hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Long-Term Care and Retirement Security Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5559
Sponsor: Rep. Putnam, Adam H. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2008-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer protection
Employee health benefits
Excise tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Flexible benefit plans
Health
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Long-term care
Long-term care insurance
Medical economics
Standards
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax penalties

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: 
Long-Term Care and Retirement Security Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a tax deduction from gross income for long-term care insurance premiums; (2) include long-term care insurance in employee benefit cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements; (3) allow a tax credit for certain long-term care costs; and (4) set forth certain consumer protections for long-term care insurance contracts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Right to Clean Vehicles Act

Bill: 110-hr-5560
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2008-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: California
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Motor vehicle pollution control
Standards
State laws
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: 
Right to Clean Vehicles Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to approve the application of the state of California for a waiver of federal preemption of its motor vehicle emission standards. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Mortgage Stimulus Clarification Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5561
Sponsor: Rep. Buyer, Steve [R-IN-4]
Introduced: 2008-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Mortgages
Single family housing
Veterans' loans

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: 
Veterans Mortgage Stimulus Clarification Act of 2008 - Amends the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 to provide a temporary increase, during the period beginning February 13, 2008, and ending on December 31, 2008, in the maximum veterans' loan guaranty amount for housing loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the National Guard to provide support for the border control activities of the United States Customs and Border Protection of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-5562
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Heather [R-NM-1]
Introduced: 2008-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Border patrols
Immigration
International Affairs
Latin America
Mexico
National Guard

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: 
Provides for continued National Guard support for border control activities along the U.S.- Mexico border under Operation Jump Start until operational control of such border has been achieved.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to provide funding to a state that submits to the Secretary of State a state border control activities plan that meets certain requirements. Limits the number of National Guard that may be so deployed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Jenny's Law

Bill: 110-hr-5564
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2008-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Crime and Law Enforcement
Sex offenders
Veterans' benefits
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: 
Jenny's Law - Prohibits any person classified as a tier III sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act from interment or memorialization in a cemetery in the National Cemetery Administration or in Arlington National Cemetery.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a Federal income tax credit for certain home purchases.

Bill: 110-hr-5565
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2008-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Foreclosure
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Loan defaults
Mortgages
Single family housing
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow purchasers of a single-family principal residence a one-time tax credit for up to $15,000 of the purchase price. Requires such a residence to be purchased after February 29, 2008, and before March 1, 2009, and that it be: (1) a new previously unoccupied residence for which a building permit has been issued and construction began on or before September 1, 2007; (2) an owner-occupied residence with a mortgage indebtedness in default on or before March 1, 2008; or (3) in foreclosure and owned by the mortgagor or the mortgagor's agent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 to provide for a temporary increase in the maximum loan guaranty amount for housing loans guaranteed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 110-hr-5566
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2008-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Mortgages
Single family housing
Veterans' loans

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: 
 Amends the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 to provide a temporary increase, during the period beginning February 13, 2008, and ending on December 31, 2008, in the maximum veterans' loan guaranty amount for housing loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
To rescind earmarks designated in the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008.

Bill: 110-hr-5567
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2008-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Government spending reductions
Legislation
Rescission of appropriated funds
Waste in government spending

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: 
Prohibits funds from being obligated or otherwise made available for an item (earmark) listed in the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on H.R. 2082 (Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008) of the 110th Congress (H. Rept. 110-478) in compliance with Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives and Rule XLIV (Congressionally Directed Spending and Related Items) of the Standing Rules of the Senate, unless the President certifies that amounts would be obligated for such item without regard to its appearance in such statement. (Thus, rescinds earmarks designated in such Act.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select).
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Start Building a Real Fence Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5568
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2008-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Arizona
Boundaries
California
Illegal aliens
International Affairs
Latin America
Mexico
New Mexico
Security measures
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: 
Start Building a Real Fence Act of 2008 - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 with respect to the construction of physical fencing along the southern border of the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Helping Communities Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5572
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2008-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Authorization
Block grants
Community development
Counseling
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreclosure
Government Operations and Politics
Housing finance
Infrastructure
Loan defaults
Mortgages
Nonprofit organizations
Single family housing
Social Welfare
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: 
Helping Communities Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make grants to states for providing foreclosure-mitigation counseling to homeowners of owner-occupied single family homes with mortgage loans in default or in danger of default.
 

 
Requires each state recipient to provide at least 95% of the grant amounts to nonprofit entities.
 
Authorizes additional FY2008 appropriations for community development block grant assistance under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for a lump-sum payment for certain Federal employees who retire with a substantial amount of unused sick leave for which they would not otherwise receive any compensation or benefit, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-5573
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2008-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Compensation (Law)
Dismissal of employees
Early retirement
Federal employees
Law
Retirement
Sick leave
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: 
Entitles federal employees who satisfy age and service requirements for immediate or early retirement under the Federal Employees' Retirement System or the Foreign Service Pension System and who are separated from service or transferred to a position not subject to either of those retirement systems to a lump-sum payment for 15% of the amount of their accumulated sick leave exceeding 500 hours.

Prohibits such a payment from exceeding $10,000. Excludes hours of sick leave that are creditable in the computation of any other compensation or benefit.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the transport of hydrolysate from the Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado, or the Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky, to an off-site location.

