hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Increasing Student Achievement through School Attendance Act

Bill: 110-hr-6402
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child welfare
Community and school
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Educational innovations
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee training
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Indian education
Labor and Employment
Minorities
Native Americans
School discipline
School personnel
Secondary education
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Increasing Student Achievement through School Attendance Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award grants to local educational agencies, states, and Indian tribes for the implementation of innovative measures to increase school attendance by preventing student truancy, suspension, and expulsion.
 
Includes among such measures: (1) collaboration between school systems, the legal system, child welfare agencies, and community-based organizations; (2) training school personnel in positive student behavioral interventions and graduated disciplinary practices; and (3) staffing of school suspension and expulsion programs with student support services personnel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Naturalized Citizens Assistance Act

Bill: 110-hr-6403
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Adult education
Commerce
Consumer credit
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Financial services
Fraud
Identity theft
Immigrant education
Income tax
Insurance
Naturalization
Personal budgets
Saving and investment
Taxation
Usury

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Naturalized Citizens Assistance Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to add to the list of adult education and literacy programs for which certain grants must be used programs of financial literacy education for newly naturalized citizens to help them achieve financial literacy through instruction on such matters as banking, retirement savings, managing credit, as well as predatory lending, identity theft, and other financial abuse schemes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Girl Scouts USA Centennial Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 110-hr-6404
Sponsor: Rep. Kingston, Jack [R-GA-1]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Anniversaries
Coins and coinage
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Girl Scouts
New York State
Silver

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Girl Scouts USA Centennial Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue up to 350,000 $1 coins in commemoration of the centennial of the founding of the Girl Scouts of the USA. 

Requires the coin design to be emblematic of the 100 years of the organization.
 
Restricts issuance of such coins to calendar year 2011. 
 
Subjects coin sales to a surcharge of $10 per coin.
 
Requires payment of such surcharges to the Girl Scouts of the United States of America for efforts involved in marking the Centennial, which may include preservation efforts of the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
To authorize a process by which the Secretary of the Interior shall process acquisitions of certain real property of the Samish Indian Nation into trust, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-6405
Sponsor: Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Gambling
Indian lands
Islands
Land transfers
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Minorities
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Sports and Recreation
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, for the purpose of processing acquisitions of real property of the Samish Indian Nation, to process as on-reservation acquisitions any property in the islands within Skagit County, Washington, as described in this Act, which the Samish Indian Nation both acquires and requests to deed to the Secretary. 

Prohibits real property taken into trust under this Act from being used for gaming. States that the proclamation of a reservation for the Samish Indian Nation pursuant to the Indian Reorganization Act or the establishment of an initial reservation for them shall not alter such prohibition with regard to the lands taken into trust pursuant to this Act.

Bars this Act from granting, restoring, or diminishing any hunting, fishing, trapping, or gathering treaty right of the Samish Indian Nation. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
To elevate the Inspector General of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to an Inspector General appointed pursuant to section 3 of the Inspector General Act of 1978.

Bill: 110-hr-6406
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Congress
Executive reorganization
Futures trading
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Inspectors general
Presidential appointments

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Amends the Inspector General Act of 1878 to require presidential appointment of the Inspector General of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, without regard to political affiliation and solely on the basis of integrity and demonstrated ability in accounting, auditing, financial analysis, law, management analysis, public administration, or investigations.
 

action_date: 2008-09-24
text: 
Amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to include the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the CFTC within the definitions of &quot;head of the establishment&quot; and &quot;establishment,&quot; respectively, and to exclude the CFTC from the definition of &quot;designated federal entity,&quot; for purposes of that Act (thus elevating the Inspector General of the CFTC to an Inspector General appointed under that Act).



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H9321-9322)
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H9321-9322)
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6406.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H9321-9323)
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Mr. Towns moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2008-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Segal AmeriCorps Education Award Tax Relief Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6407
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Income tax
National service
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Segal AmeriCorps Education Award Tax Relief Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income for income tax purposes AmeriCorps educational awards awarded under the National and Community Service Act of 1990. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1370)
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6408
Sponsor: Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Arrest
Civil actions and liability
Coast guard
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Death
Environmental Protection
Environmental monitoring
Evidence (Law)
Fines (Penalties)
Governmental investigations
Identification of criminals
International Affairs
Jurisdiction
Labor and Employment
Law
Liability (Law)
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Marine safety
Maritime law
Merchant seamen
Missing persons
Negligence
Passenger ships
Personnel records
Rape
Security measures
Shipbuilding
Terrorism
Video tape recording
Waste disposal in the ocean
Women
Wrongful death

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act of 2008 - Sets forth cruise vessel security and safety requirements concerning: (1) vessel design and construction; (2) crew access to passenger staterooms; (3) log book entry and reporting of deaths, missing individuals, and alleged crimes; (4) database of crewmembers terminated due to commission of a crime; (5) maintenance of rape kits on board; (6) crime scene investigation training and certification for vessel crewmembers; (7) video surveillance to monitor crime; and (8) posting of certain safety information.
 
