hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Every Student Counts Act

Bill: 110-hr-2955
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Data banks
Disabled
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
English language
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Literacy programs
Migrant education
Minorities
Minority education
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Standards
Student records
Women
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Every Student Counts Act - Requires states, local educational agencies (LEAs), and high schools annually to calculate and report, as part of the report cards required under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), the percentage of high school students: (1) graduating in four years and in five years with a regular high school diploma from each cohort graduating class; and (2) the percentage of students in each grade, except the graduating grade, prepared to advance to the next grade.
 
Requires such data to be reported in the aggregate and disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, disability status, migrant status, English proficiency, and status as economically disadvantaged.
 
Directs states that lack a statewide longitudinal data system with individual student identifiers to make certain interim graduation rate calculations, but requires all states to make the four and five-year adjusted cohort graduation rate calculations by 2012.
 
Requires the use of such rates in determining the success of each high school and LEA in making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic performance standards under the ESEA. Requires schools and LEAs whose four and five-year adjusted cohort graduation rates fall below 90% overall or for any low-income, minority, disabled, migrant, or limited English proficient student subgroup, to make specified yearly progress in improving such rates or be deemed as failing to make AYP.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1480)
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
English Language Instruction Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2957
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational research
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Language and languages
Language arts
Literacy programs
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Standards
Teacher education
Teaching

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
English Language Instruction Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends title III (Language Instruction for Limited English Proficient and Immigrant Students) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to raise, from 6.5% to 9%, the amount of title III appropriations devoted to the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs and a program providing competitive grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) for teacher training to improve classroom instruction for limited English proficient children.
 
Alters such grant program by allowing the provision of grants directly to states and local educational agencies (LEAs) and eliminating the requirement that IHE grantees be in consortia with states or LEAs.
 
Adds to allowable grant uses: (1) the development and dissemination of best practices in teaching individuals with limited English proficiency to high levels of achievement pursuant to challenging state academic performance standards or to high levels of multiligual proficiency; (2) research and evaluation of the education provided to such individuals; and (3) technical assistance to states and LEAs in meeting the requirements of title III.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Children Protection from Video Game Violence and Sexual Content Act

Bill: 110-hr-2958
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Child development
Child health
Child welfare
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer protection
Crime and Law Enforcement
Families
Governmental investigations
Health
Mental health
Pornography
Video games
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Children Protection from Video Game Violence and Sexual Content Act - Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to study and report to Congress on the system employed by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board to assign ratings to video games, including the FTC's opinion on whether the system exposes children to excessive violence and sexual content.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the impact of video games on the mental stability and growth of children and young adults.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
National Park Centennial Challenge Fund Act

Bill: 110-hr-2959
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Rob [R-UT-1]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Gifts
Government trust funds
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
National Park Centennial Challenge Fund Act - Establishes in the Treasury the National Park Centennial Challenge Fund (the Challenge Fund) which shall consist of qualified donations transferred from the Donations to the National Park Service account and amounts appropriated from the general fund of the Treasury, in accordance with this Act. 
 
Makes available all amounts deposited in the Challenge Fund to the Secretary of the Interior for signature projects and programs under this Act (projects and programs identified by the Director of the National Park Service (NPS) as those that will help prepare the national parks for another century of conservation, preservation, and enjoyment). 
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to develop a list of signature projects and programs eligible for funding from the Challenge Fund. Requires that such list be submitted to the President and specified congressional committees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Department of State Crisis Response Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2960
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Afghanistan
Civil service retirement
Foreign service
Government Operations and Politics
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Middle East and North Africa
Recruiting of employees
Salaries
South Asia

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Department of State Crisis Response Act of 2007 - Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to extend Department of State authority to employ civil service or Foreign Service annuitants through October 1, 2010.
 
Eliminates the requirement that such authority be used to facilitate assignment to Afghanistan or Iraq or to fill positions vacated because of assignments to such countries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1583)
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
To expand the boundaries of the Wallkill National Wildlife Refuge located in Sussex county, New Jersey, and to authorize appropriations for the acquisition of lands and waters located within such expanded boundaries.

Bill: 110-hr-2961
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Boundaries
Environmental Protection
Land transfers
New Jersey
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Expands the boundaries of the Walkill National Wildlife Refuge located in Sussex County, New Jersey, to include the Mt. Laurel property-added lands (including any water and interest in such lands).
 
Authorizes Secretary of the Interior to make such minor modifications to the boundary of the Refuge as the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) determines to be appropriate to: (1) achieve the goals of the USFWS relating to the Refuge; or (2) facilitate the acquisition of property within the Refuge. 
 
Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for the acquisition of such lands. Requires any land, water, or interest acquired by the Secretary pursuant to this Act to become part of the Refuge. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Pakistani Temporary Protected Status Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2962
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Aliens
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Displaced persons
Earthquakes
Emergency Management
Pakistan
Refugees
Residence requirements
Right to travel
South Asia

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Pakistani Temporary Protected Status Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the extraordinary and temporary conditions caused by the earthquake in Pakistan qualifies Pakistan for designation under the Immigration and Nationality Act pursuant to which its nationals would be eligible for temporary protected status (TPS) in the United States. 

Designates Pakistan as a TPS-eligible country for an initial 12-month period.

