hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
To require the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation to use dynamic economic modeling in addition to static economic modeling in the preparation of budgetary estimates of proposed changes in Federal revenue law.

Bill: 109-hr-2842
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional Budget Office
Congressional agencies
Congressional joint committees
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic forecasting
Economic impact statements
Economic research
Economic statistics
Federal budgets
Fiscal policy
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Joint Taxation
Legislation
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Expresses the sense of Congress that it is necessary to ensure that Congress is presented with reliable information from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation as to the dynamic macroeconomic feedback effects to changes in federal law and the probable behavioral responses of taxpayers, businesses, and other parties to such changes. 
 
Requires the Joint Committee and CBO to prepare fiscal estimates of each proposed change in federal revenue law on the basis of assumptions that estimate the probable behavioral responses of personal and business taxpayers and other relevant entities to such change and its dynamic macroeconomic feedback effects. Applies such requirement only to proposed changes that, pursuant to static fiscal estimates, have a fiscal impact exceeding $250 million in any fiscal year.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the use of remote control locomotives to carry hazardous materials, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-2843
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Transportation
Electronics in navigation
Engines
Environmental Protection
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Labor and Employment
Law
Railroad employees
Railroad freight operations
Railroad safety
Railroads
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Terrorism
Transportation of hazardous substances

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Prohibits a railroad carrier from operating or causing to be operated a remote control locomotive to carry hazardous materials.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to issue a rule requiring that: (1) railroad carriers inventory and maintain continuous accounting of remote control transmitters, such transmitters be kept in a secure location when not in use, and be assigned only to personnel with proper identification and authorization to use them; and (2) the manual operational control area of any remote control locomotive be kept under lock and key when such locomotive is operated without personnel of the railroad carrier present.
 
Sets forth civil penalties for a railroad carrier that violates such requirements, including criminal penalties if such violation involves the release of a hazardous material that results in death or bodily injury.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
National Health, Nutrition, and Physical Activity Monitoring Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2844
Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Authorization
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Agriculture
Department of Health and Human Services
Diet
Economics and Public Finance
Exercise
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health
Health education
Health surveys
Law
Medical research
Medical statistics
Nutrition
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
National Health, Nutrition, and Physical Activity Monitoring Act of 2005 - Amends the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990 to extend the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program for ten years.
 
Eliminates the National Nutrition Monitoring Advisory Council.
 
Authorizes appropriations for the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Agricultural Research Service to collect and analyze dietary, health, physical activity, diet and health knowledge data. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain plain woven fabrics.

Bill: 109-hr-2845
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Synthetic fabrics
Tariff
Textile fabrics

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on certain plain woven fabrics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Community Beaches Protection Act

Bill: 109-hr-2846
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Appropriations
Authorization
Beaches
Civil engineering
Coastal zone
Colleges
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Environmental technology
Federal aid to water resources development
Flood damage prevention
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Hurricanes
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Natural areas
Nature conservation
Navigation
Outdoor recreation
Parks
Quality of life
Science, Technology, Communications
Sediment control
Shore protection
Sports and Recreation
Storms
Technological innovations
Technology transfer
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Community Beaches Protection Act - Rewrites provisions regarding the federal shore protection program to: (1) provide for the protection and restoration of beaches and other coastal infrastructure, as well as shore protection; and (2) include the purpose of promoting healthful recreation. 
 
 Includes among areas to be given preference areas: (1) where regional sediment management plans have been adopted; and (2) that promote human health and safety and the quality of life.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Army to pay the federal share of the cost of carrying out beach nourishment projects and research that encourages the protection, restoration, and enhancement of shores, sandy beaches, and other coastal infrastructure. Sets forth revised provisions regarding the federal share of the cost, which shall be equal for beach erosion control projects for purposes of recreation or for storm damage protection or environmental restoration.
 
Directs the Secretary, at the request of a nonfederal interest and with congressional approval, to extend the period of federal participation in certain beach nourishment projects.
 
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to prohibit the Secretary from: (1) soliciting contributions, in excess of the nonfederal share assigned to specified project purposes, from nonfederal interests for costs of constructing authorized projects; or (2) conditioning federal participation on the receipt of such contributions.
 
