hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Military Spouses Employment Act

Bill: 112-hr-687
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2011-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee hiring
Income tax credits
Marriage and family status
Military personnel and dependents
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: 
Military Spouses Employment Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include spouses of members of the Armed Forces on extended active duty (more than 90 days or for an indefinite period) as members of a targeted group for purposes of the work opportunity tax credit (thus giving employers a tax incentive for hiring military spouses).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Department of Transportation Bonding Assistance Authority Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-688
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2011-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Infrastructure development
Intergovernmental relations
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Public contracts and procurement
Small business
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: 
Department of Transportation Bonding Assistance Authority Act of 2011 - Replaces the mandate for the Minority Resource Center to provide bonding assistance to disadvantaged business enterprises. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation, acting through the Minority Resource Center, to prescribe, guarantee, and enter into commitments to guarantee a surety against loss resulting from a small business concern's breach of a bond that is required for it to bid on or perform a transportation project contract, pay on the contract, or serve as a prime contractor or subcontractor on such contract.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to indemnify such a surety up to 90% of any loss sustained by it in avoiding or attempting to avoid a breach of a bond guaranteed under this Act.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a program under which not more than five selected states may carry out: (1) the activities of the Secretary with respect to issuing surety guarantees, as well as (2) the activities of sureties to assist eligible small business concerns.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2011-02-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
21st Century Investment Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-689
Sponsor: Rep. Edwards, Donna F. [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2011-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Manufacturing
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: 
21st Century Investment Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the tax credit for increasing research expenses, (2) increase such credit for amounts paid or incurred for research substantially all of which occurs in the United States, and (3) increase through December 31, 2020, the domestic production activities tax deduction for income attributable to the manufacture or production of property with respect to which substantially all of the research and development occurred in the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Federal Trade Commission and National Gallery of Art Facility Consolidation, Savings, and Efficiency Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-690
Sponsor: Rep. Mica, John L. [R-FL-7]
Introduced: 2011-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
District of Columbia
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: 
Federal Trade Commission and National Gallery of Art Facility Consolidation, Savings, and Efficiency Act of 2011 - Requires the Administrator of General Services (GSA), not later than December 31, 2014, to transfer administrative jurisdiction, custody, and control of the building located at 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, in Washington, DC, to the National Gallery of Art and to name such building as the North Building of the National Gallery of Art. Requires the National Gallery of Art to pay the costs of remodeling, renovating, or reconstructing such building.
 
Requires the GSA Administrator to relocate the offices of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) housed in such building to other buildings in Washington, DC, owned by the federal government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-16
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2011-02-16
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Fairness in Lending Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-691
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2011-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Consumer credit
Housing finance and home ownership
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: 
Fairness in Lending Act of 2011 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit credit from being extended in any consumer credit transaction in which a security interest will be retained or acquired in property located within the United States which will be used as the consumer's principal residence if such consumer lacks a Social Security account number.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Nuclear Family Priority Act

Bill: 112-hr-692
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2011-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Family relationships
Immigration status and procedures
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: 
Nuclear Family Priority Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to replace existing family-sponsored immigrant categories with a single preference allocation for spouses and children of permanent resident aliens.
 
Reduces the number of, and revises the calculation for, fiscal year family-sponsored immigrant entrants.
 
Establishes a nonimmigrant visa category for an alien who is a parent of a U.S. citizen at least 21 years old.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
E-Verify Modernization Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-693
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2011-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Foreign labor
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: 
E-Verify Modernization Act of 2011 - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to make the E-Verify Program permanent and mandatory. 
 
Revises specified Program procedures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Teacher Tax Deduction Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-694
Sponsor: Rep. Kissell, Larry [D-NC-8]
Introduced: 2011-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Income tax deductions
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: 
Teacher Tax Deduction Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $250 to $500 the dollar limit on the tax deduction for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers and to extend such deduction through 2012. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Legal Eligibility for Granting A Loan Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-695
Sponsor: Rep. Marchant, Kenny [R-TX-24]
Introduced: 2011-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: 
Legal Eligibility for Granting A Loan Act of 2011 - Requires each applicant for a single-family home mortgage to provide the lender information to verify the applicant's citizenship or alien status through the E-Verify program if the home mortgage is to be: (1) newly insured under the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); (2) newly purchased by the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac); or (3) newly made, insured, or guaranteed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) or by any other agency or entity of the federal government. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2011-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' 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: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' 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: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Tax Relief Certainty Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-696
Sponsor: Rep. Pence, Mike [R-IN-6]
Introduced: 2011-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Capital gains tax
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: 
Tax Relief Certainty Act of 2011 - Eliminates: (1) the terminating date of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, thus making the tax relief provisions of such Act permanent; and (2) the terminating date of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 applicable to reductions in the tax rate for dividend and capital gain income. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) phase-in between 2011 through 2021increases in the exemption amount for the alternative minimum tax (AMT); and (2) make permanent offsets against the AMT for certain nonrefundable tax credits.
 
