hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Excluding Abortion Coverage from Health Reform Act

Bill: 111-s-3723
Sponsor: Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK]
Introduced: 2010-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: 
Excluding Abortion Coverage from Health Reform Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to prohibit federal funds from being to used to cover any part of the costs of any health plan that includes coverage of abortion services. (Currently, federal funds cannot be used for abortion services and plans receiving federal funds must keep federal funds segregated from any funds for abortion services.) 
 
Requires any qualified health benefit plan offered through an Exchange that includes coverage for abortions to also offer a qualified health benefit plan through the Exchange that is identical in every respect except that it does not cover abortions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to direct the Secretary of Education to pay to Fort Lewis College in the State of Colorado an amount equal to the tuition charges for Indian students who are not residents of the State of Colorado.

Bill: 111-s-3724
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2010-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Colorado
Education programs funding
Federal-Indian relations
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Intergovernmental relations
Minority education
State and local finance
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Education, beginning in FY2011, to pay to Fort Lewis College in Colorado an amount equal to the charges for tuition for Indian students who are not residents of Colorado and who are enrolled in the College. 
 
Limits the amount paid to Fort Lewis College per fiscal year to an amount equal to the charges for tuition for Indian students who were Colorado non-residents and who were enrolled for the academic year 2009-2010. 
 
Treats amounts received under this Act as a reimbursement from Colorado to Fort Lewis College for complying with federal law requiring the admission of Indian students at the College free of charge of tuition. 
 
Prohibits anything in this Act from being construed as relieving Colorado from reimbursing Fort Lewis College for each academic year: (1) with respect to Indian students who are not Colorado residents and who are enrolled in Fort Lewis College, any amount of the charges for tuition for such enrolled Indian students which exceeds the amount received under this Act; and (2) with respect to Indian students who are Colorado residents and who are enrolled in Fort Lewis College, an amount equal to the charges for tuition for such enrolled Indian students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Supporting Adoptive Families Act

Bill: 111-s-3726
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2010-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Adoption and foster care
Advisory bodies
Child health
Department of Health and Human Services
Government information and archives
Health programs administration and funding
Mental health
Poverty and welfare assistance
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: 
Supporting Adoptive Families Act - Amends part B (Child and Family Services) of title IV of the Social Security Act to make it a purpose of the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Child Welfare Services Program to promote efforts to prevent children from entering the foster care system through the provision of pre- and post-adoptive support services.
 
 
Extends adoption promotion and support services to those designed to support adoptions from other countries as well as domestic adoptions. Specifies related pre- and post-adoptive support services. 
 
Amends SSA title IV part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) to revise requirements for state expenditures for adoption support services.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to award grants or cooperative agreements to eligible entities to develop and implement state-sponsored statewide or tribal post-adoption mental health service programs for all adopted children. 
 
Amends SSA title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) to direct the Secretary, as part of the child support and paternity data collection system, to promulgate final regulations requiring the states to collect and report information regarding children adopted within the United States or from other countries who enter into state custody as a result of the disruption of a placement for adoption or the dissolution of an adoption. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Stalkers Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3727
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2010-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aging
Assault and harassment offenses
Computer security and identity theft
Crimes against children
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Law enforcement administration and funding
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: 
Stalkers Act of 2010 - Amends the federal criminal code to revise the definition of stalking and impose criminal penalties on anyone who, with intent to kill, physically injure, harass, or intimidate another person or to place a person under surveillance with the intent to kill, physically injure, harass, or intimidate such person, travels in interstate or foreign commerce or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States or enters or leaves Indian country and: (1) causes or attempts to cause bodily injury or serious emotional distress to another person; or (2) engages in conduct that would be reasonably expected to cause serious emotional distress to another person.
 
Imposes the same criminal penalties on anyone who, with intent to kill, physically injure, harass, or intimidate another person, engages in a course of conduct that: (1) uses the mail, any interactive computer service, or any other facility of interstate or foreign commerce; and (2) causes or attempts to cause bodily injury or significant emotional distress to another person or occurs in circumstances where the conduct would be reasonably expected to cause another person significant emotional distress.
 
Increases by 5 years the penalty for a stalking offense if: (1) the offense involves conduct in violation of a protection order; or (2) the victim of the offense is under the age of 18 or over the age of 65.
 
