Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014

Bill: 113-hjres-59
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Harold [R-KY-5]
Introduced: 2013-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Africa
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Transportation safety and security
Uganda
Unemployment
User charges and fees
Veterans' pensions and compensation
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-10
text: 
Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014 - Makes continuing appropriations for FY2014.
 
Appropriates amounts for continuing operations, projects, or activities which were conducted in FY2013 and for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were made available in:
 
 
the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division A of P.L. 113-6);
 
the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division B of P.L. 113-6);
 
the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013 (division C of P.L. 113-6);
 
the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2013 (division D of P.L. 113-6);
 
the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division E of P.L. 113-6); and
 
the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (division F of P.L. 113-6).
 
 
Requires the rate for operations for each account to be calculated to reflect the full amount of any reduction required in FY2013 pursuant to:
 
 
 any provision of division G of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-6); and
 
 the presidential sequestration order dated March 1, 2013, except as attributable to budget authority made available by: (1) the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2013 (P.L. 112-175); or (2) the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-2). 
 
 
Provides funding under this joint resolution until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in it, (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act for FY2014 without any provision for such project or activity, or (3) December 15, 2013.
 
Authorizes continuation of other specified activities (including those for entitlements and other mandatory payments) through such date.
 
Allows amounts made available for the Department of Commerce--National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)--Procurement, Acquisition and Construction to be apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to maintain the planned launch schedules for the Joint Polar Satellite System and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system.
 
Makes appropriations for payment to Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg, widow of Frank R. Lautenberg, late a Senator from New Jersey.

action_date: 2013-09-20
text: 
Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014 - Makes continuing appropriations for FY2014.
 
(Sec. 101) Appropriates amounts for continuing operations, projects, or activities which were conducted in FY2013 and for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were made available in:
 
 
the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division A of P.L. 113-6);
 
the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division B of P.L. 113-6);
 
the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013 (division C of P.L. 113-6);
 
the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2013 (division D of P.L. 113-6);
 
the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division E of P.L. 113-6); and
 
The Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (division F of P.L. 113-6).
 
 
Requires the rate for operations for each account to be calculated to reflect the full amount of any reduction required in FY2013 pursuant to:
 
 
 any provision of division G of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-6); and
 
 the presidential sequestration order dated March 1, 2013, except as attributable to budget authority made available by: (1) the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2013 (P.L. 112-175); or (2) the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-2). 
 
 
(Sec. 102) Bars the use of DOD appropriations or funds made available or authority granted in this joint resolution for: (1) the new production of items not funded for production in FY2013 or prior years; (2) the increase in production rates above those sustained with FY2013 funds; (3) the initiation, resumption, or continuation of specified projects, activities, or operations for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were not available during FY2013; or (4) the initiation of multi-year procurements utilizing advance procurement funding for economic order quantity procurement unless specifically appropriated later. 
 
(Sec. 106) Provides funding under this joint resolution until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in it; (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act for FY2014 without any provision for such project or activity; or (3) December 15, 2013.
 
(Sec. 109) Prohibits high initial rates of operation or complete distribution of appropriations at the beginning of FY2014 for those programs that would otherwise have them because of distributions of funding to states, foreign countries, grantees, or others. Prohibits also the awarding of grants for any programs funded by this joint resolution that would impinge on final funding prerogatives.
 
 (Sec. 110) Declares that this joint resolution shall be implemented so that only the most limited funding action permitted shall be taken in order to provide for continuation of projects and activities.
 
 (Sec. 111) Continues funding through December 15, 2013, at the FY2013 level for entitlements and other mandatory payments whose budget authority was provided in FY2013 appropriations Acts, as well as for activities under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008.
 
 (Sec. 112) Authorizes amounts made available under this joint resolution for civilian personnel compensation and benefits in each department and agency to be apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to avoid furloughs, consistent with the applicable FY2013 appropriations Act. Prohibits use of this authority until after the department or agency has taken all necessary actions to reduce or defer non-personnel-related administrative expenses. 
 
(Sec. 114) Continues designation of each amount incorporated by reference in this joint resolution that was previously designated by Congress for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism or for disaster relief, respectively. Allows such funds to be available (or rescinded, if applicable) only if the President subsequently so designates all such amounts and notifies Congress.
 
 Provides additional new budget authority from amounts made available under this joint resolution for the Social Security Administration (SSA) for continuing disability reviews and redeterminations.
 
(Sec. 115) Applies to funds made available under this joint resolution for FY2014 certain requirements and prohibitions of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013, namely:
 
 
 the requirement that the head of any executive branch department, agency, board, commission, or office funded by this or any other appropriations Act report annually to the Inspector General (IG) (or senior ethics official for any federal entity without an IG) regarding the costs and contracting procedures related to each conference held by any such entity during FY2014 for which the cost to the federal government was more than $100,000;
 
 the requirement that the head of any federal entity, within 15 days of any conference it held for which the cost was over $20,000, notify the IG or the senior ethics official of the date, location, and number of employees attending such conference;
 
 the prohibition against the use of federal grants or contracts by an executive branch agency to defray the costs of such a conference not directly and programmatically related to the purpose for which the grant or contract was awarded, such as a conference held in connection with planning, training, assessment, review, or other routine purposes related to a project funded by the grant or contract; and
 
the prohibition against the use of federal funds for travel and conference activities that are not in compliance with OMB Memorandum M-12-12 dated May 11, 2012. 
 
 
(Sec. 116) Amends the Food for Peace Act to extend through December 15, 2013, authority for agreements to finance sales or to provide other assistance.
 
(Sec. 117) Allows amounts made available for the &quot;Department of Commerce--National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)--Procurement, Acquisition and Construction&quot; to be apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to maintain the planned launch schedules for the Joint Polar Satellite System and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system.
 
(Sec. 118) Continues through the earlier of December 15, 2013, or the enactment of an authorization of FY2014 appropriations for Department of Defense (DOD) military activities, the DOD Secretary's authority to provide logistic support, supplies, and services for foreign forces, including the national military forces of Uganda, participating in operations to mitigate and eliminate the threat posed by the Lord's Resistance Army.
 
(Sec. 119) Extends through December 15, 2013, specified federal law relating to Appalachian regional development.
 
(Sec. 120) Authorizes the District of Columbia to expend local funds for certain programs and activities.
 
 (Sec. 121) Provides funding for &quot;The Judiciary--Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and Other Judicial Services--Defender Services&quot; at a specified rate for operations.
 
(Sec. 122) Continues through December 15, 2013, the requirement that the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) issue interim final regulations establishing risk-based performance standards for the security of chemical facilities and requiring vulnerability assessments and the development and implementation of site security plans for chemical facilities that meet specified requirements.
 
(Sec. 123) Continues through December 15, 2013, the Secret Service's authority granted by the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2007 to use certain funds (including the proceeds of undercover investigative operations) for such operations.
 
(Sec. 124) Continues through December 15, 2013, the DHS Secretary's authority to carry out a pilot program for: (1) basic, applied, and advanced research and development projects for response to existing or emerging terrorist threats; and (2) defense prototype projects.
 
(Sec. 125) Requires any amounts made available pursuant to this joint resolution for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of DHS for salaries and expenses and for Border Security Fencing, Infrastructure, and Technology, and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of DHS for salaries and expenses to be obligated at a rate for necessary operations to respectively sustain:
 
 
 the staffing levels of CBP Officers, equivalent to the staffing levels achieved on September 30, 2013, and comply with specified requirements of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-6);
 
border security operations, including sustaining the operation of Tethered Aerostat Radar Systems; and 
 
the staffing levels of ICE agents, equivalent to the staffing levels achieved on September 30, 2013, and comply with specified requirements of P.L. 113-6.
 
 
Requires the DHS Secretary to notify congressional appropriations committees on each use of such authority.
 
(Sec. 126) Appropriates additional funding for FY2014 for wildland fire management programs of the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture, to remain available until expended for urgent wildland fire suppression activities.
 
(Sec. 128) Continues through December 15, 2013, the authority of the Forest Service: 
 
 
to enter into up to 28 contracts with private persons (of which Region One of the Forest Service shall have authority to enter into nine) to perform services to achieve land management goals for national forests that meet local and rural community needs; and
 
 to apply the value of timber or other forest products removed as an offset against the cost of services received under a contract.
 
 
(Sec. 129) Extends through December 15, 2013, activities authorized by part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) in the manner authorized for FY2013. Makes appropriations for such purpose. Excludes from this extension, however, activities otherwise authorized for: (1) the Contingency Fund for State Welfare Programs in the Treasury; and (2) funding of certain TANF research, evaluations, national studies, and demonstrations.
 
(Sec. 130) Applies to funds made available under this joint resolution for FY2014 certain authority granted to the Mine Safety and Health Administration of the Department of Labor in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 (CAA-2012) to: (1) collect and retain up to $2.499 million (currently, only retain up to $1.499 million) from fees collected for approval and certification of equipment, materials, and explosives for use in mines; and (2) use the funds for such activities.
 
(Sec. 131) Applies to funds made available under this joint resolution for FY2014 the treatment of funds for low-income home energy assistance payments for FY2012 under the CAA-2012 which requires that all but a specified portion of such funds be allocated as though the total appropriation for such payments for FY2012 was less than $1.975 billion.
 
 (Sec. 132) Provides funding for &quot;Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)--Administration for Children and Families--Refugee and Entrant Assistance&quot; at a specified rate for operations. Allows obligation of such amounts up to a rate for operations necessary to maintain program operations at the FY2013 level to accommodate increased demand.
 
(Sec. 133) Authorizes, during the period covered by this joint resolution, any unobligated amounts available in the &quot;Nonrecurring expenses fund&quot; established in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 to be transferred to the HHS Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund for an additional amount for FY2014, to remain available until expended, for expenses necessary:
 
 
 to support advanced research and development pursuant to the Public Health Service Act, and other administrative expenses of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency;
 
 for procuring security countermeasures; or
 
 to prepare for and respond to an influenza pandemic and other emerging infectious diseases, including activities such as the development and purchase of vaccine, antivirals, necessary medical supplies, diagnostics, and other surveillance tools. 
 
 
Allows products purchased with amounts made available by this joint resolution for the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund to be, at the discretion of the HHS Secretary, deposited in the Strategic National Stockpile.
 
 (Sec. 134) Makes appropriations for payment to Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg, widow of Frank R. Lautenberg, late a Senator from New Jersey.
 
(Sec. 135) Provides funding for &quot;Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)--Departmental Administration--General Operating Expenses, Veterans Benefits Administration" at a specified rate for operations.
 
(Sec. 136) Continues through December 15, 2013, the authority of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 to waive or alter certain project-based assistance requirements for owners of certain properties assisted under the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, the National Housing Act, or section 8 (voucher program) of the United States Housing Act of 1937. (Makes such owners, under specified conditions, eligible for conversion of tenant-based vouchers to project-based vouchers.)
 
(Sec. 137) Prohibits the use of federal funds to carry out:
 
 
 the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA),
 
 certain PPACA-related requirements in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (HCERA), or
 
amendments made by either such Act.
 
