hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Enhanced Birth Certificate Research Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3334
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2009-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: 
Enhanced Birth Certificate Research Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the National Center for Health Statistics, to use such funds as may be necessary to collect statistics from enhanced birth certificates, with priority given to collecting statistics on infant mortality.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Democracy Restoration Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3335
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2009-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: 
 Democracy Restoration Act of 2009 - Declares that the right of a U.S. citizen to vote in any election for federal office shall not be denied or abridged because that individual has been convicted of a criminal offense unless, at the time of the election, such individual is serving a felony sentence in a correctional institution or facility. Provides for enforcement and remedies for violations of this Act.
 
Specifies that: (1) nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit a state from enacting any state law that affords the right to vote in any election for federal office on terms less restrictive than those terms established by this Act; and (2) the rights and remedies established by this Act shall be in addition to all other rights and remedies provided by law, and shall not supersede, restrict, or limit the application of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 or the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. 
Prohibits any state, unit of local government, or other person from receiving or using any federal grant amounts to construct or improve a place of incarceration unless that person has a program to notify each U.S. citizen incarcerated in that person's jurisdiction, on release from such incarceration, of that individual's rights under this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-08-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2009)
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Introduced in House
National Guard Technician Recruitment and Retention Act

Bill: 111-hr-3336
Sponsor: Rep. Courtney, Joe [D-CT-2]
Introduced: 2009-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Higher education
National Guard and reserves
Student aid and college costs
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: 
National Guard Technician Recruitment and Retention Act - Provides that if an individual is first employed by the National Guard as a military technician (dual status) while already a member of a reserve component, the Secretary of the military department concerned may not require the individual to repay any enlistment, reenlistment, or affiliation bonus connected with the individual's enlistment or reenlistment before such employment. Prohibits such individual from being precluded from receiving any such bonus or denied the opportunity to participate in any Department of Defense (DOD) educational loan repayment program as an additional incentive to accept and maintain reserve membership.
 
Repeals the prohibition against overtime pay for such technicians.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Post-9/11 Veterans' Job Training Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3337
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2009-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: 
Post-9/11 Veterans' Job Training Act of 2009 - Amends requirements for the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Program to entitle an eligible veteran of the Armed Forces (including eligible dependents) pursuing a full-time educational program of apprenticeship or other on-job training to a monthly benefit payment equal to: (1) 75% of the monthly benefit payment otherwise payable to such individual for each of the first six months of the program; (2) 55% of such payment for each of the second six months of the program; and (3) 35% of such payment for each of the months following the first 12 months of the program.
 
Reduces the payment an individual receives in any month in which the individual fails to complete 120 hours of training under the program of education.
 
Entitles an eligible veteran of the Armed Forces receiving such monthly benefit to receive also a monthly housing stipend equal to the basic allowance for housing payable for an Armed Forces member with dependents in pay grade E-5 residing in the military housing area that encompasses the ZIP code area in which the individual resides.
 
Requires an individual's entitlement for each monthly benefit payment to be charged at the rate of: (1) 75% of a month for each of the first six months of the program; (2) 55% of a month for each of the second six months of the program; and (3) 35% of a month for each of the months following the first 12 months of the program.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Introduced in House
National Metro Safety Act

Bill: 111-hr-3338
Sponsor: Rep. Edwards, Donna F. [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2009-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Public transit
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: 
National Metro Safety Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation, notwithstanding certain prohibitions, to: (1) develop, implement, and enforce national safety standards for transit agencies operating heavy rail on fixed guideways; and (2) require such standards to include National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommendations to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) regarding crashworthiness, emergency access and egress, event recorders, and hours of service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Introduced in House
FLTFA Reauthorization Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3339
Sponsor: Rep. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM-1]
Introduced: 2009-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: 
FLTFA Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act to reauthorize the program for the completion of appraisals and satisfaction of other legal requirements for the sale or exchange of public land identified for disposal under approved land use plans under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. 
 
Makes the Act non-applicable to land eligible for sale under specified public land laws. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-17
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Chronic Care Rapid Learning Network (MCCRLN) Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3340
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Timothy V. [R-IL-15]
Introduced: 2009-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: 
Medicare Chronic Care Practice Research Network Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a Medicare Chronic Care Rapid Learning Network to develop and evaluate evidence-based chronic care management for Medicare beneficiaries with multiple, chronic illnesses, with a focus on beneficiaries under the Medicare fee-for-service program whose care is most costly.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-24
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: 2009-07-24
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Ronald Reagan Commemorative Coin Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3341
Sponsor: Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2009-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Currency
Government trust funds
Military personnel and dependents
Presidential administrations
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: 
Ronald Reagan Commemorative Coin Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue $5 gold coins and $1 silver coins in commemoration Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th President of the United States. 
 
Authorizes the issuance of such coins beginning on January 1, 2013, except that sales of such coins may be initiated, without issuance, before such date. Prohibits the minting of such coins after December 31, 2013. 
 
Requires all sales of coins minted under this Act to include a surcharge of: (1) $35 per coin for the $5 coin; and (2) $10 per coin for the $1 coin. 
 
