hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Women WIN Jobs

Bill: 112-hr-2315
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2011-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: 
Women and Workforce Investment for Nontraditional Jobs or Women WIN Jobs - Requires the Secretary of Labor, in any fiscal year in which the total authorization of appropriations to carry out this Act exceeds $50 million, to allocate grants to states with approved state plans to provide funding to eligible entities (partnerships) to increase low-income women's participation in high-wage, high-demand occupations in which women make up less than 25% of the current workforce.
 
Authorizes states to use grants for statewide activities, including to: (1) provide technical assistance to eligible entities and to state registered apprenticeship programs and sponsors and joint apprenticeship training councils in meeting their enrollment goal for low-income women in nontraditional occupations, (2) develop policies and protocols that set goals for hiring specific percentages of women into registered apprenticeships and permanent employment openings in publicly assisted projects, and (3) engage in outreach activities and provide training to overcome stereotypes about women in nontraditional occupations as well as gender inequity among employers.
 
Authorizes the allocation of grant funds to eligible entities to support the recruitment, training, placement, and retention of low-income women in nontraditional occupations.
 
Directs the Secretary to convene a national commission to examine and make recommendations for improving the status of women in high-demand, high-wage nontraditional occupations.
 
Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to collect data on the status of women's participation in underrepresented sectors of the economy, and examine the status of women in relation to that of men.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a national clearinghouse to collect and distribute best practices. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Fair Sentencing Clarification Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2316
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2011-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: 
Fair Sentencing Clarification Act of 2011 - Directs: (1) a court, in cases in which a sentence has not yet been imposed with respect to the application of the penalty amendments of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 to cocaine base offenses committed prior to the enactment of such Act, to impose such sentence as if such amendments were in effect on the date the offense was committed; and (2) the Court of Appeals to remand for resentencing consistent with such amendments such cases in which a sentence has already been imposed, if subject to a pending appeal on or after August 3, 2010.
 
Authorizes the sentencing court, in the case of a defendant who has been convicted of such an offense committed before August 3, 2010, for which a term of imprisonment has been imposed, to reduce the term of imprisonment for that crime consistent with the amendments made by that Act on motion of the defendant or the Director of the Bureau of Prisons, or on its own motion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Promoting Green Transportation Infrastructure through Research and Development Act

Bill: 112-hr-2317
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2011-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Department of Transportation
Education programs funding
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Executive agency funding and structure
Floods and storm protection
Higher education
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Infrastructure development
Motor fuels
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Roads and highways
Solid waste and recycling
Technology transfer and commercialization
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: 
Promoting Green Transportation Infrastructure through Research and Development Act - Moves the Office of Climate Change and Environment into the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) of the Department of Transportation (DOT) and requires it to coordinate research, development, and technology transfer activities: (1) that focus on transportation-related emissions and energy reduction strategies, and (2) on the impacts of climate change on surface transportation infrastructure.
 
Revises the surface transportation, research, development, and technology program to direct the Administrator of RITA to make grants to institutions of higher education (including consortia) to establish regional university transportation centers (UTCs) to carry out research, development, and technology transfer activities in the field of green transportation infrastructure (i.e., infrastructure that preserves and restores natural processes, utilizes natural design techniques, and minimizes energy consumption and pollution).
 
Directs the Administrator to establish a pavement research, deployment, and education program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Medal of Honor Stipend Increase Act

Bill: 112-hr-2318
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2011-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: 
 Medal of Honor Stipend Increase Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), subject to the availability of appropriations, to increase by up to $500 a month the rate of the Medal of Honor special pension.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend existing elective tax treatment for Alaska Native Settlement Trusts.

Bill: 112-hr-2320
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Capital gains tax
Federal-Indian relations
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Indian claims
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: 
Makes provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 relating to the tax treatment and information requirements of Alaska Native Settlement Trusts permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1200-1201)
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Southeastern Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2321
Sponsor: Rep. Bachus, Spencer [R-AL-6]
Introduced: 2011-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alabama
Appropriations
Arkansas
Atmospheric science and weather
Disaster relief and insurance
Electric power generation and transmission
Employee benefits and pensions
Georgia
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Kentucky
Low- and moderate-income housing
Mississippi
Natural disasters
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Public utilities and utility rates
Securities
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tennessee
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: 
Southeastern Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2011 - Extends certain disaster-related tax relief provisions to the Southeastern disaster area. Defines &quot;Southeastern disaster area&quot; as an area with respect to which a major disaster has been declared by the President under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act due to severe storms, tornados, or flooding occurring after April 13, 2011, and before June 7, 2011, in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
 
Rescinds $12 billion of appropriated discretionary unexpired and unobligated federal funds to implement this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2011-06-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Reaffirmation Act

Bill: 112-hr-2322
Sponsor: Rep. Benishek, Dan [R-MI-1]
Introduced: 2011-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Michigan

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: 
Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Reaffirmation Act - Reaffirms federal recognition and the rights and privileges of the Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians in Cheboygan County, Michigan. Extends to the Band eligibility for all federal services and benefits available to other federally recognized Indian tribes. Designates the service area for the delivery of federal services to the Band and to other Indians in the area of Cheboygan County, Michigan.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to acquire land in Cheboygan County, Michigan, and in other geographic areas and to hold such lands in trust for the benefit of the Band.
 
Sets forth criteria and evidentiary requirements for determining the initial membership of the Band. Requires the Band to provide a copy of its base roll to the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs within one year of this Act's enactment.
 
