hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
NEPA Certainty Act

Bill: 111-s-3230
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2010-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: 
NEPA Certainty Act - Declares that the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) should not be used to document, predict, or mitigate the climate effects of specific federal actions. Provides that compliance with NEPA does not include consideration of: (1) the greenhouse gas emissions, or any climate change effects of those emissions, of a proposed action and alternative actions; or (2) the relationship of climate change effects to a proposed action or alternatives, including the relationship to proposal design, environmental impacts, mitigation, and adaptation measures.
 
Declares that this Act does not preempt or interfere with: (1) any authority to consider the climate change effects of proposed legislation or regulations specifically addressing greenhouse gas emissions; or (2) requirements to consider the potential effects of climate change on proposals for agency action during planning or design processes under provisions of law other than NEPA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
GREEN Jobs Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3231
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2010-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Income tax credits
Motor fuels
Sales and excise taxes
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: 
Grow Renewable Energy from Ethanol Naturally Jobs Act of 2010 or the GREEN Jobs Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2015 the income and excise tax credits for alcohol used as fuel, the cellulosic biofuel producer tax credit, and the reduced credit for ethanol blenders.
 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend until 2016 the additional tariff on ethyl alcohol blends (ethanol) used as fuel. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2478)
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Spouses Employment Act

Bill: 111-s-3232
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2010-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Marriage and family status
Military personnel and dependents
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: 
Military Spouses Employment Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include spouses of members of the Armed Forces on extended active duty (more than 90 days or for an indefinite period) as members of a targeted group for purposes of the work opportunity tax credit (thus giving employers a tax incentive for hiring military spouses).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Surplus Uranium Disposition Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3233
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2010-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property
Nuclear power
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: 
Surplus Uranium Disposition Act of 2010 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to authorize the Secretary of Energy to barter, transfer, or sell uranium to eligible entities at fair market value.
 
Requires eligible entities to: (1) obtain a combined operating license for a reactor approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC); and (2) possess a license from the NRC in order to obtain uranium under this Act.
 
Requires the Secretary of Energy to offer to barter, transfer, or sell to eligible entities, on a first-come, first-served basis and at fair market value, 20 million pounds of uranium for initial cores for projects to build new reactors.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to barter, transfer, or sell uranium to eligible entities on a first-come, first-served basis, at fair market value following a prescribed schedule for 2010-2013 and subsequent years.
 
Requires a recipient to sell such uranium at fair market value.
 
 
Prohibits the use of funds or other value obtained from the barter, transfer, or sale of uranium, without a specific appropriation by Congress, to implement other programs of the Department of Energy (DOE).
 
 Requires the Secretary to: (1) maintain a sufficient inventory of uranium to meet current and foreseeable needs of the missions and programs of DOE and designated agencies; and (2) maintain a reserve inventory of uranium that contains at least 20 million pounds of uranium.
 
Permits the Secretary to release uranium from the reserve inventory only if a national energy emergency is declared by the President.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-699.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
HEARTH Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3235
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2010-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: 
Helping Expedite and Advance Responsible Tribal Homeownership Act of 2010 or HEARTH Act of 2010 - Extends to any Indian tribe the discretion granted under current law only to the Navajo Nation to lease restricted lands without the approval of the Secretary of the Interior in specified circumstances.

action_date: 2010-12-20
text: 
Helping Expedite and Advance Responsible Tribal Homeownership Act of 2010 or HEARTH Act of 2010 - Extends to any Indian tribe the discretion granted under current law only to the Navajo Nation to lease restricted lands for business, agricultural, public, religious, educational, recreational, or residential purposes without the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. (The Secretary must still approve the tribal regulations under which those leases are executed and mining leases still require the Secretary's approval.)
 
Sets forth the environmental review process required under tribal lease regulations before those regulations obtain the Secretary's approval. Requires the process to identify and evaluate any significant effects a proposed lease may have on the environment and allow public comment on those effects. 
 
