hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
CHEF Act

Bill: 112-hr-1077
Sponsor: Rep. Richardson, Laura [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2011-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Employment and training programs
Food industry and services
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: 
Cooking Helps Elevate Futures Act or CHEF Act - Directs the Attorney General to establish a pilot program providing federal inmates with training and certification in the culinary arts, and job placement assistance after their release from custody.
 
Directs the Attorney General to select ten different federal correctional facilities in different regions of the continental United States to participate in the program. 


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 House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
To make technical corrections to section 3013(b) of the Water Resources Development Act of 2007.

Bill: 112-hr-1078
Sponsor: Rep. Alexander, Rodney [R-LA-5]
Introduced: 2011-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Arkansas
Floods and storm protection
Lakes and rivers
Louisiana

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: 
Makes a technical amendment to the Flood Control Act of 1941 regarding the Red-Ouachita River Basin Levees, Arkansas and Louisiana.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
Pediatric Research Consortia Establishment Act

Bill: 112-hr-1080
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2011-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Public contracts and procurement
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: 
Pediatric Research Consortia Establishment Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), acting through the Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, to award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to public or nonprofit private entities to pay all or part of the cost of planning, establishing, and providing basic operating support for up to 20 national pediatric research consortia. Requires the Director of NIH to take unmet research needs into account when making awards under this Act.
 
Declares that research conducted under this Act shall supplement, but not replace, research that is otherwise conducted or supported as part of the comprehensive pediatric research portfolio.
 
Requires consortia to conduct basic, clinical, behavioral, social, or translational research, as well as training in, and demonstration of, advanced diagnostic and treatment methods relating to pediatrics.
 
Requires the Director of NIH to: (1) provide for the coordination of information and ensure regular communication between consortia, and (2) require periodic reports on the activities of the consortia.
 
Requires each consortium under this Act to be formed from a collaboration of cooperating institutions with a lead institution, meeting requirements that may be prescribed by the Director of NIH.
 
Declares that payments made under this Act may be provided for a period of five years and extended for additional five-year periods with enhanced funding opportunities based on an appropriate scientific review of the operations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
Consumers Payment System Protection Act

Bill: 112-hr-1081
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2011-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Federal Reserve System
Financial services and investments
Government studies and investigations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: 
Consumers Payment System Protection Act - Delays until one year after enactment of this Act any proposed or final rule issued under the authority of specified requirements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act governing interchange transaction (swipe) fees for electronic debit transactions (EDTs).
 
Requires the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and specified federal banking agencies jointly to study and report to Congress on the effect of such requirements upon consumers, card issuers, merchants, and financial institutions.
 
Sets a deadline for the Board to make revisions to any proposed or final rule regarding such EDTs if at least two of the agencies contributing to such report determine that any one of the following is true: (1) either such requirements or the Board's proposed rule entitled &quot;Debit Card Interchange Fees and Routing&quot; does not encompass all costs and investments associated with debit card transactions; (2) consumers will be adversely affected by either the requirements or the proposed rule; or (3) the current exemption of small financial institutions (with less than $10 billion in assets) from such requirements, or as carried out by the proposed rule, is not effective in practice.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Capital Access and Job Preservation Act

Bill: 112-hr-1082
Sponsor: Rep. Hurt, Robert [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2011-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business records
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: 
Small Business Capital Access and Job Preservation Act - Amends the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to exempt private equity fund investment advisers from the registration and reporting requirements of the Act.
 
Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to promulgate final rules requiring such investment advisers to maintain records the SEC determines necessary, taking into account fund size, governance, investment strategy, and risk.

action_date: 2011-07-12
text: 
Small Business Capital Access and Job Preservation Act - Amends the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to exempt private equity fund investment advisers from its registration and reporting requirements, provided that each private equity fund has not borrowed and does not have outstanding a principal amount exceeding twice its invested capital commitments.
 
Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to promulgate final rules that: (1) require such investment advisers to maintain records the SEC determines necessary, taking into account fund size, governance, investment strategy, and risk; and (2) define the term &quot;private equity fund&quot; for purposes of this Act.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-12
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 91.
action_date: 2011-07-12
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 112-143.
action_date: 2011-07-12
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 112-143.
action_date: 2011-06-22
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
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: 19 - 13 .
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: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
Rural Broadband Initiative Act

Bill: 112-hr-1083
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, William L. [D-NY-23]
Introduced: 2011-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Congressional oversight
Department of Agriculture
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Public-private cooperation
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: 
Rural Broadband Initiative Act - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to establish in the Department of Agriculture (USDA) the Office of Rural Broadband Initiatives, to be headed by the Under Secretary for Rural Broadband Initiatives.
 
States that the Under Secretary shall: (1) administer all rural broadband-related grant and loan programs previously administered by the Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service, including the rural broadband access loan and loan guarantee program and the community connect grant program; (2) conduct rural outreach; (3) foster development of a comprehensive rural broadband strategic vision; (4) assess relevant technologies; (5) serve as a single information source for all federal rural broadband programs and services; and (6) provide technical assistance to state, regional, and local governments to develop broadband deployment strategies.
 
Directs the Under Secretary to submit: (1) a comprehensive rural broadband strategy report to the President and to Congress, and (2) a plan for a Rural Broadband Advisory Panel to Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Rural Development, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1084
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2011-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Alternative and renewable resources
Business records
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Government information and archives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Oil and gas
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: 
Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 2011 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to repeal the exemption from restrictions on underground injection of fluids or propping agents granted to hydraulic fracturing operations related to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities under such Act. 
 
Requires: (1) state underground injection programs to direct a person conducting hydraulic fracturing operations to disclose to the state (or the Administrator if the Administrator has primary enforcement responsibility in such state) the chemicals intended for use in underground injections prior to the commencement of such operations and the chemicals actually used after the end of such operations; and (2) a state or the Administrator to make such disclosure available to the public.
 