Makes permanent the national shoreline erosion control development and demonstration program. Requires the program to include provisions for technology transfers to educational institutions. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cost-sharing agreements with nonfederal interests, and to modify existing shoreline protection projects, under specified circumstances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on 1,3-Benzenedicarboxamide, N, N'-Bis (2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidinyl)-.

Bill: 109-hr-2847
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on 1,3-Benzenedicarboxamide, N, N'-Bis (2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidinyl)-.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on reaction products of phosphorus trichloride with 1,1'-biphenyl and 2,4-bis(1,1-dimethylethyl)phenol.

Bill: 109-hr-2848
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on reaction products of phosphorus trichloride with 1,1'-biphenyl and 2,4-bis(1,1-dimethylethyl)phenol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on preparations based on ethanediamide, N-(2-ethoxyphenyl)-N'-(4-isodecylphenyl)-.

Bill: 109-hr-2849
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on preparations based on ethanediamide, N-(2-ethoxyphenyl)-N'-(4-isodecylphenyl)-.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on 1-Acetyl-4-(3-dodecyl-2,5-dioxo-1-pyrrolidinyl)-2,2,6,6-tetr amethylpiperidine.

Bill: 109-hr-2850
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on 1-Acetyl-4-(3-dodecyl-2,5-dioxo-1-pyrrolidinyl)-2,2,6,6-tetr amethylpiperidine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on 3-Dodecyl-1-(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidinyl)-2,5-pyrrolid nedione.

Bill: 109-hr-2851
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on 3-Dodecyl-1-(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidinyl)-2,5-pyrrolid nedione.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on Tetraacetylethylenediamine.

Bill: 109-hr-2852
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on Tetraacetylethylenediamine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on sodium petroleum sulfonate.

Bill: 109-hr-2853
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on sodium petroleum sulfonate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on esters and sodium esters of parahydroxybenzoic acid.

Bill: 109-hr-2854
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on esters and sodium esters of parahydroxybenzoic acid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on Oxalic Anilide.

Bill: 109-hr-2855
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on Oxalic Anilide.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain inflatable balls.

Bill: 109-hr-2856
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Equipment and supplies
Sports and Recreation
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on certain inflatable balls.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To require the immediate release, in unclassified form, of all documentation and other information used by the Secretary of Defense to prepare the recommendations submitted to Congress on May 13, 2005, regarding the closure and realignment of military installations in the United States.

Bill: 109-hr-2857
Sponsor: Rep. Ortiz, Solomon P. [D-TX-27]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional investigations
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Military base closures

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Defense, within ten days after the enactment of this Act, to certify to Congress that the Secretary has: (1) made all information used in making the 2005 round of base closure and realignment decisions, as required under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990, available to Congress, the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, and the Comptroller General of the United States; and (2) released, in unclassified form, all documents and other information used to prepare the recommendations submitted to Congress on May 13, 2005. States that, if the Secretary fails to take such action within the allotted time, the recommended 2005 base closures and realignments shall be suspended and have no further force and effect. Allows the resumption of the 2005 process upon such certification, with appropriate delays in the subsequent steps.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Higher Education for Freedom Act

Bill: 109-hr-2858
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Civics education
Curricula
Democracy
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Graduate education
Higher education
History
Nonprofit organizations
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Higher Education for Freedom Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to eligible institutions to prepare elementary, middle, and secondary school history teachers and to strengthen postsecondary programs in fields related to the founding of the United States, free institutions, and Western civilization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1190)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Servicemembers Interest Rate Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2859
Sponsor: Rep. Ryun, Jim [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commerce
Credit
Finance and Financial Sector
Interest rates
Military personnel
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Servicemembers Interest Rate Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act to revise the six percent maximum annual interest rate to be charged on debts incurred by a servicemember, and his or her spouse jointly, before the servicemember enters into military service and continuing for the duration of such military service, to the lesser of: (1) six percent per year; or (2) the annual rate of interest that would otherwise apply, reduced by one percentage point (but not below zero).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House