operate legally on such segment before that designation without regard to federal weight limitation requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend certain appropriations Acts to repeal the requirement directing the Administrator of General Services to sell Federal property and assets that support the operations of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in Plum Island, New York, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-1303
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2013-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property
Land transfers
New York State
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: 
Repeals provisions of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2009, and the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2012, authorizing the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to direct the Administrator of General Services (GSA) to sell all real and personal property and transportation assets of the National Bio and Agro-defense Facility at Plum Island, New York. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Buy Smarter and Save Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1304
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2013-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Congressional oversight
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Veterans Affairs
General Services Administration
Government studies and investigations
Manufacturing
Military procurement, research, weapons development
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Performance measurement
Public contracts and procurement
Small Business Administration
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: 
Buy Smarter and Save Act of 2013 - Directs the President to establish: (1) an annual government-wide goal to procure goods and services using strategic sourcing, and (2) an annual government-wide goal for savings from the use of strategic sourcing. Defines &quot;strategic sourcing&quot; as a structured and collaborative process of critically analyzing an organization's spending patterns to better leverage its purchasing power, reduce costs, and improve overall value and performance. 
 
Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to: (1) issue guidance to executive agencies for implementing the strategic sourcing goals established by this Act, and (2) report on spending for goods and services that was strategically sourced and the extent of the savings realized. 
 
Directs the Departments of Defense (DOD), Homeland Security (DHS), Energy (DOE), Veterans Affairs (VA), and Health and Human Services (HHS), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the General Services Administration (GSA), and the Small Business Administration (SBA) to take certain actions to support strategic sourcing, including establishing department wide-goals and savings targets for strategic sourcing efforts and a strategic sourcing accountability official.
 
Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to: (1) conduct studies on contract utilization fees and on establishing strategic sourcing initiative contract vehicles, and (2) assess and report on the performance of executive agencies in implementing the strategic sourcing goals required by this Act and the amounts saved through the use of strategic sourcing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Lake Hill Administrative Site Affordable Housing Act

Bill: 113-s-1305
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Mark [D-CO]
Introduced: 2013-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Forests, forestry, trees
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: 
Lake Hill Administrative Site Affordable Housing Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), upon receiving an offer from Summit County, Colorado, in which the county agrees to be responsible for the costs specified below, to convey to the county all interest of the United States in the approximately 40 acres of National Forest System land in the county identified as the Lake Hill Administrative Site. 
 
Makes Summit County responsible for the processing and transaction costs related to such direct sale of such Site. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-11-20
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-342.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Youth PROMISE Act

Bill: 113-s-1307
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2013-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Child care and development
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information and records
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Higher education
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Mental health
Performance measurement
Preschool education
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Teenage pregnancy
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: 
Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, and Education Act or the Youth PROMISE Act - Provides that not more than 50% of the amount available for the Edward Byrne Memorial Criminal Justice Innovation Program shall be made available to carry out this Act.
 
Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to establish a PROMISE Advisory Panel to assist the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in: (1) assessing and developing standards and evidence-based practices to prevent juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity, and (2) collecting data in designated geographic areas to assess the needs and existing resources for juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention.
 
Authorizes the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to award grants to local governments and Indian tribes to: (1) plan and assess evidence-based and promising practices for juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention, especially for at-risk youth; and (2) implement PROMISE plans, developed by local PROMISE Coordinating Councils (PCCs), for coordinating and supporting the delivery of juvenile delinquency and gang prevention and intervention programs in local communities. 
 
Establishes a National Research Center for Proven Juvenile Justice Practices to provide PCCs and the public with research and other information about evidence-based practices related to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang prevention or intervention. 
 
Directs the Administrator to award grants to institutions of higher education to serve as regional research partners with PCCs that are located in the same geographic region as the educational institution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Energy Savings Through Public-Private Partnerships Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1308
Sponsor: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2013-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Energy efficiency and conservation
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Performance measurement
Public contracts and procurement
Public utilities and utility rates

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: 
Energy Savings Through Public-Private Partnerships Act of 2013 - Amends the National Energy Conservation Policy Act to direct each federal facility energy manager to consider, not later than two years after completion of a comprehensive energy evaluation of a federal agency's facilities: (1) implementing any energy-saving or conservation measure that the agency identified in the evaluation that is life cycle cost-effective, and (2) bundling individual measures of varying paybacks together into combined projects. (Under current law, the energy manager is not required to consider such actions.)
 
Requires the energy manager, as part of the Web-based compliance certification system, to provide reasons for not implementing life cycle cost-effective measures.
 
Requires each agency to: (1) use the benchmarking systems selected or developed for the agency under the Act to track energy savings realized by the agency through the implementation of energy-saving or conservation measures and submit information regarding such savings for publication on a website of the Department of Energy (DOE), and (2) consider using energy savings performance or utility energy service contracts to implement such measures.
 
