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USSB744Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act - States that passage of this Act recognizes that the primary tenets of its success depend on securing U.S. sovereignty and establishing a coherent and just system for integrati...
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2013-06-17
S.AMDT.1228 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S4519)
USHB1947Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013
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2013-06-17
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 266 Reported to House. The resolution provides for one hour of debate on H.R. 1947 and provides for consideration of H.R. 1797 with one hour of debate and one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
USSB330HIV Organ Policy Equity Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to repeal the requirement that the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network adopt and use standards of quality for the acquisition and transportation of donated organs that inclu...
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2013-06-17
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S4534)
USSB394Metal Theft Prevention Act of 2013 - Prohibits stealing specified metal being used in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, the theft of which harms critical infrastructure, including metal used as part of an electrical substation, power line,...
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2013-06-17
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 88.
USHB1975Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
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2013-06-14
USHB1965Federal Lands Jobs and Energy Security Act
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2013-06-14
USHB1966Virgin Islands Visa Waiver Act of 2013
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2013-06-14
USHB2005Personalized Handgun Safety Act
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2013-06-14
USHB1784Domestic Refugee Resettlement Reform and Modernization Act of 2013 - Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to conduct a study regarding the effectiveness of the Office of Refugee Resettlement's domestic refugee resettlement programs. Amends the Immi...
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2013-06-14
USHB1718United States Postal Service Shipping Equity Act - Authorizes the mailing of wine or malt beverages by licensed wineries or breweries in accordance with the law of the state, territory, or district of the United States where the addressee or duly aut...
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2013-06-14
USHB1771North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act of 2013 - Directs the President to investigate credible information of sanctionable activities involving North Korea and to designate and apply sanctions with respect to any person (referred to as a "designa...
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2013-06-14
USHB1843Repeal Existing Policies that Encourage and Allow Legal HIV Discrimination Act of 2013 or REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act of 2013 - Expresses the sense of Congress that federal and state laws, policies, and regulations regarding people living with HIV/...
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2013-06-14
USHB1873Review Every Dollar Act of 2013 - Makes it out of order in both chambers to consider any bill, joint resolution, or other measure that: (1) reauthorizes any federal program for more than seven fiscal years, or (2) establishes a new federal program th...
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2013-06-14
USHB1881Energy Production and Project Delivery Act of 2013 - Deems the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to have: (1) approved the Draft Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program 2010-2015 as a final oil and gas leasing program under t...
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2013-06-14
USHB1896International Child Support Recovery Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to use the authorities...
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2013-06-14
USHB1256Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act - Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to issue rules jointly governing the application of swaps requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 a...
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2013-06-13
USHB634Business Risk Mitigation and Price Stabilization Act of 2013 - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to exempt, from the rules of prudential regulators for swap dealers and major swap participants with respect to initial and variation margin requir...
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2013-06-13
USHB1848Small Airplane Revitalization Act of 2013 - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to advance the safety and continued development of small airplanes by reorganizing the certification requirements to streamline the app...
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2013-06-13
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3367)
USSB954Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013
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2013-06-12
Senate ordered measure printed as passed.
USHB657Grazing Improvement Act - Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (the Act) to double from 10 to 20 years the period of a term for grazing permits and leases for domestic livestock grazing on public lands or lands within national fo...
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2013-06-12
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 27 - 15.
USHB931Amends the Siletz Tribe Indian Restoration Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to take into trust for the Siletz Tribe additional lands that lie within the original 1855 Siletz Coast Reservation and are located in Benton, Douglas, Lane, Li...
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2013-06-12
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
USHB1548Native American Energy Act - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to allow the Secretary of the Interior, an affected Indian tribe, or a certified third-party appraiser under contract with the Indian tribe to appraise Indian land or trust assets invo...
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2013-06-12
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 25 - 15.
USHB1964National Petroleum Reserve Alaska Access Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the National Petroleum Reserve (NPR) in Alaska remains explicitly designated to provide oil and natural gas resources to the United States, and (2) it is nationa...