Allows tribes to rely on a federal environmental review process rather than the tribal environmental review process if the project under review is federally funded.
 
Directs the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to report to Congress on the history and experience of Indian tribes that have chosen to assume the BIA's responsibility for operating the Indian Land Title and Records Office.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-20
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 719.
action_date: 2010-12-20
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Dorgan with an amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2010-12-20
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Dorgan with an amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2010-06-30
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
National Domestic Preparedness Consortium Enhancement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3236
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2010-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Emergency planning and evacuation
Higher education
Homeland security
New York State

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-21
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. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the World War II members of the Civil Air Patrol.

Bill: 111-s-3237
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2010-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Congressional tributes
Homeland security
Military civil functions

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: 
Directs the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to arrange for the award of a single Congressional Gold Medal to honor collectively the World War II members of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) in recognition of their military service and exemplary record during World War II. 
 
Requires the Medal's display at the Smithsonian Institution. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Medal should be made available for display elsewhere, particularly at locations associated with the CAP.
 
Permits the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold medal, at a price sufficient to cover the costs of the medals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Act

Bill: 111-s-3238
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2010-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Crime victims
Department of Defense
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Monuments and memorials
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
New York City
Pennsylvania
Terrorism
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: 
Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Act - Authorizes the President to award a Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Congressional Medal to: (1) the personal representative or next of kin of each individual who died as a direct result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; (2) the Flight 93 National Memorial Project in Pennsylvania; (3) the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York; and (4) the Pentagon Memorial Project.
 
Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike three designs of such medal to honor, respectively: (1) those who lost their lives in the the attack at the World Trade Center; (2) the passengers and crew aboard United Airlines Flight 93 that was brought down in rural Pennsylvania; and (3) those who lost their lives at the Pentagon.
 
Directs the Secretary to strike bronze duplicates of such medal for presentation to each precinct house, firehouse, emergency response station, or other duty station or place of employment to which each early responder who perished as a direct result of such attacks was assigned on September 11, 2001. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to repeal unwarranted provisions from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and to more efficiently use taxpayer dollars in health care spending.

Bill: 111-s-3239
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2010-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Environmental health
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medicaid
Medical research
Medicare
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: 
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to repeal a specified exception for certain hospitals to the special rule for FY2010 regarding use of a particular hospital wage index (promulgated in the Federal Register on August 27, 2009) in &quot;Section 508&quot; hospital reclassifications. (&quot;Section 508&quot; refers to Section 508 of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, which allows the temporary reclassification of a hospital with a low Medicare area wage index, for reimbursement purposes, to a nearby location with a higher Medicare area wage index, so that the &quot;Section 508 hospital&quot; will receive the higher Medicare reimbursement rate.)
 
Repeals as well PPACA provisions that: (1) grant Medicare coverage to individuals exposed to certain environmental health hazards; (2) increase the Medicare reimbursement for frontier states; and (3) authorize appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for debt service on, or direct construction or renovation of, a health care facility that provides research, inpatient tertiary care, or outpatient clinical services and is critical for the provision of greater access to health care within a state.
 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to reduce the special adjustment to the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for states recovering from a major disaster.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2519)
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Foreign-Held Debt Transparency and Threat Assessment Act

Bill: 111-s-3240
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2010-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Asia
Budget deficits and national debt
China
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Foreign loans and debt

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: 
Foreign-Held Debt Transparency and Threat Assessment Act - Expresses the sense of Congress about the growing federal debt of the United States, the increasing U.S. dependence on foreign creditors like its largest foreign creditor, the People's Republic of China, whose holdings could give China a tool with which to manipulate U.S. policymaking (including with respect to Taiwan) and pose a direct threat to the national economy and national security.
 
Directs the President to report quarterly to certain congressional committees on the risks posed by foreign holdings of U.S. debt instruments, and make such report public on the Internet.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to report annually to certain congressional committees on such risks.
 
Directs the President to formulate, report to the appropriate congressional committees, and implement a plan of action to reduce an unsustainable level of risk to an acceptable and sustainable level, in a manner that results in a reduction in federal spending, in any case in which the President or the Comptroller General makes specified determinations that a foreign country's holdings of U.S. debt instruments pose an unacceptable risk to long-term national security or economic stability, or that the levels of risk posed by the federal debt are unsustainable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Teacher and Principal Improvement Act

Bill: 111-s-3242
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2010-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: 
Teacher and Principal Improvement Act - Amends title II (Preparing, Training, and Recruiting High Quality Teachers and Principals) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to create a new Part E: Building School Capacity for Effective Teaching and Leadership.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to allot grants to states for subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to improve teacher and principal quality through a system of teacher and principal induction, professional development, and evaluation that is developed, implemented, and evaluated in collaboration with local teacher, principal, and school leader organizations and preparation programs.
 
Requires LEAs to include in such system: (1) a comprehensive, coherent, high quality formalized induction program for beginning teachers during their first two years of full-time employment; (2) high-quality effective professional development for teachers, principals, school librarians, and other school leaders at their lowest achieving schools; (3) a rigorous, transparent, and equitable teacher and principal evaluation system for all their schools; (4) ongoing high-quality support, coaching, and professional development for principals and other school leaders at their lowest achieving schools; (5) opportunities for teachers to assume new school leadership roles and training regarding such roles; and (6) significant and sustainable stipends above a teacher's base salary for teachers that serve as mentors, instructional coaches, teacher leaders, or evaluators under these programs.
 
Directs LEA grantees to conduct a valid and reliable full population survey of teaching and learning, at the school and LEA level, the results of which are to inform and be integrated into such systems.
 
Requires a formal evaluation of each system to be conducted by the state, an institution of higher education, or an external agency and the results disseminated widely.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2522-2526)
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2521-2522)
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide that Members of Congress shall not receive a cost of living adjustment in pay during fiscal year 2011.

Bill: 111-s-3244
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Inflation and prices
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
Eliminates automatic cost of living adjustments for Members of Congress during FY2011.

action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 

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

 
Eliminates automatic cost of living adjustments for Members of Congress during FY2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2544; text as passed Senate: CR S2544)
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S2544; text as passed Senate: CR S2544)
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Payday Lending Limitation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3245
Sponsor: Sen. Hagan, Kay R. [D-NC]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer credit
Contracts and agency
Federal Reserve System
Interest, dividends, interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
Payday Lending Limitation Act of 2010 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit extending consumer credit of $3,000 or less, with an annual percentage rate (APR) exceeding 36% (or, in specified circumstances, 25%) and a term or amortization period of 91 days or less (covered loan), to an individual who has had in the aggregate: (1) six covered loans extended during the preceding 12-month period; or (2) covered loan obligations of 90 days or longer during the preceding 12-month period.
 
Requires the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to issue specified implementing rules governing covered loans.
 
Declares unenforceable with respect to a consumer any contract made in violation of this Act.
 
Declares that this Act neither preempts nor prevents state law from providing greater protection to consumers than is provided under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Indian Veterans Housing Opportunity Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3246
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Disability assistance
Housing finance and home ownership
Indian social and development programs
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
 Indian Veterans Housing Opportunity Act of 2010 - Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 to exclude from consideration as income any amounts received by a member of a family as veterans' disability compensation or dependency and indemnity compensation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2589)
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2588-2589)
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Access to Credit Scores Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3247
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Mark [D-CO]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer credit
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
Fair Access to Credit Scores Act of 2010 - Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require nationwide consumer reporting agencies, including nationwide specialty consumer reporting agencies (that compile and report on medical records or payments, residential or tenant histories, check writing histories, employment histories, and incusrance claims), to provide a free annual credit score disclosure upon consumer request.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2589)
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in Senate