hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Mortgage Cancellation Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1876
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Debtor and creditor
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Mortgages
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Mortgage Cancellation Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income amounts attributable to the discharge of certain residential mortgage obligations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Librarian Incentive to Boost Recruitment and Retention in Areas of Need Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1877
Sponsor: Rep. Becerra, Xavier [D-CA-31]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Libraries
Scholarships
School personnel
Social Welfare
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Librarian Incentive to Boost Recruitment and Retention in Areas of Need Act of 2007 or the LIBRARIAN Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to permit the cancellation of Federal Perkins Loans for students who perform public service as full-time librarians, if the librarian has a master's degree in library science and is employed in: (1) an elementary school or secondary school that is eligible for assistance under title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; or (2) a public library that serves a geographic area that contains one or more schools eligible for assistance under title I of such Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E765)
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States, at their option, to require certain individuals to present satisfactory documentary evidence of proof of citizenship or nationality for purposes of eligibility for Medicaid, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-1878
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-3]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Citizenship
Families
Immigrant health
Immigration
Medicaid
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to permit states, at their option, to require certain individuals to present satisfactory documentary evidence of citizenship or nationality for Medicaid eligibility.

Revises the rules for children born in the United States to mothers eligible for Medicaid. Declares that a Medicaid-eligible individual shall be deemed to have provided satisfactory documentary evidence of citizenship or nationality, and shall not be required to provide further evidence, on any date during or after the period in which the individual is eligible for Medicaid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to convey the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center located in Marlin, Texas, to the State of Texas.

Bill: 110-hr-1879
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Land transfers
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Texas
Veterans' hospitals

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to convey to the state of Texas the Thomas T. Conally Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Marlin, Texas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Summer of Service Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1880
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: American Samoa
Community and school
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Ethics
Federal aid to education
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Guam
Higher education
Indian education
Labor and Employment
Leadership
Minorities
National service
Native Americans
Northern Mariana Islands
Performance measurement
Scholarships
Secondary education
Service learning
Social Welfare
Student employment
Summer employment
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Summer of Service Act of 2007 - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to create Summer of Service programs providing at least 100 hours of summer community service learning opportunities to youth who will subsequently enroll in grades six through nine. 
 
Requires the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service to provide competitive three-year grants to: (1) states under a State Grant program; and (2) public or private organizations under a National Direct Grant program, when a state does not apply for funding or the community service program includes multiple states. 
 
Requires states and organizations, in making project subgrants, to favor entities with established track records that: (1) have leadership positions in the communities from which participating youth will be drawn; (2) focus on youth service during the transition year before high school; (3) encourage or enable youth to continue providing community service throughout the school year; (4) involve youth in the design and operation of the community service project; and (5) include youth of diverse backgrounds, at least 50% of which are from low-income families. Permits such entities to charge the parents of participants an income-based fee to contribute to the nonfederal share of project costs.
 
Makes each youth serving at least 100 hours in a service-learning project eligible for an educational award of up to $500.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Expanding the Promise for Individuals With Autism Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1881
Sponsor: Rep. Doyle, Michael F. [D-PA-14]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Autism
Child health
Community health services
Congress
Congressional investigations
Cost effectiveness
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Health planning
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Long-term care
Medical education
Medical research
Nonprofit organizations
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Expanding the Promise for Individuals With Autism Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) convene, on behalf of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, a Treatments, Interventions, and Services Evaluation Task Force to evaluate evidence-based biomedical and behavioral treatments and services for individuals with autism; (2) establish a multi-year demonstration grant program for states to provide evidence-based autism treatments, interventions, and services. (3) establish planning and demonstration grant programs for adults with autism; (4) award grants to states for access to autism services following diagnosis; (5) award grants to University Centers of Excellence for Developmental Disabilities to provide services and address the unmet needs of individuals with autism and their families; (6) make grants to protection and advocacy systems to address the needs of individuals with autism and other emerging populations of individuals with disabilities; and (7) award a grant to a national nonprofit organization for the establishment and maintenance of a national technical assistance center for autism services and information dissemination.

Directs the Comptroller General to issue a report on the financing of autism services and treatments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Farm Risk Management Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1882
Sponsor: Rep. Everett, Terry [R-AL-2]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural subsidies
Agriculture and Food
Crop insurance
Farm income
Farmers
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Law
Saving and investment
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Tax penalties
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Farm Risk Management Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish tax-exempt farm risk management accounts to allow taxpayers engaged in the business of farming or ranching to use distributions from such accounts to offset operational losses in lieu of receiving, after a specified transitional period, federal subsidies to purchase crop insurance; (2) allow a tax deduction for cash contributions to such accounts; (3) specify minimum levels of contributions to, and maximum levels of distributions from, such accounts; (4) require the Secretary of Agriculture to make matching contributions to such accounts; and (5) set forth tax rules relating to account distributions, excess contributions, and prohibited transactions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2007-04-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E764)
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
To codify procedures regarding naturalization ceremonies conducted by the Secretary of Homeland Security.

