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Nutrition Education Act

Bill: 113-hr-1500
Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2013-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Elementary and secondary education
Health promotion and preventive care
Nutrition and diet
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: 
Nutrition Education Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require local educational agencies participating in the school lunch or breakfast programs to include in their school wellness policies the requirement that each student receive 50 hours of nutrition education each school year.
 
Requires such instruction to meet specified standards, including that it is consistent with nutritional requirements for food served under the school lunch, school breakfast, and child and adult care food programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Disability Insurance and Unemployment Benefits Double Dip Elimination Act

Bill: 113-hr-1502
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2013-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability assistance
Social security and elderly assistance
Trade adjustment assistance
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: 
Social Security Disability Insurance and Unemployment Benefits Double Dip Elimination Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to declare that for any month that an individual is entitled to unemployment compensation he or she shall be deemed to have engaged in substantial gainful activity and so be disqualified from receiving Social Security disability benefits after a certain period has elapsed.
 
States that, for purposes of determining services rendered by an individual during a period of trial work which will not disqualify the individual for disability benefits, the individual shall be deemed to have rendered services in a month if he or she is entitled to unemployment compensation or trade adjustment assistance for that month.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E432)
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
No Hungry Kids Act

Bill: 113-hr-1503
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2013-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Fruit and vegetables
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: 
No Hungry Kids Act - Nullifies the rule published by the Department of Agriculture on January 26, 2012, establishing nutrition standards for the school lunch and breakfast programs. (This rule is summarized as requiring most schools to increase the availability of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free and low-fat fluid milk in school meals; reduce the levels of sodium, saturated fat and trans fat in meals; and meet the nutrition needs of school children within their calorie requirements.)
 
Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture's minimum nutritional requirements for school lunches from being construed as establishing a calorie maximum for individual school lunches or prohibiting a child from eating a lunch provided by the child's parent or legal guardian.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Rhode Island Fishermen's Fairness Act

Bill: 113-hr-1504
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2013-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Atlantic Ocean
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Rhode Island

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: 
Rhode Island Fishermen's Fairness Act - Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to add Rhode Island to the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council and increase Council membership from 21 to 23 members, including: (1) the principal Rhode Island official with marine fishery management responsibility, and (2) a member appointed by the Secretary of Commerce from a list of individuals submitted by the governor of Rhode Island.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Holocaust Rail Justice Act

Bill: 113-hr-1505
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2013-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Crime victims
Europe
Federal district courts
France
Government liability
Human rights
International law and treaties
Jurisdiction and venue
Railroads
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity
World history

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: 
Holocaust Rail Justice Act - Grants U.S. district courts original jurisdiction over any civil action for damages for personal injury or death that: (1) arose from the deportation of persons to Nazi concentration camps between January 1, 1942, and December 31, 1944; and (2) is brought by or on behalf of such person against a railroad that owned or operated the trains on which the persons were deported and that was organized as a separate legal entity.
 
Declares that: (1) no law limiting the jurisdiction of the U.S. courts shall preclude any such action, and (2) no such action shall be barred because a statute of limitations has expired. Makes this Act applicable to any action pending on or commenced after January 1, 2002.
 
Directs the Secretary of State to report to Congress on the extent to which the public has access to records, including archived information, with respect to the deportation of such persons to Nazi concentration camps on such trains.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2013-04-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E428)
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures Act

Bill: 113-hr-1506
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2013-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Executive agency funding and structure
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Military procurement, research, weapons development
New Mexico
Nuclear power
Nuclear weapons
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Tennessee

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: 
Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures Act - Prohibits using funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) for FY2014 or thereafter: (1) to arm a B-2 or B-52 aircraft with a nuclear weapon; (2) for the research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) or procurement of a long-range penetrating bomber aircraft; (3) to make the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons; or (4) for the B61 or W78 life extension program.
 
Requires that, beginning in FY2014, the Navy shall include no more than eight operational ballistic-missile submarines available for deployment.
 
Prohibits the use of DOD funds: (1) for FY2014-FY2023 to procure an SSBN-X submarine, and (2) for FY2024 and thereafter to procure more than eight such submarines.
 
Prohibits using DOD funds for FY2014 or thereafter: (1) to maintain more than 200 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), (2) to maintain more than 250 submarine-launched ballistic missiles, (3) for the RDT&E or procurement of a new ICBM, or (4) for the medium extended air defense system.
 
Prohibits using DOD or Department of Energy (DOE) funds for FY2014 or thereafter for: (1) the mixed oxide fuel fabrication facility project, (2) the chemistry and metallurgy research replacement nuclear facility, and (3) the uranium processing facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex.
 
Requires an initial and subsequent annual reports from the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to Congress outlining their respective plans to carry out the requirements of this Act.
 
Directs the President to submit annually to Congress a comprehensive accounting by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of the amounts obligated or expended by the federal government for each nuclear weapon and related nuclear program during the fiscal year covered by the report and the life cycle of such weapon or program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Health Outcomes, Planning, and Education for Alzheimer's Act

Bill: 113-hr-1507
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2013-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aging
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Neurological disorders

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: 
Health Outcomes, Planning, and Education for Alzheimer's Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for comprehensive Alzheimer's disease diagnosis and services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-04-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-04-11
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: 2013-04-11
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: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the issuance of an Alzheimer's Disease Research Semipostal Stamp.

