hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
VetStar Veteran-Friendly Business Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5484
Sponsor: Rep. Teague, Harry [D-NM-2]
Introduced: 2010-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: 
VetStar Veteran-Friendly Business Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish the VetStar Award Program, to annually recognize businesses for their contributions to veterans' employment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Introduced in House
National Domestic Preparedness Consortium Enhancement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5485
Sponsor: Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-21]
Introduced: 2010-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Emergency planning and evacuation
Higher education
Homeland security
New York State
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: 
National Domestic Preparedness Consortium Enhancement Act of 2010 - Requires the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium to include the SUNY (State University of New York) National Center for Security and Preparedness in order to train state, local, and tribal emergency response providers to prepare for and respond to acts of terrorism. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology.
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2010-06-08
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Water Resources Research Amendments Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5487
Sponsor: Rep. Napolitano, Grace F. [D-CA-38]
Introduced: 2010-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Energy efficiency and conservation
Research administration and funding
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: 
Water Resources Research Amendments Act of 2010 - Amends the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 to: (1) authorize appropriations for water resources research and technology institutes through FY2016; and (2) require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct his or her evaluation of each institute's research and effectiveness as an institution for planning, conducting, and arranging for research at least once every five (currently, three) years.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-17
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Charter School Transparency and Accountability Act

Bill: 111-hr-5488
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2010-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: 
Charter School Transparency and Accountability Act - Requires each authorized public chartering agency, after the end of each school year, to publish on the Internet a detailed breakdown of the financial expenditures during that school year of each authorized or approved charter school that received, directly or indirectly, funds provided during the school year by the Secretary of Education.
 
Penalizes agency noncompliance by denying federal funds to any such charter school until the agency complies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 14102(a)(1)(A) of title 40, United States Code, to provide that Bullock County, Alabama, is included in the definition of the Appalachian region for purposes of Appalachian regional development.

Bill: 111-hr-5489
Sponsor: Rep. Bright, Bobby [D-AL-2]
Introduced: 2010-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Alabama
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: 
Includes Bullock County, Alabama, within the definition of &quot;Appalachian region&quot; for purposes of provisions concerning Appalachian regional development.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against excise taxes with respect to distilled spirits and wine for certain distilled spirits or wine produced from domestic agricultural waste or byproducts.

Bill: 111-hr-5490
Sponsor: Rep. Brown-Waite, Ginny [R-FL-5]
Introduced: 2010-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Food industry and services
Sales and excise taxes
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an excise tax credit for: (1) 10% of the distilled spirits tax rate multiplied by the number of proof gallons of rum produced in the United States (as defined in section 2208.40.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States) using domestic agricultural waste or byproducts as the principal distilling source; and (2) the number of gallons of distilled spirits or wines which are produced in the United States using domestic citrus waste or byproducts as the principal distilling or fermenting source, multiplied by 10% of the excise tax on wines.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Caregiver Tax Relief Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5491
Sponsor: Rep. Carney, Christopher P. [D-PA-10]
Introduced: 2010-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Family relationships
Income tax credits
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: 
Caregiver Tax Relief Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow caregivers of family members or dependents with long-term care needs a refundable income-based tax credit of $2,500 for each such family member or dependent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Fresh Start Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5492
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2010-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: 
Fresh Start Act of 2010 - Amends the federal criminal code to allow an individual convicted of a nonviolent criminal offense to file a petition for expungement of the record of such conviction. Allows expungement if such individual: (1) has never been convicted of any criminal offense other than the nonviolent offense for which expungement is sought; (2) has fulfilled all requirements of the sentence of the court, including payment of all fines, restitution, or assessments and completion of terms of imprisonment and probation; and (3) has remained free (if required by the court's sentence) from dependency on or abuse of alcohol or a controlled substance for at least one year.
 
Requires the Attorney General to maintain an unaltered nonpublic copy of expunged criminal records, to be disclosed for limited purposes to federal, state, or local law enforcement agencies.
 
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to increase by 5% grant funding under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program to states that implement expungement procedures substantially similar to the procedures enacted by this Act. Decreases such grant funding by 5% for states that fail to adopt expungement procedures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to transfer certain properties to the District of Columbia.

Bill: 111-hr-5494
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: District of Columbia
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: 
Requires the Director of the National Park Service (NPS) and the Secretary of the Interior to transfer specified lands to the District of Columbia. 

action_date: 2010-09-16
text: 
 Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer specified lands to the District of Columbia. 

action_date: 2010-09-22
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on September 16, 2010. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer specified lands to the District of Columbia. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6825-6826)
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H6825-6826)
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5494.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6825-6826)
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Mrs. Christensen moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2010-09-16
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 350.
action_date: 2010-09-16
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 111-605.
action_date: 2010-09-16
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 111-605.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Lead Act

Bill: 111-hr-5495
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2010-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Performance measurement
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: 
Lead Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to direct the Secretary of Education to award a competitive grant to a partnership between a nonprofit organization and an institution of higher education (IHE) to establish a school leadership academy that develops and provides evidence-based leadership training to school leaders (turnaround leaders) and their supporting mentors (turnaround mentors) to transform and improve turnaround schools.
 