Sets forth related TPS eligibility requirements, including continuous U.S. presence since October 8, 2005. 

Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to give prior consent to such aliens for temporary trips abroad in emergency and extenuating circumstances. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Global Resources and Opportunities for Women to Thrive Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2965
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Community organization
Developing countries
Economic assistance
Entrepreneurs
Exchange of persons programs
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial services
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Labor and Employment
Leadership
Nongovernmental organizations
Poverty
Right of property
Small business
Women
Women in business
Women in public life
Women's employment
Women's organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Global Resources and Opportunities for Women to Thrive Act of 2007 or GROWTH Act of 2007 - Targets assistance for women in developing countries with respect to: (1) microenterprises; (2) small and medium enterprises; (3) private property rights and land tenure security; (4) employment access; (5) trade benefits; (6) exchanges with U.S. entrepreneurs; (7) Millennium Challenge Account assistance; and (8) indigenous women's organizations.
 
Directs the Secretary of State to establish the Global Resources and Opportunities for Women to Thrive (GROWTH) Fund to enhance economic opportunities for very poor, poor, and low-income women in developing countries with a focus on: (1) increasing women-owned enterprise development; (2) increasing property rights for women; (3) increasing women's access to financial services; (4) increasing women in leadership in implementing organizations, such as indigenous nongovernmental organizations, community-based organizations, and regulated financial intermediaries; (5) improving women's employment benefits and conditions; and (6) increasing women's ability to benefit from global trade. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Plug-in Hybrid Opportunity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2966
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Electric vehicles
Energy
Income tax
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Plug-in Hybrid Opportunity Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 35% of the cost of a qualified plug-in battery module (or $4,000, whichever is less) used to convert a hybrid motor vehicle to a plug-in hybrid motor vehicle. Terminates such tax credit after 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1480)
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Campaign Taxpayer Reimbursement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2967
Sponsor: Rep. Marshall, Jim [D-GA-8]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Campaign funds
Collection of accounts
Congress
Congressional elections
Congressional travel
Economics and Public Finance
Federal officials
Fund raising
Government travel
Local finance
Presidential elections
Security measures
State finance
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Campaign Taxpayer Reimbursement Act of 2007 - Prohibits the use of federal funds to carry out or support any travel undertaken by a covered executive branch official away from his or her designated post of duty if at any time while the official is away he or she attends any political campaign or fundraising event, unless the official's office is reimbursed by the appropriate political committee for the actual travel costs incurred.
 
Makes special rules for presidential and vice presidential travel.
 
Applies this Act to travel by Members of the House of Representatives.
 
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require political committee reimbursement of certain state and local government security costs resulting from attendance by a covered executive branch official, other than the President or Vice President, at a political campaign or fundraising event.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Summer Food Service Rural Expansion Act

Bill: 110-hr-2968
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Child nutrition
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Food service
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Pennsylvania
Poor children
School lunch program
Social Welfare
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Summer Food Service Rural Expansion Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act with respect to the summer food service programs for children in service institutions (e.g., schools and summer camps).
 
Revises the condition limiting eligibility to institutions conducting a regularly scheduled food service for children from areas in which poor economic conditions exist (i.e., where at least 50% of the children meet eligibility requirements for certain free or reduced price school meals.)
 
Eliminates the special 2005 and 2006 exemption from this requirement for rural areas in Pennsylvania which lowers the threshold eligibility to areas where at least 40% of the children meet eligibility requirements for free or reduced price school meals.
 
Applies such 40% threshold to rural areas of all states and makes it permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
GothamCorps Authorization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2969
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
National service
Scholarships
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
GothamCorps Authorization Act of 2007 - Establishes the GothamCorps program. Directs the Corporation for National and Community Service to provide, through such program, for the award of grants to certain units of local government to carry out volunteer projects. Requires local government units to provide each participant in a volunteer project with a scholarship equal to the cost of one year's tuition at a local public college. Authorizes grant funding from amounts made available in the National Service Trust.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2970
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Business records
Commerce
Consumer discounts
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Contracts
Drug industry
Drug utilization
Drugs
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Fines (Penalties)
Generic drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Health care fraud
Health insurance
Insurance companies
Medical statistics
Patients' rights
Pharmacies
Prescription pricing
Restrictive trade practices

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 2007 - Prohibits any pharmaceutical drug manufacturer from having a controlling interest in an entity that is a pharmacy benefit manager. Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue civil penalties for violations as necessary.
 
Prohibits pharmacy benefit managers from making drug interchanges: (1) to a drug with a greater cost; (2) without disclosure to the individual of the savings associated with the interchange; or (3) from a drug with generic equivalents to a drug without generic equivalents, unless the latter is lower in cost than each of the generic equivalents of the drug from which the prescription would be changed. 
 
Requires pharmacy benefit managers to annually disclose all compensation received from drug manufacturers to the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and to the client plans of such manager.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Accountability Act

Bill: 110-hr-2971
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Business records
Commerce
Employee health benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Labor and Employment
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Personnel records
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Health Care Accountability Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require the state Medicaid plan to provide for the annual reporting by the state, using data only from medical assistance applications by individuals, on each employer in the state with 50 or more employees who received Medicaid medical assistance at any time during the previous year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House