Sets forth penalties for violations of this Act.
 
Amends the Ports and Waterways Safety Act to revise the authority of the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating (Secretary) to dispatch Coast Guard personnel on vessels to deter or respond to terrorism or transportation security incidents. Authorizes use of such personnel to act as: (1) environmental observers to monitor compliance with federal laws regarding the discharge of waste into U.S. waters; and (2) public safety officers to assist vessel passengers and crew with reporting and investigation of crimes, securing of suspects, and collection of crime evidence.
 
Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on the security needs of a passenger vessel depending on the number of passengers on the vessel, with recommendations for security improvements.
 
Amends the Death on the High Seas Act to extend from three to 12 miles from the U.S. shore the high seas jurisdiction wherein a death by a wrongful act, neglect, or default of a person or vessel will allow the personal representative of the decedent to bring a civil action in admiralty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1368-1369)
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources.

Bill: 110-hr-6409
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Commerce
Electric power production
Energy
Income tax
Tax credits
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2018 the tax credit for producing electricity from wind facilities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Stop Legislative Automatic Spending Hikes (SLASH) Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6410
Sponsor: Rep. McCotter, Thaddeus G. [R-MI-11]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Government downsizing
Government spending reductions
Income tax
Productivity in government
Tax rebates
Taxation
Waste in government spending

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Stop Legislative Automatic Spending Hikes (SLASH) Act of 2008 - Requires: (1) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to report to Congress on all agencies and programs that received ineffective ratings or three consecutive annual adequate ratings under the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993; (2) the termination of such agencies and programs unless continued by statute; (3) the transfer of the functions of such terminated agencies and programs to other appropriate agencies; and (4) an annual OMB estimate of the savings under this Act.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to grant tax rebates to individual taxpayers from the amounts saved by the termination of ineffective agencies and programs under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Federal Spending Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6411
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Due process of law
Ex-offenders
Executives
Federal aid programs
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Identification devices
Income tax
Internet
Law
Leases
Liens
Office of Management and Budget
Performance measurement
Profit
Science, Technology, Communications
Subcontractors
Tax returns
Taxation
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Federal Spending Act of 2008 - Amends the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 with respect to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) searchable database website. Requires the website to allow the public to search programmatically and access all data in a serialized machine readable format (such as XML) via a web-services application programming interface.
 
 Specifies additional information on federal awards the website must include by certain deadlines. 
 
Requires the website to present information about federal awards and their recipients in ways that meet the needs of users with different levels of understanding about government spending and abilities using searching websites.
 
Sets forth requirements of the Director of OMB to add specified data quality enhancements to the website.
 
Requires the Director to ensure that the unique identifier used to link information on the website is also used to link information about performance of individual contractors and recipients of financial assistance starting with awards given in FY2008.
 
Requires the chief executive officer of an award recipient to certify whether the entity has: (1) filed all federal tax returns required during the preceding five years; (2) been convicted of a criminal offense under the Internal Revenue Code; and (3) an outstanding debt under the Code for which a notice of lien has been publicly filed that is not being paid in a timely manner, or for which a collection due process hearing or relief is requested or pending.
 
Requires the Director to: (1) develop certification forms; (2) ensure that each agency providing federal awards complies with tax compliance requirements; and (3) ensure that the website contains such certified information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency from updating flood maps until the Administrator submits to Congress a community outreach plan, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-6413
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Disaster insurance
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Floodplains
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Maps
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Prohibits the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from updating a floodplain area or flood-risk zone under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 until the Administrator submits a community outreach plan to Congress.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a credit equal to the premium paid by the taxpayer for flood insurance covering any residential property which is a qualified flood risk property, subject to an income-based limitation. Defines &quot;qualified flood risk property&quot; as a residential property: (1) that is located in a floodplain area or flood-risk zone depicted on a flood insurance rate map revised and updated pursuant to such Act; (2) that was outside of any floodplain area or flood-risk zone prior to such revision; and (3) that the taxpayer owned on the date such map became effective or the purchase or construction of which by the taxpayer was subject to a binding written contract on such date.

Makes this Act applicable to any flood insurance rate map that becomes effective pursuant to such Act. Provides that if a refund or credit of any overpayment resulting from this Act is prevented at any time before one year after enactment of this Act, such refund or credit may occur if the claim is filed before the close of that period.

Amends such Act to require the community rating system program to provide grants to communities for projects to improve the rating of communities under the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Advocacy Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6414
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Grants-in-aid
Health
Law
Legal services
Military medicine
Military personnel
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Veterans Advocacy Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a program to assess the feasibility and advisability of utilizing legal entities to provide legal services to assist veterans and members of the Armed Forces in applying for and receiving health care, benefits, and services. Requires the Secretary to award ten grants to legal entities to provide such services. Limits grant duration to one year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House