Establishes a goal of entering into energy savings performance contracts or utility energy service contracts equal to $1 billion in each year during the 5-year period beginning on January 1, 2014. Requires each agency to report annually to DOE, and DOE to report to Congress, on progress towards achieving such goal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate
CFPB-IG Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1310
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2013-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: 
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection-Inspector General Reform Act of 2013 or CFPB-IG Act of 2013 - Amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to repeal the authority of the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to appoint the Inspector General of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
 
Requires the CFPB Inspector General to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Expedited Disability Insurance Payments for Terminally Ill Individuals Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1311
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2013-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disability assistance
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: 
Expedited Disability Insurance Payments for Terminally Ill Individuals Act of 2013 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to prescribe formulae for payment of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits over a period of 24 consecutive calendar months for individuals determined to be under a disability upon submission of a diagnosis of a terminal illness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Employee Accountability Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1312
Sponsor: Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK]
Introduced: 2013-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employee leave
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Labor-management relations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: 
Federal Employee Accountability Act of 2013 - Repeals provisions: (1) authorizing a federal employee representing an exclusive representative in the negotiation of a collective bargaining agreement official time for such purpose during the time such employee otherwise would be in a duty status; and (2) requiring the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) to determine whether any employee participating for, or on behalf of, a labor organization in any phase of proceedings before it shall be authorized official time for that purpose.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 31, United States Code, to provide that the President's annual budget submission to Congress list the current fiscal year spending level for each proposed program and a separate amount for any proposed spending increases, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-1314
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2013-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: 
Requires the President's budget submission to Congress to: (1) list each program, and its proposed funding level, that will be a one-time expense for the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted; and, in addition to the performance standards required, (2) a proposal, by budget function and agency, for reductions in spending for each of the four ensuing fiscal years.
 
Requires the President, for each budget item being conducted in the current fiscal year, to provide: (1) the amount appropriated or otherwise made available for the item in that year, and (2) the amount of any proposed adjustment in the funding level for the item and its justification.
 
 Requires the President, if he proposes an adjustment resulting in a funding increase for a budget item, to include with the proposal the amount of the adjustment that is a result of inflation and the amount that is a result of an increase in employees' salaries or benefits.
 
Requires the President to provide for each major program in a budget function specified in the required estimated budget outlays and proposed budget authority: (1) the amount appropriated or otherwise made available for it in the current fiscal year; and (2) a separate amount (if any) of its expected increase in the following fiscal year owing to inflation, pay increases, or benefit increases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1315
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2013-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Department of the Treasury
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: 
 Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act of 2013 - Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury, or any delegate of the Secretary, from implementing or enforcing any provisions of or amendments made by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 137.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5756)
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1316
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2013-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Health care costs and insurance
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: 
Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2013 - Repeals sections of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care (PPACA) (and restores provisions of law amended by such sections) related to the establishment of an Independent Payment Advisory Board to develop and submit detailed proposals to reduce the per capita rate of growth in Medicare spending to the President for Congress to consider.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 138. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5756)
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2013-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
HELLPP Act

Bill: 113-s-1318
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2013-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Digestive and metabolic diseases
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicaid
Medicare
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: 
Helping Ensure Life- and Limb-Saving Access to Podiatric Physicians Act or HELLPP Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to include podiatrists as physicians in order to cover their services under the Medicaid program. 
 
Amends SSA title XVIII (Medicare) to revise requirements for coverage of therapeutic shoes for individuals with diabetes regarding the processes of: (1) documentation by a physician of, and certification of a comprehensive plan of care related to, the diabetic condition; (2) prescription by a podiatrist or other qualified physician upon a finding of the medical necessity for the therapeutic shoes, including findings communicated to a certifying doctor of medicine or osteopathy of certain related foot conditions; and (3) fitting and supplying the shoes.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to subject to the continuing levy upon property and property rights, for collection of unpaid taxes, any payments made to a Medicaid provider or supplier.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Gas Accessibility and Stabilization Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1319
Sponsor: Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO]
Introduced: 2013-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Energy prices
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Government studies and investigations
Motor fuels
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: 
Gas Accessibility and Stabilization Act of 2013 - Amends the Clean Air Act to revise procedures for waiver by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of a control or prohibition regarding the use of a fuel or fuel additive by: (1) allowing waiver if the Administrator determines that extreme and unusual fuel or fuel additive supply circumstances are the result of a problem with distribution or delivery equipment necessary for the transportation or delivery of such fuel or additives, (2) allowing extension of a waiver for more than 20 days if it is determined that the waiver conditions will exist beyond 20 days, and (3) deeming a request for a waiver that is not approved or denied within 3 days to be approved for the period requested.
 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to modify a fuel system requirements harmonization study to: (1) include consideration of biofuels, (2) add consideration of the projected effects of EPA Tier III requirements on air quality and motor fuel prices, and (3) extend to June 1, 2014, the date for submission to Congress of a report on the results of the study.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Reserve Jobs Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1320
Sponsor: Sen. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN]
Introduced: 2013-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Military education and training
National Guard and reserves
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: 
Military Reserve Jobs Act of 2013 - Grants hiring preferences for federal employment to members of a reserve component of the Armed Forces who: (1) have successfully completed officer candidate training or entry level and skill training and have incurred, or are performing, a 6-year commitment with a reserve component (3 point preference); (2) have completed at least 10 years of service with a reserve component and has earned at least 50 retirement points per year (4 point preference); or (3) are retired from service in a reserve component and are eligible for, but have not yet begun receiving, retired pay for non-regular service (5 point preference). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate