hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
SAVE Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4742
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2010-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Employee benefits and pensions
Financial literacy
Income tax credits
Sales and excise taxes
Small business
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: 
Small Businesses Add Value for Employees Act of 2009 [
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] or the SAVE Act of 2009 [
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] - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to employer-established simple individual retirement accounts (IRAs) to: (1) repeal certain restrictions on rollovers from simple IRAs: (2) allow employers to elect to terminate qualified salary reduction arrangements at any time during the year; (3) repeal the enhanced 25% penalty on premature withdrawals made from simple IRAs within the first two plan years; (4) allow additional nonelective employer contributions to simple IRAs; (5) establish automatic deferral IRAs; (6) allow a transfer of unused balances in flexible spending arrangements to a qualified retirement or eligible deferred compensation plan; (7) increase the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs; and (8) allow multiple small employer retirement plans that provide for automatic employee contributions. 
 
Requires the Office of Financial Education of the Department of the Treasury to develop and implement an outreach plan to educate small businesses on the types and benefits of available retirement plans. 
 
Requires the Secretaries of the Treasury and Labor to develop recommendations for small businesses to improve retirement outcomes. 
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to develop age-appropriate financial literacy curricula for elementary and secondary schools.
 
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to: (1) permit payroll deduction plans for individual retirement accounts or annuities; and (2) require disclosures relating to lifetime income from pension plans and annuities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2010-03-03
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Wrongful Convictions Tax Relief Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4743
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2010-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Employment taxes
Government liability
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: 
Wrongful Convictions Tax Relief Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow wrongfully incarcerated individuals: (1) an exclusion from gross income for compensation received relating to their incarceration and for the first $50,000 of annual income received by such an individual after December 31, 2009; and (2) a refundable tax credit for 50% of payroll taxes on employment and self-employment income, up to $50,000 of such income. Limits the duration of such tax benefits to the lesser of 15 years or the number of years such an individual was incarcerated.
 
Defines &quot;wrongfully incarcerated individual&quot; as an individual who was convicted of a criminal offense and was then pardoned or found not guilty of such offense because of innocence after serving all or a portion of a prison term. Disqualifies individuals with prior convictions punishable by more than one year of imprisonment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Introduced in House
E-Verify Loan Origination Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4744
Sponsor: Rep. Marchant, Kenny [R-TX-24]
Introduced: 2010-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Foreign labor
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: 
E-Verify Loan Origination Act of 2010 - Amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act to prohibit the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act (Freddie Mac) from purchasing a single-family housing (1-to-4 family residence) mortgage unless the identity and work eligibility of the mortgagor has been confirmed by an inquiry made through the basic pilot E-Verify program under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. Permits the lender, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac to submit such inquiries.
 
Amends the National Housing Act to prohibit the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from insuring any single-family housing mortgage unless the identity and work eligibility of the mortgagor has been confirmed by an inquiry made through the basic pilot E-Verify program. Permits the lender and the Secretary to submit such inquiries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Achievements of the GI Bill Gold Medal Act

Bill: 111-hr-4745
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Dennis [D-KS-3]
Introduced: 2010-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Smithsonian Institution
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: 
Achievements of the GI Bill Gold Medal Act - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of a single gold medal in honor of the recipients of assistance under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (commonly known as the GI Bill of Rights), in recognition of their great contributions in both their military and civilian life, and the contributions of Harry W. Colmery in initiating actions which led to the enactment of that Act. Requires the medal, following its award, to be given to the Smithsonian Institution for display. Expresses the sense of Congress that the medal should be made available for display elsewhere, particularly at appropriate locations selected by the Secretaries of Veterans Affairs (VA), Defense (DOD), or Education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2010-03-03
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent pending tax increases, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-4746
Sponsor: Rep. Neugebauer, Randy [R-TX-19]
Introduced: 2010-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Capital gains tax
Financial services and investments
Higher education
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax rates
Sales and excise taxes
Small business
State and local taxation
Student aid and college costs
Tax treatment of families
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: 
Repeals: (1) provisions in the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 terminating tax reductions made by such Act after December 31, 2010; and (2) the provision in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 terminating after 2008 reductions in tax rates on dividends and net capital gain.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent: (1) the tax deductions for state and local sales taxes and for tuition and related expenses; and (2) the increased expensing allowance (i.e., $125,000) for depreciable business assets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Cross Border Reservation Drug Trafficking Sentence Enhancement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4747
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, William L. [D-NY-23]
Introduced: 2010-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Canada
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Indian lands and resources rights
Latin America
Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: 
Cross Border Reservation Drug Trafficking Sentence Enhancement Act of 2010 - Amends the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to impose a fine and/or 10-year prison term (to be served consecutively to any other sentence for a violation of such Act) on anyone who knowingly or intentionally traffics in a controlled substance within a federal or state Indian reservation that borders or traverses any portion of the U.S. international border. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2010-03-03
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Stand By Every Ad Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4749
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2010-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Political advertising
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: 
Stand By Every Ad Act of 2010 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require the identification of funding and authorizing sources in communications expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate (as under current law) or which consist of the functional equivalent of express advocacy.
 
Prescribes special rules for express advocacy radio and television communications which are not authorized by a candidate, an authorized political committee of a candidate, or its agents. Requires individual disclosure statements about the head of the entity paying for the communication and about any other person that disbursed funds to the entity to finance the communication.
 
 Requires disclosure of such identifying information within audio and video communications made through the Internet or e-mail.
 
Applies such disclosure requirements to prerecorded telephone calls.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Meat Contamination Prevention Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4750
Sponsor: Rep. Schauer, Mark H. [D-MI-7]
Introduced: 2010-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food supply, safety, and labeling
Meat

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: 
 Meat Contamination Prevention Act of 2010 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to permit an entity that purchases carcasses, carcass parts, meat, or meat food products that have been inspected and found to be unadulterated to perform or cause to be performed at the entity's expense a further examination to ensure that the products remain unadulterated.
 
Prohibits a person, firm, or corporation from preventing (by contract or any other means) such further examination. Subjects a violator of such prohibition to imprisonment and/or fine. 
 
Makes similar amendments to the Poultry Products Inspection Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Innovative Energy Systems Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4751
Sponsor: Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-21]
Introduced: 2010-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Income tax credits
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: 
Innovative Energy Systems Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an energy tax credit for highly efficient combined heat and power system property. Defines such property as property at an industrial, commercial, or institutional facility comprising a system that is placed in service before January 1, 2017, and that either: (1) uses the same energy source for the simultaneous or sequential generation of electrical power, mechanical shaft power, or both, in combination with the generation of steam or other forms of useful thermal energy and has a system design that provides an energy efficiency percentage of at least 70%; or (2) recovers waste energy from which electricity is generated through the modification or addition of an existing facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4752
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Inflation and prices
Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: 
 Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2010 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to negotiate with pharmaceutical manufacturers the prices that may be charged to Medicare part D prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsors and MedicareAdvantage (MA) organizations for covered part D drugs for part D eligible individuals who are enrolled under a PDP or under an MA-Prescription Drug (MA-PD) plan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2010-03-03
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Stationary Source Regulations Delay Act

Bill: 111-hr-4753
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2010-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: 
Stationary Source Regulations Delay Act - Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), during the two-year period beginning after this Act's enactment, from taking any action under the Clean Air Act (CAA) with respect to any stationary source permitting requirement or requirement concerning standards of performance for new stationary sources relating to carbon dioxide or methane. Exempts from such prohibition: (1) any action under the CAA relating to the vehicle emissions standards contained in Docket No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0171 or Docket No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0472; (2) any action relating to the preparation of a report or the enforcement of a reporting requirement; or (3) any action relating to the provision of technical support at a state's request.
 
Provides that no action taken by the Administrator before the end of such period shall be considered to make carbon dioxide or methane a pollutant subject to regulation under the CAA for any source other than a new motor vehicle or new motor vehicle engine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the further extension or establishment of national monuments in Montana except by express authorization of Congress.

Bill: 111-hr-4754
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Denny [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Montana
Monuments and memorials
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: 
Prohibits any further extension or establishment of national parks and monuments in Montana except by express authorization of Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Great Lakes Ecosystem Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4755
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2010-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Executive agency funding and structure
Great Lakes
Lakes and rivers
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: 
Great Lakes Ecosystem Protection Act of 2010 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to expand the duties of the Great Lakes Program Office by requiring the Office to: (1) provide support for Great Lakes governance and management; and (2) coordinate with the Great Lakes Interagency Task Force.
 
Establishes: (1) the Great Lakes Leadership Council to establish policy, goals, and priorities with respect to Great Lakes protection and restoration, determine a process for participating in international forums, and provide annual input regarding federal budget priorities and levels for Great Lakes protection and restoration; (2) the Great Lakes Management Committee within the Council to report to and provide direction for the Council, monitor and assist implementation activities relating to Great Lakes management, and engage in problem solving regarding Great Lakes management; and (3) the Great Lakes Interagency Task Force.
 
Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to report annually to Congress on budgets and restoration activities relating to EPA's organizational elements involved in Great Lakes activities and EPA's reasons for approving or disapproving the Council's recommendations.
 
Authorizes appropriations for: (1) remediation of sediment contamination in areas of concern in the Great Lakes; and (2) the Great Lakes Program.
 
Requires EPA, in coordination with federal partners, to implement a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative which will: (1) identify and support programs to target the most significant environmental problems in the Great Lakes ecosystem; (2) be based on the work of the Task Force and the Council's stakeholders and nongovernmental partners; and (3) represent the government's commitment to significantly advance Great Lakes protection and restoration. Prohibits funding made available to implement the Initiative from being used for water infrastructure activity that is implemented using funds made available under the clean water or drinking water state revolving fund program.
 
Requires federal agencies to: (1) maintain the base level of funding for their Great Lakes activities; and (2) identify new activities to support the environmental goals of the Initiative.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Introduced in House
PRIME Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4756
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2010-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Cancer
Government information and archives
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Minority health
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: 
Prostate Research, Imaging, and Men's Education Act of 2010 or the PRIME Act of 2010 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to: (1) carry out a program to expand and intensify research to develop advanced imaging technologies for prostate cancer detection, diagnosis, and treatment comparable to mammogram technology; and (2) utilize the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and the National Cancer Institute for advanced stages of research in prostate imaging. 
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to: (1) carry out a grant program to encourage the early stages of research in prostate imaging to develop and implement new ideas, proof of concepts, and pilot studies for high-risk technologic innovation; and (2) establish interdisciplinary private-public partnerships to develop research strategies for expedited innovation in imaging and image-guided treatment.
 
Directs the Secretary: (1) to carry out a national campaign to increase awareness and knowledge with respect to the need for prostate cancer screening and for improved detection technologies; (2) in carrying out the program and the campaign, to recognize and address the racial disparities in the incidences of prostate cancer and mortality rates and any racial barriers in access to care and participation in clinical trials; (3) establish a program to award grants to nonprofit private entities to test alternative outreach and education strategies; and (4) carry out research to develop an improved prostate cancer screening blood test using in-vitro detection.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Introduced in House