Bill: 110-hr-1883
Sponsor: Rep. Fossella, Vito [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Citizenship
Commemorations
Naturalization

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Naturalization Act to set forth naturalization ceremony provisions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
National Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1884
Sponsor: Rep. Gordon, Bart [D-TN-6]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Eye care
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Medical education
Optometry
Public health
Public health personnel
Scholarships
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
National Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise the definition of &quot;primary health services&quot; for purposes of the National Health Service Corps to include optometry health services.

Includes optometrists within: (1) the fellowship program for the delivery of primary health services in health professional shortage areas; (2) the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program; and (3) the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 110-hr-1885
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Archaeology
Arizona
Arts, Culture, Religion
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Community development
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Indian lands
Infrastructure
Land transfers
Land use
Landowners
Landscape protection
Maps
Minorities
Native Americans
Natural areas
Nature conservation
Outdoor recreation
Planning
Regional economic development
Right of property
Signs and signboards
Sports and Recreation
Tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area in Arizona. Designates the Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Alliance, Inc. as the management entity for the Area.
 
Requires the management entity to prepare and submit a management plan for the Area to the Secretary of the Interior for approval.
 
Prohibits the management entity from using federal funds received under this Act to acquire real property. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical and financial assistance to the Area for the development and implementation of the approved management plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
To prevent public financing of oil or gas field development projects, surveying or extraction activities, processing facilities, pipelines, or terminals, or other oil and gas production or distribution operations or facilities, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-1886
Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: American investments
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Developing countries
Development credit institutions
Economic assistance
Energy
Energy development
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Export finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Foreign loans
Gas industry
Government lending
International Affairs
Investment guaranty insurance
Natural gas
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Reinsurance

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to prohibit the Export-Import Bank of the United States from guaranteeing, insuring, or extending credit: (1) in connection with an oil or gas project; or (2) to any entity that may use the guarantee, insurance, or credit to finance such a project. 
 
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit the Overseas Private Investment Corporation from issuing any contract of insurance or reinsurance or any guarantee, or entering into any financing agreement for an oil or gas project, or to taking such actions respecting any person who will insure or finance such project. 
 
Amends the International Financial Institutions Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to use U.S. influence to oppose multilateral development institution assistance to gas or oil development projects. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Cool and Efficient Buildings Act

Bill: 110-hr-1888
Sponsor: Rep. Hoekstra, Peter [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Air conditioning
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Electric appliances
Energy
Finance and Financial Sector
Heating
Income tax
Industrial buildings
Office buildings
Refrigeration
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Cool and Efficient Buildings Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a 20-year depreciation recovery period, calculated on a straight line basis, for heating, ventilation, air conditioning, or commercial refrigeration systems installed in nonresidential buildings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Private Prison Information Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1889
Sponsor: Rep. Holden, Tim [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Correctional institutions
Freedom of information
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government service contracts
Law
Prison administration
Prisoners' rights
Prisons

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Private Prison Information Act of 2007 - Provides that each nongovernmental entity contracting with the federal government to incarcerate or detain federal prisoners in a privately-owned prison or other correctional facility shall have the same duty to release information about the operation of that facility as a federal agency operating such a facility would have under the Freedom of Information Act. Authorizes any party aggrieved by a violation of that duty to obtain relief in a civil action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Public Safety Act

Bill: 110-hr-1890
Sponsor: Rep. Holden, Tim [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Commerce
Correctional institutions
Correctional personnel
Corrections
Department of Justice
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Government Operations and Politics
Government service contracts
Local employees
Prison administration
Prisons
Privatization
State employees

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Public Safety Act - Prohibits funds provided by the federal government to a state or local government for the purpose of providing core correctional services from being used to contract with private contractors or vendors to provide such services. Defines &quot;core correctional services&quot; as the housing, safeguarding, protecting, and disciplining of persons charged with or convicted of an offense.

Amends the federal criminal code to require the Bureau of Prisons to provide that: (1) any penal or correctional facility or institution, except a facility for nonprofit community correctional confinement (such as halfway houses), confining any person convicted of any offense against the United States shall be under the direction of the Director of the Bureau and shall be managed and maintained by federal, state, or local government employees; and (2) the housing, safeguarding, protection, and disciplining of any person charged with or convicted of any offense against the United States (with that exception) shall be conducted and carried out by federal, state, or local government employees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
National Amniotic and Placental Stem Cell Bank Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1892
Sponsor: Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Childbirth
Cytology
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Genetic research
Genetics
Informed consent (Medical law)
Medical research
Science, Technology, Communications
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
National Amniotic and Placental Stem Cell Bank Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish and maintain the National Amniotic and Placental Stem Cell Bank to obtain, store, and make available for research and treatment human stem cells derived from amniotic fluid or placenta. Requires the Bank to maintain not fewer than 100,000 samples of human stem cells.

Allows the Bank to obtain a stem cell only if the woman providing the amniotic fluid or placenta makes a written statement of informed consent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House