hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
United States Nuclear Fuel Management Corporation Establishment Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3661
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2008-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Executive reorganization
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Law
Liability for nuclear damages
Liability insurance
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear fuels
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear power plants
Radioactive wastes
Reactor fuel reprocessing
Revolving funds
Waste disposal sites

Summary:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: 
United States Nuclear Fuel Management Corporation Establishment Act of 2008 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to establish the United States Nuclear Fuel Management Corporation.
 
Authorizes the Corporation to: (1) manage a spent nuclear fuel enterprise to eliminate the need for federal funding for the management of spent nuclear fuel; and (2) assume responsibility for the activities, obligations, and use of resources of the federal government with respect to spent nuclear fuel management.
 

 

 
Establishes in the Treasury the United States Nuclear Fuel Management Corporation Fund.
 
Directs the President to appoint a Transition Manager to transfer spent nuclear fuel management obligations, functions, personnel, and funds from the Secretary of Energy to the Corporation.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the extension of a certain hydroelectric project located in the State of West Virginia.

Bill: 110-s-3664
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2008-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Hydroelectric power
Law
Licenses
Water Resources Development
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: 
Directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), upon licensee request, to extend to: (1) December 6, 2009, the deadline to commence construction of project number 9042 (West Virginia); and (2) 60 years the period of the license.
 
Requires FERC to reinstate the license if it expires before enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend chapter 63 of title 5, United States Code, to modify the rate of accrual of annual leave for administrative law judges, contract appeals board members, and immigration judges.

Bill: 110-s-3665
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2008-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law judges
Administrative remedies
Federal employees
Immigration
Leave of absence

Summary:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: 
Modifies the rate of accrual of annual leave for administrative law judges, contract appeals board members, and immigration judges to require accrual of one day of annual leave for each full biweekly pay period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10325)
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10325)
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Copper Theft Prevention Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3666
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2008-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business records
Checks
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Copper
Environmental Protection
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Larceny
Law
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Recycling industry
Recycling of waste products
Right of privacy
Scrap metals

Summary:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: 
Copper Theft Prevention Act of 2008 - Requires secondary copper recyclers (purchasers of copper that has served its original economic purpose) to keep records for at least one year of all purchases of copper property. Prohibits such recyclers from accepting cash in excess of $250 for the purchase of copper property. Imposes a civil penalty of up to $10,000 for violations of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Prevention of Unreasonable Fees Act

Bill: 110-s-3667
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2008-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Airports
Department of Transportation
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Law
Marine terminals
Parking facilities
Railroad terminals
Taxicabs
Terminals (Transportation)

Summary:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: 
Prevention of Unreasonable Fees Act - Prohibits an operator of a transportation terminal that uses federal funds for terminal construction, or for the purchase or lease of equipment installed there, from charging a fee to a provider of pre-arranged ground transportation service that meets state vehicle and intrastate passenger licensing requirements, except fees charged to the public to access the terminal or for use of ancillary facilities located there.
 
Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to: (1) prohibit or restrict a transportation terminal operator from requiring vehicles that cannot safely use public parking facilities to use segregated facilities provided the fee for segregated facilities is no more than that charged to the public for similar facilities; or (2) restrict the right of a state or its political subdivisions to require a license or fee (other than a prohibited transportation terminal fee) for a motor vehicle providing certain other prearranged ground transportation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Crime Victims with Disabilities Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3668
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2008-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal statistics
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Research grants
Surveys
Victims of crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: 
Crime Victims with Disabilities Act of 2008 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to states, local governments, Indian tribes, or tribal organizations to plan for or implement a collaboration program to investigate and remediate abuse of or crimes committed against individuals with disabilities and to provide services to such individuals. Requires the Attorney General to establish a national center to evaluate the effectiveness of such programs.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish a national interdisciplinary advisory council to develop a methodology for collecting data on violence against people with developmental and related disabilities; and (2) award grants to collect such data.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10326-10328)
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10326)
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to regulate certain State and local taxation of electronic commerce, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-3670
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2008-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Electronic commerce
Government Operations and Politics
Internet
Jurisdiction
Law
Local taxation
Sales tax
Science, Technology, Communications
State taxation
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: 
Prohibits a state from imposing any tax on electronic commerce (i.e., transactions conducted over the Internet or through Internet access) of any person unless that person has a physical presence in the state during the period to which such tax applies or is incorporated or domiciled in such state. Sets forth criteria for determining physical presence, including: (1) being physically in a state or assigning one or more employees to a state; (2) using the services of an agent to establish or maintain the electronic commerce in the state; or (3) leasing or owning tangible personal or real property in the state. Exempts from the definition of &quot;physical presence&quot; entering into an agreement to share revenue generated by the electronic commerce of another person, presence in the state for less than 15 days in a taxable year, and presence in a state to conduct limited or transient business activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10335)
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Over-the-Counter Swaps Speculation Limit Act