 
Declares that no entitlement to benefits under any provision of PPACA, the PPACA-related requirements in HCERA, or the amendments made by either such Act, shall remain in effect on and after enactment of this joint resolution.
 
Prohibits any payment from being awarded, owed, or made to any state, district, or territory under any such provision.
 
Rescinds all unobligated balances available under such laws.
 
(Sec. 138) Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, until December 15, 2014, to issue obligations to pay with legal tender, and solely for the purpose of paying, the principal and interest on U.S. obligations held by the public, or held by the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and Disability Insurance Trust Fund, in the event that the federal debt reaches the statutory limit after enactment of this joint resolution.
 
Prohibits: (1) the use of the issued obligations to pay compensation for Members of Congress, and (2) these obligations from being taken into account in applying the current $16.394 trillion public debt limit to the extent that they would otherwise cause such limit to be exceeded.
 
Requires the Secretary, if such authority is exercised after enactment of this joint resolution, to report to specified congressional committees each week the authority is in use and provide an accounting of: (1) the principal on mature obligations and interest due or accrued by the United States, and (2) any obligations issued pursuant to this joint resolution.

action_date: 2013-09-27
text: 
Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014 - Makes continuing appropriations for FY2014.
 
(Sec. 101) Appropriates amounts for continuing operations, projects, or activities which were conducted in FY2013 and for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were made available in:
 
 
the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division A of P.L. 113-6), except for a provision of such Act concerning movement of plant pests under a temporary permit;
 
the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division B of P.L. 113-6);
 
the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013 (division C of P.L. 113-6);
 
the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2013 (division D of P.L. 113-6);
 
the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division E of P.L. 113-6); and
 
The Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (division F of P.L. 113-6).
 
 
Requires the rate for operations for each account to be calculated to reflect the full amount of any reduction required in FY2013 pursuant to:
 
 
 any provision of division G of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-6); and
 
 the presidential sequestration order dated March 1, 2013, except as attributable to budget authority made available by: (1) the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2013 (P.L. 112-175); or (2) the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-2). 
 
 
(Sec. 102) Bars the use of Department of Defense (DOD) appropriations or funds made available or authority granted in this joint resolution for: (1) the new production of items not funded for production in FY2013 or prior years; (2) the increase in production rates above those sustained with FY2013 funds; (3) the initiation, resumption, or continuation of specified projects, activities, or operations for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were not available during FY2013; or (4) the initiation of multi-year procurements utilizing advance procurement funding for economic order quantity procurement unless specifically appropriated later. 
 
(Sec. 106) Provides funding under this joint resolution until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in it, (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act for FY2014 without any provision for such project or activity, or (3) November 15, 2013.
 
(Sec. 109) Prohibits high initial rates of operation or complete distribution of appropriations at the beginning of FY2014 for those programs that would otherwise have them because of distributions of funding to states, foreign countries, grantees, or others. Prohibits also the awarding of grants for any programs funded by this joint resolution that would impinge on final funding prerogatives.
 
 (Sec. 110) Declares that this joint resolution shall be implemented so that only the most limited funding action permitted shall be taken in order to provide for continuation of projects and activities.
 
 (Sec. 111) Continues funding through November 15, 2013, at the FY2013 level for entitlements and other mandatory payments whose budget authority was provided in FY2013 appropriations Acts, as well as for activities under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008.
 
 (Sec. 112) Authorizes amounts made available under this joint resolution for civilian personnel compensation and benefits in each department and agency to be apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to avoid furloughs, consistent with the applicable FY2013 appropriations Act. Prohibits use of this authority until after the department or agency has taken all necessary actions to reduce or defer non-personnel-related administrative expenses. 
 
(Sec. 114) Continues designation of each amount incorporated by reference in this joint resolution that was previously designated by Congress for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism or for disaster relief, respectively. Allows such funds to be available (or rescinded, if applicable) only if the President subsequently so designates all such amounts and notifies Congress.
 
 Provides additional new budget authority from amounts made available under this joint resolution for the Social Security Administration (SSA) for continuing disability reviews and redeterminations.
 
(Sec. 115) Applies to funds made available under this joint resolution for FY2014 certain requirements and prohibitions of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013, namely:
 
 
 the requirement that the head of any executive branch department, agency, board, commission, or office funded by this or any other appropriations Act report annually to the Inspector General (IG) (or senior ethics official for any federal entity without an IG) regarding the costs and contracting procedures related to each conference held by any such entity during FY2014 for which the cost to the federal government was more than $100,000;
 
 the requirement that the head of any federal entity, within 15 days of any conference it held for which the cost was over $20,000, notify the IG or the senior ethics official of the date, location, and number of employees attending such conference;
 
 the prohibition against the use of federal grants or contracts by an executive branch agency to defray the costs of such a conference not directly and programmatically related to the purpose for which the grant or contract was awarded, such as a conference held in connection with planning, training, assessment, review, or other routine purposes related to a project funded by the grant or contract; and
 
the prohibition against the use of federal funds for travel and conference activities that are not in compliance with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-12-12 dated May 11, 2012. 
 
 
(Sec. 116) Amends the Food for Peace Act to extend through November 15, 2013, authority for agreements to finance sales or to provide other assistance.
 
(Sec. 117) Allows amounts made available for the &quot;Department of Commerce--National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)--Procurement, Acquisition and Construction&quot; to be apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to maintain the planned launch schedules for the Joint Polar Satellite System and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system.
 
(Sec. 118) Continues through the earlier of November 15, 2013, or the enactment of an authorization of FY2014 appropriations for DOD military activities, the DOD Secretary's authority to provide logistic support, supplies, and services for foreign forces, including the national military forces of Uganda, participating in operations to mitigate and eliminate the threat posed by the Lord's Resistance Army.
 
(Sec. 119) Extends through November 15, 2013, specified federal law relating to Appalachian regional development.
 
(Sec. 120) Authorizes the District of Columbia to expend local funds for certain programs and activities.
 
 (Sec. 121) Provides funding for &quot;The Judiciary--Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and Other Judicial Services--Defender Services&quot; at a specified rate for operations.
 
(Sec. 122) Continues through November 15, 2013, the requirement that the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) issue interim final regulations establishing risk-based performance standards for the security of chemical facilities and requiring vulnerability assessments and the development and implementation of site security plans for chemical facilities that meet specified requirements.
 
(Sec. 123) Continues through November 15, 2013, the authority of the U.S. Secret Service to use appropriated funds and proceeds from undercover investigative operations for specified purposes.
 
(Sec. 124) Continues through November 15, 2013, the DHS Secretary's authority to carry out a pilot program for: (1) basic, applied, and advanced research and development projects for response to existing or emerging terrorist threats; and (2) defense prototype projects.
 
(Sec. 125) Requires any amounts made available pursuant to this joint resolution for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of DHS for salaries and expenses and for Border Security Fencing, Infrastructure, and Technology, and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of DHS for salaries and expenses to be obligated at a rate for necessary operations to respectively sustain:
 
 
 the staffing levels of CBP Officers, equivalent to the staffing levels achieved on September 30, 2013, and comply with specified requirements of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-6);
 
border security operations, including sustaining the operation of Tethered Aerostat Radar Systems; and 
 
the staffing levels of ICE agents, equivalent to the staffing levels achieved on September 30, 2013, and comply with specified requirements of P.L. 113-6.
 
 
Requires the DHS Secretary to notify congressional appropriations committees on each use of such authority.
 
(Sec. 126) Appropriates additional funding for FY2014 for wildland fire management programs of the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture, to remain available until expended for urgent wildland fire suppression activities.
 
(Sec. 128) Continues through November 15, 2013, the authority of the Forest Service: 
 
 
to enter into up to 28 contracts with private persons (of which Region One of the Forest Service shall have authority to enter into nine) to perform services to achieve land management goals for national forests that meet local and rural community needs; and
 
 to apply the value of timber or other forest products removed as an offset against the cost of services received under a contract.
 
 
(Sec. 129) Continues in effect the authority for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission until the earlier of enactment of FY2014 appropriations or November 15, 2013.
 
(Sec. 130) Extends through November 15, 2013, activities authorized by part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) in the manner authorized for FY2013. Makes appropriations for such purpose. Excludes from this extension, however, activities otherwise authorized for: (1) the Contingency Fund for State Welfare Programs in the Treasury; and (2) funding of certain TANF research, evaluations, national studies, and demonstrations.
 
(Sec. 131) Applies to funds made available under this joint resolution for FY2014 certain authority granted to the Mine Safety and Health Administration of the Department of Labor in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 (CAA-2012) to: (1) collect and retain up to $2.499 million (currently, only retain up to $1.499 million) from fees collected for approval and certification of equipment, materials, and explosives for use in mines; and (2) use the funds for such activities.
 
(Sec. 132) Applies to funds made available under this joint resolution for FY2014 the treatment of funds for low-income home energy assistance payments for FY2012 under the CAA-2012, which requires that all but a specified portion of such funds be allocated as though the total appropriation for such payments for FY2012 was less than $1.975 billion.
 
 (Sec. 133) Provides funding for &quot;Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)--Administration for Children and Families--Refugee and Entrant Assistance&quot; at a specified rate for operations. Allows obligation of such amounts up to a rate for operations necessary to maintain program operations at the FY2013 level to accommodate increased demand.
 
(Sec. 134) Authorizes obligation, during the period covered by this joint resolution, of amounts provided for the HHS Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund at a rate necessary to assure timely execution of planned advanced research and development contracts pursuant to section 319L of the Public Health Service Act, to remain available until expended, for expenses necessary to support advanced research and development and other administrative expenses of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.
 
 (Sec. 135) Makes appropriations for payment to Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg, widow of Frank R. Lautenberg, late a Senator from New Jersey.
 
(Sec. 136) Provides funding for &quot;Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)--Departmental Administration--General Operating Expenses, Veterans Benefits Administration" at a specified rate for operations.
 
(Sec. 137) Continues through November 15, 2013, the authority of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 to waive or alter certain project-based assistance requirements for owners of certain properties assisted under the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, the National Housing Act, or section 8 (voucher program) of the United States Housing Act of 1937. (Makes such owners, under specified conditions, eligible for conversion of tenant-based vouchers to project-based vouchers.)

action_date: 2013-09-29
text: 
Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014 - Makes continuing appropriations for FY2014.
 
(Sec. 101) Appropriates amounts for continuing operations, projects, or activities which were conducted in FY2013 and for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were made available in:
 
 
the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division A of P.L. 113-6), except for a provision of such Act concerning movement of plant pests under a temporary permit;
 
the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division B of P.L. 113-6);
 
the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013 (division C of P.L. 113-6);
 
the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2013 (division D of P.L. 113-6);
 
the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division E of P.L. 113-6); and
 
The Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (division F of P.L. 113-6).
 
 
Requires the rate for operations for each account to be calculated to reflect the full amount of any reduction required in FY2013 pursuant to:
 
 
 any provision of division G of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-6); and
 
 the presidential sequestration order dated March 1, 2013, except as attributable to budget authority made available by: (1) the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2013 (P.L. 112-175); or (2) the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-2). 
 