Provides that the initial constitution of the Band shall be the constitution submitted by the Band to the Office of Federal Acknowledgment on May 2, 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 23, United States Code, to permit the State of West Virginia to allow the operation of certain vehicles for the hauling of coal and coal by-products on Interstate Route 77 in Kanawha County, West Virginia.

Bill: 112-hr-2323
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2011-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Coal
Licensing and registrations
Motor carriers
Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: 
Authorizes the state of West Virginia to allow, by special permit, the operation of vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of up to 126,000 pounds for the hauling of coal and coal by-products on Interstate Route 77 in Kanawha County, West Virginia, between Exits 85 and 97.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
ROADS SAFE Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2324
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2011-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: 
Research of Alcohol Detection Systems for Stopping Alcohol-related Fatalities Everywhere Act of 2011 or ROADS SAFE Act of 2011 - Directs the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to carry out a collaborative research effort to continue to explore the feasibility and the potential benefits of, and the public policy challenges associated with, more widespread deployment of in-vehicle technology to prevent alcohol-impaired driving.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Innovation in Education Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2326
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2011-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: 
Innovation in Education Act of 2011 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to require the Secretary of Education to establish and maintain a National Education Innovation Network of searchable databases or Internet websites that: (1) provide educators and administrators with information regarding the most promising practices and strategies for improving student achievement and turning around low-performing schools; and (2) allow educators and administrators to nominate new practices and strategies for inclusion in such databases or websites, recommend improvements to those already there, and exchange ideas with their peers.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide grants and technical assistance to states to establish a National Education Innovation Corps that connects educators and administrators with evidence-based solutions to the most critical problems of practice in local educational agencies and chronically low-performing schools.
 
Requires the Corps to be composed of: (1) knowledge brokers, who have expertise in education, research, and the implementation of innovations; and (2) practice experts, who have successful teaching experience.
 
Allocates Corps grants among states in proportion to each state's share of school improvement funds under part A of title I of the ESEA.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Eminent Domain Tax Relief Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2327
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2011-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion
Property rights

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: 
Eminent Domain Tax Relief Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income gain from the conversion of property by reason of eminent domain.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
End Excessive Oil Speculation Now Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2328
Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
Introduced: 2011-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Commodities markets
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Energy prices
Lighting, heating, cooling
Motor fuels
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: 
End Excessive Oil Speculation Now Act of 2011 - Directs the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to establish speculative position limits: (1) in any registered trading entity on or through which crude oil, gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, or heating oil futures or swaps are traded that are equal to the position accountability levels or position limits established by the New York Mercantile Exchange (Exchange); and (2) that are equal to the position accountability levels or position limits established by such Exchange upon the aggregate number or amount of positions in contracts based upon the same underlying commodity that may be held by any person (including any group or class of traders) for each month across specified contracts, transactions, and swap contracts.
 
 Directs the Chairman to: (1) establish margin requirements of 12% for speculative swaps and futures trading in crude oil, gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, and heating oil; (2) require each bank holding company, investment bank, hedge fund, or swaps dealer trading energy futures or swaps for its own benefit, or on behalf of, or as counterparty to, an index fund, exchange traded fund, or other noncommercial participant, to register with the CFTC as a noncommercial participant and be subject to position limits and margin requirements under this Act. 
 
Exempts bona-fide hedge trading from such position limits and margin requirements. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that, if finalized, the proposed position limits for derivatives that the CFTC included in a specified notice of proposed rulemaking do not fulfill the requirements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to diminish, eliminate, or prevent excessive speculation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring a Response for Servicemembers Act

Bill: 112-hr-2329
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Bill [R-OH-6]
Introduced: 2011-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: 
Ensuring a Response for Servicemembers Act - Directs each lending institution subject to specified interest rate requirements under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to designate an employee as a compliance officer responsible for ensuring the institution's compliance and distributing information to servicemembers regarding applicable obligations and liabilities.
 
Requires, during any fiscal year, such lending institutions with annual assets of at least $10 billion for the preceding fiscal year to maintain a toll-free telephone number and make the number available on the institution's primary Internet website.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2011-07-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-07-07
text: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity Prior to Referral.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
National Flood Research and Education Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2330
Sponsor: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2]
Introduced: 2011-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Department of Commerce
Education programs funding
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental technology
Executive agency funding and structure
Floods and storm protection
Government information and archives
Higher education
Hydrology and hydrography
Research administration and funding
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Technology assessment

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: 
National Flood Research and Education Act of 2011 - Establishes within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) an Office of Flood Research and Policy, headed by a Director. Requires the Director to: (1) establish and oversee a National Flood Research and Education Consortium; (2) make recommendations and identify best practices for predicting, preventing, and minimizing flooding and its effects; (3) establish and maintain a page on the NOAA website; (4) select an institution of higher education to serve as the Lead Partner Institution (LPI) to head the Consortium and additional institutions to participate in the Consortium; and (5) review applications that have been approved by LPI and award grants for demonstration projects to implement such recommendations and best practices or to test techniques, strategies, technologies, methods, tools, and models for predicting, preventing, and minimizing flooding and its effects.
 
Requires each member of the Consortium to conduct research, and develop undergraduate and graduate courses, on flooding, flood prevention, and other flood-related issues. 
 
Directs LPI to: (1) establish a center to plan, coordinate, and facilitate research and information sharing among Consortium members; (2) review and approve grant applications; (3) oversee demonstration projects funded by grant awards; and (4) establish and maintain a website for the Consortium. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2011-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2011-06-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-23
text: Introduced in House