Bill: 110-s-3671
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2008-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Commodity exchanges
Fines (Penalties)
Futures trading
Law
Swaps (Finance)

Summary:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: 
Over-the-Counter Swaps Speculation Limit Act - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to direct the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to impose aggregate position limits on positions held on registered entities, foreign boards of trade, and each large over-the-counter transaction or class of large over-the-counter transactions that it determines to be appropriate in protecting the price discovery function of contracts under its jurisdiction.

Sets forth requirements for development and imposition of aggregate position limits.
 
Authorizes the CFTC to exempt a large over-the-counter transaction or class of large over-the-counter transactions from any aggregate position limit it has developed and imposed if it determines that the transaction is a bona fide hedging transaction.
 
Declares such aggregate position limits applicable to the net sum of the like positions held by a person on or in: (1) registered entities; (2) foreign boards of trade; and (3) over-the-counter commodity derivatives.
 
Authorizes the CFTC to impose a civil penalty for violations of requirements of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10336-10337)
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10335-10336)
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
ROAD Act

Bill: 110-s-3672
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2008-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government trust funds
Highway finance
Highway maintenance
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Interstate highway system
Road construction
Rural economic development

Summary:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: 
Rural Opportunity and Development Act or the ROAD Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a rural opportunity and development (ROAD) program to promote opportunity and economic development in rural states through projects for the preservation and improvement of highways.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Nationwide Freight and Personal Mobility Act

Bill: 110-s-3673
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2008-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government trust funds
Highway finance
Infrastructure
Interstate highway system
Road construction

Summary:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: 
Nationwide Freight and Personal Mobility Act - Specifies a formula for the automatic authorization of additional appropriations for National Highway System (NHS) improvement projects, starting FY2010, if apportionments fall below a certain level.
 
Revises the federal share of non-Interstate highway projects to make it: (1) 80% for non-NHS projects; and (2) 85% for NHS projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
21st Century Wellness Trust Act

Bill: 110-s-3674
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2008-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Health information systems
Health insurance
Health planning
Health services administration
Higher education
Law
Licenses
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical records
Presidential appointments
Preventive medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: 
21st Century Wellness Trust Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the Wellness Trust within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to be headed by the Trust Fund Board. Requires the Trustees to submit to Congress and make publicly available reports on: (1) a system for certification and recertification of prevention health workers to complement the health system; (2) payment methodologies and options for paying certified prevention health workers for clinical preventive care; and (3) the amount of money spent on prevention by public health, public and private health insurers, and applicable self-insured health plans during the most recent year for which such data is available.

Requires the Trustees to: (1) establish a plan for delivering and financing prevention priorities and implement pilot programs; and (2) issue a ranked list of designated prevention priorities based on the potential of an activity to improve health and the activity's cost effectiveness.

Directs the Trustees to establish, support, and sustain the infrastructure for an effective wellness system that includes: (1) an information clearinghouse on prevention priorities; (2) an electronic prevention record or registry; and (3) training for prevention health workers.

Establishes in the Treasury a Wellness Trust Fund. Sets forth funding sources.

Requires the Trust to enter into contracts to reimburse certified prevention health workers for the prevention services designated by the Trustees as prevention priorities. Directs the Trustees to: (1) develop targets for and determine payment methodologies for prevention priorities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10337)
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Compensation Fairness Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3675
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2008-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Labor and Employment
Salaries
Tax deductions
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: 
Compensation Fairness Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow an annual inflation adjustment to the $1 million limitation on the tax deduction for employee remuneration; and (2) repeal exceptions to such limitation for remuneration payable on a commission basis and for other performance-based compensation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10338)
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Volunteer Firefighter and EMS Support Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3676
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2008-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: College costs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency medicine
Employee health benefits
Employee training
Finance and Financial Sector
Fire fighters
Fringe benefits
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health insurance
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Life insurance
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: 
Volunteer Firefighter and EMS Support Act of 2008 - Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a program to provide funds to a state or local government, nonprofit firefighter association, or governmental or nongovernmental emergency medical services (EMS) organization, that carries out a volunteer firefighter incentive program in accordance with this Act.