 
(Sec. 102) Bars the use of Department of Defense (DOD) appropriations or funds made available or authority granted in this joint resolution for: (1) the new production of items not funded for production in FY2013 or prior years; (2) the increase in production rates above those sustained with FY2013 funds; (3) the initiation, resumption, or continuation of specified projects, activities, or operations for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were not available during FY2013; or (4) the initiation of multi-year procurements utilizing advance procurement funding for economic order quantity procurement unless specifically appropriated later. 
 
(Sec. 106) Provides funding under this joint resolution until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in it, (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act for FY2014 without any provision for such project or activity, or (3) December 15, 2013.
 
(Sec. 109) Prohibits high initial rates of operation or complete distribution of appropriations at the beginning of FY2014 for those programs that would otherwise have them because of distributions of funding to states, foreign countries, grantees, or others. Prohibits also the awarding of grants for any programs funded by this joint resolution that would impinge on final funding prerogatives.
 
 (Sec. 110) Declares that this joint resolution shall be implemented so that only the most limited funding action permitted shall be taken in order to provide for continuation of projects and activities.
 
 (Sec. 111) Continues funding through December 15, 2013, at the FY2013 level for entitlements and other mandatory payments whose budget authority was provided in FY2013 appropriations Acts, as well as for activities under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008.
 
 (Sec. 112) Authorizes amounts made available under this joint resolution for civilian personnel compensation and benefits in each department and agency to be apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to avoid furloughs, consistent with the applicable FY2013 appropriations Act. Prohibits use of this authority until after the department or agency has taken all necessary actions to reduce or defer non-personnel-related administrative expenses. 
 
(Sec. 114) Continues designation of each amount incorporated by reference in this joint resolution that was previously designated by Congress for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism or for disaster relief, respectively. Allows such funds to be available (or rescinded, if applicable) only if the President subsequently so designates all such amounts and notifies Congress.
 
 Provides additional new budget authority from amounts made available under this joint resolution for the Social Security Administration (SSA) for continuing disability reviews and redeterminations.
 
(Sec. 115) Applies to funds made available under this joint resolution for FY2014 certain requirements and prohibitions of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013, namely:
 
 
 the requirement that the head of any executive branch department, agency, board, commission, or office funded by this or any other appropriations Act report annually to the Inspector General (IG) (or senior ethics official for any federal entity without an IG) regarding the costs and contracting procedures related to each conference held by any such entity during FY2014 for which the cost to the federal government was more than $100,000;
 
 the requirement that the head of any federal entity, within 15 days of any conference it held for which the cost was over $20,000, notify the IG or the senior ethics official of the date, location, and number of employees attending such conference;
 
 the prohibition against the use of federal grants or contracts by an executive branch agency to defray the costs of such a conference not directly and programmatically related to the purpose for which the grant or contract was awarded, such as a conference held in connection with planning, training, assessment, review, or other routine purposes related to a project funded by the grant or contract; and
 
the prohibition against the use of federal funds for travel and conference activities that are not in compliance with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-12-12 dated May 11, 2012. 
 
 
(Sec. 116) Amends the Food for Peace Act to extend through December 15, 2013, authority for agreements to finance sales or to provide other assistance.
 
(Sec. 117) Allows amounts made available for the &quot;Department of Commerce--National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)--Procurement, Acquisition and Construction&quot; to be apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to maintain the planned launch schedules for the Joint Polar Satellite System and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system.
 
(Sec. 118) Continues through the earlier of December 15, 2013, or the enactment of an authorization of FY2014 appropriations for DOD military activities, the DOD Secretary's authority to provide logistic support, supplies, and services for foreign forces, including the national military forces of Uganda, participating in operations to mitigate and eliminate the threat posed by the Lord's Resistance Army.
 
(Sec. 119) Extends through December 15, 2013, specified federal law relating to Appalachian regional development.
 
(Sec. 120) Authorizes the District of Columbia to expend local funds for certain programs and activities.
 
 (Sec. 121) Provides funding for &quot;The Judiciary--Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and Other Judicial Services--Defender Services&quot; at a specified rate for operations.
 
(Sec. 122) Continues through December 15, 2013, the requirement that the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) issue interim final regulations establishing risk-based performance standards for the security of chemical facilities and requiring vulnerability assessments and the development and implementation of site security plans for chemical facilities that meet specified requirements.
 
(Sec. 123) Continues through December 15, 2013, the authority of the U.S. Secret Service to use appropriated funds and proceeds from undercover investigative operations for specified purposes.
 
(Sec. 124) Continues through December 15, 2013, the DHS Secretary's authority to carry out a pilot program for: (1) basic, applied, and advanced research and development projects for response to existing or emerging terrorist threats; and (2) defense prototype projects.
 
(Sec. 125) Requires any amounts made available pursuant to this joint resolution for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of DHS for salaries and expenses and for Border Security Fencing, Infrastructure, and Technology, and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of DHS for salaries and expenses to be obligated at a rate for necessary operations to respectively sustain:
 
 
 the staffing levels of CBP Officers, equivalent to the staffing levels achieved on September 30, 2013, and comply with specified requirements of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-6);
 
border security operations, including sustaining the operation of Tethered Aerostat Radar Systems; and 
 
the staffing levels of ICE agents, equivalent to the staffing levels achieved on September 30, 2013, and comply with specified requirements of P.L. 113-6.
 
 
Requires the DHS Secretary to notify congressional appropriations committees on each use of such authority.
 
(Sec. 126) Appropriates additional funding for FY2014 for wildland fire management programs of the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture, to remain available until expended for urgent wildland fire suppression activities.
 
(Sec. 128) Continues through December 15, 2013, the authority of the Forest Service: 
 
 
to enter into up to 28 contracts with private persons (of which Region One of the Forest Service shall have authority to enter into nine) to perform services to achieve land management goals for national forests that meet local and rural community needs; and
 
 to apply the value of timber or other forest products removed as an offset against the cost of services received under a contract.
 
 
(Sec. 129) Continues in effect the authority for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission until the earlier of enactment of FY2014 appropriations or December 15, 2013. Suspends certain authorities relating to procurement and permits for such Memorial.
 
(Sec. 130) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 to provide that the total number of aliens eligible for special immigrant status for the period ending on December 15, 2013, shall be the sum of the number of such aliens whose applications were pending on September 30, 2013, and 2,000. Imposes a deadline of December 15, 2013, for applications for special immigrant status.
 
(Sec. 131) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the excise tax on medical devices. 
 
Delays the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act until October 1, 2014.
 
(Sec. 132) Extends through December 15, 2013, activities authorized by part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) in the manner authorized for FY2013. Makes appropriations for such purpose. Excludes from this extension, however, activities otherwise authorized for: (1) the Contingency Fund for State Welfare Programs in the Treasury; and (2) funding of certain TANF research, evaluations, national studies, and demonstrations.
 
(Sec. 133) Applies to funds made available under this joint resolution for FY2014 certain authority granted to the Mine Safety and Health Administration of the Department of Labor in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 (CAA-2012) to: (1) collect and retain up to $2.499 million (currently, only retain up to $1.499 million) from fees collected for approval and certification of equipment, materials, and explosives for use in mines; and (2) use the funds for such activities.
 
(Sec. 134) Applies to funds made available under this joint resolution for FY2014 the treatment of funds for low-income home energy assistance payments for FY2012 under the CAA-2012, which requires that all but a specified portion of such funds be allocated as though the total appropriation for such payments for FY2012 was less than $1.975 billion.
 
(Sec. 135) Provides funding for &quot;Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)--Administration for Children and Families--Refugee and Entrant Assistance&quot; at a specified rate for operations. Allows obligation of such amounts up to a rate for operations necessary to maintain program operations at the FY2013 level to accommodate increased demand.
 
(Sec. 136) Authorizes obligation, during the period covered by this joint resolution, of amounts provided for the HHS Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund at a rate necessary to assure timely execution of planned advanced research and development contracts pursuant to section 319L of the Public Health Service Act, to remain available until expended, for expenses necessary to support advanced research and development and other administrative expenses of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.
 
(Sec. 137) Makes appropriations for payment to Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg, widow of Frank R. Lautenberg, late a Senator from New Jersey.
 
(Sec. 138) Provides funding for &quot;Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)--Departmental Administration--General Operating Expenses, Veterans Benefits Administration" at a specified rate for operations.
 
(Sec. 139) Continues through December 15, 2013, the authority of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 to waive or alter certain project-based assistance requirements for owners of certain properties assisted under the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, the National Housing Act, or section 8 (voucher program) of the United States Housing Act of 1937. (Makes such owners, under specified conditions, eligible for conversion of tenant-based vouchers to project-based vouchers.)

action_date: 2013-09-30
text: 
Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014 - Makes continuing appropriations for FY2014.
 
(Sec. 101) Appropriates amounts for continuing operations, projects, or activities which were conducted in FY2013 and for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were made available in:
 
 
the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division A of P.L. 113-6), except for a provision of such Act concerning movement of plant pests under a temporary permit;
 
the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division B of P.L. 113-6);
 
the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013 (division C of P.L. 113-6);
 
the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2013 (division D of P.L. 113-6);
 
the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division E of P.L. 113-6); and
 
the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (division F of P.L. 113-6).
 
 
Requires the rate for operations for each account to be calculated to reflect the full amount of any reduction required in FY2013 pursuant to:
 
 
 any provision of division G of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-6); and
 
 the presidential sequestration order dated March 1, 2013, except as attributable to budget authority made available by: (1) the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2013 (P.L. 112-175); or (2) the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-2). 
 
 
(Sec. 102) Bars the use of Department of Defense (DOD) appropriations or funds made available or authority granted in this joint resolution for: (1) the new production of items not funded for production in FY2013 or prior years; (2) the increase in production rates above those sustained with FY2013 funds; (3) the initiation, resumption, or continuation of specified projects, activities, or operations for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were not available during FY2013; or (4) the initiation of multi-year procurements utilizing advance procurement funding for economic order quantity procurement unless specifically appropriated later. 
 
(Sec. 106) Provides funding under this joint resolution until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in it, (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act for FY2014 without any provision for such project or activity, or (3) December 15, 2013.
 
(Sec. 109) Prohibits high initial rates of operation or complete distribution of appropriations at the beginning of FY2014 for those programs that would otherwise have them because of distributions of funding to states, foreign countries, grantees, or others. Prohibits also the awarding of grants for any programs funded by this joint resolution that would impinge on final funding prerogatives.
 
 (Sec. 110) Declares that this joint resolution shall be implemented so that only the most limited funding action permitted shall be taken in order to provide for continuation of projects and activities.
 
 (Sec. 111) Continues funding through December 15, 2013, at the FY2013 level for entitlements and other mandatory payments whose budget authority was provided in FY2013 appropriations Acts, as well as for activities under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008.
 
