hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
A bill to require the President to update and modify the website recovery.gov.

Bill: 111-s-800
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Economic development
Economic performance and conditions
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Directs the President to modify and update the recovery.gov website to: (1) ensure that states, cities, and other general purpose political subdivisions of a state can easily ascertain whether such entity is eligible for any funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, any application deadlines that are applicable to the receipt of such funds, and the contact information of any entity responsible for the distribution of such funds; and (2) create an online database that catalogues all programs and activities under the Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4349)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Indian tribes to transfer the credit for electricity produced from renewable resources.

Bill: 111-s-802
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Income tax credits
Indian lands and resources rights

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an Indian tribe, in the case of a facility that uses a renewable energy resource to produce electricity in which such tribe has an ownership interest in the gross sales from such facility, to assign to any other person who has such an ownership interest any portion of the production from the facility that would, but for this Act, be allocated to such tribe for purposes of the renewable electricity production credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy Workforce Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-803
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health promotion and preventive care
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Healthy Workforce Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a 50% tax credit for the costs of providing employees with a qualified wellness program. Defines &quot;qualified wellness program&quot; as a program that is certified by the Secretary of Health and Human Services and that consists of a health awareness and education component, a behavioral change component, and a supportive environment component. Terminates such credit after 2017. 
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to institute an outreach program to inform businesses about the availability of such wellness program tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
School Day Factor Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-804
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
School Day Factor Act of 2009 - Modifies the calculation of basic, concentration, targeted, and education finance incentive grants under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to reward states that increase the minimum number of days in their school year and minimum number of instructional hours in their school day.
 
Makes such modification by factoring into such calculation the extent to which a state's minimum: (1) school year exceeds or falls below a base level school year which is set at 180 days for the 2009-2010 school year and rises five school days for each succeeding school year until it reaches 200 days for the 2013-2014 school year; and (2) instructional hours per school day exceed or fall below five and one-half hours. Removes any advantage gained by states that extend their school year, but reduce their minimum instructional hours per school day.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4354-4355)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4353-4354)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for a comprehensive study by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences to assess the water management, needs, and conservation of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River System.

Bill: 111-s-805
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Florida
Government studies and investigations
Lakes and rivers
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Water use and supply
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Army to enter into an agreement with the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a comprehensive study of the water management, needs, and conservation of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River System.
 
Requires that the study include: (1) a summary of the existing body of scientific knowledge on the ecology, hydrology, geomorphology, and biogeochemistry of the Apalachicola River and the greater River System, the ecosystem services provided by that River, the impact of variation in freshwater flow on the ecology of the river and downstream coastal ecosystems, and how to restore the natural hydraulic function of the System; (2) assessments of models that serve as the basis for the master manuals of the System, of water availability, supply options, demand-management alternatives, and socioeconomic factors that influence uses in the System, and of policies, regulations, and other factors that affect federal water project operations; and (3) recommendations for an approach to determine water limits that recognize the needs of all water users along the System and for additional measures to address the long-term watershed management needs of the System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-808
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Crime victims
Government information and archives
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Housing and community development funding
Interagency Council on Homelessness
Public-private cooperation
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009 - Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to consolidate housing assistance programs for homeless persons.
 
Declares that the mission of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness is to coordinate the federal response to homelessness and to create a national partnership at every level of government and with the private sector to reduce and end homelessness in the nation while maximizing the effectiveness of federal contributions to end homelessness.
 
Prescribes requirements for the selection of community homeless assistance planning boards, particularly for collaborative applicants.
 
Requires the relevant parties in a geographic area to establish a collaborative applicant to apply for a homeless assistance grant. Requires a collaborative applicant to: (1) design a collaborative process to develop such grant applications and evaluate project outcomes; (2) establish priorities for funding projects; (3) participate in the Consolidated Plan for the geographic area served by the applicant; (4) ensure operations of, and consistent participation by, project sponsors in a community-wide homeless management information system (HMIS); and (5) act as a unified funding agency to distribute HUD funds to other project sponsors in the applicable geographic area funds for their projects.
 
Prescribes requirements for: (1) an emergency solutions grants program; (2) a continuum of care grants program; (3) designation of high-performing communities; and (4) a rural housing stability assistance program.
 
Increases from 5% to 7.5% the amount of any emergency solutions grant a recipient may use for administrative purposes.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on: (1) appropriate administrative costs for implementing the emergency solutions grants program; and (2) homelessness and homeless assistance in rural areas. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4358-4368)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4357-4358)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Assistance for Workforce Recovery Program Act

Bill: 111-s-809
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economic performance and conditions
Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Higher education
Unemployment
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Assistance for Workforce Recovery Program Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1988 to require the Secretary of Labor to establish the Unemployment Tuition Assistance Program making tuition assistance available to individuals who became or become unemployed on or after December 1, 2007, due to the recession for their pursuit of education and job training at participating community colleges.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide tuition assistance payments directly to participating community colleges. Permits the Secretary to provide additional assistance to community colleges in high need and underserved areas.
 
Requires state unemployment compensation program applicants to be informed of their possible eligibility for participation in the Unemployment Tuition Assistance Program. Directs the Secretary to maintain a public Internet website containing Program information, including a list of participating community colleges.
 
