Sponsored by Shea-Porter, Carol - US Congress (Current)

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USHB360Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of a congressional gold medal to commemorate the lives of Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia ...
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2013-05-24
Signed by President.
USHB1910Foreign Manufacturers Legal Accountability Act of 2013 - Expresses the sense of Congress with respect to jurisdiction of courts in the United States over foreign manufacturers that import products into the United States. Directs the Food and Drug Adm...
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2013-05-23
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2916-2917)
USHB2130To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide grants for treatment of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy), and phencyclidine (PCP) abuse, and for other purposes.
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2013-05-23
USHB2129To amend the Defense Base Act to require the provision of insurance under that Act under a Government self-insurance program, and to require an implementation strategy for such self-insurance program.
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2013-05-23
USHB1893Keeping All Students Safe Act
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2013-05-22
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2843)
USHB324Requires the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to make appropriate arrangements for the award, on behalf of Congress, of two gold medals to the First Special Service Force (a joint American-Canadian v...
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2013-05-22
USHB2086To direct the Secretary to make interim payments of disability compensation benefits for certain claims for such compensation prior to the adjudication of such claims, and for other purposes.
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2013-05-22
USHB1344Helping Heroes Fly Act - Directs the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration [TSA]) to develop and implement a process to provide expedited passenger screening services for severely injured or disabled Armed F...
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2013-05-22
USHB2077To prohibit employers from compelling or coercing any person to authorize access to a protected computer, and for other purposes.
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2013-05-21
USHB2056To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the work opportunity credit to certain recently discharged veterans, to improve the coordination of veteran job training services between the Department of Labor, the Department of Veteran Affairs,...
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2013-05-20
USHB671Ruth Moore Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), in any case in which a veteran claims that a covered mental health condition was incurred in or aggravated by military sexual trauma during active duty, to accept as sufficient ...
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2013-05-17
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 38.
USHB1092Designates the air route traffic control center located in Nashua, New Hampshire, as the "Patricia Clark Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center."
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2013-05-16
Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
USHB573Conveys to the government of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands submerged lands surrounding such Islands and extending three geographical miles outward from their coastlines. Includes the Northern Mariana Islands among the islands wher...
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2013-05-16
USHB2020To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require certain institutions of higher education to provide notice of tuition levels for students.
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2013-05-16
USHB1854Partnerships for Achieving Student Success Act or the PASS Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive, renewable, five-year grants to partnerships between low-income local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools offering graduate p...
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2013-05-15
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2609-2610)
USHB2000Puerto Rico Status Resolution Act
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2013-05-15
USHB1998Big Cats and Public Safety Protection Act
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2013-05-15
USHB1975Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
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2013-05-14
USHR213Establishing the Special Committee on Sexual Assault and Abuse in the Armed Forces to conduct oversight, ensure accountability, and report on the activities of the Department of Defense to prevent, reduce, prosecute, and provide victims' services for...
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2013-05-14
USHB1940Reducing Barriers to Learning Act of 2013
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2013-05-09
USHB1877To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds, and for other purposes.
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2013-05-09
USHB357GI Bill Tuition Fairness Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), for purposes of the educational assistance programs administered by the Secretary, to disapprove courses of education provided by public institutions of higher edu...
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2013-05-08
Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote.
USHB1725Veterans Mental Health Accessibility Act - Makes any veteran who served on active duty in a theater of combat operations during World War II, the Korean conflict, the Vietnam era, the Persian Gulf War, Operations Iraqi Freedom or Enduring Freedom, or...
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2013-05-08
USHB1796Troop Talent Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretaries of the military departments, to the maximum extent practicable, to make information on civilian credentialing opportunities available to members of the Armed Forces (members) beginning with, and at e...
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2013-05-08
USHR190Condemns the use of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and calls for the full prosecution of those responsible for the IED terrorist attack in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 15, 2013. Expresses condolences to the families of those who were killed ...
