hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act

Bill: 110-hr-39
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Animals
Arctic Ocean
Coastal zone
Ecosystem management
Environmental Protection
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Wilderness areas
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act - Designates specified lands within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) as wilderness and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E13-14)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act

Bill: 110-hr-40
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Black history
Blacks
Claims
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
History
Law
Minorities
Racial discrimination
Reparations
Slavery
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act - Establishes the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans to examine slavery and discrimination in the colonies and the United States from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E11-12)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Business Checking Fairness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-41
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Automated teller machines
Bank accounts
Bank deposits
Bank reserves
Checks
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Credit cards
Credit unions
Deposit insurance
Dividends
Electronic commerce
Electronic funds transfers
Fees
Financial institutions
Financial services
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Housing and Community Development
Interest
Internet
Law
Real estate business
Savings and loan associations
Science, Technology, Communications
Surveys
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Business Checking Fairness Act of 2007 - Amends federal law to authorize interest-bearing or dividend-bearing transaction accounts for all businesses, permitting up to 24 transfers per month to another account of the owner in the same institution. 
 
Amends the Federal Reserve Act, the Home Owners' Loan Act, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to repeal the prohibition against the payment of interest on demand deposits.
 

 
Amends the Federal Reserve Act to require the Board to survey biennially and report biennially to Congress on bank fees and certain services.
 
Amends the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989, and the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994, to repeal certain reporting requirements.
 
Cites practices which shall not be treated as payment or receipt of interest if they relate to an escrow account maintained at a depository institution in connection with a real estate transaction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Serving Everyone with Reliable, Vital Internet, Communications, and Education Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-42
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadband
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
Internet
Social Welfare
Technological innovations
Telecommunication industry
Telecommunication rates
Telephone
Welfare recipients
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Serving Everyone with Reliable, Vital Internet, Communications, and Education Act of 2007 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to expand the Lifeline Assistance Program and the Link Up Program. Requires a report to Congress on the benefit level for the programs that will encourage low-income consumers to seek broadband service, projections on potential broadband consumers if the service was economically feasible, industry requirements to provide broadband service in underserved areas, and policy proposals regarding gaps in broadband availability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Brownfields Housing and Community Renewal Development Act

Bill: 110-hr-43
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Affordable housing
Brownfields
Commerce
Community development
Congressional reporting requirements
Depressed areas
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Open space lands
Parks
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Real estate development
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Brownfields Housing and Community Renewal Development Act - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish a grants program for redevelopment activities for brownfield sites and abandoned, idled, and underused industrial, commercial, or housing structures located in brownfield sites.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Healthy Foods for Healthy Living Act

Bill: 110-hr-45
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Beverages
Commerce
Community health services
Consumer education
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Exercise
Federal aid to health facilities
Fruit
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Lifestyle
Medicaid
Medical tests
Medicare
Milk
Nutrition
Obesity
Preventive medicine
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Vegetables

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Healthy Foods for Healthy Living Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to community-based organizations and local redevelopment agencies operating in low-income communities to: (1) assist in purchasing appropriate equipment or in hiring and training personnel to expand the inventory of fresh fruits and vegetables or other healthy food alternatives available for residents of a low-income community; and (2) carry out related consumer education and outreach activities. 
 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) and title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to cover additional primary and preventive services relating to obesity treatment and prevention, supervised exercise sessions, stress testing, lifestyle modification education, and nutrition education. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-46
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Corporate mergers
Depreciation and amortization
Employee health benefits
Estates (Law)
Finance and Financial Sector
Flexible benefit plans
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Group insurance
Health
Home offices
Income tax
Intangible property
Labor and Employment
Law
Life insurance
Long-term care insurance
Self-employed
Small business
Stockholders
Stocks
Tax administration
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Small Business Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow self-employed individuals to participate in cafeteria pension plans; (2) allow long-term care insurance under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements; (3) allow accelerated amortization of certain intangible assets (e.g., good will) acquired from a small business; (4) increase the tax exclusion of gain from the sale of certain small business stock; (5) provide a $2,500 standard tax deduction for home business expenses; (6) permit certain small businesses to elect a taxable year ending in a month from April to November; (7) increase the allowable number of S corporation shareholders; and (8) exempt certain small businesses from withholding of tax requirements for payments made by government entities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Architect of the Capitol to establish and display within the Capitol Visitor Center a suitable exhibit which depicts the Congressional careers, accomplishments, and contributions of the 22 African-American Members of Congress who served during the Reconstruction and Post-Reconstruction Eras, and a suitable exhibit which acknowledges the use of slave labor in the construction of the Capitol.