Bill: 110-hr-5574
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]
Introduced: 2008-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Chemical warfare
Colorado
Environmental Protection
Hazardous wastes
Military and naval supplies
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from transporting hydrolysate (derived from the neutralization of VX nerve gas) from the Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado, or the Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky, to an off-site location for treatment, storage, or disposal.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Moratorium on Uncontrolled Power Plants Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5575
Sponsor: Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2008-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air pollution control
Building construction
Carbon dioxide
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Commerce
Electric power production
Emissions trading
Energy
Environmental technology
Industrial pollution
Law
Licenses
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: 
Moratorium on Uncontrolled Power Plants Act of 2008 - Prohibits authorities, until such time as a comprehensive program to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is in effect, from issuing permits for proposed new coal-fired electric generating units under the Clean Air Act that do not require the use of state-of-the-art control technology to capture and permanently sequester carbon dioxide emissions. 

Defines as &quot;state-of-the-art&quot; such technology that captures not less than 85% of the total carbon dioxide produced and permanently sequesters it in an approved geological formation in a manner that prevents its later release into the atmosphere. Defines a &quot;comprehensive program&quot; as one adopted by Congress or the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that requires immediate and significant reductions in GHGs across the U.S. economy and increases the reductions over time to reduce U.S. GHG emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.

Prohibits new coal-fired electric generating units that commence construction after the date of introduction of this Act and do not install and operate such state-of-the-art control technology from receiving GHG emission allowances free of charge or at any price less than the market price under any future program to address global warming. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Veteran Claims Backlog Reduction Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5576
Sponsor: Rep. Buyer, Steve [R-IN-4]
Introduced: 2008-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Claims
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disabled
Electronic government information
Employee training
Evidence (Law)
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Health information systems
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Law
Lawyers
Legal education
Medical records
Performance measurement
Science, Technology, Communications
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: 
Veteran Claims Backlog Reduction Act of 2008 - Requires that, in order to be recognized as an agent or attorney of a veteran in the preparation, presentation, and prosecution of veterans' benefit claims, an individual must certify to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs that he or she will assist the Secretary with the Secretary's duties to notify claimants of required claim information and evidence and to assist claimants in obtaining evidence. Directs the Secretary to establish a training program to provide training to individuals recognized as veterans' agents, attorneys, or representatives.
 
Requires a claim certified as fully developed and submitted by a veteran and a recognized agent, attorney, or representative who is a training graduate to be considered as fully developed and evaluated on the evidence provided.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) at least once every fiscal year, conduct a quality control assessment of 1% of the ratings specialists and veterans service representatives employed by the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA); (2) carry out a pilot program to develop and maintain a system for processing disability compensation claims using rules-based technology; (3) treat a veteran's beneficiary as a veteran claimant for incomplete claims as of the veteran's death; (4) evaluate training and assessment programs for VBA employees; (5) allow for the electronic monitoring of a veteran's claim status; and (6) carry out a pilot program allowing a veteran to submit a claim to any VA regional office.
 
Establishes in the VA an Executive Management Fellowship Program to provide private sector claims processing training and experience for VBA employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Introduced in House
To extend agricultural programs beyond March 15, 2008, to suspend permanent price support authorities beyond that date, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-5578
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2008-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agricultural subsidies
Animals
Environmental Protection
Farm lands
Groundwater
Habitat conservation
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Water Resources Development
Water conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: 
Extends: (1) with specified exceptions, agricultural programs under the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 until April 18, 2008; and (2) the farmland protection program, the ground and surface water conservation program, and the wildlife habitat incentives program.
 
 Suspends permanent price support authorities through April 18, 2008. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2008-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2008-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2008-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Missing Mercury in Manufacturing Monitoring and Mitigation Act

Bill: 110-hr-5580
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2008-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Business records
Child health
Chlorine
Commerce
Environmental health
Environmental research
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Hazardous wastes
Health
Industrial pollution
Manufacturing industries
Mercury
Science, Technology, Communications
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: 
Missing Mercury in Manufacturing Monitoring and Mitigation Act - Declares that the United States should develop policies and programs that will reduce: (1) mercury use and emissions; (2) mercury releases from the reservoir of mercury currently in use or circulation; and (3) exposures to mercury, particularly of women of childbearing age and young children.

Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to prohibit the manufacture of chlorine or caustic soda using mercury cells, effective January 1, 2012. Requires the owner or operator of each chlor-alkali facility to submit to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator and the state in which the facility is located an annual report for 2009-2012 concerning mercury waste, emissions, and content in products.
 
Requires the Administrator to : (1) conduct a comprehensive mercury inventory covering the life and closure of chlor-alkali facilities that cease operations on or after January 1, 2009; and (2) obtain mercury purchase records and such other information from each such facility as are necessary to determine the magnitude and nature of mercury releases from the facility into air and other environmental media.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of the Interior to notify units of local government when a Native American group files a petition to become a federally recognized Indian tribe and before the decision on the petition is made, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-5581
Sponsor: Rep. Campbell, John [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2008-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Indian lands
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to notify certain local governments: (1) within 60 days after a petition is filed requesting that a tribe be recognized, acknowledged, or reacknowledged as a federally recognized Indian tribe; (2) within 30 days after enactment of this Act regarding pending petitions; and (3) 90 days before a decision on a petition will be announced.

Describes a local government to be notified as a local city, parish, or county government located within a 25-mile radius of land that would be taken into trust for or transferred to, or for which jurisdiction would be given to, the tribe pursuant to the petition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Introduced in House