Subject Internet and video services | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| US | SB607 | Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Amends the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 to prohibit a provider of remote computing service or electronic communication service to the public from knowingly divulging to a... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 By Senator Leahy from Committee on the Judiciary filed written report. Report No. 113-34. Additional views filed. |
| US | SB744 | Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held. |
| US | HB1580 | Declares that it is the policy of the United States to preserve and advance the successful multistakeholder model (under which the private sector, civil society, academia, and individual users operate in an environment where information flows free fr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-15 |
| US | SB918 | American Dream Accounts Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-09 |
| US | SB743 | Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013 - (Sec. 2) Authorizes each member state under the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (the multi-state agreement for the administration and collection of sales and use taxes, adopted on November 12, 2002) to requi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Held at the desk. |
| US | HB1490 | Veterans' Privacy Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to prescribe regulations to ensure that any visual recording made of a patient during the course of furnishing care through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is carried out only ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-06 |
| US | HB1639 | Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to provide grants, in addition to loans and loan guarantees, for the costs of construction, improvement, and acquisition of facilities and equipment for broadband service in rural areas. Authorizes the Sec... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-03 |
| US | HB1468 | Strengthening and Enhancing Cybersecurity by Using Research, Education, Information, and Technology Act of 2013 or SECURE IT - Authorizes private entities to employ countermeasures and use cybersecurity systems to obtain, identify, or possess cyber t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-30 |
| US | HB1605 | Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-30 |
| US | HB1562 | Family Farm Relief Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a process for receiving H-2A nonimmigrant visas (temporary agricultural workers) which shall ensure that that petitioners may file such petitions over the Inter... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-30 |
| US | HB1565 | Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-30 |
| US | HB1772 | Legal Workforce Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish an employment eligibility verification system (EEVS), patterned after the E-Verify system. (Eliminates the current paper-... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-26 |
| US | HB1716 | Earnings Contingent Education Loans Act of 2013 or the ExCEL Act of 2013 - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to make students ineligible to receive Direct Loans (DLs) on or after July 1, 2014. Makes certa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-24 |
| US | HB114 | Online Job Training Act of 2013 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require the Secretary of Labor to award National Online Workforce Training Grants for workforce training programs using distance-learning technologies, such as the Inter... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | HB12 | Voter Empowerment Act of 2013 - Voter Registration Modernization Act of 2013 - Amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) to require each state to make available official public websites for online voter registration. Authorizes automa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | HB11 | Violence 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... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | HB537 | Social Networking Online Protection Act - Prohibits employers from: (1) requiring or requesting that an employee or applicant for employment provide a user name, password, or any other means for accessing a private email account or personal account o... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | HB1687 | Countering ALBA Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | SB774 | Directs the Comptroller General (GAO), beginning on or before December 31, 2013, and annually thereafter for the following five years, to prepare a report to aid Congress in monitoring and measuring the effects of a series of reforms by the Federal C... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-22 |
| US | HB1575 | Kelsey Smith Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require telecommunication carriers to provide, at the request of a law enforcement agency, call location information of users of a commercial mobile service or an IP-enabled voice service (e... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-19 |
| US | HR137 | Declares that the House of Representatives: (1) encourages the use of a virtual setting to implement hearings, conduct debate, meet, and vote; and (2) directs the Committee on House Administration to identify the best practices for conducting the bus... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-16 |
| US | HB1123 | Unlocking 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... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-15 |
| US | SB721 | Kelsey Smith Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require telecommunication carriers to provide, at the request of a law enforcement agency, call location information of users of a commercial mobile service or an IP-enabled voice service (e... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-15 |
| US | HB1566 | Consumer Credit Access, Innovation, and Modernization Act - Directs the Comptroller of the Currency to charter creditors which shall become Internet consumer credit corporations (Internet creditors) to offer financial products or services primarily t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-15 |
| US | HB1532 | Autofill Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) establish a program to allow taxpayers to download income tax forms that are populated with tax return information (e.g., wages, withholding, and... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-12 |
| US | HB1382 | Digital Coast Act of 2013 - Defines "Digital Coast" as a constituent-driven effort led by the Secretary of Commerce, through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to provide an enabling platform integrating geospatial ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-11 |
| US | SB669 | Free File Program Act of 2013 - Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Treasury to continue to operate the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Free File program (free online individual income tax preparation and electronic filing services provided by... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 |
