LEGISLATION
H.R.1845 - Medicare IVIG Access and Strengthening Medicare and Repaying Taxpayers Act of 2012
H.R.5872 - Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012
S.2038 - STOCK Act
S.2651 - DHS OIG Mandates Revision Act of 2014
S.2651 - DHS OIG Mandates Revision Act of 2014
Repeals requirements that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General to conduct an annual review of grants to states and high-risk urban areas under HSA.
S.2338 - United States Anti-Doping Agency Reauthorization Act
S.1353 - Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014
H.R.4276 - Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury Care Improvement Act of 2014
S.2539 - Traumatic Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2014
H.R.4194 - Government Reports Elimination Act of 2014
H.R.4194 - Government Reports Elimination Act of 2014
Provides for the elimination or modification of reporting and notification requirements of specified federal agencies and departments.
Title III: Corporation for National and Community Service - Eliminates: (1) the reporting requirements of federal agencies and departments to the Corporation for National and Community Service, and (2) the impact study and report on service-learning activities.Title II: Department of Commerce - Eliminates: (1) the annual report on efforts and progress of colleges, universities, institutions, associations, and alliances to be designated as Sea Grant Colleges or Institutes; (2) the annual report on Enterprise Integration Standardization and Implementation activities under the Enterprise Integration Act of 2001; (3) the biennial report on efforts to ensure equal access to the Sea Grant Fellowship Program; (4) the annual reports on activities of the Technology Innovation Program (TIP) and on the Technology Innovation Program Advisory Board; and (5) the annual report on activities of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Commission and related entities.
Title IV: Department of Defense (DOD) - Eliminates: (1) the requirement for submission with the annual DOD budget of a display that covers all programs and activities of the Air Sovereignty Alert Mission of the Air Force, and (2) the annual report on the reliability of DOD financial statements.
Title V: Department of Education - Eliminates the report of the Secretary of Education justifying the award of school facility emergency and modernization grants.
Title XVII: Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) - Eliminates the annual report on procurement of health care items by VA medical facilities.
(Sec. 902) Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to make the Secretary of Health and Human Resources (HHS) (currently, the Secretary and the Comptroller General) responsible for surveying the public with respect to health and health care.
Requires the Comptroller General to publish on the GAO website (currently, deliver to Congress) lists of GAO reports.
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to terminate at the end of 2014 the review by the Comptroller General of the threshold amount for injury-related liabilities under Medicare.
H.R.4994 - Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014
S.994 - DATA Act
Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 or the DATA Act - (Sec. 2) States as the purposes of this Act to:
expand the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 by disclosing direct federal agency expenditures and linking federal contract, loan, and grant spending information to federal programs to enable taxpayers and policy makers to track federal spending more effectively;
establish government-wide data standards for financial data and provide consistent, reliable, and searchable government-wide spending data that is displayed accurately for taxpayers and policy makers on USASpending.gov;
simplify reporting for entities receiving federal funds by streamlining reporting requirements and reducing compliance costs while improving transparency;
improve the quality of data submitted to USASpending.gov by holding federal agencies accountable for the completeness and accuracy of the data submitted; and
apply approaches developed by the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board to spending across the federal government.