Directs the Secretary, for each fiscal year in which a state or local government, nonprofit firefighter association, or governmental or nongovernmental EMS organization carries out a volunteer firefighter incentive program, to pay such government, association, or organization (organization), out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for such fiscal year, a sum equal to the total expenditures of funds not received from the federal government made by such organization for that fiscal year to carry out the program.

 Declares that this constitutes budget authority in advance of appropriations Acts and represents the obligation of the federal government to provide payment to a state or local government, nonprofit firefighter association, or governmental or nongovernmental EMS organization any amount so provided.

Requires reports from recipients, and from the Secretary annually, to Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Financial Crimes Accountability Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3677
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2008-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Bank fraud
Credit
Criminal investigation
Department of Justice
Derivative securities
Executive reorganization
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial services
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Mortgages
Prosecution
Secondary mortgage market
Swaps (Finance)

Summary:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: 
Financial Crimes Accountability Act of 2008 - Directs the Attorney General to establish within the Department of Justice (DOJ) a Special Joint Task Force on Financial Crimes to: (1) provide direction for the investigation and prosecution of financial crimes (i.e., fraud, misrepresentation, or malfeasance involving financial products); and (2) make recommendations to the Attorney General and the President on allocating resources and coordinating governmental efforts to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10338)
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Vietnam Human Rights Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3678
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2008-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Churches
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural relations
Democracy
Diplomacy
Dissenters
East Asia
Economic assistance
Education
Educational exchanges
Employee rights
Exchange of persons programs
Expropriation
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Freedom of speech
Freedom of the press
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Human rights
Immigration
International broadcasting
Labor and Employment
Law
Legislators
Military assistance
Negotiations
Political prisoners
Public demonstrations
Radio broadcasting
Refugees
Religion
Religious liberty
Right of assembly
Right of property
Right to travel
Rule of law
Science, Technology, Communications
Smuggling
Tariff preferences
Vietnam

Summary:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: 
Vietnam Human Rights Act of 2008 - Prohibits the federal government from providing the government of Vietnam with nonhumanitarian development, trade, economic, and security assistance during any fiscal year that exceeds the amount of such assistance provided during FY2008, unless such increases are matched or exceeded by additional funding for programs focusing on human rights and democracy promotion. 
 
Authorizes the President to waive such requirements if increased U.S. nonhumanitarian assistance would promote the purposes of this Act or it is otherwise in the U.S. national interest. 
 
Prohibits the President from providing certain duty-free treatment for Vietnam until the President certifies to Congress that the government of Vietnam protects freedom of association and does not engage in violations of workers' rights.
 
Authorizes the President to provide U.S. assistance through appropriate nongovernmental organizations and the Human Rights Defenders Fund for the support of individuals and organizations to promote human rights in Vietnam. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress regarding diplomacy with the government of Vietnam. 
 
Declares it is U.S. policy: (1) to take such measures as are necessary to overcome the jamming of Radio Free Asia by the government of Vietnam; and (2) that educational and cultural exchange programs with Vietnam should promote progress toward freedom and democracy. 
Declares it is U.S. policy to offer refugee resettlement to Vietnam nationals (including members of the Montagnard ethnic minority groups) who were eligible for the Humanitarian Resettlement program, the Orderly Departure program, the Resettlement Opportunities for Vietnamese Returnees program, the Amerasian Homecoming Act of 1988, or any other U.S. refugee program, but who were deemed ineligible for reasons of administrative error or certain circumstances beyond their control.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10338-10339)
action_date: 2008-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the credit for renewable electricity production to include electricity produced from biomass for on-site use.

Bill: 110-s-3679
Sponsor: Sen. Dole, Elizabeth [R-NC]
Introduced: 2008-10-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Biomass energy
Electric power production
Energy
Income tax
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2008-10-02
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the tax credit for producing electricity from closed or open-loop biomass facilities equipped with a metering device to determine electricity consumption or sale to allow a tax credit after 2008 for electricity produced and consumed at such facilities and to extend the credit period for such production.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2008-10-02
text: Introduced in Senate