| US | HB684 | Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013 - Authorizes each member state under the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (the multistate agreement for the administration and collection of sales and use taxes adopted on November 12, 2002) to require all sell... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| US | HB898 | Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Authorizes the Secretary of State to: (1) limit the validity of a passport issued to a sex offender to one year or such time period as appropriate, and (2) revoke the passport or passport c... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| US | HB889 | Global Free Internet Act of 2013 - Establishes a Task Force on the Global Internet to be hosted by the Department of Commerce. Requires the Task Force to develop and implement strategies in response to foreign and domestic government policies that: (... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| US | HB1370 | International Travelers Bill of Rights Act of 2013 - Requires an individual or entity that operates a website that provides access to international travel services to provide on its website, in a clear and conspicuous way, information regarding the h... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-22 |
| US | HB1380 | Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act - Requires the Public Printer to establish and maintain a website accessible by the public for obtaining electronic copies of all congressionally mandated reports in one place. Requires each federal age... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 |
| US | HB1232 | Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act - Modifies the current framework governing the management of information technology (IT) within the federal government to: (1) require presidential appointment or designation of the Chief Informat... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote. |
| US | HB1283 | Main Street Stabilization Act of 2013 - Directs the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish a grant program for small business development centers. Requires program funding to be used for: (1) the development of business advisory capacit... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 |
| US | SB549 | Public Online Information Act of 2013 - Establishes a Public Online Information Advisory Committee to: (1) coordinate and encourage the government's efforts to make information from all three branches of government available on the Internet, and (2) ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 |
| US | HR110 | Public Access to Congressional Research Service Reports Resolution of 2013 or Congressional Research Service Electronic Accessibility Resolution of 2013 - Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in consultation with the Director of the Con... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 |
| US | SB517 | Unlocking 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... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-11 |
| US | SB47 | Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 - (Sec. 3) Amends the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) to add or expand definitions of several terms used in such Act, including : (1) "culturally specific services" to mean community-based ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-07 Became Public Law No: 113-4. |
| US | SB481 | Wireless Consumer Choice Act - Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to direct providers of commercial mobile services and commercial mobile data services to permit their subscribers to unlock any type of wireless device used to access... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 |
| US | HB990 | Stopping Abuse and Fraud in Electronic Lending Act of 2013 or SAFE Lending Act of 2013 - Amends the Electronic Fund Transfer Act to authorize the issuance of remotely created checks only if the consumer has designated in writing a person to issue the... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 |
| US | SB467 | Wireless Device Independence Act of 2013 - Amends the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) with respect the prohibition on the circumvention of technological measures that control access to a copyright-protected work. Expands the exceptions to suc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 |
| US | HR97 | Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the federal government should ensure that citizens continue to be provided with paper-based information, products, services, and public notices while providing citizens the ability to opt-... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 |
| US | HR81 | Supports the designation of National Digital Literacy Day (March 21) and reaffirms the continued need to promote digital literacy (knowledge of how to operate a computer or use the Internet), broadband access, and broadband adoption in the United Sta... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-01 |
| US | HB337 | Redistricting Transparency Act of 2013 - Requires states to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a process under which members of the public are informed of redistricting proposals via the Internet and have the opportunity to part... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | HB339 | Fairness in Firearm Testing Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to make a video recording of the entire process of its examination and testing of an item for the purp... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | HB434 | Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act - Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to make permanent the ban on state and local taxation of Internet access and on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | HB478 | E-Verify Modernization Act of 2013 - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to make the E-Verify Program permanent and mandatory. Revises specified Program procedures. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | SB418 | Do-Not-Track Online Act of 2013 - Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to promulgate: (1) regulations that establish standards for the implementation of a mechanism by which an individual can indicate whether he or she prefers to have personal... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | HB491 | Global Online Freedom Act of 2013 - Makes it U.S. policy to: (1) promote the freedom to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media; (2) use all appropriate instruments of U.S. influence to support the free flow of information w... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-25 |
| US | HB555 | BLM Live Internet Auctions Act - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct onshore oil and gas lease sales through Internet-based live bidding methods. Requires each individual Internet-based lease sale to c... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-21 |