 (Sec. 112) Authorizes amounts made available under this joint resolution for civilian personnel compensation and benefits in each department and agency to be apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to avoid furloughs, consistent with the applicable FY2013 appropriations Act. Prohibits use of this authority until after the department or agency has taken all necessary actions to reduce or defer non-personnel-related administrative expenses. 
 
(Sec. 114) Continues designation of each amount incorporated by reference in this joint resolution that was previously designated by Congress for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism or for disaster relief, respectively. Allows such funds to be available (or rescinded, if applicable) only if the President subsequently so designates all such amounts and notifies Congress.
 
 Provides additional new budget authority from amounts made available under this joint resolution for the Social Security Administration (SSA) for continuing disability reviews and redeterminations.
 
(Sec. 115) Applies to funds made available under this joint resolution for FY2014 certain requirements and prohibitions of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013, namely:
 
 
 the requirement that the head of any executive branch department, agency, board, commission, or office funded by this or any other appropriations Act report annually to the Inspector General (IG) (or senior ethics official for any federal entity without an IG) regarding the costs and contracting procedures related to each conference held by any such entity during FY2014 for which the cost to the federal government was more than $100,000;
 
 the requirement that the head of any federal entity, within 15 days of any conference it held for which the cost was over $20,000, notify the IG or the senior ethics official of the date, location, and number of employees attending such conference;
 
 the prohibition against the use of federal grants or contracts by an executive branch agency to defray the costs of such a conference not directly and programmatically related to the purpose for which the grant or contract was awarded, such as a conference held in connection with planning, training, assessment, review, or other routine purposes related to a project funded by the grant or contract; and
 
the prohibition against the use of federal funds for travel and conference activities that are not in compliance with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-12-12 dated May 11, 2012. 
 
 
(Sec. 116) Amends the Food for Peace Act to extend through December 15, 2013, authority for agreements to finance sales or to provide other assistance.
 
(Sec. 117) Allows amounts made available for the &quot;Department of Commerce--National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)--Procurement, Acquisition and Construction&quot; to be apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to maintain the planned launch schedules for the Joint Polar Satellite System and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system.
 
(Sec. 118) Continues through the earlier of December 15, 2013, or the enactment of an authorization of FY2014 appropriations for DOD military activities, the DOD Secretary's authority to provide logistic support, supplies, and services for foreign forces, including the national military forces of Uganda, participating in operations to mitigate and eliminate the threat posed by the Lord's Resistance Army.
 
(Sec. 119) Extends through December 15, 2013, specified federal law relating to Appalachian regional development.
 
(Sec. 120) Authorizes the District of Columbia to expend local funds for certain programs and activities.
 
 (Sec. 121) Provides funding for &quot;The Judiciary--Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and Other Judicial Services--Defender Services&quot; at a specified rate for operations.
 
(Sec. 122) Continues through December 15, 2013, the requirement that the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) issue interim final regulations establishing risk-based performance standards for the security of chemical facilities and requiring vulnerability assessments and the development and implementation of site security plans for chemical facilities that meet specified requirements.
 
(Sec. 123) Continues through December 15, 2013, the authority of the United States Secret Service to use appropriated funds and proceeds from undercover investigative operations for specified purposes.
 
(Sec. 124) Continues through December 15, 2013, the DHS Secretary's authority to carry out a pilot program for: (1) basic, applied, and advanced research and development projects for response to existing or emerging terrorist threats; and (2) defense prototype projects.
 
(Sec. 125) Requires any amounts made available pursuant to this joint resolution for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of DHS for salaries and expenses and for Border Security Fencing, Infrastructure, and Technology, and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of DHS for salaries and expenses to be obligated at a rate for necessary operations to respectively sustain:
 
 
 the staffing levels of CBP Officers, equivalent to the staffing levels achieved on September 30, 2013, and comply with specified requirements of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-6);
 
border security operations, including sustaining the operation of Tethered Aerostat Radar Systems; and 
 
the staffing levels of ICE agents, equivalent to the staffing levels achieved on September 30, 2013, and comply with specified requirements of P.L. 113-6.
 
 
Requires the DHS Secretary to notify congressional appropriations committees on each use of such authority.
 
(Sec. 126) Appropriates additional funding for FY2014 for wildland fire management programs of the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture, to remain available until expended for urgent wildland fire suppression activities.
 
(Sec. 128) Continues through December 15, 2013, the authority of the Forest Service: 
 
 
to enter into up to 28 contracts with private persons (of which Region One of the Forest Service shall have authority to enter into nine) to perform services to achieve land management goals for national forests that meet local and rural community needs; and
 
 to apply the value of timber or other forest products removed as an offset against the cost of services received under a contract.
 
 
(Sec. 129) Continues in effect the authority for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission until the earlier of enactment of FY2014 appropriations or December 15, 2013.
 
(Sec. 130) Extends through December 15, 2013, activities authorized by part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) in the manner authorized for FY2013. Makes appropriations for such purpose. Excludes from this extension, however, activities otherwise authorized for: (1) the Contingency Fund for State Welfare Programs in the Treasury; and (2) funding of certain TANF research, evaluations, national studies, and demonstrations.
 
(Sec. 131) Applies to funds made available under this joint resolution for FY2014 certain authority granted to the Mine Safety and Health Administration of the Department of Labor in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 (CAA-2012) to: (1) collect and retain up to $2.499 million (currently, only retain up to $1.499 million) from fees collected for approval and certification of equipment, materials, and explosives for use in mines; and (2) use the funds for such activities.
 
(Sec. 132) Applies to funds made available under this joint resolution for FY2014 the treatment of funds for low-income home energy assistance payments for FY2012 under the CAA-2012, which requires that all but a specified portion of such funds be allocated as though the total appropriation for such payments for FY2012 was less than $1.975 billion.
 
 (Sec. 133) Provides funding for &quot;Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)--Administration for Children and Families--Refugee and Entrant Assistance&quot; at a specified rate for operations. Allows obligation of such amounts up to a rate for operations necessary to maintain program operations at the FY2013 level to accommodate increased demand.
 
(Sec. 134) Authorizes obligation, during the period covered by this joint resolution, of amounts provided for the HHS Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund at a rate necessary to assure timely execution of planned advanced research and development contracts pursuant to the Public Health Service Act, to remain available until expended, for expenses necessary to support advanced research and development and other administrative expenses of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.
 
 (Sec. 135) Makes appropriations for payment to Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg, widow of Frank R. Lautenberg, late a Senator from New Jersey.
 
(Sec. 136) Provides funding for &quot;Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)--Departmental Administration--General Operating Expenses, Veterans Benefits Administration" at a specified rate for operations.
 
(Sec. 137) Continues through December 15, 2013, the authority of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 to waive or alter certain project-based assistance requirements for owners of certain properties assisted under the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, the National Housing Act, or section 8 (voucher program) of the United States Housing Act of 1937. (Makes such owners, under specified conditions, eligible for conversion of tenant-based vouchers to project-based vouchers.)
 
(Sec. 138) Extends (until December 15, 2013) the expiration date for funding under this joint resolution, unless an earlier enactment of appropriations for specified activities or projects occurs. 
 
(Sec. 139) Suspends, for the period covered by this joint resolution, certain authorities relating to procurement and permits for design and construction of a memorial in honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower. 
 
(Sec. 140) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 to provide that the total number of aliens eligible for special immigrant status (Iraqis who were employed by or on behalf of the U.S. government in Iraq) for the period ending on December 15, 2013, shall be the sum of: (1) the number of such aliens whose applications were pending on September 30, 2013, and (2) 2000. Imposes a deadline of December 15, 2013, for applications for special immigrant status. 
 
(Sec. 141) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to delay until 2015 application of the requirement that individuals maintain minimum essential health insurance coverage (the &quot;individual mandate&quot;).
 
(Sec. 142) Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to extend the requirement for participation in an American Health Benefit Exchange (a state health insurance exchange created by PPACA) to the President, Vice-President, executive branch political appointees, and employees of congressional committees and leadership offices of Congress (currently, this requirement applies to Members of Congress and their staff). Prohibits any government contribution to or subsidy for the health insurance coverage of such officials and employees. 

action_date: 2013-12-12
text: 

Division A: Bipartisan Budget Agreement
 - Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 - 
Division A [
sic
]: Budget Enforcement and Deficit Reduction 
- 
Title I: Budget Enforcement - Subtitle A: Amendments to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
 - (Sec. 101) Amends the Balanced Budget Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to establish (increased) discretionary spending limits (spending caps) for the revised security and nonsecurity categories for FY2014-FY2015. Continues the existing spending limits in such categories for FY2016-FY2021 imposed under the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA). (Pursuant to BCA procedures, the initial limits for FY2014-FY2021 are to be lowered (sequestered) by the Office of Management and Budget [OMB] each fiscal year to achieve certain budgetary savings.)
 
Amends the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act to direct OMB to make the calculations necessary to implement the direct defense and nondefense spending reductions calculated pursuant to the BCA without regard to this Act's revisions of the discretionary spending limits for FY2014-FY2015.
 
Directs the President, upon issuance of OMB sequestration preview reports for FY2022-FY2023, to order a sequestration, effective upon issuance so that the percentage reductions for nonexempt direct spending for the defense and nondefense functions are the same percent as the corresponding percentage reductions for such spending for FY2021.
 
Makes conforming amendments to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act to define:
 
 
 "revised security category" as discretionary appropriations in budget function 050, 
 
"revised nonsecurity category" as discretionary appropriations other than in budget function 050, and
 
"category" as the subsets of these discretionary appropriations.
 
 
Requires:
 
 
 discretionary appropriations in each of the categories to be those designated in the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on the Balanced Budget Act of 1997; and
 
new accounts or activities to be categorized only after consultation with congressional appropriations and budget committees, and to the extent practicable, to include written communication to those committees that affords them the opportunity to comment before official action is taken for such accounts or activities.
 
 

Subtitle B: Establishing a Congressional Budget
 - (Sec. 111) Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2014, including appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015-FY2023. 
 
Requires the Chairmen of the congressional budget committees to submit statements for publication in the Congressional Record as soon as practicable after enactment of this Act that include:
 
 
committee allocations for the Committee on Appropriations of the respective chamber for FY2014 consistent with the discretionary spending limits set forth in this Act; 
 
committee allocations for all other committees of the respective chamber for: (1) FY2014, (2) FY2014-FY2018 in the Senate only, and (3) FY2014-FY2023;
 
aggregate spending levels for FY2014 in accordance with such allocations;
 
aggregate revenue levels for: (1) FY2014, (2) FY2014-FY2018 in the Senate only, and (3) FY2014-FY2023; and
 
in the Senate only, levels of Social Security revenues and outlays for FY2014-FY2023 consistent with the CBO May 2013 baseline adjusted to account for the budgetary effects of this Act and legislation enacted before this Act but not included in such baseline.
 
 
Authorizes the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, after enactment of this Act, to reduce the aggregates, allocations, and other budgetary levels included in the Chairman's statement to reflect the budgetary effects of any legislation enacted during the 113th Congress that reduces the deficit.
 
