hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Freedom Flat Tax Act

Bill: 112-hr-1040
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2011-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment taxes
Income tax deductions
Income tax rates
Legislative rules and procedure
Tax reform and tax simplification
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Freedom Flat Tax Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize an individual or a person engaged in business activity to make an irrevocable election to be subject to a flat tax (in lieu of the existing tax provisions) of 19% for the first two years after an election is made, and 17% thereafter. 
 Calculates taxable income for individual taxpayers by subtracting a basic standard deduction and an additional standard deduction for each dependent from the total of wages, retirement distributions, and unemployment compensation. Defines &quot;business taxable income&quot; to mean gross active income reduced by the cost of certain business inputs. 
Imposes an employer tax on the value of excludable compensation provided to employees not engaged in business activity of 19% for the first two years after an election is made under this Act and 17% thereafter. 
Repeals the estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes. 
Requires a two-thirds vote of the House of Representatives or the Senate to increase the flat tax rate proposed by this Act or to reduce the amount of the standard deduction or business-related deductions allowed by this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2011-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
FIMBA

Bill: 112-hr-1041
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Glenn [R-PA-5]
Introduced: 2011-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicare
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: 
Fairness in Medicare Bidding Act or FIMBA - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance Benefits for Aged and Disabled) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare competitive acquisition program for durable medical equipment and prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS).
 
Rescinds specified unobligated balances of all discretionary appropriations, except those for the Department of Defense (DOD) or the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Directs the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to determine and identify each account, program, project, and activity to which this rescission and its amount shall apply.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Appropriations, 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: 2011-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Appropriations, 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: 2011-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Appropriations, 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: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
DELIST Act

Bill: 112-hr-1042
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2011-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Endangered and threatened species
Environmental regulatory procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: 
Discredit Eternal Listing Inequality of Species Takings Act or the DELIST Act - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) to treat a limited listed species as extinct for purposes of this Act upon the expiration of the 15-year period beginning on the date it is determined by the Secretary of the Interior to be an endangered species, unless the Secretary publishes a finding that: (1) there has been a substantial increase in the population of the species during that period; or (2) the continued listing of the species does not impose any economic hardship on communities located in the range of the species.
 
Defines &quot;limited listed species&quot; as any species that is listed as an endangered species for which it is not reasonably possible to determine whether the species has been extirpated from the range of the species that existed on the date the species was listed because not all individuals of the species were identified at the time of such listing.
 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Reduce Unnecessary Spending Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1043
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2011-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Legislative rules and procedure
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: 
Reduce Unnecessary Spending Act of 2011 - Amends the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to transmit, within 45 calendar days after enactment of the funding in question, a message to Congress with specified information requesting any rescission the President proposes under the procedures in this Act.
 
Prescribes requirements for timing and packaging of rescission requests.
 
Authorizes OMB, subject to a specified time limit, to withhold funding from obligation temporarily if the President proposes a rescission.
 
Prohibits the President from invoking such expedited procedures or such authority to withhold funding on more than one occasion for any Act providing funding.
 
Sets forth procedures for expedited congressional consideration of proposed rescissions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2011-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2011-03-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E462-463)
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1044
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, Lynn [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2011-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: 
Medicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide payment under Medicare part A (Hospital Insurance) on a reasonable cost basis for anesthesia services furnished by a physician who is an anesthesiologist in certain rural hospitals in the same manner as payment is made for anesthesia services furnished by a certified registered nurse anesthetists in such hospitals.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of the survivors of Michael T. Theodore, Jr., Joshua A. Sherbourne, and Zachary A. Nolen.

Bill: 112-hr-1045
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-17]
Introduced: 2011-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Provides for the relief of the survivors of Michael T. Theodore, Jr., Joshua A. Sherbourne, and Zachary A. Nolen.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Honor the WISH Act

Bill: 112-hr-1046
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2011-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: 
Honor the Written Intent of our Soldier Heroes Act or Honor the WISH Act - Includes, as a person authorized to direct disposition of the remains of a member of the Armed Forces who dies while on active duty, the person identified by the decedent on the record of emergency data maintained by the Secretary of the military department concerned as the Person Authorized to Direct Disposition, regardless of the relationship of the designee to the decedent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
State Right to Vote Act

Bill: 112-hr-1047
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, Jeff [R-SC-3]
Introduced: 2011-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Intergovernmental relations
Labor-management relations
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: 
State Right to Vote Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to declare that nothing in the Act shall be construed to authorize or recognize a labor organization as the representative of employees in a state where recognition of the labor organization is prohibited, unless the labor organization has been selected by a majority of such employees in a secret ballot election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
 
Prohibits a federal agency from bringing a challenge against a state statute or constitutional provision which protects the right of employees to choose labor organization representatives through secret ballot elections.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1048
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2011-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Disability and health-based discrimination
Education programs funding
Government information and archives
Higher education
Racial and ethnic relations
School administration
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: 
Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act of 2011 - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require each institution of higher education (IHE) participating in a title IV program (except a foreign school) to include in its annual security report a statement of policy regarding harassment that includes: (1) a prohibition of harassment of students by other students, faculty, and staff; (2) a description of its programs to prevent harassment; (3) a description of the procedures that students should follow if harassment occurs; and (4) a description of the procedures it will follow once an incident of harassment has been reported.
 