Requires the annual report of the Attorney General to include an evaluation of efforts to enforce laws relating to stalking and to identify and describe elements of such efforts that constitute the best practices for the enforcement of such laws.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6889)
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Payment in Lieu of Taxes Amendments Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3730
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2010-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Forests, forestry, trees
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Parks, recreation areas, trails
State and local finance
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: 
Payment in Lieu of Taxes Amendments Act of 2010 - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to submit to Congress by January 15 of each year a list of the states that have not submitted the data required to calculate federal payments in lieu of taxes made by the Secretary to each unit of local government in which entitlement land is located. 
 
Instructs the Secretary, by February 1 of each year, to publish in the Federal Register and on the Department of the Interior's website a list of the states that have not submitted the required data and to update the list published on such website to reflect any changes. 
 
Directs the Secretary to issue such payments by May 1 of each fiscal year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Next Generation Public Safety Device Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3731
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2010-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Emergency communications systems
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Fires
Government trust funds
Health personnel
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Law enforcement officers
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: 
Next Generation Public Safety Device Act of 2010 - Directs the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to conduct a competition to award grants to eligible entities for the development of nonstationary radio over Internet protocol (RoIP) devices that support mission-critical broadband voice and data communications of public safety personnel. 
 
Establishes a working group to provide the Assistant Secretary with advice and technical assistance in conducting the competition.
 
Requires the Assistant Secretary to establish: (1) requirements for the RoIP devices developed, in whole or in part, using a grant awarded under this Act; and (2) a three-stage process under which to award such grants to eligible entities. Allows the award of a grant in a stage only to an eligible entity that: (1) submits a bid meeting the specifications developed for that stage; and (2) provides an assurance that the grant funds will be used to develop an RoIP device in accordance with the specifications included in that bid. Sets forth additional factors for the Assistant Secretary to consider when making a grant. 
 
Requires the Comptroller General to conduct an audit of such competition. 
 
Directs the FCC to establish a voluntary labeling program for the identification of nonstationary RoIP devices that meet such criteria as considered appropriate to support mission-critical broadband voice and data communications of public safety personnel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to establish within the Department of Education the Innovation Inspiration school grant program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-s-3732
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2010-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive matching grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to: (1) promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in secondary schools; (2) support the participation of secondary school students in nonprofit robotics or STEM competitions; and (3) broaden secondary school students' access to STEM careers.
 
Allows secondary schools to apply for such grants if their LEA does not.
 
Gives priority to grant applications that address the needs of: (1) rural or urban schools; (2) low-performing schools or school districts; or (3) LEAs or schools that serve at least 10,000 poor children or a student population at least 20% of which is poor.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to waive all or part of the matching requirement for financially-strapped LEAs or schools.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) publicize the grant program and nontraditional STEM teaching methods; and (2) evaluate the efficacy of the grant program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6894)
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Achievement Through Prevention Act

Bill: 111-s-3733
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2010-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: 
Achievement Through Prevention Act - Amends part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to allow states, local educational agencies, and schools to use school improvement funds to implement schoolwide positive behavioral interventions and supports and early intervening services and coordinate them with similar activities carried out under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. (Early intervening services are a set of coordinated services for students in kindergarten through grade 12 who are not currently identified as needing special education or related services, but who need additional academic and behavioral support to succeed in a general education environment.)
 
Amends part D of title I of the ESEA to require states that receive funds for the education of neglected or delinquent children or youth to use positive behavioral interventions and supports and early intervening services to improve such students' academic performance and reduce their need for discipline.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Czar Accountability Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3734
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2010-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of State
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Federal officials
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: 
Czar Accountability Act of 2010 - Directs the President, by January 1, 2011, and every six months thereafter, to submit a report to specified congressional committees that: (1) identifies each employee of the Executive Office of the President who is not appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and who reports directly to the President and each employee of the Department of State who is not appointed by and with such advice and consent and who is an envoy or special representative; (2) describes the duties of each such employee; and (3) includes a certification that each such employee of Executive Office of the President is not exercising significant authority under U.S. law, that each such employee of the State Department is not an ambassador, other public minister, or consul, and that each such employee is not exercising any power that has been expressly delegated to the President by the Constitution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to improve the use of certain registered pesticides.