(Sec. 112) Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate any legislation that would require advanced appropriations, except by a supermajority waiver, other than for:
 
 
 up to $28.852 billion in new budget authority in FY2015-FY2016 for programs, projects, activities, or accounts identified in the joint explanatory statement of managers accompanying this budget resolution;
 
 the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; and
 
 the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the Medical Services, Medical Support and Compliance, and Medical Facilities accounts of the Veterans Health Administration.
 
 
Makes this requirement inapplicable if a budget resolution for FY2015 is adopted in both chambers.
 
(Sec. 113) Provides that, for the remainder of the 113th Congress in the House of Representatives, the provisions of H.Con.Res. 25 (113th Congress), as deemed in force by H.Res. 243 (113th Congress), shall remain in force to the extent its budgetary levels are not superseded by this subtitle or by further action of the House.
 
(Sec. 114) Requires the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee (Chairman in this section), for enforcement of the Senate Pay-As-You-Go Scorecard requirements, to: (1) reduce any balances of direct spending and revenues for any fiscal year to zero, effective upon enactment of this joint resolution; and (2) do the same for FY2015 between April 15 and May 15, 2014.
 
Authorizes the Chairman to revise the committee allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits set pursuant to this subtitle for any legislation that amends the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act to repeal or revise the enforcement procedures established under it, by the amounts provided in that legislation for those purposes, provided that it would not increase the deficit over the FY2014-FY2023 total. (Thus requires a deficit-neutral reserve fund to replace sequestration.)
 
Declares that specified deficit-neutral reserve funds established in S.Con.Res. 8 (113th Congress), as passed by the Senate, shall have force and effect.
 
Makes certain requirements of this section expire, including such deficit-neutral reserve funds, if a budget resolution for FY2015 is agreed to by both chambers.
 
(Sec. 115) Requires the allocations, aggregates, and levels in this Act to apply in the House and the Senate after April 15, 2014, in the same manner as an FY2015 budget resolution if an actual budget resolution for FY2015 has not been adopted by that date.
 

Subtitle C: Technical Corrections
 - (Sec. 121) Makes technical corrections to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act and to the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
 

Title II: Prevention of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
 - (Sec. 201) Amends title III (Unemployment Insurance) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require all states to use a specified mechanism (Treasury Offset Program) under the Internal Revenue Code for collecting unemployment compensation debts to recover any such debt remaining uncollected one year after the date when it was finally determined to be due and collected.
 
(Sec. 202) Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) with respect to payment for prenatal and preventive pediatric care without regard to a third party's liability to pay for such services. Authorizes a state Medicaid plan to make such a payment, if cost-effective and unable to adversely affect access to care, only if a liable third party has not made payment within 90 days after the service provider has initially submitted a payment claim to that third party.
 
Authorizes the state Medicaid plan to do the same with respect to any covered services provided to an individual on whose behalf the proper state agency is enforcing child support. Allows the state, however, to make such a payment within 30 days only if doing so is cost effective and necessary to ensure access to care.
 
Allows a state to recover Medicaid expenditures from liable third parties pursuant to rights it has acquired or has had assigned to it.
 
(Sec. 203) Prohibits the Secretary of Commerce from disclosing to any person information contained in the Death Master File with respect to any deceased individual during the three calendar years after the individual's death, unless that person is certified, under a program established by the Secretary, as eligible to access such information and to perform periodic audits. Prescribes penalties for unauthorized disclosure. 
 
(Sec. 204) Includes anticipated or actual release dates among the types of information prisons are required to report to the Social Security Administration through the Prisoner Update Processing System (PUPS).
 
Authorizes the Commissioner of Social Security, under an agreement with a state or local detention facility, to provide PUPS data to any agency administering a federal or federally-assisted cash, food, or medical assistance program for research conducted by federal and state agencies, and to the Secretary of the Treasury for the purpose of tax administration, debt collection, and identifying, preventing, and recovering improper payments under federally funded programs. 
 
Amends the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012, with respect to the Do Not Pay Initiative, to require federal agencies to review PUPS data before certifying a payment or award.
 

Title III: Natural Resources
 - (Sec. 301) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to repeal the Ultra-Deepwater and Unconventional Natural Gas and and Other Petroleum Resources program. Rescinds unobligated funds appropriated for it.
 
 (Sec. 302) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to: (1) reduce by 2%, beginning in FY2014, the amount of payments to the states for administrative costs incurred by the United States in implementing the program for leasing and prospecting on federal land; and (2) require the amount of such reduction to be deposited to miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury.
 
(Sec. 303) Approves the Agreement between the United States of America and the United Mexican States Concerning Transboundary Hydrocarbon Reservoirs in the Gulf of Mexico, signed at Los Cabos, February 20, 2012.
 
(Sec. 304) Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary in this title) to implement any transboundary hydrocarbon agreement for the management of transboundary hydrocarbon reservoirs entered into by the President and approved by Congress after enactment of this Act. 
 
Instructs the Secretary, in implementing such an agreement, to protect U.S. interests to promote domestic job creation and ensure the expeditious and orderly development and conservation of domestic mineral resources in accordance with federal laws governing the exploration, development, and production of hydrocarbon resources on the Outer Continental Shelf (OTS).
 
Prescribes procedures for submission to Congress of a transboundary hydrocarbon agreement that does not constitute a treaty in the judgment of the President. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to take necessary action to implement the Transboundary Agreement with Mexico.
 
Prohibits any construction of this Act as: (1) authorizing the Secretary to participate in any negotiations, conferences, or consultations with Cuba regarding exploration, development, or production of hydrocarbon resources in the Gulf of Mexico along the U.S. maritime border with Cuba or the area known by the Department of the Interior as the "Eastern Gap"; or (2) affecting the sovereign rights and the jurisdiction of the United States under international law over the OTS that appertains to it.
 
(Sec. 305) Amends the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 regarding royalty management and enforcement to prohibit the payment of interest on any excessive overpayment (currently, on any aggregate overpayment exceeding 10% of the monthly royalties paid on all of a lessee's or designee's federal leases).
 
(Sec. 306) Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to repeal the authority of the Secretary to acquire in-kind royalty crude oil. 
 
Rescinds permanently any unobligated balances available in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Petroleum Account in the Treasury on the date of enactment of this Act. 
 

Title IV: Federal Civilian and Military Retirement
 - (Sec. 401) Defines "further revised annuity employee" for purposes of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) as any individual who, on December 31, 2013: (1) is not a federal employee or Member of Congress under FERS; (2) is not performing civilian service which is credible service under FERS; (3) has less than five years of credible civilian service; and (4) after December 31, 2013, becomes employed as a federal employee or Member of Congress and performs service which is credible service under FERS.
 
Increases the rate of contribution to FERS for further revised annuity employees, including federal employees, Members of Congress, congressional employees, law enforcement employees or air traffic controllers, nuclear materials couriers, and customs and border protection officers.
 
Requires federal agencies to continue their current level of contributions to FERS after December 31, 2013, and to apply excess contributions to the reduction of the unfunded liability of the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). 
 
(Sec. 402) Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to increase the rate of contribution to the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System (FRSDF) by foreign service employees who begin service after December 31, 2013. Requires agencies that participate in FRSDF to continue their current level of contributions to FRSDF to reduce its unfunded liability. 
 
(Sec. 403) Revises the cost-of-living adjustment to the retirement pay of members of the Armed Forces who have not reached age 62 to require an annual adjustment to such pay, beginning on December 1, 2015, based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) less 1%. Requires the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to recompute the retired pay of members when they reach age 62 to restore reductions made to their cost-of-living adjustments. 
 

Title V: Higher Education -
 (Sec. 501) Amends the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program under title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow guaranty agencies to assign rehabilitated FFELs to the Secretary of Education if they are unable to sell the loans to eligible lenders. (Currently, the Secretary would also have to determine that market conditions unduly limit their ability to sell such loans.)
 
Lowers the maximum amount guaranty agencies may charge borrowers when they sell rehabilitated FFELs from 18.5% to 16% of the outstanding principal and interest on such loans. 
 
Requires guaranty agencies, upon selling rehabilitated FFELs, to repay the Secretary all of the federal default reinsurance payment on such loans. (Currently, such agencies can retain 18.5% of that payment.)
 
(Sec. 502) Amends the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan program to eliminate the requirement that the Secretary: (1) award Direct Loan servicing contracts to nonprofit servicers; (2) allocate the loan accounts of 100,000 borrowers to each of those nonprofit servicers; and (3) establish a separate pricing tier for each of those 100,000 borrower loan accounts at a competitive market rate.
 
 Eliminates the mandatory funding set aside for contracting with those nonprofit servicers.
 

Title VI: Transportation
- (Sec. 601) Repeals, effective October 1, 2014, the Aviation Infrastructure Security Service Fee imposed on domestic and foreign air carriers.
 
Revises aviation passenger security fee requirements. 
 
Increases such fees, beginning July 1, 2014, to $5.60 per one-way trip for flights originating at a U.S. airport. (Under current law a fee of $2.50 is imposed per passenger enplanement, with a maximum one-way trip fee of $5.00.) 
 
Requires that certain funds derived from such fees in the Aviation Security Capital Fund be credited as offsetting receipts and deposited into the general fund of the Treasury in specified amounts for FY2014-FY2023.
 
Eliminates the Checkpoint Screening Security Fund, but continues the availability of funds currently in it.
 
(Sec. 602) Repeals the authority of the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to reimburse (subsidize) the Secretary of Agriculture and the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) for increased ocean freight and ocean freight differential transportation charges incurred in the export of agricultural commodities and their products. 
 
(Sec. 603) Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to ensure that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is responsible for monitoring passenger exit points from the sterile areas at airports at which it provided such monitoring as of December 1, 2013. 
 

Title VII: Miscellaneous Provisions
 - (Sec. 701) Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to extend through FY2023 the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to collect customs user fees for the processing of certain merchandise.
 
(Sec. 702) Revises the limitation on costs of compensation for contractor and subcontractor employees under federal civilian and defense contracts to impose a cap of $487,000, adjusted annually to reflect the change in the Employment Cost Index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for all workers. Makes such revised limitation applicable to contracts entered into 180 days after the enactment of this Act. Repeals the authority of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to determine, on an annual basis, the allowable level of such compensation costs. 
 
Requires the OMB Director, not later than 60 days after the end of each fiscal year, to report to specified congressional committees on contractor compensation.
 
Requires the Secretary of Defense (DOD) and the OMB Director, not later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act, to report to Congress on alternative benchmarks and industry standards for compensation costs for civilian and defense contracts. 
 
(Sec. 703) Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to increase the flat-rate and variable rate premiums payable to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) in 2015 and 2016. Increases the variable rate premium cap to $500 for plan years beginning after 2015.
 
(Sec. 704) Cancels unobligated balances available under the Department of Justice (DOJ) Assets Forfeiture Fund and the Department of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund. 
 
(Sec. 705) Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to allow the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the Department of Agriculture to collect user fees for conservation planning technical assistance. Limits such fees to $150 for each conservation plan for which technical assistance is provided. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to waive such fee in certain instances, including for beginning farmers or farmers and ranchers who have limited resources or who are socially disadvantaged.
 