Defines &quot;turnaround schools&quot; as schools that are subject to corrective action or restructuring under the ESEA or are secondary schools that have a graduation rate below 60%.
 
Requires the Secretary to award competitive grants to partnerships between or among a nonprofit organization, IHE, or a nonprofit organization and an IHE, and state or local educational agencies to establish school leadership centers of excellence, after the initial cohort of turnaround leaders and mentors have been trained by the school leadership academy.
 
Directs such centers to: (1) adopt and adapt the leadership training program developed by the school leadership academy so that such program is informed, on an ongoing basis, by evidence regarding effective school leadership and meets the needs of the local educational agencies they serve; and (2) work with the school leadership academy to best train and support program participants.
 
Requires leadership training participants at the academy and the centers of excellence to receive a stipend for participating and agree to serve for at least four years at turnaround schools.
 
Requires the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences to support: (1) research on identifying the skills and conditions necessary for school leaders to improve turnaround schools; and (2) evaluations of this Act's programs and activities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the public telecommunications facilities assistance program.

Bill: 111-hr-5496
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Charles A. [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2010-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to repeal provisions relating to assistance for the planning and construction of public telecommunications facilities, including regarding grants for such facilities and a requirement to develop a related long term plan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Check the Debt Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5497
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Charles A. [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2010-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: 
Check the Debt Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers (other than nonresident aliens) to designate $3 or more of their tax liability ($6 for married couples filing a joint tax return) to reduce the public debt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4334)
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to authorize advances from Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Bill: 111-hr-5499
Sponsor: Rep. Mica, John L. [R-FL-7]
Introduced: 2010-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Accidents
Budget process
Coast guard
Congressional oversight
Government trust funds
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Oil and gas
Pollution liability
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: 
Amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to exempt advances to the Coast Guard in connection with the explosion on, and sinking of, the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon from the requirement that amounts in the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund shall be available only as provided in annual appropriations. Limits such advances to a maximum of $100 million each, with the total amount for all advances not to exceed $1 billion for any single incident and $500 million for natural resource damage assessments and claims for any single incident, provided that, except in the case of payments of removal costs, an advance may be made only if the amount in the Fund after such advance will not be less than $30 million. Requires the Coast Guard to notify Congress of the amount advanced and the facts and circumstances necessitating the advance within seven days of the advance.
 
Requires the budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go-Act of 2010, to be determined by reference to the latest statement titled &quot;Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation&quot; for this Act submitted by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, provided that such statement has been submitted prior to the vote on passage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Steel Industry National Historic Site Act

Bill: 111-hr-5500
Sponsor: Rep. Doyle, Michael F. [D-PA-14]
Introduced: 2010-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Historical and cultural resources
Industrial facilities
Land transfers
Manufacturing
Metals
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Pennsylvania

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Steel Industry National Historic Site Act - Establishes the Steel Industry National Historic Site in Pennsylvania as a unit of the National Park System. 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire specified property for inclusion within such Site by donation. 
 Requires the Secretary to submit a general management plan for the Site to Congress.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
America Stands with Israel Act

Bill: 111-hr-5501
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2010-06-10 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arab-Israeli relations
Gaza Strip
Government studies and investigations
Human rights
International organizations and cooperation
Israel
Marine and inland water transportation
Middle East
Sanctions
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: 
America Stands with Israel Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States: (1) supports Israel's right to defend itself; (2) supports Israel's naval blockade of Gaza; and (3) should oppose any investigation by the United Nations (U.N.) into the flotilla incident (involving the May 2010 Israeli interception of ships carrying supplies to Gaza).
 
 
Requires the Secretary of State to direct the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations to cease U.S. participation in and membership on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
 
Prohibits the Secretary from contributing any funds to the United Nations for an investigation into the flotilla incident. 
 
Directs the Secretary to ensure that no U.S. contributions to the United Nations are used for any such investigation, including by withholding from U.S. contributions to the regularly assessed biennial budget of the United Nations amounts equal to any amounts so expended.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Nuclear Used Fuel Prize Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5505
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2010-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Nuclear power
Radioactive wastes and releases
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: 
Nuclear Used Fuel Prize Act of 2010 - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to implement a program to award cash prizes competitively for research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of nuclear used fuel storage.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to enter into an agreement with a private, nonprofit entity to administer the prize competition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Science and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to House Science and Technology
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1066)
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House