hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Patent Continuing Disclosure Act

Bill: 112-hr-1056
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2011-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Intellectual property
Manufacturing

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: 
Patent Continuing Disclosure Act - Amends federal patent law to prohibit fining for false marking (counterfeiting or imitating patent marks to deceive the public into believing articles are patented) any person who makes, uses, offers for sale, or sells within or imports into the United States, an expired patent item affixed with the word &quot;patent&quot; (along with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office [USPTO] patent number granted to that person) if, after the expiration of the patent: (1) there is no change in the manufacturing or production process, or (2) the word &quot;expired&quot; is placed before the word &quot;patent&quot; (or the patent number) when a change in the manufacturing or production process occurs.
 
Defines the term &quot;change in the manufacturing or production process&quot; as an intentional expansion, enhancement, improvement, or repair, that suspends, for a period of at least 24 hours, the normal operating procedures through which the item is assembled, made, crafted, manufactured, built, or fabricated from individual components or raw materials, or both.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
FIT Kids Act

Bill: 112-hr-1057
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2011-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Child health
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government studies and investigations
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: 
Fitness Integrated with Teaching Kids Act or FIT Kids Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to require annual state and local educational agency report cards to include specified information on school health and physical education programs.
 
Includes the promotion of healthy, active lifestyles by students within ESEA grant programs that support school counseling, smaller learning communities, community learning centers, and parental involvement in their childrens' education.
 
Revises the professional development program for teachers and principals to include training for physical and health education teachers, and training on improving students' health habits and participation in physical activities.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to contract with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for a study that: (1) assesses the effect health and physical education have on students' ability to learn; and (2) makes recommendations for improving, and measuring improvements to, their health and physical education in schools.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Seniors' Tax Simplification Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1058
Sponsor: Rep. Fleming, John [R-LA-4]
Introduced: 2011-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aging
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: 
 Seniors' Tax Simplification Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make available a new federal income tax Form 1040SR (similar to Form 1040EZ) to individuals who have turned 65 as of the close of the taxable year. Allows the form to be used even if income includes: (1) social security benefits; (2) distributions from qualified retirement plans, annuities, or other such deferred payment arrangements; (3) interest and dividends; or (4) capital gains and losses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Prevent Lockout of Athletes this Year Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1060
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2011-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Competition and antitrust
Professional sports

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: 
Prevent Lockout of Athletes this Year Act of 2011 - Amends the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 to eliminate the antitrust exemption for professional football sponsored telecasting agreements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E478-479)
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Federal Agency Transparency Act

Bill: 112-hr-1061
Sponsor: Rep. Farenthold, Blake [R-TX-27]
Introduced: 2011-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Executive agency funding and structure
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: 
Federal Agency Transparency Act - Requires each federal agency, at the end of each two-week period, to publish on its official website a statement of all funds received and spent during such period. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform .
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Burdensome Data Collection Relief Act

Bill: 112-hr-1062
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, Nan A. S. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2011-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Business records
Corporate finance and management
Government information and archives
Securities
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: 
Burdensome Data Collection Relief Act - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to repeal the requirement that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) amend certain federal regulations about executive compensation to require each issuer of securities to disclose in any filing: (1) the median of the annual total compensation of all the issuer's employees, except the chief executive officer; (2) the annual total compensation of the chief executive officer; and (3) the ratio of the first amount to the second.

action_date: 2011-07-12
text: 

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

 
Burdensome Data Collection Relief Act - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to repeal the requirement that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) amend certain federal regulations regarding executive compensation to require each issuer of securities to disclose in any filing: (1) the median of the annual total compensation of all the issuer's employees, except the chief executive officer; (2) the annual total compensation of the chief executive officer; and (3) the ratio of the first amount to the second.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-12
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 90.
action_date: 2011-07-12
text: Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 112-142.
action_date: 2011-07-12
text: Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 112-142.
action_date: 2011-06-22
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 33 - 21.
action_date: 2011-06-22
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by the Yeas and Nays: 20 - 12 .
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2011-05-03
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises Prior to Referral.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Surface Transportation Savings Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1064
Sponsor: Rep. Boswell, Leonard L. [D-IA-3]
Introduced: 2011-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Department of Transportation
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Motor vehicles
Public transit
Research administration and funding
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: 
Surface Transportation Savings Act of 2011 - Rescinds specified amounts authorized for FY2010 and FY2011 under the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) for: (1) safety belt performance grants, (2) administrative expenses of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), (3) the National Driver Register, (4) NHTSA operations and research, and (5) transit formula and bus grants.
 
Requires all rescinded funds to be used for deficit reduction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Pill Mill Crackdown Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1065
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2011-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against children
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Law enforcement administration and funding
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: 
Pill Mill Crackdown Act of 2011 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to: (1) double the term of imprisonment and triple the fine for the prohibited distribution of a schedule II or schedule III controlled substance by the operator of a pill mill, (2) increase the penalties for such operator distribution of a controlled substance to a person under age 21 from twice to thrice the maximum punishment or term of supervised release authorized, and (3) exclude such operator distribution from the applicability of provisions authorizing an alternative fine of not more than twice the gross profits or other proceeds derived by a defendant from a drug offense. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that such prohibited operator distribution is a violation for which certain property is subject to forfeiture. Requires the proceeds from disposition of such property to be used for controlled substance monitoring programs in the states and for block grants to states for community mental health services and for prevention and treatment of substance abuse.
 