Bill: 110-hr-47
Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Black history
Building construction
Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Construction workers
Ex-Members of Congress
Exhibitions
History
House of Representatives
Labor and Employment
Minorities
Minorities in government
Senate
Slavery
Tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Requires the Architect of the Capitol to establish and display in a prominent location within the Capitol Visitor Center suitable exhibits which: (1) depict the congressional careers, accomplishments, and contributions of the 22 African-American Members of Congress who served during the Reconstruction and Post-Reconstruction Eras, including the two African-American Senators, beginning with Congressman Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina (1870-1879) and ending with Congressman George H. White of North Carolina (1897-1901); and (2) acknowledge the use of slave labor in the construction of the U.S. Capitol.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To redesignate the White Rocks National Recreation Area in the State of Vermont as the "Robert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation Area".

Bill: 110-hr-48
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Names
National recreation areas
Senate
Vermont

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Redesignates the White Rocks National Recreation Area in Vermont as the &quot;Robert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation Area&quot;.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend titles XI and XIX of the Social Security Act to remove the cap on Medicaid payments for Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa and to adjust the Medicaid statutory matching rate for those territories.

Bill: 110-hr-51
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: American Samoa
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Medicaid
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Social Welfare
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends titles XI and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) remove the cap on Medicaid payments for Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa; and (2) adjust the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for those territories. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the cap on the cover over of tax on distilled spirits to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Bill: 110-hr-52
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alcohol tax
Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Local finance
Puerto Rico
Tax rates
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the limitation on the amount of distilled spirits tax covered (paid over) into the treasuries of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Teacher Recruitment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-54
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Continuing education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Indian education
Minorities
Recruiting of employees
Rural education
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Teacher Recruitment Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to establish new programs for teacher student loan forgiveness under the guaranteed loan program and the direct loan program. 
Makes eligible for such student loan forgiveness any new borrower on or after October 1, 1998, who is: (1) employed as a full-time teacher in a public elementary or secondary school in an economically disadvantaged or depressed and underserved rural area; (2) state-certified or state-licensed to teach, and in compliance with state or local accountability standards; and (3) not in default on the loan. 
Directs the Secretary to establish a formula that ensures fairness and equality for applicants in the selection of borrowers for such loan repayment under this section, based on the amount available. 
Limits the portion of the outstanding loan obligation which the Secretary may repay to 15% for the first or second year of such service, 20% for the third or fourth year, and 30% for the fifth year.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Judicial District of the Virgin Islands Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-55
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Appellate courts
Appellate procedure
Congressional reporting requirements
District courts
Judges
Judicial districts
Judicial reform
Judicial review
Jurisdiction
Supreme Court
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Judicial District of the Virgin Islands Act of 2007 - Amends the federal judicial code to establish a two-judge Article III court in the Virgin Islands (with court held in Christiansted for the Saint Croix Division, and in Charlotte-Amalie for the Saint Thomas and Saint John Division). Requires pleadings and procedures to be conducted in the English language.
 
Amends the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands to state that: (1) the judicial power of the Virgin Islands shall be vested in an appellate court and lower local courts as may have been or may hereafter be established by local law (eliminates references to the district court of the Virgin Islands); and (2) the U.S. district court of the Virgin Islands shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all income-tax related criminal and civil proceedings in the Virgin Islands, except for ancillary tax laws enacted by the Virgin Islands legislature. 
 
Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) assignment of additional judges; and (2) relations between U.S. courts and local courts under such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To extend the supplemental security income benefits program to Guam and the United States Virgin Islands.

Bill: 110-hr-56
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
Supplemental security income program
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act (SSA) to make Guam and the Virgin Islands eligible for the Supplemental Security Income program for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled under SSA title XVI. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands to authorize the legislature of the Virgin Islands to create municipal governments.

Bill: 110-hr-58
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Federal-territorial relations
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands to authorize the legislature of the Virgin Islands to create units of local government in the Virgin Islands. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To convey certain submerged lands to the Government of the Virgin Islands, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-59
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Land transfers
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Submerged lands
Territorial waters
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Conveys to the U.S. Virgin Islands specified submerged lands in the area between the island of Saint Croix and the islands of Saint Thomas and Saint John. 
 
States that for purposes of U.S. laws, except as otherwise provided by international law or international agreement in force for the United States, the U.S. Virgin Islands' territorial waters shall extend 
12
 miles seaward from the line of ordinary low water along that portion of the coast which is in direct contact with the open sea and the line marking the seaward limit of inland waters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-09
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the deduction of State and local general sales taxes.

Bill: 110-hr-60
Sponsor: Rep. Baird, Brian [D-WA-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Local taxation
Sales tax
State taxation
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax deduction for state and local general sales taxes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House