hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Healthy Early Education Workforce Act

Bill: 109-hr-1613
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Block grants
Child care workers
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Domestic partners
Employee benefit plans
Employee health benefits
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Health insurance
Insurance premiums
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Leave of absence
Married people
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Healthy Early Education Workforce Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make an annual matching grant to each eligible State to provide access to affordable health benefits coverage for eligible child care providers, their staffs, and, at the State's discretion, their spouses, domestic partners, and dependents. 
 
Allows a State to use such grants to: (1) reimburse an employer or eligible individual for premiums or other costs for coverage under health plans; (2) offset the cost of enrolling individuals in Medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP); and (3) subsidize the cost of health benefits coverage to eligible individuals. 
 
Sets forth a formula for determining the amounts of such grants to be allotted to U.S. territories, Indian tribes, and States, including as factors the relative numbers of children under five years old and children receiving free or reduced lunches in a State. 
Directs the Secretary to evaluate several State programs representing various approaches to raising the rate of child care workers with health benefits coverage.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Estate Tax Reduction Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1614
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Estate tax
Gift tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Tax credits
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Estate Tax Reduction Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce estate tax rates and increase the unified estate tax credit to $3 million, with an inflation adjustment to such credit amount beginning in 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Children from Drugs Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1616
Sponsor: Rep. McHenry, Patrick T. [R-NC-10]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child safety
Child welfare
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Drugs and youth
Evidence (Law)
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Law
Sentences (Criminal procedure)

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Protecting Children from Drugs Act of 2005 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to increase the penalty for creating a substantial risk to human life while illegally manufacturing a controlled substance, or transporting materials to do so, where the individual is under age 18. Makes the presence of an individual under age 18 at the place of manufacture or transport prima facie evidence that such individual's life was endangered.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4194)
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
To allow borrowers consolidating student loans to choose a variable or fixed interest rate, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-1617
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Debtor and creditor
Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Higher education
Interest
Interest rates
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to allow borrowers consolidating student loans to choose: (1) a variable or fixed interest rate; and (2) the loan consolidator.
 
Provides for the Federal Government's recapture of excess interest charged by lenders, under HEA provisions for special allowances for lenders of student loans. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Wounded Warrior Servicemembers Group Disability Insurance Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1618
Sponsor: Rep. Renzi, Rick [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Accounting
Disability insurance
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Government Operations and Politics
Government insurance
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Group insurance
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Military pay
Military personnel
Payroll deductions
Reinsurance
Revolving funds
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Wounded Warrior Servicemembers Group Disability Insurance Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to purchase from one or more insurance companies a policy (or policies) of group disability insurance to automatically insure, in the amount of $50,000 each, any servicemember who: (1) assumes an obligation to perform (for less than 31 days) active duty, active duty for training, or inactive duty training; and (2) is rendered uninsurable from a disability, or aggravation of a preexisting disability, incurred while proceeding directly to or returning directly from such duty or training. Outlines qualifying disabilities for purposes of such coverage, including: (1) complete and permanent loss of movement of an extremity; (2) burns of third degree or higher covering more than one square foot; (3) the loss of sight of one or both eyes; (4) the permanent loss of one hand or foot; and (5) the irretrievable loss of speech or hearing.
 
Provides for the payment of premiums and other payments with respect to such insurance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Loan Shark Prevention Act

Bill: 109-hr-1619
Sponsor: Rep. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Credit cards
Debtor and creditor
Finance charges
Interest rates
Usury

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Loan Shark Prevention Act - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to set a cap upon: (1) the annual percentage rate applicable to any extension of credit; and (2) the amount of any fee or charge that a creditor may impose under the terms of a credit transaction.
 
Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit a credit card issuer from using negative information contained in a consumer report to increase the annual percentage rate applicable to a credit card account, or to remove or increase any introductory annual percentage rate of interest applicable to such account, for reasons other than actions or omissions of the card holder that are directly related to such account.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Faster FOIA Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1620
Sponsor: Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-27]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional Research Service
Congressional agencies
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Freedom of information
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Governmental investigations
Law
Legislation
Library of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Faster FOIA Act of 2005 - Establishes a 16-member Commission on Freedom of Information Act Processing Delays to conduct a study concerning methods to reduce delays in processing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests submitted to Federal agencies. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Taxpayer Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1621
Sponsor: Rep. Simmons, Rob [R-CT-2]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Government service contracts
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Taxpayer Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal provisions enacted by the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into contracts with private collection agencies for the collection of taxes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Broadcast Ownership for the 21st Century Act

