hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Jason's Law

Bill: 112-hr-1803
Sponsor: Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-21]
Introduced: 2011-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Air quality
Motor carriers
Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: 
Jason's Law - Amends the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) to direct the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) with respect to the pilot program to allocate funds to states, metropolitan planning organizations, and local governments to establish long-term parking facilities for commercial motor vehicles (trucks) on the National Highway System.
 
Requires applications to incorporate one or more specified factors, such as: (1) addressing a safety need through development of additional truck parking capacity for use in hours-of-service compliance, and (2) reducing congestion and improving air quality mitigation.
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct a survey annually: (1) regarding the capacity of each state to provide adequate parking and rest facilities for trucks, and (2) assessing the volume of truck traffic through the state and developing a metrics system to measure the adequacy of the state's parking facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
State Video Tax Fairness Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1804
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2011-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Intergovernmental relations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: 
State Video Tax Fairness Act of 2011 - Prohibits any state from imposing a discriminatory tax on any means of providing multichannel video programming distribution services, including Internet protocol technology (or any successor protocol), direct broadcast satellite delivery, and cable television services. 
 
Defines a tax as discriminatory if the net tax imposed on one means of providing multichannel video service is higher than the net tax rate imposed on another. 
 
Applies this prohibition only to any tax imposed on or after January 1, 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
Bluefin Tuna Fishermen Employment Preservation Act

Bill: 112-hr-1806
Sponsor: Rep. Guinta, Frank C. [R-NH-1]
Introduced: 2011-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Endangered and threatened species
Fishes
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: 
Bluefin Tuna Fishermen Employment Preservation Act - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to prohibit treatment of the Bluefin tuna as an endangered or threatened species. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
Enhanced SPR Act

Bill: 112-hr-1807
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2011-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Energy storage, supplies, demand
Oil and gas
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Strategic materials and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: 
Enhanced Supply and Price Reduction Act of 2011 or Enhanced SPR Act - Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to require the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to include refined petroleum products within its required capacity of 1 billion barrels of petroleum products.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to sell at least 30 million barrels of petroleum from the SPR and acquire refined petroleum product. Prescribes a schedule for such transactions.
 
Directs the Secretary to deposit the cash proceeds from such sales into the SPR Petroleum Account.
 
 Authorizes the President to instruct the Secretary to drawdown and sell or exchange petroleum product from the SPR if a circumstance exists of such significance and scope that action would be warranted to address market manipulation or otherwise be in the public interest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
Nuclear Power 2021 Act

Bill: 112-hr-1808
Sponsor: Rep. Altmire, Jason [D-PA-4]
Introduced: 2011-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Licensing and registrations
Nuclear power
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: 
Nuclear Power 2021 Act - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to instruct the Secretary of Energy to implement, through cooperative agreements with private sector partners, programs to: (1) develop a standard design for each of two small modular reactors; (2) obtain a design certification from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for each of the two standard designs by January 1, 2018; and (3) demonstrate the licensing of small modular reactors by developing applications for a combined license for each of the designs so certified, and obtaining a combined license from the NRC for each of the certified designs by January 1, 2021.
 
Requires the Secretary to select proposals for such cooperative agreements through the use of competitive procedures and an impartial review of their scientific and technical merit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2011-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2011-05-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3164)
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2011-05-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
Dental Coverage Value and Transparency Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1809
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2011-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Dental care
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: 
Dental Coverage Value and Transparency Act of 2011 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to prescribe certain health care coverage value and transparency requirements for dental benefits under group health plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
Tom Lantos Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Education Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1810
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2011-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Drug therapy
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Medical research

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: 
Tom Lantos Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Education Act of 2011 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, should continue aggressive work on pulmonary hypertension; and (2) the Director of the Institute should continue research to expand the understanding of the causes of, and to find a cure for, pulmonary hypertension.
 
Requires inclusion of information on the status of pulmonary hypertension research at NIH in biennial reports to Congress. 
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to carry out an educational campaign to increase public awareness of pulmonary hypertension, which may include information on pulmonary hypertension and its symptoms, the incidence and prevalence of pulmonary hypertension, diseases and conditions that can lead to pulmonary hypertension as a secondary diagnosis, the importance of early diagnosis, and the availability of a range of treatment options.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Director of CDC, to carry out an educational campaign to increase awareness of pulmonary hypertension among health care providers, which may include information on: (1) the symptoms of pulmonary hypertension, (2) the importance of early diagnosis, (3) current diagnostic criteria, and (4) Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved therapies for the disease. Requires such campaign to target health care providers, including cardiologists, pulmonologists, rheumatologists, primary care physicians, pediatricians, and nurse practitioners.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
National Guard Employment Protection Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1811
Sponsor: Rep. Coffman, Mike [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2011-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
National Guard and reserves
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: 
National Guard Employment Protection Act of 2011 - Provides employment and reemployment rights for certain individuals ordered to full-time National Guard duty. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E848)
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Growth Act

Bill: 112-hr-1812
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2011-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Public contracts and procurement
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: 
Small Business Growth Act - Directs the Administrator of General Services to establish a small business growth pilot program under which a contracting officer of the General Services Administration (GSA) may award an contract on the basis of competition restricted to an entity that: (1) is enrolled as a mentor or participating in the GSA's Mentor-Protege program related to contracting; (2) if participating as a mentor, has at least one protege that is a small business; (2) has fewer than 1,500 employees; and (4) is not a small business.
 
