This week, the House is expected to consider 10 bills, ranging from veterans housing to domestic energy production.
Legislation under consideration this week includes:
National Blue Alert Act of 2013 (H.R. 180): establishes a national communications network to encourage the development of Blue Alert plans throughout the United States. Blue Alerts disseminate information when a law enforcement officer is seriously injured or killed in the line of duty.
H.R. 1580: states that it is the policy of the United States to preserve and advance the current multistakeholder model that currently governs the Internet, in which non-regulatory institutions develop best practices to manage and operate the content, applications, and networks that make up the Internet.
S.Con.Res. 10: authorizes the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center for an event to celebrate the birthday of King Kamehameha of Hawaii.
H.R. 701: requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to finalize by October 31, 2013, rules to exempt certain companies making initial public offerings of up to $50 million from full SEC registration, as required by the JOBS Act.
Homes for Heroes Act of 2013 (H.R. 384): establishes a special assistant for Veterans’ Affairs within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to ensure veterans receive fair access to HUD housing and homeless assistance programs.
Hill Creek Cultural Preservation and Energy Development Act (H.R. 356): authorizes and acre-for-acre exchange of subsurface rights for minerals within the Hill Creek Extension between the state of Utah and the United States. The land obtained by the U.S. would be leased for oil and gas extraction.
H.R. 767: amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to include North and South Dakota in the federal permit streamlining pilot project, which was created in 2005 to improve the processing of oil and gas permitting for federal lands.
H.R. 573: conveys certain submerged lands to the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in order to give that U.S. territory the same benefits in its submerged lands as Guam, the Virgin Islands and American Samoa have in their submerged lands.
H.R. 45: repeals the Affordable Care Act. This is the thirty-seventh time that the House of Representatives has voted on repealing healthcare reform.
SEC Regulatory Accountability Act (H.R. 1062): requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to conduct formal cost-benefit analyses of all new regulatory proposals and modify or rescind such rules if they are later found to have negative consequences.