Requires a person conducting hydraulic fracturing operations, when a medical emergency exists and the proprietary chemical formula of a chemical used in such operations is necessary for medical treatment, to disclose such formula or the specific chemical identity of a trade secret chemical to the state, the Administrator, or the treating physician or nurse upon request, regardless of whether a written statement of need or a confidentiality agreement has been provided. Authorizes such person to require a written statement of need and a confidentiality agreement as soon thereafter as circumstances permit.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
Repealing Ineffective and Incomplete Abstinence-Only Program Funding Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1085
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2011-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Appropriations
Child health
Family planning and birth control
HIV/AIDS
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Sexually transmitted diseases
Teenage pregnancy

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: 
Repealing Ineffective and Incomplete Abstinence-Only Program Funding Act of 2011 - Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Social Security Act to: (1) eliminate the abstinence-only education program, (2) rescind unobligated FY2010-FY2011 program appropriations, and (3) reprogram such rescinded appropriations for the personal responsibility education program (PREP) for FY2012-FY2014.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
CPI for Seniors Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1086
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2011-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Aging
Inflation and prices
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: 
CPI for Seniors Act of 2011 - Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the Department of Labor to prepare and publish a monthly index, to be known as the Consumer Price Index for Seniors (CPI-S), that indicates monthly changes in expenditures for consumption that are typical for individuals in the United States who are 62 years of age or older. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
Logan's Law

Bill: 112-hr-1087
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2011-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Accidents
Child safety and welfare
Floods and storm protection
Government information and archives
Water resources funding

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: 
Logan's Law - Requires the head of a federal agency that is carrying out a project involving the construction or modification of a culvert or other enclosed flood or drainage system to ensure that: (1) the system intake is protected by a covering sufficient to ensure that a child may not be swept into the system; (2) a sign warning of the hazard for a child is clearly posted at such intake; and (3) the system has a hinged opening, or other type of opening and closing mechanism, to permit emergency services personnel access.

Requires a federal agency providing financial assistance to a state or local government or other entity for a project carried out with federal funds to require compliance with this Act as a condition for the award of such assistance or any letter of intent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform .
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
TRIM Growth Act

Bill: 112-hr-1088
Sponsor: Rep. Heller, Dean [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2011-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: 
Reduction of Irresponsible MRA Growth Act or TRIM Growth Act - Amends the House of Representatives Administrative Reform Technical Corrections Act to prohibit the Members' Representational Allowance for a fiscal year from exceeding the Allowance established for the previous fiscal year, unless: (1) the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes a national unemployment rate of 6% or lower for each of the six most recent months for which it published a national unemployment rate which occurred before the beginning of the fiscal year, or (2) the Secretary of the Treasury certifies to the congressional appropriations committees that the public debt does not exceed $5.5 trillion as of the first day of the last month of the previous fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
Sergeant Coleman S. Bean Reserve Component Suicide Prevention Act

Bill: 112-hr-1089
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2011-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Asia
Conflicts and wars
Congressional oversight
Health promotion and preventive care
Iraq
Mental health
Middle East
Military medicine
Military operations and strategy
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: 
Sergeant Coleman S. Bean Reserve Component Suicide Prevention Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to ensure that each of the following individuals receive, at least once every 90 days, a telephone call from properly-trained DOD personnel to determine their emotional, psychological, medical, and career needs and concerns: (1) members of the Individual Ready Reserve who deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq in support of a contingency operation, (2) a member of a reserve component who the Secretary determines is an individual mobilization augmentee who has so deployed, or (3) a member of the inactive National Guard.
 
Requires the person making the call to refer a member identified as being at-risk of self-caused harm to the nearest military medical treatment facility or accredited TRICARE (a DOD managed health care program) provider for immediate evaluation and necessary treatment. Directs the Secretary to refer such member to a private provider upon determining that such provider will ensure that the member will receive treatment and assistance without delay.
 
Requires annual reports from the Secretary to Congress on the number of members so referred, their health and career status, and any situations that may be impeding the counseling calls from reaching all appropriate members.
 
Requires a one-time report from the Comptroller General to Congress on suicide among such members.
 
Directs the Secretary to develop, evaluate, and more widely disseminate programs that promote: (1) connectivity between members of the Armed Forces and their family, peers, and immediate chain of command; and (2) suicide risk identification and response, with particular emphasis on members of reserve components.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
Full-Service Community Schools Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1090
Sponsor: Rep. Hoyer, Steny H. [D-MD-5]
Introduced: 2011-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Adult education and literacy
Advisory bodies
Child care and development
Child health
Community life and organization
Crime prevention
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Family relationships
Health care coverage and access
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Mental health
Nutrition and diet
Performance measurement
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Preschool education
Public-private cooperation
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: 
Full-Service Community Schools Act of 2011 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to: (1) consortia composed of one or more local educational agencies (LEAs) and one or more community-based, nonprofit, or other public or private entities to assist public elementary or secondary schools to function as full-service community schools; and (2) state collaboratives to support the development of full-service community school programs. 
 
Requires such schools to: (1) participate in community-based efforts to coordinate and integrate educational, developmental, family, health, and other comprehensive services through community-based organizations and public and private partnerships; and (2) provide access to such services to students, families, and the community.
 
Gives local grant priority to consortia that: (1) will serve at least one full-service community school eligible for a schoolwide program under the Act, or include an LEA serving only small or rural schools; and (2) will be connected to a consortium comprising a broad representation of stakeholders or one that has a history of effectiveness.
 
Establishes a Full-Service Community Schools Advisory Committee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Introduced in House