Establishes in the Treasury the Conservation Technical Assistance Fund to hold conservation planning technical assistance user fees to be used for carrying out the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act. 
 
(Sec. 706) Modifies the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) to allow a "self plus one" enrollment tier (i.e., an enrolled employee plus one eligible family member).
 

Division B: Medicare and Other Health Provisions - 
Pathway for SGR Reform Act of 2013
 - Title I: Medicare Extenders - 
(Sec. 1101) Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to establish an update to the single conversion factor in the formula for the physician payment of 0.5% for January through March of 2014.
 
(Sec. 1102) Extends through March 31, 2014, the 1.0 floor on the geographic indexing adjustment to the work portion of the physician fee schedule.
 
(Sec. 1103) Extends through March 31, 2014, the process for granting exceptions to the dollar amount caps on Medicare coverage of physical therapy, speech-language pathology, and occupation therapy services.
 
(Sec. 1104) Extends through March 31, 2014, the bonus and increased payments for ground ambulance services as well as the increased payments for super rural ambulance services (in low population density areas).
 
 (Sec. 1105) Extends the Medicare inpatient hospital payment adjustment for low-volume subsection (d) hospitals in certain rural areas to: (1) that portion of FY2014 beginning on April 1, 2014; (2) FY2015; and (3) subsequent fiscal years.
 (Generally, a subsection (d) hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.) 
(Sec. 1106) Extends through March 31, 2014, the Medicare-dependent, small rural hospital program for subsection (d) hospitals.
 
(Sec. 1107) Extends the authorization for specialized MedicareAdvantage (MA) plans for special needs individuals through December 31, 2015.
 
(Sec. 1108) Extends through December 31, 2014, the authorization for Medicare reasonable cost reimbursement contracts with certain health maintenance organizations.
 
(Sec. 1109) Extends existing funding for contracts with consensus-based entity regarding development of an integrated national strategy and priorities for health care performance measurement in all applicable settings.
 
(Sec. 1110) Amends the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, to provide additional funding for the portion of FY2014 before April 1, 2014, for grants to state health insurance programs, area agencies on aging, Aging and Disability Resource Centers, and the contract with the national center for benefits and outreach enrollment.
 

Title II: Other Health Provisions
 - (Sec. 1201) Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to extend: (1) the qualifying individual (QI) program through March 31, 2014, and (2) the total amount available for allocation under such program.
 
(Sec. 1202) Extends the Transitional Medical Assistance (TMA) Program through March 31, 2014.
 
(Sec. 1203) Amends SSA title V (Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant) to extend funding for family-to-family health information centers through March 31, 2014.
 
(Sec. 1204) Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid), with respect to adjustment in payments for inpatient hospital services furnished by disproportionate share hospitals (DSH), to delay until FY2016 specified reductions in Medicaid DSH allotments. 
 
(Sec. 1205) Amends the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, as amended by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013, with respect to implementation of direct spending reductions (sequester), to require application of the President's Medicare sequestration order for FY2023, notwithstanding the 2% limit for payments for the Medicare programs, so that: (1) for the first six months in which such order is effective the payment reduction shall be 2.90%, and (2) for the second six months in which the order is effective the payment reduction shall be 1.1%.
 
(Sec. 1206) Sets forth requirements for payment for inpatient services in long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) with application of site neutral IPPS payment rate in certain cases.
 
Directs the Medicare Payment Assessment Commission (MEDPAC) to examine the effect of applying such requirements on: (1) the quality of patient care in LTCHs, (2) the use of hospice care and post-acute care settings, (3) different types of LTCHs, and (4) the growth in Medicare spending for services in such hospitals
 
Amends the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 to extend: (1) for an additional four years certain rules for payments for LTCH hospitals-within-hospitals and the delay in the 25% patient threshold payment adjustment (as well as a related assessment report); and (2) through calendar 2015-2017 the moratorium on establishment of and increase in beds for LTCHs.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) (Secretary in this title) to establish a functional status quality measure for change in mobility among LTCH inpatients requiring ventilator support.
 
Directs the Secretary to evaluate both the payment rates and regulations governing any subsection (d) hospital that first received an LTCH payment in 1986 which has: (1) an average inpatient length of stay of more than 20 days, and (2) 80% or more of its annual Medicare inpatient discharges with a principal diagnosis that reflects a finding of neoplastic disease in the 12-month cost reporting period ending in FY1997. Authorizes the Secretary, based on that evaluation, to adjust certain payment rates for such a hospital as well as the governing regulations.

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(This measure has not been amended since the House receded and concurred in the Senate amendment with an amendment on December 12, 2013. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 

Division A: Bipartisan Budget Agreement
 - Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 - 
Division A [
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]: Budget Enforcement and Deficit Reduction 
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Title I: Budget Enforcement - Subtitle A: Amendments to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
 - (Sec. 101) Amends the Balanced Budget Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to establish (increased) discretionary spending limits (spending caps) for the revised security and nonsecurity categories for FY2014-FY2015. Continues the existing spending limits in such categories for FY2016-FY2021 imposed under the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA). (Pursuant to BCA procedures, the initial limits for FY2014-FY2021 are to be lowered (sequestered) by the Office of Management and Budget [OMB] each fiscal year to achieve certain budgetary savings.)
 
Amends the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act to direct OMB to make the calculations necessary to implement the direct defense and nondefense spending reductions calculated pursuant to the BCA without regard to this Act's revisions of the discretionary spending limits for FY2014-FY2015.
 
Directs the President, upon issuance of OMB sequestration preview reports for FY2022-FY2023, to order a sequestration, effective upon issuance so that the percentage reductions for nonexempt direct spending for the defense and nondefense functions are the same percent as the corresponding percentage reductions for such spending for FY2021.
 
Makes conforming amendments to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act to define:
 
 
 "revised security category" as discretionary appropriations in budget function 050, 
 
"revised nonsecurity category" as discretionary appropriations other than in budget function 050, and
 
"category" as the subsets of these discretionary appropriations.
 
 
Requires:
 
 
 discretionary appropriations in each of the categories to be those designated in the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on the Balanced Budget Act of 1997; and
 
new accounts or activities to be categorized only after consultation with congressional appropriations and budget committees, and to the extent practicable, to include written communication to those committees that affords them the opportunity to comment before official action is taken for such accounts or activities.
 
 

Subtitle B: Establishing a Congressional Budget
 - (Sec. 111) Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2014, including appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015-FY2023. 
 
Requires the Chairmen of the congressional budget committees to submit statements for publication in the Congressional Record as soon as practicable after enactment of this Act that include:
 
 
committee allocations for the Committee on Appropriations of the respective chamber for FY2014 consistent with the discretionary spending limits set forth in this Act; 
 
committee allocations for all other committees of the respective chamber for: (1) FY2014, (2) FY2014-FY2018 in the Senate only, and (3) FY2014-FY2023;
 
aggregate spending levels for FY2014 in accordance with such allocations;
 
aggregate revenue levels for: (1) FY2014, (2) FY2014-FY2018 in the Senate only, and (3) FY2014-FY2023; and
 
in the Senate only, levels of Social Security revenues and outlays for FY2014-FY2023 consistent with the CBO May 2013 baseline adjusted to account for the budgetary effects of this Act and legislation enacted before this Act but not included in such baseline.
 
 
Authorizes the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, after enactment of this Act, to reduce the aggregates, allocations, and other budgetary levels included in the Chairman's statement to reflect the budgetary effects of any legislation enacted during the 113th Congress that reduces the deficit.
 
(Sec. 112) Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate any legislation that would require advanced appropriations, except by a supermajority waiver, other than for:
 
 
 up to $28.852 billion in new budget authority in FY2015-FY2016 for programs, projects, activities, or accounts identified in the joint explanatory statement of managers accompanying this budget resolution;
 
 the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; and
 
 the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the Medical Services, Medical Support and Compliance, and Medical Facilities accounts of the Veterans Health Administration.
 
 
Makes this requirement inapplicable if a budget resolution for FY2015 is adopted in both chambers.
 
(Sec. 113) Provides that, for the remainder of the 113th Congress in the House of Representatives, the provisions of H.Con.Res. 25 (113th Congress), as deemed in force by H.Res. 243 (113th Congress), shall remain in force to the extent its budgetary levels are not superseded by this subtitle or by further action of the House.
 
(Sec. 114) Requires the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee (Chairman in this section), for enforcement of the Senate Pay-As-You-Go Scorecard requirements, to: (1) reduce any balances of direct spending and revenues for any fiscal year to zero, effective upon enactment of this joint resolution; and (2) do the same for FY2015 between April 15 and May 15, 2014.
 
Authorizes the Chairman to revise the committee allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits set pursuant to this subtitle for any legislation that amends the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act to repeal or revise the enforcement procedures established under it, by the amounts provided in that legislation for those purposes, provided that it would not increase the deficit over the FY2014-FY2023 total. (Thus requires a deficit-neutral reserve fund to replace sequestration.)
 
Declares that specified deficit-neutral reserve funds established in S.Con.Res. 8 (113th Congress), as passed by the Senate, shall have force and effect.
 
Makes certain requirements of this section expire, including such deficit-neutral reserve funds, if a budget resolution for FY2015 is agreed to by both chambers.
 
(Sec. 115) Requires the allocations, aggregates, and levels in this Act to apply in the House and the Senate after April 15, 2014, in the same manner as an FY2015 budget resolution if an actual budget resolution for FY2015 has not been adopted by that date.
 

Subtitle C: Technical Corrections
 - (Sec. 121) Makes technical corrections to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act and to the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
 

Title II: Prevention of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
 - (Sec. 201) Amends title III (Unemployment Insurance) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require all states to use a specified mechanism (Treasury Offset Program) under the Internal Revenue Code for collecting unemployment compensation debts to recover any such debt remaining uncollected one year after the date when it was finally determined to be due and collected.
 
(Sec. 202) Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) with respect to payment for prenatal and preventive pediatric care without regard to a third party's liability to pay for such services. Authorizes a state Medicaid plan to make such a payment, if cost-effective and unable to adversely affect access to care, only if a liable third party has not made payment within 90 days after the service provider has initially submitted a payment claim to that third party.
 
Authorizes the state Medicaid plan to do the same with respect to any covered services provided to an individual on whose behalf the proper state agency is enforcing child support. Allows the state, however, to make such a payment within 30 days only if doing so is cost effective and necessary to ensure access to care.
 
Allows a state to recover Medicaid expenditures from liable third parties pursuant to rights it has acquired or has had assigned to it.
 
(Sec. 203) Prohibits the Secretary of Commerce from disclosing to any person information contained in the Death Master File with respect to any deceased individual during the three calendar years after the individual's death, unless that person is certified, under a program established by the Secretary, as eligible to access such information and to perform periodic audits. Prescribes penalties for unauthorized disclosure. 
 
(Sec. 204) Includes anticipated or actual release dates among the types of information prisons are required to report to the Social Security Administration through the Prisoner Update Processing System (PUPS).
 