Bill: 111-s-3735
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2010-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Licensing and registrations
Pest management

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: 
Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to provide that no permit shall be required for: (1) the use of a pesticide that is registered or otherwise authorized for use under such Act; (2) the use of a biological control organism for the prevention, control, or eradication of a plant pest or noxious weed that is in accordance with the Plant Protection Act; or (3) the conduct of any other plant pest, noxious weed, or pest control activity conducted in accordance with the Plant Protection Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6895)
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6894-6895)
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to allow States to opt out of the corn ethanol portions of the renewable fuel standard.

Bill: 111-s-3736
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2010-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Motor fuels

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: 
Amends the Clean Air Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to allow a state to opt out of the renewable fuel standard, other than with respect to the applicable volume of advanced biofuel, cellulosic biofuel, or biomass-based diesel, upon state enactment of a law electing to opt out.
 
Requires the Administrator, upon a state making such election, to: (1) reduce the applicable volume of renewable fuel by the percentage that reflects the national gasoline consumption attributable to the state; and (2) provide for the generation of credits for all gasoline provided through a fuel terminal in the state to be calculated as though the gasoline were blended with the maximum allowable ethanol content of gasoline to apply toward the applicable volume of renewable fuel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6895)
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Consistency, Accuracy, Responsibility, and Excellence in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3737
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2010-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug therapy
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Licensing and registrations
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: 
Consistency, Accuracy, Responsibility, and Excellence in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Act of 2010 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require personnel who perform or plan the technical component of either medical imaging examinations or radiation therapy procedures for medical purposes to possess, effective January 1, 2013: (1) certification in each medical imaging or radiation therapy modality and service they plan or perform from a certification organization designated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS); or (2) state licensure or certification where such services and modalities are within the scope of practice as defined by the state for such profession and where the requirements for licensure, certification, or registration meet or exceed the standards established by the Secretary. Exempts physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants from the requirements of this Act.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish minimum standards for personnel who perform, plan, evaluate, or verify patient dose for medical imaging examinations or radiation therapy procedures; (2) establish a program for designating certification organizations after consideration of specified criteria; (3) provide a process for individuals whose training or experience are determined to be equal to, or in excess of, those of a graduate of an accredited educational program in that specialty to demonstrate that their experience meets the educational standards for qualified personnel in their imaging modality or radiation therapy procedures; and (4) publish a list of approved accrediting bodies for such certification organizations. Authorizes the Secretary to develop alternative standards for rural or health professional shortage areas as appropriate to ensure access to quality medical imaging.
 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to allow Medicare payment for medical imaging and radiation therapy services, only if the examination or procedure is planned or performed by an individual who meets this Act's requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Clean Energy Technology Leadership Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3738
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2010-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Building construction
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Commuting
Congressional oversight
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy research
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental technology
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Manufacturing
Motor fuels
Oil and gas
Public transit
Securities
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: 
Clean Energy Technology Leadership Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase and extend through 2014 the tax credit for investment in a qualifying advanced energy project; (2) increase and extend the tax credit for energy-efficient appliances; (3) allow an enhanced tax deduction between 2011 and 2014 for income attributable to the domestic production of advanced alternative energy technology; (4) allow an elective payment for certain energy property placed in service before January 1, 2013; (5) increase the amount of the national limitation on the issuance of new clean renewable energy bonds; (6) increase in 2011 and 2012 the tax credit for energy research expenses; (7) extend through 2012 the tax credits for new energy efficient homes and the nonbusiness energy credit; (8) increase the rate of the tax deduction for energy efficient commercial building property installed on or in a certified historic structure; (9) allow a new tax credit for qualified natural gas motor vehicles; (10) allow the issuance of tax-exempt natural gas vehicle bonds; (11) allow expensing of the cost of any qualified natural gas vehicle manufacturing facility property; (12) extend through 2012 the parity provisions for transit and parking transportation fringe benefits; (13) extend the tax deduction for alternative fuel vehicle refueling property expenditures; (14) extend through 2012 the income and excise tax credits for biodiesel and renewable diesel; and (15) include within the definition of &quot;cellulosic biofuel,&quot; for purposes of the income tax credit for alcohol used as fuel, algae-based biofuel.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress by January 1, 2013, evaluating all temporary and permanent energy tax incentives in effect on the date of the report. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6895-6896)
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate