hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
SEC Freedom of Information Restoration Act

Bill: 111-hr-5924
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Business records
Corporate finance and management
Financial services and investments
Freedom of information
Government information and archives
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
SEC Freedom of Information Restoration Act - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Act) to repeal the exemption from the disclosure requirements of the Freedom of Information Act granted to materials submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and the Investment Company Act of 1940.
 
Restores or revives the provisions of law amended or repealed by the Act as if the Act had not been enacted. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Safe Prescription Drug Disposal and Education Act

Bill: 111-hr-5925
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Government information and archives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Licensing and registrations
Prescription drugs
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Safe Prescription Drug Disposal and Education Act - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to permit, for purposes of carrying out the grant program established by this Act for drug disposal units: (1) an ultimate user (or an authorized agent of the ultimate user) who has lawfully obtained a controlled substance to deliver such substance, without being registered, to another person for disposal; and (2) such person to receive such substance for disposal, without being registered.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to an eligible entity (i.e., a state, local government, local educational agency, Indian tribe, a federal, state, or local governmental agency, corporation, community coalition, or any combination of such entities) to: (1) establish and operate prescription drug disposal units for disposal of unneeded or expired prescription drugs; and (2) design and implement educational programs on the abuse of prescription drugs and on household items that may be used to cause perception, emotion, or behavior similar to that caused by the use of psychotropic drugs.
 
Directs the Director of National Drug Control Policy to carry out a public education and outreach campaign to increase awareness of how ultimate users may lawfully and safely dispose of prescription drugs, including controlled substances, through drug take-back programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
HOPE for Alzheimer's: Health Outcomes, Planning, and Education Act

Bill: 111-hr-5926
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Neurological disorders

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
HOPE for Alzheimer's: Health Outcomes, Planning, and Education Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) to cover comprehensive Alzheimer's disease and other dementia diagnosis and services.
 
Requires the Federal Coordinated Health Care Office to study and report to Congress on: (1) barriers to the detection of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias for dual eligible individuals; (2) barriers to the furnishing of comprehensive Alzheimer's disease and other dementia diagnosis and services to such individuals; and (3) ways to eliminate such barriers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-07-29
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: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1477)
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Share the Financial Burden Act

Bill: 111-hr-5927
Sponsor: Rep. Critz, Mark S. [D-PA-12]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional operations and organization
Members of Congress
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
 Share the Financial Burden Act - Prohibits the aggregate amount which may be appropriated or otherwise made available for any fiscal year for allowances and expenses (including salaries) of any congressional office from exceeding 95% of the aggregate amount for FY2010.
 
 Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to reduce to 95% of the FY2010 rate the annual salary of a Member of Congress, Delegate or Resident Commissioner, the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Majority Leaders and Minority Leaders of both chambers, and the Speaker of the House, until otherwise provided by enactment of other law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-07-29
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: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Disability Claims Efficiency Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5928
Sponsor: Rep. Walz, Timothy J. [D-MN-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disability assistance
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Performance measurement
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Veterans' Disability Claims Efficiency Act of 2010 - Allows the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), in the case of a disability claim with multiple conditions, to assign an interim disability rating for the condition(s) that can be assigned without further development and to continue development of the remaining condition(s). Requires an interim disability rating to remain in effect unless the Secretary later assigns an increased rating for such condition. Prohibits the continuation of such rating if the rating was based on fraud or the condition improves.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a process for the rapid identification of initial claims for disability compensation that should, in adjudication, receive priority in the order of review. Requires the Secretary to identify whether claims have the potential of being adjudicated quickly, the claims qualify for priority treatment, and a temporary disability rating could be assigned for such claims. Authorizes the Secretary to provide priority based on the effect such priority would have on a claimant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Computer Science Education Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5929
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Advisory bodies
Computers and information technology
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Performance measurement
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Computer Science Education Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Education to award states: (1) two-year grants to develop comprehensive plans to strengthen elementary and secondary computer science education; and (2) five-year matching grants to implement the improvements proposed in their comprehensive plans.
 
Requires such improvements to include: (1) challenging and grade-appropriate academic content standards for computer science; (2) grade-appropriate assessments of computer science learning; (3) programs to increase disadvantaged students' access to computer science courses; (4) computer science teacher training programs; (5) improved certification requirements and processes for such teachers; (6) programs to ensure that computer science courses are considered an integral part of the secondary school curriculum; (7) effective computer science curricula; and (8) computer science distance learning programs.
 
Requires states to partner with institutions of higher education (IHEs) and local educational agencies in implementing such measures.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a Blue Ribbon Commission on Computer Science Education to provide recommendations to the Secretary and Congress for expanding and improving computer science education.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award five-year grants to IHEs to improve computer science teacher training.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Protection in Airline Ticket Validity Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5930
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Consumer affairs
Motor carriers
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Consumer Protection in Airline Ticket Validity Act of 2010 - Makes it an unfair or deceptive practice for any air carrier, foreign air carrier, or ticket agent to: (1) sell an airline ticket that expires before the last day of the three-year period beginning upon the ticket's issuance; or (2) impose unreasonable restrictions, penalties, or fees on requests to reschedule an air passenger's itinerary that occur before the ticket expires.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Renewable Energy Incentive Act

Bill: 111-hr-5931
Sponsor: Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Income tax credits
Land use and conservation
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling
Manufacturing
Public utilities and utility rates

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Renewable Energy Incentive Act - Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to: (1) extend the grant program for investment in renewable energy property, including renewable resources used to produce electricity, and fuel cell, solar, wind, geothermal, and microturbine property, in lieu of tax credits, by extending the placed-in-service deadline for such property through 2012; and (2) expand eligibility for such grants to certain state power utilities and tax-exempt mutual or cooperative electric companies. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow an energy tax credit for investment in qualified solar manufacturing project property; (2) allow a tax credit for the purchase, consolidation, and use of contiguous high solarity disturbed private land to produce solar energy for use in a trade or business; and (3) limit the energy tax credit for solar energy equipment used to generate electricity or heat or cool a structure, as applied to swimming pools, to exclude those located at single-family residences. Defines &quot;qualified solar manufacturing project property&quot; as any tangible personal property purchased to re-equip, expand, or establish a manufacturing facility for producing solar energy equipment to generate electricity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Improvements Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5933
Sponsor: Rep. Minnick, Walter [D-ID-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Disability and paralysis
Educational technology and distance education
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Higher education
Inflation and prices
Licensing and registrations
National Guard and reserves
User charges and fees
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Improvements Act of 2010 - Revises provisions concerning the post-9/11 veterans' educational assistance program to, among other things: (1) revise definitions concerning eligibility, and include certain National Guard service as service qualifying for such assistance; (2) revise assistance amounts (including monthly stipends), and types of approved programs of education; (3) allow the pursuit of educational programs at institutions other than institutions of higher learning, including on-job training and apprenticeships, flight training, and correspondence courses; (4) provide an assistance amount for programs of education pursued while on active duty; (5) repeal the limit on the use of such assistance for the payment of only one licensing or certification test; (6) allow an individual entitled to supplemental educational assistance to transfer such entitlement to the post-9/11 program; (7) bar the duplication of benefits under other educational assistance programs; (8) increase the amount of the reporting fee paid by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to an educational institution for providing information concerning an individual's enrollment in a program of education; (9) extend to certain National Guard and reserve personnel members eligibility to receive public-private contributions for additional educational assistance; (10) reauthorize through 2016 the Veterans' Advisory Committee on Education; and (11) revise cost-of-living adjustments under the Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program. 
 
Provides an alternate subsistence allowance amount for veterans entitled to such allowance due to service-connected disabilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Questioning of Terrorism Suspects Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5934
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Evidence and witnesses
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Questioning of Terrorism Suspects Act of 2010 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the public safety exception to the constitutional requirements known as the 
Miranda
 warnings allows unwarned interrogation of terrorism suspects for as long as is necessary to protect the public from pending or planned attacks when a significant purpose of the interrogation is to gather intelligence and not solely to elicit testimonial evidence; and (2) a confession given during overseas questioning of a terrorism suspect in foreign custody shall not be rendered inadmissible for failure to provide 
Miranda
 warnings, if such confession was voluntarily given and reliable.
 
Amends the federal criminal code to provide that in the case of an individual who is a terrorism suspect, upon ex parte application made by the government within 6 hours immediately following the person's arrest or other detention, such individual may be taken before a magistrate not later than 48 hours after arrest or other detention and any confession made within those 48 hours shall not be considered inadmissible solely because the individual was not presented to a magistrate earlier. Requires the government's application to contain a certification by the Attorney General or the Deputy Attorney General and by the Director of National Intelligence or the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence that the individual with respect to whom the application is made is a terrorism suspect and that such individual may be able to provide intelligence necessary to protect the public safety.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2010-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
BUILD Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5935
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Air quality
Appropriations
Buy American requirements
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Department of Transportation
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Executive agency funding and structure
Infrastructure development
Motor carriers
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Public contracts and procurement
Public transit
Railroads
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Building and Upgrading Infrastructure for Long-term Development Act of 2010 or BUILD Act of 2010 - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2010 to: (1) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for state and tribal assistance grants; and (2) the Department of Transportation (DOT) for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) for highway infrastructure investment activities, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for transit capital assistance grants, and the Office of the Secretary of Transportation for capital investments in surface transportation infrastructure. 
 
Subjects all funds made available under this Act to the Buy American Act.
 
Rescinds a certain amount of unobligated discretionary appropriations made available by division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 as a required offset to appropriations made under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Restoring Assistance for Families' and Seniors' Health Expenses Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5936
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Prescription drugs
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Restoring Assistance for Families' and Seniors' Health Expenses Act of 2010 - Repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that: (1) increase from 7.5% to 10% the adjusted gross income threshold for claiming the tax deduction for medical expenses; (2) restrict payments from health savings accounts, medical savings accounts, and health flexible spending arrangements for medications solely to prescription drugs or insulin; (3) increase to 20% the penalty for distributions from a health savings or Archer medical savings account not used for qualified medical expenses; and (4) limit to $2,500 the annual salary reduction contribution to a health flexible spending arrangement under a cafeteria plan.
 
Amends PPACA to treat a high deductible health plan as a qualified health plan under such Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
To provide Government headstones and markers at private cemeteries for certain veterans.

Bill: 111-hr-5937
Sponsor: Rep. Fleming, John [R-LA-4]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to furnish, upon request, an appropriate government headstone or marker for the grave of any veteran who died before November 1, 1990, in active military service while participating in a contingency operation, but is buried in a private cemetery.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House