Changes the classification of specified quantities of dihydrocodeinone from a schedule III to a schedule II controlled substance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Federal Firefighters Fairness Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1066
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2011-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Blood and blood diseases
Cancer
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Evidence and witnesses
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health personnel
Medical research
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: 
Federal Firefighters Fairness Act of 2011- Provides that: (1) specified diseases, including heart disease, lung disease, tuberculosis, hepatitis, human immunodeficiency virus, and specified cancers, of federal employees in fire protection activities shall be presumed to be proximately caused by such employment if the employee is diagnosed with the disease within 10 years of the last active date of employment in fire protection activities; (2) the disability or death of such an employee due to such a disease shall be presumed to result from personal injury sustained while in the performance of duty; and (3) such presumptions may be rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence. 
 
Defines an "employee in fire protection activities" as a firefighter, paramedic, emergency medical technician, rescue worker, ambulance personnel, or hazardous material worker, who: (1) is trained in fire suppression; (2) has the legal authority and responsibility to engage in fire suppression; (3) is engaged in the prevention, control, and extinguishment of fires or response to emergency situations where life, property, or the environment is at risk; and (4) performs such activities as a primary responsibility of his or her job.
 
Directs the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to examine the implementation of this Act and appropriate scientific and medical data related to the health risks associated with firefighting and to report to Congress on: (1) an analysis of the injury claims made under this Act; (2) an analysis of the available research related to the health risks associated with firefighting; and (3) recommendations for any administrative or legislative actions necessary to ensure that those diseases most associated with firefighting are included in the presumption created by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Surface Transportation Earmark Rescission, Savings, and Accountability Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1067
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2011-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Appropriations
Public transit
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: 
Surface Transportation Earmark Rescission, Savings, and Accountability Act of 2011 - Rescinds unobligated balances for: (1) specified transportation projects designated prior to 1998, and (2) specified high priority project authorizations under the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) in which less than 10% authorized for such projects has been obligated.
 
Rescinds a specified amount of authorizations for FY2005-FY2009 for certain undesignated high priority highway projects under the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1629)
Federal Firefighter Pay Equity Act

Bill: 112-hr-1068
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2011-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Fires
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: 
Federal Firefighter Pay Equity Act - Includes in the determination of a federal firefighter's average pay for purposes of computing retirement and annuity benefits one-half of a firefighter's basic hourly rate times the number of overtime hours included in such firefighter's regular tour of duty for a year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an election for unmarried, nonitemizing individuals to have their returns prepared by the Secretary of the Treasury, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-1069
Sponsor: Rep. Cooper, Jim [D-TN-5]
Introduced: 2011-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow unmarried individuals who do not have gross income from a trade or business and who do not itemize their tax deductions to elect: (1) to have the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) prepare their income tax returns; and (2) to decline to file such IRS-prepared return, without penalty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Medgar Evers House Study Act

Bill: 112-hr-1071
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2011-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Historic sites and heritage areas
Mississippi
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: 
Medgar Evers House Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the home of the late civil rights activist Medgar Evers, which is located at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive in Jackson, Mississippi.
 
Requires the Secretary to evaluate the national significance of such site and determine the suitability and feasibility of designating it as a unit of the National Park System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 95 Dogwood Street in Cary, Mississippi, as the "Spencer Byrd Powers, Jr. Post Office".

Bill: 112-hr-1072
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2011-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Mississippi
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 95 Dogwood Street in Cary, Mississippi, as the "Spencer Byrd Powers, Jr. Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
To designate the United States courthouse to be constructed in Jackson, Mississippi, as the "R. Jess Brown United States Courthouse".

Bill: 112-hr-1073
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2011-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Mississippi

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: 
Designates the U.S. courthouse to be constructed at a specified site in Jackson, Mississippi, as the &quot;R. Jess Brown United States Courthouse.&quot;

action_date: 2012-12-20
text: 

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

 
Designates the U.S. courthouse to be constructed at a specified site in Jackson, Mississippi, as the &quot;R. Jess Brown United States Courthouse.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-20
text: Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 173.
action_date: 2012-12-20
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 112-711.
action_date: 2012-12-20
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 112-711.
action_date: 2011-06-22
text: Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Discharged.
action_date: 2011-06-22
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2011-06-22
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the corporate income tax rate to 10 percent and to lower the rate of tax on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent.

Bill: 112-hr-1074
Sponsor: Rep. Tipton, Scott  R. [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2011-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Corporate finance and management
Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce to 10%: (1) the income tax rate on corporations, including personal service corporations; and (2) the capital gains income of individuals and corporations.
 
Makes provisions of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 that reduce tax rates on capital gains income permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit Repeal Act

Bill: 112-hr-1075
Sponsor: Rep. Womack, Steve [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2011-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Income tax credits
Motor fuels
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: 
Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit Repeal Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the immediate repeal (the current expiration date is December 31, 2011) of the income and excise tax credits for alchol fuel mixtures (ethanol).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-14
text: Introduced in House