hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Combat Veterans Debt Elimination Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5148
Sponsor: Rep. Neugebauer, Randy [R-TX-19]
Introduced: 2008-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Debt
Debtor and creditor
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Housing subsidies
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Military operations
Small business
South Asia
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: 
Combat Veterans Debt Elimination Act of 2008 - Prohibits the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from collecting debts owed to the United States by certain members of the armed forces or veterans who die as a result of an injury incurred or aggravated on active duty in a war or a combat zone after September 11, 2001.
 
Excepts any amounts owed the United States under federal housing and small business loan programs from such prohibition on debt collection.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on dry adhesive copolyamide pellets.

Bill: 110-hr-5149
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, John E. [R-PA-5]
Introduced: 2008-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on dry adhesive copolyamide pellets.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the child tax credit for taxable years beginning in 2008 and provide for the advance payment thereof.

Bill: 110-hr-5150
Sponsor: Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3]
Introduced: 2008-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Families
Income tax
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the amount of the child tax credit to $1,300 in 2008 and provide for the advance payment of such credit to eligible taxpayers prior to October 1, 2008. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Former Soviet Union Minority Relief Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5152
Sponsor: Rep. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL-10]
Introduced: 2008-01-29 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Authorization
Belarus
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Democracy
Economics and Public Finance
Ethnic relations
Europe
Executive Office of the President
Government Operations and Politics
Hate crimes
Human rights
Immigration
International broadcasting
International relief
Law
Minorities
Refugees
Religion
Religious liberty
Rule of law
Russia
Science, Technology, Communications
Ukraine

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: 
Former Soviet Union Minority Relief Act of 2008 - Authorizes additional appropriations for Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus for: (1) humanitarian and resettlement assistance for ethnic and religious minorities; (2) hate crime prevention and rule of law assistance; (3) democracy promotion; and (4) broadcasting assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E95)
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Conforming Loan Limit Temporary Adjustment Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5153
Sponsor: Rep. Kanjorski, Paul E. [D-PA-11]
Introduced: 2008-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federally-assisted loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing finance
Mortgages
Secondary mortgage market

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: 
Conforming Loan Limit Temporary Adjustment Act of 2008 - Increases the maximum original principal obligation of certain mortgages originated between July 1, 2007, and December 31, 2008, that may be purchased by the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Association (Freddie Mac).
 
Allows a loan whose principal amount is 125% of the area median price for a residence of applicable size, up to 175% of the regular loan limitation.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) securitization of mortgages by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plays an important role in providing liquidity to the U.S. housing markets; and (2) Congress, therefore, encourages Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to securitize mortgages acquired under the increased conforming loan limits established in this Act.
 

 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To condition further increases in the minimum wage applicable to American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands on a determination by the Secretary of Labor that such increases will not have an adverse impact on the economies of American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Bill: 110-hr-5154
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2008-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: American Samoa
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic impact statements
Economic research
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Minimum wages
Northern Mariana Islands
Standard of living

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: 
Amends the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 to condition further increases in the federal minimum wage applicable to the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa on a determination by the Secretary of Labor that such increases will not have an adverse impact on any further increases on living standards and rates of employment in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa.
 
Requires the Secretary to make the determinations each year 60 days before the scheduled increase in such minimum wage and to publish it in the Federal Register.
 
Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress biennially (currently, within eight months after the enactment of such Act) on the impact of: (1) such minimum wage increases; and (2) any further increases on living standards and rates of employment in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Combat Veterans Debt Elimination Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5155
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2008-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Debt
Debtor and creditor
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Housing subsidies
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Military operations
Small business
South Asia
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: 
Combat Veterans Debt Elimination Act of 2008 - Prohibits the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from collecting debts owed to the United States by certain veterans who die as a result of a service-connected disability incurred or aggravated on active duty in a war after the Persian Gulf War or a combat zone after September 11, 2001, if the Secretary determines, in his or her discretion, that the termination of collection is in the best interest of the United States.
 
Excepts any amounts owed the United States under federal housing and small business loan programs from such prohibition on debt collection.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2008-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
John Lewis Civil Rights Trail System Act

Bill: 110-hr-5156
Sponsor: Rep. Clay, Wm. Lacy [D-MO-1]
Introduced: 2008-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights movements
Civil rights workers
Commemorations
Congressional tributes
Georgia
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Members of Congress
Minorities
Names
Racial discrimination
Sports and Recreation
Trails

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: 
John Lewis Civil Rights Trail System Act - Directs the Archivist of the United States to conduct a study of the feasibility of establishing the John Lewis Civil Rights Trail System to mark the geographic locations in the United States, including U.S. territories, of historically significant events related to struggles for civil rights based on racial equality. 

Requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish and maintain individual trails marking the geographic locations of such events. Authorizes the establishment of such a trail in each state where a significant civil rights event occurred.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Removing Impediments to Students Education Act

Bill: 110-hr-5157
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2008-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Ex-offenders
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Scholarships
Student aid
Student employment
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: 
Removing Impediments to Students Education Act or the RISE Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to repeal a provision which makes persons convicted of drug offenses ineligible to receive federal student financial assistance for specified periods. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To direct the United States Postal Service to designate a single, unique ZIP Code for Windsor Heights, Iowa.

Bill: 110-hr-5158
Sponsor: Rep. Boswell, Leonard L. [D-IA-3]
Introduced: 2008-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Iowa
Zip code

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: 
Directs the U.S. Postal Service to designate a single, unique ZIP Code that encompasses the entire city of Windsor Heights, Iowa.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Small Businesses Add Value for Employees Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5160
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2008-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Employee benefit plans
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Small business
Tax credits
Tax penalties

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: 
Small Businesses Add Value for Employees Act of 2008 or the SAVE Act of 2008 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to employer-established simple individual retirement accounts (IRAs) to: (1) repeal certain restrictions on rollovers from simple IRAs: (2) allow employers to elect to terminate qualified salary reduction arrangements at any time during the year; (3) repeal the enhanced 25% penalty on premature withdrawal made from simple IRAs within the first two plan years; (4) allow additional nonelective employer contributions to simple IRAs; (5) establish automatic deferral IRAs; and (6) increase the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on a certain chemical used in the production of textiles.

Bill: 110-hr-5162
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2008-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on a certain chemical used in the production of textiles.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on a certain chemical that is used for dyeing apparel home textiles.

Bill: 110-hr-5163
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2008-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on a certain chemical that is used for dyeing apparel home textiles.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on a certain chemical that is used for dyeing apparel home textiles.

Bill: 110-hr-5164
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2008-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on a certain chemical that is used for dyeing apparel home textiles.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on 4-Anilino-3-nitro-N-phenylbenzenesulphonamide.

Bill: 110-hr-5165
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2008-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on 4-Anilino-3-nitro-N-phenylbenzenesulphonamide.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Naphthalenedisulfonic acid.

Bill: 110-hr-5166
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2008-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Naphthalenedisulfonic acid.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Grow American Investment Now Jobs Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5169
Sponsor: Rep. Cantor, Eric [R-VA-7]
Introduced: 2008-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Income tax
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: 
Grow American Investment Now Jobs Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the maximum income tax rate on corporations, including personal service corporations, from 35 to 25%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
National Geologic Mapping Reauthorization Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5171
Sponsor: Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-20]
Introduced: 2008-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Archives
Authorization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Department of the Interior
Earth sciences
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental engineering
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal officials
Geographic information systems
Geology
Geophysical prediction
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Land use
Maps
Outdoor recreation
Paleontology
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Sports and Recreation
Strategic planning
Volcanoes

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: 
National Geologic Mapping Reauthorization Act of 2008 - Amends the National Geologic Mapping Act of 1992 to extend deadlines for development of a five-year strategic plan for the geologic mapping program and for appointment of the advisory committee. 

Removes from program objectives the development of a geophysical- and geochemical- map database. Directs that mapping priorities be based in part on the needs of the Department of the Interior land management agencies.

Modifies the composition of the advisory committee and increases the number of members on such committee. Requires the advisory committee, at the request of the President, the President's designee, the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives, or the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate, to provide an overview report on the quality, utility, and appropriateness of geologic maps (including maps of geologic hazards) used or disseminated by federal agencies for regulation or land-use planning. Directs that the national geologic map database include all maps developed with funding provided by the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, including under the federal, state, and education components.

Authorizes appropriations for each of FY2008 through FY2017. Increases the percentages allocated for the state and education components. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E110)
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Immediate Financial Assistance for America's Seniors Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5172
Sponsor: Rep. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN-2]
Introduced: 2008-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social Welfare
Social security beneficiaries
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: 
Immediate Financial Assistance for America's Seniors Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow social security recipients with earned income less than $3,000 a $300 refundable tax credit ($600 for married couples filing a joint tax return) in 2008. Reduces the amount of such credit by 5% of the amount by which the taxpayer's adjusted gross income exceeds $75,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To temporarily delay application of proposed changes to Medicaid payment rules for case management and targeted case management services.

Bill: 110-hr-5173
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2008-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Case management
Department of Health and Human Services
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Medicaid
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: 
Delays until April 1, 2009, implementation of proposed changes to payment rules under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act for case management and targeted case management services.

Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services, before such date, from taking any action to restrict coverage or payment under Medicaid if such action is more restrictive than the administrative action, policy, or practice that applies to coverage of, or payment for, such services under Medicaid on December 3, 2007.
 
Makes null and void any such action taken by the Secretary between December 4, 2007, and March 31, 2009, that is based in whole or in part on such interim final rule.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House