Authorizes the Commissioner of Social Security, under an agreement with a state or local detention facility, to provide PUPS data to any agency administering a federal or federally-assisted cash, food, or medical assistance program for research conducted by federal and state agencies, and to the Secretary of the Treasury for the purpose of tax administration, debt collection, and identifying, preventing, and recovering improper payments under federally funded programs. 
 
Amends the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012, with respect to the Do Not Pay Initiative, to require federal agencies to review PUPS data before certifying a payment or award.
 

Title III: Natural Resources
 - (Sec. 301) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to repeal the Ultra-Deepwater and Unconventional Natural Gas and and Other Petroleum Resources program. Rescinds unobligated funds appropriated for it.
 
 (Sec. 302) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to: (1) reduce by 2%, beginning in FY2014, the amount of payments to the states for administrative costs incurred by the United States in implementing the program for leasing and prospecting on federal land; and (2) require the amount of such reduction to be deposited to miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury.
 
(Sec. 303) Approves the Agreement between the United States of America and the United Mexican States Concerning Transboundary Hydrocarbon Reservoirs in the Gulf of Mexico, signed at Los Cabos, February 20, 2012.
 
(Sec. 304) Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary in this title) to implement any transboundary hydrocarbon agreement for the management of transboundary hydrocarbon reservoirs entered into by the President and approved by Congress after enactment of this Act. 
 
Instructs the Secretary, in implementing such an agreement, to protect U.S. interests to promote domestic job creation and ensure the expeditious and orderly development and conservation of domestic mineral resources in accordance with federal laws governing the exploration, development, and production of hydrocarbon resources on the Outer Continental Shelf (OTS).
 
Prescribes procedures for submission to Congress of a transboundary hydrocarbon agreement that does not constitute a treaty in the judgment of the President. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to take necessary action to implement the Transboundary Agreement with Mexico.
 
Prohibits any construction of this Act as: (1) authorizing the Secretary to participate in any negotiations, conferences, or consultations with Cuba regarding exploration, development, or production of hydrocarbon resources in the Gulf of Mexico along the U.S. maritime border with Cuba or the area known by the Department of the Interior as the "Eastern Gap"; or (2) affecting the sovereign rights and the jurisdiction of the United States under international law over the OTS that appertains to it.
 
(Sec. 305) Amends the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 regarding royalty management and enforcement to prohibit the payment of interest on any excessive overpayment (currently, on any aggregate overpayment exceeding 10% of the monthly royalties paid on all of a lessee's or designee's federal leases).
 
(Sec. 306) Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to repeal the authority of the Secretary to acquire in-kind royalty crude oil. 
 
Rescinds permanently any unobligated balances available in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Petroleum Account in the Treasury on the date of enactment of this Act. 
 

Title IV: Federal Civilian and Military Retirement
 - (Sec. 401) Defines "further revised annuity employee" for purposes of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) as any individual who, on December 31, 2013: (1) is not a federal employee or Member of Congress under FERS; (2) is not performing civilian service which is credible service under FERS; (3) has less than five years of credible civilian service; and (4) after December 31, 2013, becomes employed as a federal employee or Member of Congress and performs service which is credible service under FERS.
 
Increases the rate of contribution to FERS for further revised annuity employees, including federal employees, Members of Congress, congressional employees, law enforcement employees or air traffic controllers, nuclear materials couriers, and customs and border protection officers.
 
Requires federal agencies to continue their current level of contributions to FERS after December 31, 2013, and to apply excess contributions to the reduction of the unfunded liability of the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). 
 
(Sec. 402) Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to increase the rate of contribution to the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System (FRSDF) by foreign service employees who begin service after December 31, 2013. Requires agencies that participate in FRSDF to continue their current level of contributions to FRSDF to reduce its unfunded liability. 
 
(Sec. 403) Revises the cost-of-living adjustment to the retirement pay of members of the Armed Forces who have not reached age 62 to require an annual adjustment to such pay, beginning on December 1, 2015, based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) less 1%. Requires the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to recompute the retired pay of members when they reach age 62 to restore reductions made to their cost-of-living adjustments. 
 

Title V: Higher Education -
 (Sec. 501) Amends the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program under title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow guaranty agencies to assign rehabilitated FFELs to the Secretary of Education if they are unable to sell the loans to eligible lenders. (Currently, the Secretary would also have to determine that market conditions unduly limit their ability to sell such loans.)
 
Lowers the maximum amount guaranty agencies may charge borrowers when they sell rehabilitated FFELs from 18.5% to 16% of the outstanding principal and interest on such loans. 
 
Requires guaranty agencies, upon selling rehabilitated FFELs, to repay the Secretary all of the federal default reinsurance payment on such loans. (Currently, such agencies can retain 18.5% of that payment.)
 
(Sec. 502) Amends the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan program to eliminate the requirement that the Secretary: (1) award Direct Loan servicing contracts to nonprofit servicers; (2) allocate the loan accounts of 100,000 borrowers to each of those nonprofit servicers; and (3) establish a separate pricing tier for each of those 100,000 borrower loan accounts at a competitive market rate.
 
 Eliminates the mandatory funding set aside for contracting with those nonprofit servicers.
 

Title VI: Transportation
- (Sec. 601) Repeals, effective October 1, 2014, the Aviation Infrastructure Security Service Fee imposed on domestic and foreign air carriers.
 
Revises aviation passenger security fee requirements. 
 
Increases such fees, beginning July 1, 2014, to $5.60 per one-way trip for flights originating at a U.S. airport. (Under current law a fee of $2.50 is imposed per passenger enplanement, with a maximum one-way trip fee of $5.00.) 
 
Requires that certain funds derived from such fees in the Aviation Security Capital Fund be credited as offsetting receipts and deposited into the general fund of the Treasury in specified amounts for FY2014-FY2023.
 
Eliminates the Checkpoint Screening Security Fund, but continues the availability of funds currently in it.
 
(Sec. 602) Repeals the authority of the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to reimburse (subsidize) the Secretary of Agriculture and the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) for increased ocean freight and ocean freight differential transportation charges incurred in the export of agricultural commodities and their products. 
 
(Sec. 603) Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to ensure that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is responsible for monitoring passenger exit points from the sterile areas at airports at which it provided such monitoring as of December 1, 2013. 
 

Title VII: Miscellaneous Provisions
 - (Sec. 701) Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to extend through FY2023 the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to collect customs user fees for the processing of certain merchandise.
 
(Sec. 702) Revises the limitation on costs of compensation for contractor and subcontractor employees under federal civilian and defense contracts to impose a cap of $487,000, adjusted annually to reflect the change in the Employment Cost Index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for all workers. Makes such revised limitation applicable to contracts entered into 180 days after the enactment of this Act. Repeals the authority of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to determine, on an annual basis, the allowable level of such compensation costs. 
 
Requires the OMB Director, not later than 60 days after the end of each fiscal year, to report to specified congressional committees on contractor compensation.
 
Requires the Secretary of Defense (DOD) and the OMB Director, not later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act, to report to Congress on alternative benchmarks and industry standards for compensation costs for civilian and defense contracts. 
 
(Sec. 703) Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to increase the flat-rate and variable rate premiums payable to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) in 2015 and 2016. Increases the variable rate premium cap to $500 for plan years beginning after 2015.
 
(Sec. 704) Cancels unobligated balances available under the Department of Justice (DOJ) Assets Forfeiture Fund and the Department of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund. 
 
(Sec. 705) Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to allow the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the Department of Agriculture to collect user fees for conservation planning technical assistance. Limits such fees to $150 for each conservation plan for which technical assistance is provided. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to waive such fee in certain instances, including for beginning farmers or farmers and ranchers who have limited resources or who are socially disadvantaged.
 
Establishes in the Treasury the Conservation Technical Assistance Fund to hold conservation planning technical assistance user fees to be used for carrying out the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act. 
 
(Sec. 706) Modifies the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) to allow a "self plus one" enrollment tier (i.e., an enrolled employee plus one eligible family member).
 

Division B: Medicare and Other Health Provisions - 
Pathway for SGR Reform Act of 2013
 - Title I: Medicare Extenders - 
(Sec. 1101) Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to establish an update to the single conversion factor in the formula for the physician payment of 0.5% for January through March of 2014.
 
(Sec. 1102) Extends through March 31, 2014, the 1.0 floor on the geographic indexing adjustment to the work portion of the physician fee schedule.
 
(Sec. 1103) Extends through March 31, 2014, the process for granting exceptions to the dollar amount caps on Medicare coverage of physical therapy, speech-language pathology, and occupation therapy services.
 
(Sec. 1104) Extends through March 31, 2014, the bonus and increased payments for ground ambulance services as well as the increased payments for super rural ambulance services (in low population density areas).
 
 (Sec. 1105) Extends the Medicare inpatient hospital payment adjustment for low-volume subsection (d) hospitals in certain rural areas to: (1) that portion of FY2014 beginning on April 1, 2014; (2) FY2015; and (3) subsequent fiscal years.
 (Generally, a subsection (d) hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.) 
(Sec. 1106) Extends through March 31, 2014, the Medicare-dependent, small rural hospital program for subsection (d) hospitals.
 
(Sec. 1107) Extends the authorization for specialized MedicareAdvantage (MA) plans for special needs individuals through December 31, 2015.
 
(Sec. 1108) Extends through December 31, 2014, the authorization for Medicare reasonable cost reimbursement contracts with certain health maintenance organizations.
 
(Sec. 1109) Extends existing funding for contracts with consensus-based entity regarding development of an integrated national strategy and priorities for health care performance measurement in all applicable settings.
 
(Sec. 1110) Amends the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, to provide additional funding for the portion of FY2014 before April 1, 2014, for grants to state health insurance programs, area agencies on aging, Aging and Disability Resource Centers, and the contract with the national center for benefits and outreach enrollment.
 

Title II: Other Health Provisions
 - (Sec. 1201) Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to extend: (1) the qualifying individual (QI) program through March 31, 2014, and (2) the total amount available for allocation under such program.
 
(Sec. 1202) Extends the Transitional Medical Assistance (TMA) Program through March 31, 2014.
 
(Sec. 1203) Amends SSA title V (Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant) to extend funding for family-to-family health information centers through March 31, 2014.
 
(Sec. 1204) Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid), with respect to adjustment in payments for inpatient hospital services furnished by disproportionate share hospitals (DSH), to delay until FY2016 specified reductions in Medicaid DSH allotments. 
 
(Sec. 1205) Amends the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, as amended by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013, with respect to implementation of direct spending reductions (sequester), to require application of the President's Medicare sequestration order for FY2023, notwithstanding the 2% limit for payments for the Medicare programs, so that: (1) for the first six months in which such order is effective the payment reduction shall be 2.90%, and (2) for the second six months in which the order is effective the payment reduction shall be 1.1%.
 
(Sec. 1206) Sets forth requirements for payment for inpatient services in long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) with application of site neutral IPPS payment rate in certain cases.
 