Bill: 113-hr-1508
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2013-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Aging
Medical research
Neurological disorders
Postal service
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: 
Directs the United States Postal Service (USPS) to issue and sell an Alzheimer's Disease Research Semipostal Stamp.
 
Requires proceeds from the sale of the stamp to be transferred to the National Institutes of Health.
 
Requires the stamp to be made available to the public for six years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUEST - Ms. Waters asked unanimous consent that she may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 1508, a measure originally introduced by Representative Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, for the purposes of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of Rule XII. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2013-04-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Autism Understanding and Training in School Methodologies for Educators Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1509
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2013-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Neurological disorders
Preschool education
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: 
Autism Understanding and Training in School Methodologies for Educators Act of 2013 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to carry out a demonstration program to award 5-year grants to eligible local education agencies for the following purposes in schools for children in grades pre-kindergarten through 12: 
 
 
 providing training to teachers, paraprofessionals, and other staff on effective ways to teach, communicate, recognize, support, and interact with children with autism spectrum disorders in the classroom; 
 
 providing technical assistance consisting of consultation on the type of training needed, hands-on opportunities to practice and perform newly acquired skills and methodologies, and post-training support to ensure accuracy of implementation in the classroom; 
 
 executing strategies for recruiting and retaining skilled personnel participating in the education of children with such disorders; and 
 
 implementing a program of parental support and involvement in the education of students with such disorders.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
SNAP Improvement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1510
Sponsor: Rep. Neugebauer, Randy [R-TX-19]
Introduced: 2013-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Energy assistance for the poor and aged
Food assistance and relief
Gambling
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Inflation and prices
Nutrition and diet
Public utilities and utility rates

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: 
SNAP Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to make households in which each member receives state assistance under the temporary assistance to needy families program (TANF), the supplemental security income program (SSI), or aid to the aged, blind, or disabled program (AABD) eligible for the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP, formerly the food stamp program). (Current law bases categorical SNAP eligibility upon state benefits received rather than assistance.)
 
States that any household in which a member receives substantial lottery or gambling winnings shall lose SNAP eligibility immediately upon receipt of such winnings and shall remain ineligible until the household meets the allowable financial resources and income eligibility requirements.
 
Eliminates: (1) the exclusion of low-income home energy assistance from SNAP household income determinations, (2) bonuses for states that demonstrate high or most improved performance, (3) inflation adjustments for countable financial resources, (4) funding of employment and training programs, (5) the nutrition education grant program, and (6) funding of Workfare administrative expenses.
 
Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to: (1) terminate upon enactment of this Act or after October 31, 2013, whichever occurs first, the value of SNAP benefits and consolidated block grants for Puerto Rico and American Samoa from being calculated by using 113.6% of the June 2008 value of the thrifty food plan; and (2) permit the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to reduce the value of the maximum allotments, minimum allotments, or consolidated block grants for Puerto Rico and American Samoa below the FY2009 level.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, and Nutrition.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to promote timely emergency rehabilitation and restoration of Federal forest land impacted by catastrophic events, to redirect for a 5-year period funding normally made available for land acquisition to mechanical forest treatment and salvage operations due to catastrophic events, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-1511
Sponsor: Rep. Noem, Kristi L. [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
Floods and storm protection
Forests, forestry, trees
Natural disasters

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: 
Amends the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) and the Secretary of the Interior, as appropriate, to implement procedures to ensure that not less than 600,000 acres of federal land each fiscal year are treated with mechanical treatments intended to produce merchantable wood.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) declare that emergency circumstances exist for all federal land affected by a catastrophic event, including federal land outside urban interface areas; and (2) take actions necessary for the rehabilitation or restoration of such federal land, with highest priority given to land impacted by large-scale beetle infestations. 
 
Directs the Secretary to initiate salvage activities on federal land affected by a catastrophic event so as to prevent significant deterioration of timber values, development of significant fire hazard, or other forest mortality that would prevent such land from regenerating to forest within five years. 
 
Excludes from the provisions of this Act: (1) a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System; (2) federal land on which the removal of vegetation is prohibited or restricted by Congress, the President, or a land management plan; or (3) a wilderness study area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
New Mexico Land Sovereignty Act

Bill: 113-hr-1512
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2013-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Monuments and memorials
New Mexico
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: 
New Mexico Land Sovereignty Act - Prohibits any further extension or establishment of national parks and monuments in New Mexico, except by express authorization of Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-16
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Instructional Leadership Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1514
Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2013-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
School administration
State and local government operations
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: 
Instructional Leadership Act of 2013 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states, local educational agencies (LEAs), nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, or partnerships or consortia which include at least one of those entities to develop and implement innovative programs and sites to train school principals in instructional leadership skills.
 
Requires the Secretary to award additional competitive grants to states or partnerships or consortia which include states for pilot programs that evaluate and promote the incorporation of instructional leadership standards into state principal certification or licensure.
 
 Directs the Secretary to establish a definition of &quot;an effective principal&quot; that is based on reports from this Act's grantees and emphasizes instructional leadership standards. 
 
Requires the Secretary to award competitive grants to states and high-need LEAs or partnerships between such LEAs and certain educational entities to develop state-of-the-art principal induction programs that provide new principals a minimum of three years of extensive, high-quality, comprehensive induction into the field of school administration. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Introduced in House