Bill: 109-hr-1622
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Cable television
Commerce
Competition
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Licenses
Newspapers
Radio stations
Television industry
Television stations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Broadcast Ownership for the 21st Century Act - Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to modify current cross-ownership limitations by eliminating provisions limiting the granting or renewal of an AM or FM radio or television broadcast license to any party on the basis of the ownership, operation, or control of a daily newspaper.
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that, in calculating the national audience reach limitations, UHF stations shall be attributed with no more than 50 percent of the television households in their market. 
Amends the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to direct the FCC to modify its rules for multiple ownership of TV broadcast stations to increase to 45 (currently 39) percent the national audience reach limitations for TV stations owned by the same entity or person. 
Directs the FCC to revise its rules for local television multiple ownership to allow a person to own, operate, or control two TV stations in the same market area if the grade B contours of such station: (1) do not overlap; or (2) do overlap and at least six independent broadcast or cable television voices would remain in the area after transfer of the license of the stations in question.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
To recognize the organization known as the National Academies of Practice.

Bill: 109-hr-1623
Sponsor: Rep. Strickland, Ted [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commerce
Federal incorporation
Health
Medical associations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Grants a Federal charter to the National Academies of Practice (a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Estate Tax Repeal for Family-Owned Farms and Businesses Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1624
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Estate tax
Families
Family enterprises
Family farms
Finance and Financial Sector
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Estate Tax Repeal for Family-Owned Farms and Businesses Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the estate tax exclusion for family-owned business interests. Repeals the maximum $675,000 deduction for such interests and allows heirs of qualified interests to exclude the adjusted value of such interests from the gross estate. Defines &quot;qualified family-owned business interests&quot; and revises ownership requirements and material participation rules applicable to family-owned business interests qualifying for the estate tax exclusion.
 
Provides that qualified family-owned business interests and spousal property acquired from a decedent shall be treated as transferred by gift and that the basis of such property shall be the lesser of the adjusted basis of the decedent, or the fair market value of such property at the date of the decedent's death (thus eliminating estate tax on such property). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Corrections Act

Bill: 109-hr-1625
Sponsor: Rep. Visclosky, Peter J. [D-IN-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Indiana
Land transfers
Local taxation
National lakeshores
Right-of-way
State taxation
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Corrections Act - Permits the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in Indiana, to: (1) accept donations of lands located outside the present boundaries of the Lakeshore if they are either contiguous or separated from such lands by only a right-of-way; and (2) make acquisitions to the boundaries of the Lakeshore from units of State or local government by satisfaction of delinquent State or local taxes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Equity and Fairness in Fee-for-Service Reimbursement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1627
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medical fees
Medicare
Pay equity
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Medicare Equity and Fairness in Fee-for-Service Reimbursement Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a system for making adjustments to the amount of payment made to providers of services and health care professionals for services provided under the original Medicare fee-for-service program, with specified formulae for States whose average per beneficiary amount is: (1) greater than 100 percent of the national average; or (2) less than 100 percent of the national average. Provides for a three year phase-in of such rates. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Elvira Arellano.

Bill: 109-hr-1628
Sponsor: Rep. Gutierrez, Luis V. [D-IL-4]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Declares Elvira Arellano to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
District of Columbia Budget Autonomy Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1629
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Tom [R-VA-11]
Introduced: 2005-04-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
City councils
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional veto
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-local relations
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Item veto
Local budgets
Local employees
Local finance
Local laws
Municipal home rule
Recruiting of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-14
text: 
District of Columbia Budget Autonomy Act of 2005 - Amends the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to provide that the District of Columbia budget passed by the Council of the District of Columbia shall be enacted without referral to the President or approval by the Congress, unless it is the budget for a fiscal year which is a control year. Prohibits the Mayor of the District during a control year from transmitting the budget, or amendments or supplements thereto, to the President until the completion of the budget procedures contained in this Act and the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Act of 1995. 
Prohibits obligations or expenditures by District government officers and employees without the Council's approval and in the case of a control year, congressional approval. 
 
Allows the Council to reenact provisions of any line-item veto by the Mayor in a budget Act without submitting such veto to the President, unless such item or provision is contained in a budget act for a control year. 
Permits hiring of full or part-time District government employees and their transfer among programs only if such position is authorized by an Act of the Council or, in the case of a control year, an Act of Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Appropriations, and Rules, 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: 2005-04-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Appropriations, and Rules, 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: 2005-04-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Appropriations, and Rules, 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: 2005-04-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Appropriations, and Rules, 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: 2005-04-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-14
text: Introduced in House