Directs the Medicare Payment Assessment Commission (MEDPAC) to examine the effect of applying such requirements on: (1) the quality of patient care in LTCHs, (2) the use of hospice care and post-acute care settings, (3) different types of LTCHs, and (4) the growth in Medicare spending for services in such hospitals
 
Amends the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 to extend: (1) for an additional four years certain rules for payments for LTCH hospitals-within-hospitals and the delay in the 25% patient threshold payment adjustment (as well as a related assessment report); and (2) through calendar 2015-2017 the moratorium on establishment of and increase in beds for LTCHs.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) (Secretary in this title) to establish a functional status quality measure for change in mobility among LTCH inpatients requiring ventilator support.
 
Directs the Secretary to evaluate both the payment rates and regulations governing any subsection (d) hospital that first received an LTCH payment in 1986 which has: (1) an average inpatient length of stay of more than 20 days, and (2) 80% or more of its annual Medicare inpatient discharges with a principal diagnosis that reflects a finding of neoplastic disease in the 12-month cost reporting period ending in FY1997. Authorizes the Secretary, based on that evaluation, to adjust certain payment rates for such a hospital as well as the governing regulations.


Legislative actions:
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text: Became Public Law No: 113-67.
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text: Became Public Law No: 113-67.
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text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2013-12-26
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2013-12-19
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2013-12-19
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2013-12-19
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2013-12-18
text: Senate agreed to the House amendment to the Senate amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 64 - 36. Record Vote Number: 281. (consideration: CR S8957)
action_date: 2013-12-18
text: Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendment to the Senate amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 64 - 36. Record Vote Number: 281.(consideration: CR S8957)
action_date: 2013-12-18
text: Motion by Senator Reid to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment with an amendment (SA 2547) withdrawn in Senate. (consideration: CR S8957)
action_date: 2013-12-18
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S8920-8957)
action_date: 2013-12-17
text: Motion to table the motion by Senator Reid to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment with an amendment (SA 2547) rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 46 - 54. Record Vote Number: 280. (consideration: CR S8873)
action_date: 2013-12-17
text: Motion by Senator Reid to refer to Senate Committee on the Budget the House message to accompany the joint resolution with instructions to report back forthwith with amendment SA 2549 fell when cloture was invoked on the motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment in Senate. (consideration: CR S8872)
action_date: 2013-12-17
text: Cloture on the motion to concur in the House amendment to Senate amendment invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 67 - 33. Record Vote Number: 279. (consideration: CR S8872; text: S8872)
action_date: 2013-12-17
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S8870, S8872-8884, S8884-8899)
action_date: 2013-12-15
text: Motion by Senator Reid to refer to Senate Committee on the Budget the House message to accompany the joint resolution with instructions to report back forthwith with amendment SA 2549 made in Senate. (consideration: CR S8816)
action_date: 2013-12-15
text: Motion by Senator Reid to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment with an amendment (SA 2547) made in Senate. (consideration: CR S8816)
action_date: 2013-12-15
text: Cloture motion on the motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S8816; text: CR S8816)
action_date: 2013-12-15
text: Motion by Senator Reid to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment made in Senate. (consideration: CR S8816)
action_date: 2013-12-15
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S8816)
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate amendment.
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: On motion that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment Agreed to by recorded vote: 332 - 94 (Roll no. 640). (text as House recede and concur in the Senate amendment: CR H8055-8066)
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Resolving differences -- House actions: On motion that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment Agreed to by recorded vote: 332 - 94 (Roll no. 640).(text as House recede and concur in the Senate amendment: CR H8055-8066)
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H8083)
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 438, the House proceeded with 70 minutes of debate on the Ryan(WI) motion that the House recede from its amendment to the amendment of the Senate, and concur therein with the amendment printed in Part A of House Report 113-290, modified by the amendment printed in Part B of that report.
action_date: 2013-12-12
text: Mr. Ryan (WI) moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment. (consideration: CR H8053-8085)
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Motion to table the message from the House with respect to H.J. Res. 59 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay. 54 - 46. Record Vote Number: 212. (consideration: CR S7065)
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S7065)
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House requests a conference.
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: The Speaker appointed conferees for consideration of the Senate amendment and the House amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Cantor, Camp, Ryan (WI), and Graves (GA). (consideration: CR 9/30/2013 H6049)
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Rule H. Res. 368 passed House.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 368 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.J. Res. 59. Rule makes in order for the House to take H.J.Res. 59 from the Speaker's table, with the House amendment to the senate amendment thereto, insist on its amendment, and request a conference with the Senate thereon. Section 2 makes it in order for any motion pursuant to clause 4 of rule XXII relating to H.J.Res. 59 be offered only by the Majority Leader or his designee.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Motion to table to the House amendment to Senate amendment agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 54 - 46. Record Vote Number: 211. (consideration: CR S7041)
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate amendment.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: On receding from the House amendments, and concurring in the Senate amendment with amendment Agreed to by recorded vote: 228 - 201 (Roll no. 504). (consideration: CR H6040)
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Resolving differences -- House actions: On receding from the House amendments, and concurring in the Senate amendment with amendment Agreed to by recorded vote: 228 - 201 (Roll no. 504).(consideration: CR H6040)
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H6040)
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on the Rogers (KY) motion to recede from the House amendments to the amendment of the Senate, and agree therein with the House amendment printed in House Report 113-239.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Mr. Rogers (KY) moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment. (consideration: CR: H6031-6040; text as House recede and concur with an amendment to Senate amendment with an amendment: CR H6033)
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Rule H. Res. 367 passed House.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 367 Reported to House. The resolution provides for a motion offered by the chair of the Committee on Appropriations or his designee that the House recede from its amendments and concur in the Senate amendment with an amendment printed in House Report 113-239.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House. (text of the Senate amendment: CR: H6031-6033)
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Motion to table to the House amendments to Senate amendment agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 54 - 46. Record Vote Number: 210. (consideration: CR S7011)
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S7011)
action_date: 2013-09-29
text: Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendments to Senate amendment, pursuant to the order of January 3, 2013.
action_date: 2013-09-29
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2013-09-29
text: On agreeing to the Senate amendment with amendment #2 Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 231 - 192 (Roll no. 498). (text as House agreed to Senate amendment: CR H5988-5990)
action_date: 2013-09-29
text: On agreeing to the Senate amendment with amendment #1 Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 248 - 174 (Roll no. 497). (text as House agreed to Senate amendment: CR H5987-5988)
action_date: 2013-09-29
text: Resolving differences -- House actions: On agreeing to the Senate amendment with amendment #1 Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 248 - 174 (Roll no. 497).(text as House agreed to Senate amendment: CR H5987-5988)
action_date: 2013-09-29
text: Considered as unfinished business.
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule 19, further consideration of the motion offered by the gentleman from Kentucky is postponed. (consideration: CR H5987; text: CR H5987)
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H6008)
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Rogers (KY) motion to agree to the Senate amendment with amendments. Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 366, at the conclusion of debate, the question on adoption of the proposed House amendments will be divided into two separate questions and voted on accordingly as House amendment No. 1 and House amendment No. 2, to the Senate amendment.
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: Mr. Rogers (KY) moved that the House agree with amendments to the Senate amendment. (consideration: CR H5985-6002, S6008-6009)
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 366 Reported to House. The resolution provides for consideration of a motion to concur in the Senate amendment to H.J.Res. 59 with each of the two amendments printed in the report of the Committee on Rules. The resolution provides for one hour of debate and provides that the question of adoption of the motion shall be divided between the two House amendments. The resolution also provides for consideration of H.R. 3210. The resolution provides for 40 minutes of debate and one motion to recommit
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 54 - 44. Record Vote Number: 209.
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 54 - 44. Record Vote Number: 209.
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Motion to waive all applicable budget points of order with respect to the measure and amendment SA 1974 made in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 68 - 30. Record Vote Number: 207. (consideration: CR S6991)
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Motion by Senator Reid to commit to Senate Committee on Appropriations with instructions to report back forthwith with amendment SA 1976 fell when cloture was invoked on the joint resolution in Senate. (consideration: CR S6971-6991)
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Cloture on the measure invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 79 - 19. Record Vote Number: 206. (consideration: CR S6991; text: S6991)
action_date: 2013-09-27
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S6971-6992)
action_date: 2013-09-26
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S6907-6932, S6933-6956)
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Cloture motion on the measure presented in Senate. (consideration: CR 9/24/2013 S6882; text: 9/24/2013 S6882)
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Motion by Senator Reid to commit to Senate Committee on Appropriations with instructions to report back forthwith with the following amendment (SA 1976) made in Senate.
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Measure laid before Senate by motion. (consideration: CR 9/24/2013 S6881-6882)
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2013-09-25
text: Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 100 - 0. Record Vote Number: 205. (consideration: CR 9/25/2013 S6843)
action_date: 2013-09-24
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S6689-6691, S6699-6752, 09/24/2013 S6763-6881)
action_date: 2013-09-23
text: Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S6680; text: CR S6680)
action_date: 2013-09-23
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S6673-6674, S6674-6680)
action_date: 2013-09-23
text: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Pursuant to the order of 9-19-2013, Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 195.
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 230 - 189 (Roll No. 478). (text: CR H5773-5775)
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 230 - 189 (Roll No. 478).(text: CR H5773-5775)
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 190 - 228 (Roll no. 477). (consideration: CR H5787)
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H5786-5787)
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Enyart motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to report the same back to the House forthwith with an amendment to fully fund Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and Military Personnel for the entire FY2014 in the event of a shutdown. It would also prohibit the privatization of Social Security and prevent Medicare from being turned into a voucher system. Lastly, it would increase funding for the Essential Air Service (EAS) by $2,700,000 and decrease the Department of Transportation Planning, Research and Development account by the same amount.
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Mr. Enyart moved to recommit with instructions to Appropriations. (consideration: CR H5785-5788; text: CR H5785-5786)
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H5785)
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.J. Res. 59.
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Rule provides for consideration of H.J. Res. 59 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Bill is closed to amendments. Section 2 of the resolution provides that it shall be in order at any time from the calendar day of September 26, 2013, through the calendar day of September 29, 2013, for the Speaker to entertain motions that the House suspend the rules and that the Speaker or his designee shall consult with the Minority Leader or her designee on the designation of any matter or consideration pursuant to this section. The resolution provides that the amendment printed in the report shall be considered as adopted and the joint resolution, as amended shall be considered as read.
action_date: 2013-09-20
text: Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 352. (consideration: CR H5773-5789)
action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Rule H. Res. 352 passed House.
action_date: 2013-09-18
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 352 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.J. Res. 59 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Bill is closed to amendments. Section 2 of theresolution provides that it shall be in order at any time from the calendar day of September 26, 2013, through the calendar day of September 29, 2013, for the Speaker to entertain motions that the House suspend the rules and that the Speaker or his designee shall consult with the Minority Leader or her designee on the designation of any matter or consideration pursuant to this section. The resolution provides that the amendment printed in the report shall be considered as adopted and the joint resolution, as amended shall be considered as read.
action_date: 2013-09-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2013-09-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2013-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-10
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 113-67