hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Enemy Expatriation Act

Bill: 112-hr-3166
Sponsor: Rep. Dent, Charles W. [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2011-10-12 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Citizenship and naturalization
Conflicts and wars

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: 
Enemy Expatriation Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include engaging in or purposefully and materially supporting hostilities against the United States to the list of acts for which U.S. nationals would lose their nationality.
 
Defines &quot;hostilities&quot; as any conflict subject to the laws of war.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Introduced in House
Illegal Alien Crime Reporting Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3168
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2011-10-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Census and government statistics
Criminal justice information and records
Government information and archives
Law enforcement administration and funding
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: 
Illegal Alien Crime Reporting Act of 2011 - Prohibits the payment of funds to a state or its political subdivisions under any program or activity administered by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) unless such state: (1) compiles statistics on persons arrested, charged, convicted of a crime, or incarcerated by such state, including the immigration status and country of origin of such persons and the crimes for which such persons were arrested, charged, convicted, or incarcerated; (2) reports such statistics monthly to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and (3) certifies compliance with the requirements of this Act. Requires each federal agency to compile similar statistics and report on such statistics monthly to the FBI.
 
Requires the FBI to annually publish all statistics reported under this Act as a separate data collection of its Uniform Crime Reports.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-10-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2011-10-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2011-10-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Introduced in House
Student Support Act

Bill: 112-hr-3169
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2011-10-12 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Health personnel
Mental health
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: 
 Student Support Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to make matching grants of at least $1 million to states for allocation to local educational agencies (LEAs) so that additional school-based mental health and student service providers may be hired, thereby reducing the student-to-provider ratios in elementary and secondary schools to specified levels recommended by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. 
 
Includes school counselors, school psychologists or other psychologists, child or adolescent psychiatrists, and school social workers among such providers.
 
Requires grants to states and state allocations to LEAs to be made pursuant to specified formulas that take into account a state's and school district's share of disadvantaged children.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Introduced in House
Promoting Alternatives to Truancy and Incarceration by Encouraging New and Comprehensive Efforts (PATIENCE) Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3170
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2011-10-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child health
Child safety and welfare
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Health programs administration and funding
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: 
Promoting Alternatives to Truancy and Incarceration by Encouraging New and Comprehensive Efforts (PATIENCE) Act of 2011 - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to require the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to set aside at least 5% of funding under such Act for incentive grants to states. Requires states receiving such grants to: (1) support evidence-based or promising programs that address the mental health treatment needs of juveniles, (2) support reforms that protect juveniles while incarcerated, and (3) demonstrate improvement in public safety and rehabilitation of delinquent and at-risk youth.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Introduced in House
Juvenile Justice Improvement Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3171
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2011-10-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child health
Child safety and welfare
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Detention of persons
Health programs administration and funding
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: 
Juvenile Justice Improvement Act of 2011 - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to: (1) revise and add definitions under such Act relating to the treatment of juveniles held in custody while awaiting trial for criminal offenses; (2) require state plans under such Act to separate juveniles from the adult prison population, monitor for and eliminate the use of dangerous practices, unnecessary isolation, unnecessary room time, and unreasonable restraint for holding juveniles in custody, and provide training of prison staff on techniques for effective behavior management of juvenile offenders; (3) provide incentive grants to states to adopt programs for the mental health treatment needs of juveniles in custody and for the placement of such juveniles in the least restrictive detention or correctional settings; and (4) prohibit the placement of juveniles who have not been charged with adult criminal offenses in secure detention or correctional facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Introduced in House
At-Risk Youth Medicaid Protection Act

Bill: 112-hr-3172
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2011-10-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: 
At-Risk Youth Medicaid Protection Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to prohibit a state from terminating (but requires it to suspend) eligibility for medical assistance for an eligible juvenile during the time he or she is an inmate of a public institution.
 
Requires the state to establish a process to ensure that: (1) it does not claim federal financial participation for items and services excluded from covered medical assistance, and (2) the eligible juvenile receives items and services which are covered and for which federal financial participation would have otherwise been permitted but for the juvenile's status as an inmate. 
 
Requires the state to: (1) restore automatically full eligibility for such medical assistance to an eligible juvenile upon release from the institution; and (2) take all necessary steps to ensure that the juvenile can begin receiving medical assistance under Medicaid immediately upon such release, unless he or she no longer meets state or federal eligibility requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Introduced in House
United States Postal Service Pension Obligation Recalculation and Restoration Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3174
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2011-10-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government trust funds
Postal service
Rural conditions and development
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: 
United States Postal Service Pension Obligation Recalculation and Restoration Act of 2011 - Prescribes the "average pay" to be used in determining annuities for civilian employment with the United States Postal Service (USPS) for purposes of provisions relating to future benefits attributable to such employment in order to calculate the amount of any USPS surplus or supplemental liability under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). 
 
Requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM): (1) within six months after enactment of this Act, to determine (or, if applicable, redetermine) the amount of such surplus or liability as of the close of the most recently ending fiscal year using the methodology required under this Act; and (2) if the result is a surplus, to transfer the surplus amount to the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund within 15 days after the determination of a surplus. 
 
Provides for an alternate determination of a USPS surplus or supplemental liability for FY2016-FY2020. 
 
Requires transfer of certain surplus postal retirement contributions in FY2011 to the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund or the Employees' Compensation Fund under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act. 
 