Makes permanent the repeal of the estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes for decedents dying, gifts made, and generation skipping transfers after December 31, 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2271 Lake Avenue in Altadena, California, as the "First Lieutenant Oliver Goodall Post Office".

Bill: 112-hr-697
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2011-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: California
Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Military personnel and dependents
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2271 Lake Avenue in Altadena, California, as the "First Lieutenant Oliver Goodall Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy     .
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Tibetan Refugee Assistance Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-699
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2011-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Asia
Family relationships
Immigration status and procedures
India
Nepal
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Tibet
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: 
Tibetan Refugee Assistance Act of 2011 - Makes 3,000 immigrant visas in FY2012-FY2014 available to individuals who were born in Tibet and have been continuously residing in India or Nepal prior to the date of the enactment of this Act.
 
Makes such visas available to the sons, daughters, grandsons, or granddaughters of such individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
To provide a moratorium on the issuance of flood insurance rate maps, to assist property owners in adapting to flood insurance rate map changes, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-700
Sponsor: Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2011-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency planning and evacuation
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Floods and storm protection
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: 
Floodplain Maps Moratorium Act - Amends the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 to delay for five years the requirement to purchase flood insurance for properties in a new flood hazard area if the area's state or local government has developed a flood evacuation plan and meets other specified criteria. Makes the preferred risk rate method premium available for flood insurance coverage of such properties.
 
Directs the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish and implement a plan to notify annually residents of areas having special flood hazards regarding the mandatory purchase requirement. 
 
Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to require the Director to: (1) notify the pertinent Members of Congress as well as the affected communities and their state and local governments about any decision to make a floodplain area or flood-risk zone revision, and (2) provide each such community and state and local government with an opportunity to review and propose modifications to a flood insurance map change or revision.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to review the methodology used to issue or revise flood insurance rate maps.
 
Requires the Director to notify a local television and radio station about proposed or published flood elevation determinations.
 
Directs the Administrator of FEMA to report to Congress a plan for repaying within 10 years all unpaid presidentially approved flood insurance program debt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Ibrahim Parlak.

Bill: 112-hr-701
Sponsor: Rep. Upton, Fred [R-MI-6]
Introduced: 2011-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Provides for the relief of Ibrahim Parlak.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to require States to delay certifying the results of regularly scheduled general elections for Federal office in order to ensure the counting of any marked absentee ballots of absent overseas uniformed services voters that are collected by the Presidential designee under such Act for delivery to State election officials.

Bill: 112-hr-702
Sponsor: Rep. Roe, David P. [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2011-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Military personnel and dependents
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-15
text: 
Amends the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to prohibit a state from certifying the results of a regularly scheduled election for federal office until it has counted all valid ballots of absent servicemember voters collected by the presidential designee and delivered to the appropriate state election officials.
 
Allows a state to certify such results on the later of ten days after such election or the date provided under state law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Elections.
action_date: 2011-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2011-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful Dissemination Act

Bill: 112-hr-703
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2011-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Organized crime
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-15
text: 
Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful Dissemination Act or the SHIELD Act - Amends the federal criminal code to expand the prohibition against disclosure of classified information to include: (1) disclosures of classified information that benefit a transnational threat; and (2) any classified information concerning the human intelligence activities of the United States or any foreign government or concerning the identity of a classified source or informant of an element of the U.S. intelligence community. 
 
Defines &quot;transnational threat&quot; as: (1) any activity, including international terrorism, narcotics trafficking, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the delivery systems for such weapons, or organized crime, that threatens the national security of the United States; or (2) any individual or group that engages such activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-15
text: Introduced in House
SAFE for America Act

Bill: 112-hr-704
Sponsor: Rep. Goodlatte, Bob [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2011-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of State
Immigration status and procedures
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-15
text: 
Security and Fairness Enhancement for America Act of 2011 or SAFE for America Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program.

action_date: 2011-11-10
text: 

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

 
Security and Fairness Enhancement for America Act of 2011 or SAFE for America Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-10
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 185.
action_date: 2011-11-10
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 112-275.
action_date: 2011-11-10
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 112-275.
action_date: 2011-07-20
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 19 - 11.
action_date: 2011-07-20
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-02-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E227-228)
action_date: 2011-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-15
text: Introduced in House