Requires the proceeds from the surcharges received from the sale of such coins to be paid promptly to the Army Emergency Fund to be used to provide financial assistance to certain soldiers and their dependents and the surviving spouses or dependent children of deceased soldiers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Keeping Parents and Communities Engaged Act

Bill: 111-hr-3343
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2009-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Adult education and literacy
Community life and organization
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Family relationships
Government information and archives
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: 
Keeping Parents and Communities Engaged Act or Keeping PACE Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to award grants to states for competitive subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) that receive school improvement funds under part A of title I of the Act to enable such LEAs to assist public elementary and secondary schools to hire and maintain Parent and Community Outreach Coordinators responsible for improving family and community involvement in such schools. 
 
Gives subgrant priority to LEAs targeting schools with the highest proportions of needy students or students failing to meet state academic performance standards. Requires each assisted school to appoint a committee of school officials, parents, and community members to screen Coordinator applicants and evaluate Coordinator performance.
 
Directs state grantees to award competitive subgrants to partnerships between community-based organizations and public schools to connect integrated services and comprehensive supports to students and families to enhance student performance. Gives priority to applicants targeting schools with the highest proportions of needy students or students failing to meet state academic performance standards. 
 
Requires state grantees to award competitive matching subgrants to consortia composed of a school, LEA, mayor, and at least one other community partner to redesign schools as centers of communities that encourage family and community participation in students' education and provide community education.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to contract with a nonprofit organization experienced in providing integrated student supports to: (1) provide technical assistance and training to this Act's grantees and subgrantees; and (2) establish a national information clearinghouse on effective parent, family, and community engagement practices and programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the reliquidation of certain entries of chlorinated isocyanurates.

Bill: 111-hr-3344
Sponsor: Rep. Rothman, Steven R. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2009-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: 
Directs U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries relating to chlorinated isocyanurates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Introduced in House
National Guard Technician Equity Act

Bill: 111-hr-3345
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2009-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Higher education
Military medicine
National Guard and reserves
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: 
National Guard Technician Equity Act - Authorizes the employment of a person as a non-dual status technician if: (1) the technician position has been designated to be filled only by a non-dual status technician; or (2) the person occupying the technician position has at least 20 years of service as a dual status military technician.
 
Repeals: (1) the permanent limitation on the number of non-dual status technicians; and (2) the prohibition against overtime pay for National Guard technicians.
 
Provides for: (1) up to 12 months of continued compensation for a military technician who was hired as a dual status technician but who is no longer a member of the Selected Reserve; (2) an extended deployment bonus for military technicians; (3) certain enlistment, reinlistment, and student loan benefits for military technicians.
 
Reduces the eligibility age for retired pay to 55 years old.
 
Makes a dual status military technician eligible for early retirement if separating from the Selected Reserve or ceasing to hold a specified military grade after: (1) completing 25 years of technician service; or (2) becoming 50 years old and completing 20 years of such service.
 
Increases annual paid employment leave to 30 days for Reserve or National Guard duty.
 
Revises specified provisions regarding employer health plan contributions for members of a reserve component of the Armed Forces.
 
 

 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-08-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2009-07-27
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to permit the sharing of confidential supervisory information with foreign auditor oversight bodies.

Bill: 111-hr-3346
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2009-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Corporate finance and management
Financial services and investments
International organizations and cooperation
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: 
Amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 regarding confidentiality of documents to permit the availability to a foreign auditor oversight authority of information that relates to a public accounting firm within the authority's regulatory or law enforcement jurisdiction, if the authority provides assurances of confidentiality the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board determines to be appropriate.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Freedom Trade Act

Bill: 111-hr-3347
Sponsor: Rep. McCotter, Thaddeus G. [R-MI-11]
Introduced: 2009-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
Human rights
Labor-management relations
Normal trade relations, most-favored-nation treatment
Religion
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: 
Freedom Trade Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to deny nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) from the products of a foreign country that: (1) engages in violations of religious freedom; (2) restricts the freedom of workers to associate and to organize and bargain collectively; or (3) prohibits or limits the functioning of free and independent labor unions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8853)
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 to extend the interoperable emergency communications grant program through fiscal year 2012.

Bill: 111-hr-3348
Sponsor: Rep. Cao, Anh "Joseph" [R-LA-2]
Introduced: 2009-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Emergency communications systems
Government trust funds

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: 
Amends the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 to extend through FY2012 (under current law, through FY2010) the requirement that the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information of the Department of Commerce make payments from the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Fund for a grant program to assist public safety agencies in the the acquisition of, deployment of, or training for the use of interoperable communications equipment that utilizes reallocated public safety spectrum for radio communication.
 
Allows the Assistant Secretary to extend, on a case-by-case basis, the period of performance for any investment approved under the program for a period not to exceed two years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-08
text: FOR FURTHER ACTION, see H.R. 3633.
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To grant a Federal charter to the National American Indian Veterans, Incorporated.

Bill: 111-hr-3349
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Federally chartered organizations
General Native American affairs matters
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: 
Grants a federal charter to the National American Indian Veterans, Incorporated (a nonprofit corporation organized in the United States). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Debt Accountability Act

Bill: 111-hr-3350
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, Lynn [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2009-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: 
Debt Accountability Act - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it out of order in either chamber to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that would increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for any fiscal year unless the appropriate chamber, by roll call vote, acknowledges the costs that would be incurred in carrying out such measure, as estimated by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and any effect those costs might have on the national debt.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2009-07-27
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House