hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Flint Hills Preservation Act

Bill: 111-hr-5118
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures
Fires
Kansas
Licensing and registrations
Oklahoma

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
Flint Hills Preservation Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to require states and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in determining whether an exceedance or violation of a national ambient air quality standard has occurred with respect to a specific air pollutant, to exclude data from a particular air quality monitoring location if emissions from prescribed fires in the Flint Hills Region cause a concentration of the air pollutant at the location to be in excess of the standard.
 
Prohibits, if such emission data is excluded: (1) the Administrator from finding that a state has failed to enforce, or that a person has violated, a state implementation plan (SIP) for national primary or secondary ambient air quality standards as a result of such emissions; or (2) a state from finding that a person has violated, or from bringing an enforcement action for violation of, a SIP for such standards as a result of such emissions.
 
Prohibits: (1) the Administrator from requiring, or a state from adopting, a smoke management plan under such Act in connection with any prescribed fire in such region; and (2) a building, structure, facility, or installation from being treated as a stationary source under new stationary source performance standards as a result of such prescribed fires.
 
 
Provides that no person shall be required to obtain or modify an operating permit under Title V of the Clean Air Act in connection with such a prescribed fire. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5121
Sponsor: Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Abortion
Child health
Family planning and birth control
Foreign aid and international relief
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Act of 2010 - Authorizes the President to provide assistance to: (1) support the achievement of universal access to sexual and reproductive health in developing countries and to ensure that individuals and couples can freely and responsibly determine the number, timing, and spacing of their children and have the means to do so; (2) reduce the incidence of unsafe abortion in developing countries and provide care for women experiencing injury or illness from complications of unsafe abortion; (3) ensure that sexual and reproductive health services are provided in developing countries at every phase of a humanitarian emergency; and (4) ensure access to sexual and reproductive health care for young people in developing countries.
 
Directs the President to implement a strategy to improve and create linkages among the various components of sexual and reproductive health to ensure that individual men and women are provided with a continuum of appropriate sexual and reproductive health services. 
 
States that assistance under this Act shall: (1) promote coordination between and among donors, the private sector, nongovernmental and civil society organizations, and governments in order to support sexual and reproductive health programs in developing countries; and (2) be used for the conduct of formative research and to monitor and evaluate program effectiveness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Housing Assistance Council Program Reauthorization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5122
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing and community development funding
Housing supply and affordability
Low- and moderate-income housing
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
Housing Assistance Council Program Reauthorization Act of 2010 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide financial assistance to the Housing Assistance Council to develop the ability and capacity of community-based housing development organizations to undertake community development and affordable housing projects and programs in rural areas.
 
Authorizes the Council to use such assistance for rural community-based housing development organizations to acquire: (1) technical assistance, training, support, and advice to develop the business and administrative capabilities of such organizations; and (2) loans, grants, or other financial assistance to them to carry out community development and affordable housing activities for low- and moderate-income families.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain high-intensity sweetener.

Bill: 111-hr-5123
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain high-intensity sweetener.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the use, production, sale, importation, or exportation of any pesticide containing atrazine.

Bill: 111-hr-5124
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Pest management
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
Prohibits the use, production, sale, importation, or exportation of atrazine (pesticide) or an atrazine product.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
action_date: 2010-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Foreign Affairs, 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 Agriculture
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Restitution for Local Government Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5125
Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Financial crises and stabilization
Intergovernmental relations
Securities
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
Restitution for Local Government Act of 2010 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to require any profit made by the Secretary of the Treasury under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to be used to purchase from local governments any securities, bonds, and other financial instruments issued by Lehman Brothers Holding, Inc. that were held by such governments on September 12, 2008. Limits the aggregate amount of all such purchases to $1.7 billion. Prohibits the purchase of financial instruments held by a pension fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E672-673)
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Helping Save Americans' Health Care Choices Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5126
Sponsor: Rep. Fleming, John [R-LA-4]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
Helping Save Americans' Health Care Choices Act of 2010 - Repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) providing for: (1) an increased penalty for distributions from a health savings account or Archer medical savings account not used for qualified medical expenses; (2) a restriction of payments from health savings accounts, Archer medical savings accounts, and health flexible spending arrangements for medications to prescription drugs or insulin; and (3) a $2,500 limitation on annual salary reduction contributions to health flexible spending arrangements under cafeteria plans.
 
Amends PPACA to treat a high deductible health plan as a qualified health plan for purposes of such Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-04-22
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: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Stored Value Device Registration and Reporting Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5127
Sponsor: Rep. Giffords, Gabrielle [D-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business records
Civil actions and liability
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Currency
Department of the Treasury
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Government studies and investigations
Human trafficking
Licensing and registrations
Smuggling and trafficking
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
Stored Value Device Registration and Reporting Act of 2010 - Treats as a financial institution subject to federal regulation any person engaged in the business of providing stored value services, including a stored value system operator, an issuer of stored value, a seller of stored value, and a redeemer of stored value.
 
Requires a stored value system operator to register with the Secretary of the Treasury each stored value program that such person authorizes to function on such stored value system.
 
Prescribes mandatory registration procedures. Subjects noncompliance with this Act to civil penalty and forfeiture.
 
Instructs the Secretary to prescribe regulations establishing a threshold point under which small and low-risk stored value device businesses are exempt from such registration requirements.
 
Sets forth report filing and content requirements for persons, agents, or bailees who knowingly transport or receive specified monetary instruments, stored value, or a combination of monetary instruments and stored value, of more than $10,000 at one time, or reportable stored value devices at one time, that cross U.S. boundaries. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury or the Secretary of Homeland Security to apply for a search warrant when such Secretary reasonably believes a monetary instrument, stored value, or a reportable stored value device is being transported and a mandatory report on the instrument or device has not been filed or contains a material omission or misstatement.
 
States that smuggling of cash, monetary instruments, stored value, and stored value devices into or out of the United States is a currency smuggling offense subject to imprisonment and forfeiture of the property involved in the offense and possible personal money judgment.
 
Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to study and report to Congress on specified uses of stored value devices, including the extent to which they are used to provide payments related to drug trafficking, human trafficking, or financial support to terror cells operating within the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat carsharing and ridesharing reimbursement arrangements as qualified transportation fringe benefits.

Bill: 111-hr-5129
Sponsor: Rep. Hodes, Paul W. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commuting
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include qualified carsharing and ridesharing reimbursement as a qualified transportation fringe benefit for purposes of the tax exclusion for such benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-5130
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Connecticut
Government studies and investigations
Lakes and rivers
Rhode Island
Watersheds
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Protection Act - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate for study for potential addition to the national wild and scenic rivers system a specified segment of the Beaver, Chipuxet, Queen, Wood, and Pawcatuck Rivers in Rhode Island and Connecticut. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Mine Communications Technology Innovation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5132
Sponsor: Rep. Matheson, Jim [D-UT-2]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Emergency communications systems
Mining
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
Mine Communications Technology Innovation Act of 2010 - Requires the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to establish a research initiative for the development of emergency communication and tracking technologies for use in locating trapped individuals in confined spaces, such as underground mines, and other shielded environments, like high-rise buildings or collapsed structures, where conventional radio communication is limited.
 
Requires the Director to work with the private sector and appropriate federal agencies to perform needs assessments to identify and evaluate the measurement, technical standards, and conformity assessment needs required, as well as support the development of technical standards and conformance architecture, to improve the operation of emergency communication and tracking technologies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Groundwork USA Trust Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5134
Sponsor: Rep. Tsongas, Niki [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Economic development
Employment and training programs
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Industrial facilities
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Soil pollution

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
Groundwork USA Trust Act of 2010 - Establishes the Groundwork USA Trust Program. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Groundwork USA national office, to award grants to eligible nonprofit organizations to: (1) provide training, research, and technical assistance to individuals and organizations to facilitate the inventory of brownfield sites, site assessments, remediation of brownfield sites, community involvement, or site preparation; (2) reclaim vacant and derelict lands for conservation, recreation, and economic development; (3) clean up and care for neglected areas; (4) return brownfields to economically productive use; (5) integrate environmental education, food security, health and fitness, resource management, and job training; (6) encourage businesses, local governments, nonprofits, and communities to work together for sustainable environmental care and enhancement; (7) support businesses, local governments, nonprofits, and communities in efforts to improve their local environment; (8) acquire real property and buildings to rehabilitate and improve upon for the local community and perform maintenance on such property and buildings; and (9) develop programs that encourage regional and national partnering with other environmental organizations. 
 
Limits the maximum amount for a grant award under the program to $400,000 for any fiscal year. 
 
Requires annual reporting by grant recipients. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Financial Services, 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 Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
To provide for congressional approval of national monuments in Oregon, restrictions on the use of national monuments, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-5135
Sponsor: Rep. Walden, Greg [R-OR-2]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of the Interior
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Monuments and memorials
Oregon
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
 Prohibits any further extension or establishment of national parks and monuments in Oregon except by express authorization of Congress. 
 
Requires the President to obtain congressional approval of proposed national monuments situated upon land owned or controlled by the federal government and certify compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 prior to declaring national monuments. 
 
Bars the Secretary of the Interior from implementing any restrictions on the public use of a national monument until the expiration of an appropriate review period providing for public output and congressional approval. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Girls Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5137
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2010-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against children
Crimes against women
Sex offenses
Travel and tourism
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: 
Girls Protection Act of 2010 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose a fine or five-year prison term, or both, on any U.S. citizen or alien admitted for permanent residence who knowingly transports in foreign commerce a girl under the age of 18 for the purposes of female genital mutilation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Introduced in House
National Economic Competitiveness and Innovation Strategy Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5140
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2010-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Industrial policy and productivity
Product development and innovation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: 
National Economic Competitiveness and Innovation Strategy Act of 2010 - Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to conduct a comprehensive study and report to Congress on the economic competitiveness and innovative capacity of the United States. Requires the report to include: (1) findings; (2) a list of the type of measurements needed to evaluate economic competitiveness and innovation over time; and (3) a national competitiveness strategy for strengthening the innovative and competitive capacity of the federal government, state and local governments, institutions of higher education, and the private sector, including proposed legislative changes and actions, specified proposed actions, and a proposal for monitoring and oversight of the government's progress in improving conditions for innovation and competitiveness. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Science and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Education and Labor, and 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: 2010-04-26
text: Referred to House Science and Technology
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Introduced in House