Requires the contracting officer to consider awarding a contract under the pilot program before awarding the contract under full and open competition, and to report to the Administrator on the reasons a contract was or was not awarded to a pilot program participant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform     .
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
Gas Price Relief Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1813
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2011-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Business investment and capital
Corporate finance and management
Energy prices
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Motor vehicles
Oil and gas
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: 
Gas Price Relief Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to distribute an equal amount of the revenues raised by this Act to each holder of a valid driver's license. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require seven-year amortization of the geological and geophysical expenditures of covered large oil companies. Defines &quot;covered large oil company&quot; as a taxpayer which is a major integrated oil company or which has gross receipts in excess of $50 million in a taxable year. 
 
 
Denies certain tax benefits to any taxpayer that is not a small, independent oil and gas company, including: (1) the tax credits for producing oil and gas from marginal wells and for enhanced oil recovery, (2) expensing of intangible drilling and development costs in the case of gas wells and geothermal wells, (3) percentage depletion, (4) the tax deduction for qualified tertiary injectant expenses, (5) the exemption from limitations on passive activity losses, and (6) the tax deduction for income attributable to domestic production activities.
 
Prohibits the use of the last-in, first-out (LIFO) accounting method by major integrated oil companies. 
 
Limits or denies the foreign tax credit and tax deferrals for amounts paid or accrued by a dual capacity taxpayer to a foreign country or U.S. possession for any period with respect to combined foreign oil and gas income. Defines &quot;dual capacity taxpayer&quot; as a person who is subject to a levy of a foreign country or U.S. possession and receives (or will receive) directly or indirectly a specific economic benefit from such county or possession.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3117-3118)
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
Offending Oil Polluters Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1814
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2011-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air quality
Business ethics
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Marine pollution
Oil and gas
Pollution liability
Water quality
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: 
Offending Oil Polluters Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny all income tax credits and deductions to an offending oil polluter. Defines &quot;offending oil polluter&quot; to mean any person responsible for a vessel or a facility from which oil is discharged, unless such person: (1) has met all obligations under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to provide compensation for covered removal costs and damages; (2) was not found during the seven-year period after the first oil discharge to have committed willful or repeated violations under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970; (3) was not convicted of a criminal violation for death or serious bodily injury; (4) did not have more than 10 fatalities at its facilities or refineries resulting from violations of federal or state health, safety, or environmental laws; and (5) was not required to pay fines of more than $10 million for violations of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) or the Clean Air Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
Lena Horne Recognition Act

Bill: 112-hr-1815
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2011-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
Congressional tributes
Music
Performing arts
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: 
Lena Horne Recognition Act - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to make appropriate arrangements for the posthumous presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal of appropriate design in commemoration of Lena Horne in recognition of her achievements and contributions to American culture and the civil rights movement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-04-18
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 410 - 2 (Roll no. 157). (text: CR 4/16/2012 H1818)
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 410 - 2 (Roll no. 157).(text: CR 4/16/2012 H1818)
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H1872-1873)
action_date: 2012-04-16
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2012-04-16
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1815.
action_date: 2012-04-16
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1817-1820)
action_date: 2012-04-16
text: Mr. Luetkemeyer moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2011-07-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E852)
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
Segal AmeriCorps Education Award Tax Relief Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1816
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2011-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax exclusion
National and community service
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: 
Segal AmeriCorps Education Award Tax Relief Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income any AmeriCorps educational awards provided under the National and Community Service Act of 1990. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
STAT Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1817
Sponsor: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2]
Introduced: 2011-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Advisory bodies
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: 
Statistics Teaching, Aptitude, and Training Act of 2011 or STAT Act of 2011 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to award formula grants to states and, through them, competitive subgrants to eligible partnerships to: (1) establish or enhance teacher training in statistics education; and (2) develop more rigorous statistics education curricula that are aligned with challenging state academic content and achievement standards in statistics, and integrate statistics in the teaching of other courses. 
 
Defines an &quot;eligible partnership&quot; as a partnership between a local educational agency (LEA) and one or more of the following: (1) an institution of higher education (IHE), (2) another LEA, (3) a public elementary or secondary school or schools, or (4) a government statistical agency experienced in improving the quality of statistics teachers.
 
Requires partnership activities to be consistent with a statistical literacy plan that each state is required to develop and have approved by the Secretary of Education before receiving its formula grant. Authorizes the Secretary to award competitive grants to states that lack the resources to develop an adequate plan so that they can do so.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award competitive grants to IHEs, governmental statistical agencies, or nonprofit organizations to: (1) develop model state standards and curriculum frameworks for statistics education, (2) disseminate information about proven and tested model statistics education programs that integrate statistics in other studies, (3) develop and implement new policy approaches to advancing statistics education, (4) conduct national statistics education studies, and (5) advance the widespread adoption by states and LEAs of statistics education content standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
Mt. Andrea Lawrence Designation Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1818
Sponsor: Rep. McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [R-CA-25]
Introduced: 2011-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: 
Mt. Andrea Lawrence Designation Act of 2011 - Designates peak 12,240 located 0.6 miles northeast of Donahue Peak on the northern border of the Ansel Adams Wilderness and Yosemite National Park in California as Mt. Andrea Lawrence. 

action_date: 2012-05-30
text: 

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

 
Mt. Andrea Lawrence Designation Act of 2011 - Designates peak 12,240 located 0.6 miles northeast of Donahue Peak on the northern border of the Ansel Adams Wilderness and Yosemite National Park in California as Mt. Andrea Lawrence. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-30
text: Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 134.
action_date: 2012-05-30
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 112-505.
action_date: 2012-05-30
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 112-505.
action_date: 2012-04-25
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2012-04-25
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2012-04-25
text: Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-10
text: Introduced in House