Defines &quot;harassment&quot; to include certain conduct undertaken through technological means that limits a student's ability to benefit from the IHE's programs, or creates a hostile or abusive educational environment at the school.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to IHEs to initiate, expand, or improve programs to: (1) prevent the harassment of students; (2) provide counseling or redress services to students who have been harassed or accused of subjecting other students to harassment; and (3) train students, faculty, or staff to prevent harassment or address harassment if it occurs.
 
Directs the Secretary to publish a report of best practices for combating harassment at IHEs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
ROAD to Jobs Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1049
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Bill [R-OH-6]
Introduced: 2011-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: 
Regulatory Openness, Accountability, and Disclosure to Jobs Act of 2011 or the ROAD to Jobs Act of 2011 - Amends the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) to require the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), no later than December 31 of each year, to report on: (1) the number of federal permits applied for but not issued during that year because an environmental impact statement (EIS) was not issued; and (2) descriptions of the federal permits for which EISs were issued that were rejected or otherwise disapproved in that year. Requires such report to include a description of the economic impact of not issuing each permit.
 
Defines &quot;permit&quot; to mean any license, certificate, approval, registration, charter, membership, exemption, or other form of permission required by federal law for the conduct of activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1730)
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1050
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2011-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Department of Labor
Employee benefits and pensions
Federal preemption
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Licensing and registrations
Small business
State and local taxation
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: 
Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2011 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide for establishment and governance of association health plans (AHPs), which are group health plans whose sponsors are trade, industry, professional, chamber of commerce, or similar business associations, and which meet certain ERISA certification requirements. 
 
Prescribes rules governing AHPs, including requirements relating to certification, sponsors and boards of trustees, participation and coverage, nondiscrimination, contribution rates, notice of voluntary termination, correction actions, and mandatory termination.
 
Establishes the Association Health Plan Fund to be used by the Secretary of Labor to make payments to an insurer to maintain coverage for a plan if there is a reasonable expectation that, without such payments, claims would not be satisfied by reason of termination of coverage.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a Solvency Standards Working Group.
 
Allows a state to impose a contribution tax on an association health plan that commenced operations in such state after the enactment of this Act.
 
Preempts any state law that may preclude a health insurance issuer from: (1) offering health insurance coverage in connection with a certified AHP; or (2) offering health insurance coverage of the same policy type to other employers operating in the state that are eligible for coverage under such AHPs, whether or not such other employers are participating employers in such plan.
 
Subjects to criminal penalties a person who willfully makes false representations with respect to an AHP.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Beneficiary Freedom to Choose Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1051
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2011-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Contracts and agency
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: 
Medicare Beneficiary Freedom to Choose Act of 2011- Amends title XVIII (Medicare) to revise requirements for the use of private contracts by Medicare beneficiaries under which no Medicare claims shall be made. Requires any such contract to be in writing and signed by the Medicare beneficiary.
 
Allows individuals to choose to opt out of the Medicare part A (Hospital Insurance), and makes them eligible for health savings accounts.
 

 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-11
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: 2011-03-11
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: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Guarantee Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1052
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2011-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: 
Social Security Guarantee Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a benefit guarantee certificate to each individual entitled to benefits under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act.
 
States that any such certificate constitutes budget authority in advance of appropriations Acts, and represents the obligation of the federal government to provide for payment of OASDI benefits named on the certificate, as adjusted (for inflation or otherwise), to the individual to whom it is issued.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
To clarify authority granted under the Act entitled "An Act to define the exterior boundary of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in the State of Utah, and for other purposes".

Bill: 112-hr-1053
Sponsor: Rep. Matheson, Jim [D-UT-2]
Introduced: 2011-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: 
Authorizes Utah to relinquish for the benefit of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation certain of its school or subsurface mineral lands south of the border between Grand County and Uintah County, Utah, in exchange for certain federal subsurface mineral lands north of that border.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Access to Certified Professional Midwives Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1054
Sponsor: Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2011-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Medicaid
Sex and reproductive health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: 
Access to Certified Professional Midwives Act of 2011 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to extend Medicaid coverage to certified professional midwife services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Part D Off-Label Prescription Parity Act

Bill: 112-hr-1055
Sponsor: Rep. Thornberry, Mac [R-TX-13]
Introduced: 2011-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: 
Part D Off-Label Prescription Parity Act - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permit a prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsor offering a PDP or a MedicareAdvantage (MA) organization offering an MA-PD plan to offer coverage of covered part D drugs for uses that are determined to be for medically accepted indications based upon: (1) guidance provided by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for determining accepted uses of covered part D drugs; and (2) supportive clinical evidence in peer reviewed medical literature.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-11
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: 2011-03-11
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: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Introduced in House