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2013-05-08
USHB1809Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to post notices of average times for the processing of compensation claims, as well as the percentage of claims approved, in a conspicuous place in each VA regional office and claims intake facility and ...
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2013-05-08
USHB588Vietnam Veterans Donor Acknowledgment Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to allow the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. (Fund) to acknowledge donor contributions to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Visitor Center by displaying, insid...
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2013-05-07
Received in the Senate.
USHB1856CLEAN Act
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2013-05-07
USHB1837Clean Water Protection Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to define "fill material" to mean any pollutant that replaces portions of waters of the United States with dry land or that changes th...
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2013-05-07
USHB1705Rehabilitative Therapy Parity for Military Beneficiaries Act - Allows rehabilitative authority provided for beneficiaries under the Department of Defense (DOD) TRICARE program (a DOD managed care program) to include therapeutic exercises or activitie...
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2013-05-06
USHB1593Sexual Assault Training Oversight and Prevention Act or STOP Act - Establishes a Sexual Assault Oversight and Response Council, composed mainly of civilians, as an independent entity from the chain of command of the Department of Defense (DOD). Direc...
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2013-05-06
USHB1729VA Claims, Operations, and Records Efficiency Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to make the service treatment records, personal records, unit records, and medical records (service records) of each member of the Armed Forces available to th...
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2013-05-06
USHB1830Accelerating the End of Breast Cancer Act of 2013 - Directs the President to establish the Commission to Accelerate the End of Breast Cancer to help end breast cancer by January 1, 2020. Directs the Commission to: (1) identify opportunities and ideas...
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2013-05-06
USHB1565Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2013
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2013-04-30
USHB1494Blue Water Navy Ship Accountability Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to: (1) review the logs of each Navy ship known to have operated in the waters near Vietnam during the Vietnam Era (January 9, 1962, through May 7, 1975); (2) determine,...
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2013-04-26
USHB1598Veteran's I.D. Card Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to issue a veteran's identification card to any veteran who requests such card and is neither entitled to military retired pay nor enrolled in the VA system of patient enrollmen...
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2013-04-26
USHB1795Social Security Fairness Act of 2013
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2013-04-26
USHB1630America's Red Rock Wilderness Act - Designates specified lands in the following areas of Utah as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: (1) Great Basin, (2) Grand Staircase-Escalante, (3) Moab-La Sal Canyons, (4) Henry Mountains, ...
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2013-04-26
USHB1699Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act
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2013-04-26
USHB1761Helping Ensure Life- and Limb-Saving Access to Podiatric Physicians Act or HELLPP Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to include podiatrists as physicians in order to cover their services under the Medicaid program. Am...
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2013-04-26
USHB1623VA Claims Efficiency Through Information Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to maintain on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) website publicly accessible information concerning pending and completed claims of compensation fo...
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2013-04-26
USHB1521Disabled Veterans Red Tape Reduction Act - Amends the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003 to extend through 2018 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) authority for the performance of medical disability evaluations by contract physicians.
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2013-04-26
USHB1734Shareholder Protection Act of 2013
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2013-04-25
USHB1738American Opportunity Tax Credit Act of 2013
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2013-04-25
USHB1755Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 - Prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity by covered entities (employers, employment agencies, labor organizations, or joint labor-managem...
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2013-04-25
USHB1693To provide an exemption for community banks from the application of Basel III capital standards.
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2013-04-24
USHB11Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Amends the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) to add or expand definitions of several terms used in such Act. Modifies or expands grant conditions under such Act, including requirements rela...
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2013-04-23
USHB377Paycheck Fairness Act - Amends the portion of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) known as the Equal Pay Act to revise remedies for, enforcement of, and exceptions to prohibitions against sex discrimination in the payment of wages. Revises th...
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2013-04-23
USHB482Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act of 2013 - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require each institution of higher education (IHE) participating in a title IV program (except a foreign school)...
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2013-04-23
USHB831Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Labor to discontinue issuing to any new profit or non-profit or governmental entity special wage certificates (which permit individuals with disabilities, including indiv...
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2013-04-23
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