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2013-06-12
Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 26 - 14.
USHB1926State Trade Coordination Act - Amends the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 to revise membership of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC) to include one or more presidential appointees representing state trade promotion agencies. Directs the...
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2013-06-07
USHB1123Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act - Repeals a Library of Congress (LOC) rulemaking determination, made upon the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, regarding the circumvention of technological measures controlling acces...
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2013-06-06
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
USHB1613Outer Continental Shelf Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreements Authorization Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to implement the terms of any agreement for the management of transbounda...
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2013-06-06
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 70.
USHB1493Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2013 - Defines a "covered civil action" as a civil action seeking to compel agency action and alleging that an agency is unlawfully withholding or unreasonably delaying an agency action...
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2013-06-05
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
USHB1919Safeguarding America's Pharmaceuticals Act of 2013
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2013-06-04
USHB2234Diploma and Accreditation Integrity Protection Act - Prohibits any accreditor from being considered a reliable authority as to the quality of education or training offered by degree-granting institutions for any purpose related to immigration, federa...
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2013-06-04
USHB267Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2013 - (Sec. 3) Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) to increase from 5,000 to 10,000 kilowatts the size of small hydroelectric power projects which the Federal Energy Regulatory Co...
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2013-06-03
By Senator Wyden from Committee on Energy and Natural Resources filed written report. Report No. 113-38.
USHB271Resolving Environmental and Grid Reliability Conflicts Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Power Act to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to ensure that any emergency order issued under such Act for the interconnection of facilitie...
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2013-06-03
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 82.
USSB761Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2013
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2013-06-03
By Senator Wyden from Committee on Energy and Natural Resources filed written report. Report No. 113-37.
USSB545Hydropower Improvement Act of 2013 - Declares the sense of the Senate that the United States should increase substantially the capacity and generation of clean, renewable hydropower which will improve the environmental quality of resources and suppor...
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2013-06-03
By Senator Wyden from Committee on Energy and Natural Resources filed written report. Report No. 113-36.
USSB982Freedom to Fish Act - Requires the Chief of the Army Corps of Engineers to: (1) cease implementing and enforcing, until two years after enactment of this Act, any restricted area for hazardous waters at dams and other civil works structures in the Cu...
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2013-06-03
Became Public Law No: 113-13.
USHB1945Fostering Resilience to Terrorism Act of 2013 - Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to revise the definition of an "act of terrorism" to mean any act that is certified as meeting the specified criteria for such an act by the Secretary of ...
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2013-05-29
USHB2118Youth Sports Concussion Act of 2013
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2013-05-24
USHB1564Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act - Amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) to deny the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board any authority to require that audits conducted for a particular issuer of securities in accordance with SOX sta...
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2013-05-23
Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises Prior to Referral.
USSR157A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that telephone service must be improved in rural areas of the United States and that no entity may unreasonably discriminate against telephone users in those areas.
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2013-05-23
USSB1029Regulatory Accountability Act of 2013
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2013-05-23
USSB1038End Racial Profiling Act of 2013
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2013-05-23
USSB1050Coast Guard STRONG Act
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2013-05-23
USSB1072Small Airplane Revitalization Act of 2013
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2013-05-23
USSB1079Artificial Reef Promotion Act of 2013
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2013-05-23
USHB1105Small Business Capital Access and Job Preservation Act - Amends the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to exempt private equity fund investment advisers from its registration and reporting requirements, provided that each private equity fund has not bor...
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2013-05-23
Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises Prior to Referral.
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)
USSB662Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Revises the organization, in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and renames it the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP...
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2013-05-22
Committee on Finance. Hearings held.
USHB1752SNAP Transparency Act of 2013 - Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to: (1) establish a uniform reporting system to enable retail stores participating in the supplemental nutrition assistance progra...
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2013-05-22
USSB959Pharmaceutical Compounding Quality and Accountability Act
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2013-05-22
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
USSB1008Keep Knives Out of Our Skies Act
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2013-05-22
USSB1014Youth Sports Concussion Act
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2013-05-22
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