Prohibits USPS from closing any post office which is located more than 10 miles from any other post office. 
 
Expresses the intent of Congress that this Act shall apply to allocations of past, present, and future benefit liabilities between the USPS and the Treasury.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy     .
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Introduced in House
School and Local Educational Agency Resources Efficiency Act

Bill: 112-hr-3175
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-10-12 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: 
School and Local Educational Agency Resources Efficiency Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to suspend, beginning in the 2011-2012 school year, new identifications of schools or local educational agencies as needing restructuring for failing to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic performance standards.
 
Lifts such suspension on the earlier of the last day of the 2012-2013 school year or the reauthorization of the ESEA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Introduced in House
Local Education Authority Returns Now Act

Bill: 112-hr-3176
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2011-10-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: 
Local Education Authority Returns Now Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to make an annual determination of states that have chosen to opt-out of K-12 education grant programs.
 
Requires the Secretary of Education to determine credits due to states as opt-out state education amounts.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers in states that opt-out a refundable tax credit for a share of the opt-out amount creditable to such states.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2011-10-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2011-10-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: Introduced in House
Hunger Relief Trucking Tax Credit Act

Bill: 112-hr-3177
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2011-10-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Food assistance and relief
Income tax credits
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: 
Hunger Relief Trucking Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for the cost of transporting food to assist hunger relief efforts of certain charitable organizations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: Introduced in House
Marketplace Equity Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3179
Sponsor: Rep. Womack, Steve [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2011-10-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: 
Marketplace Equity Act of 2011 - Authorizes states to require all sellers making remote sales to collect and remit sales and use taxes with respect to such sales into the state, without regard to the location of the seller, if such states implement a simplified system for administration of sales and use tax collection for remote sellers. Requires such a system to include, at a minimum: (1) an exception for remote sellers with gross annual receipts in the preceding calendar year from remote sales not exceeding $1 million in the United States or not exceeding $100,000 in the state, (2) a single sales and use tax return for use by remote sellers and a single revenue authority within the state with which remote sellers are required to file a tax return, and (3) a uniform tax base throughout the state.
 
Defines &quot;remote sale&quot; as a sale of goods or services attributed to a state with respect to which a seller does not have adequate physical presence to establish a nexus so as to allow such state to require such seller to collect and remit taxes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2012-07-23
text: Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law Discharged.
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: Introduced in House
U.S.S. Cruiser Olympia Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 112-hr-3180
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Robert A. [D-PA-1]
Introduced: 2011-10-13 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Commemorative events and holidays
Currency
Historic sites and heritage areas
Marine and inland water transportation
Military facilities and property
Military history

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: 
U.S.S. Cruiser Olympia Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue during calendar year 2016 up to 500,000 $1 silver coins in commemoration of the legacy of the U.S.S. Cruiser Olympia, the sole surviving U.S. naval ship of the Spanish-American War and the world's oldest steel warship afloat.
 
Prescribes a surcharge of $10 per coin, to be paid to the Friends of the Cruiser Olympia to restore and preserve the ship.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology.
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1835)
STRIP Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3181
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-10-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Congressional-executive branch relations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: 
Stop the Regulation Invasion Please Act of 2011 or STRIP Act of 2011 - Imposes a moratorium on federal agencies taking any regulatory rulemaking action beginning on the day after the enactment of this Act and ending on the later of the date that is: (1) 14 days after the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) publishes a report on a review of rules, or (2) 2 years after the enactment of this Act. 
 
Requires the OMB Director to: (1) conduct a review of each rule that became effective after October 1, 1991, and that is in effect as of the enactment date of this Act, and (2) report on the estimated total annual costs and benefits of each rule and recommend whether it should continue or how it should be reformed. Repeals all such rules one year after the enactment of this Act unless specifically authorized by law and enacted after the date of enactment of this Act. 
 
Sets forth exceptions for certain rulemaking actions and rules, including those necessary because of an imminent threat to health or safety or other emergency, for the enforcement of criminal laws, or to establish or enforce statutory rights against discrimination.
 
Requires each federal agency head to designate a Regulatory Review Officer to testify before Congress on any request to prevent the repeal of a rule under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending     .
action_date: 2011-10-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2011-10-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2011-10-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: Introduced in House
To designate the United States courthouse located at 222 West 7th Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska, as the "James M. Fitzgerald United States Courthouse".

Bill: 112-hr-3182
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-10-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Alaska
Congressional tributes
Federal district courts
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Judges

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: 
Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 222 West 7th Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska, as the &quot;James M. Fitzgerald United States Courthouse.&quot; 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to exempt licensed independent insurance producer remuneration from the medical loss ratio.

Bill: 112-hr-3183
Sponsor: Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3]
Introduced: 2011-10-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Health care costs and insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to exclude remuneration paid for licensed independent insurance producers from administrative cost calculations for purposes of calculating the medical-loss ratio of a health insurance plan. Defines &quot;independent insurance producer&quot; to mean an insurance agent or broker, insurance consultant, benefit specialist, limited insurance representative, and any other person required to be licensed under the laws of the particular state to sell, solicit, negotiate, service, effect, procure, renew, or bind policies of insurance coverage or offer advice, counsel, opinions, or services related to insurance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-10-13
text: Introduced in House