Terminates the Program at the close of 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Ocean and Coastal Adaptation Planning Act

Bill: 111-s-810
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Great Lakes
Higher education
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Ocean and Coastal Adaptation Planning Act - Directs the Administrators of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to jointly establish four Institutes for Ocean and Coastal Adaptation to Climate Change and Ocean Acidification to: (1) assess, prepare for, and adapt to the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on ocean and coastal areas and resources, including the Great Lakes; and (2) create centers of excellence to document and predict coastal and ocean effects of climate change and ocean acidification and to serve as principal national and international resources for technical expertise on adaptation strategies. 
 
Requires the Administrators to jointly select and award a grant to one institution of higher education to serve as such an Institute in each of four regions: (1) the Great Lakes Region; (2) the Northeast Region; (3) the Southeast and Gulf Coast Region; and (4) the Western and Pacific Region. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Graduate Psychology Education Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-811
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Higher education
Medical education
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Graduate Psychology Education Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts to accredited doctoral, internship, and residency programs in psychology for the development and implementation of programs to provide interdisciplinary training in integrated health care settings to students in doctoral psychology programs. Requires such training to focus on the needs of underserved populations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Heritage Conservation Extension Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-812
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Rural Heritage Conservation Extension Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax deduction for charitable contributions by individuals and corporations of real property interests for conservation purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4369)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4369)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Teaching and Research Assistant Collective Bargaining Rights Act

Bill: 111-s-813
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
Higher education
Labor-management relations
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Teaching and Research Assistant Collective Bargaining Rights Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to provide collective bargaining rights for students enrolled at a private institution of higher education who perform work for remuneration at the institution's direction, regardless of whether the work relates to their courses of study (teaching and research assistants).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Miami Dade College Land Conveyance Act

Bill: 111-s-814
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Educational facilities and institutions
Florida
Higher education
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Miami Dade College Land Conveyance Act - Directs the Attorney General to convey to Miami Dade College in Miami Dade County, Florida, a parcel of land held by the Bureau of Prisons for a new educational building that includes a parking area with designated parking spaces for the Bureau of Prisons.

action_date: 2009-06-19
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Miami Dade College Land Conveyance Act - Directs the Attorney General to convey to Miami Dade College in Miami Dade County, Florida, a parcel of land held by the Bureau of Prisons for a new educational building that includes a parking area with designated parking spaces for the Bureau of Prisons.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S6854)
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S6854)
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6854)
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S6854)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt surviving spouses of United States citizens from the numerical limitations described in section 201 of such Act.

Bill: 111-s-815
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Immigration status and procedures
Marriage and family status

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow an alien widow of a U.S. citizen who was married for less than two years at the time of the citizen spouse's death who proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the marriage was entered into in good faith and not for the purpose of obtaining an immigration benefit to self-petition (within the required two years) for continued immediate relative status. Applies such provision to all applications and petitions pending on or after the date of enactment of this Act.
 
Extends the petition filing deadline for two years after the date of enactment of this Act for an alien spouse if: (1) the U.S. citizen spouse died before the date of enactment of this Act; (2) the alien and the citizen spouse were married for less than two years at the time of the citizen spouse's death; and (3) the alien has not remarried.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4370)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4369-4370)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Preservation of the Second Amendment in National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges Act

Bill: 111-s-816
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Firearms and explosives
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Preservation of the Second Amendment in National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges Act - Allows, except as provided under federal criminal law relating to the possession of firearms and other dangerous weapons in federal facilities, a person to possess, carry, and transport concealed, loaded, and operable firearms within a national park area or national wildlife refuge area in accordance with the laws of the state in which such area, or that portion thereof, is located. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to reauthorize the Enhancing Education Through Technology Act of 2001, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-s-818
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
 Amends title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to rename part D (Achievement through Technology and Innovation) and reauthorize it through FY2015.
 
Alters the current program to require states to use a portion of their allotted funds to develop challenging academic content and achievement standards to ensure that students are technologically literate before the end of grade eight. Specifies that such standards are only for tracking technological literacy and not for assessing adequate yearly progress (AYP) under title I. Permits technological literacy testing to be embedded in other state tests or performance-based assessments portfolios, or made through other valid and reliable means.
 
Requires states to use the bulk of their part D allotment for two new subgrant programs for local educational agencies (LEAs), devoting: (1) 60% for formula subgrants to improve teaching and learning through technology; and (2) 40% for competitive subgrants for systemic school redesign through technology integration. 
 
Requires LEAs to: (1) include a new or updated local long-range strategic educational technology plan in their applications; (2) use a specified percentage of each subgrant for teacher training; and (3) use each subgrant to acquire and apply technology to identify individual student learning needs and support individualized learning. Allows LEAs that receive funds for both programs to use all the funds for systemic school redesign through technology integration program activities.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) conduct an annual national study and report on the extent to which student technology literacy is attained by grade eight; (2) annually publish the results of state technology literacy assessments; and (3) implement, and update every five years, a National Education Technology Plan.
 
Requires the Secretary to award a competitive grant to an education technology research entity, or a partnership comprising such an entity and one or more educational, nonprofit, or research entities, to establish a National Center for Achievement Through Technology that will identify and disseminate promising practices and exemplary programs that effectively use educational technologies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4374-4379)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4373)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate