hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Clean Ports Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-2011
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2011-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Air quality
Federal preemption
Intergovernmental relations
Motor carriers
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Transportation costs
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: 
Clean Ports Act of 2011 - Declares that federal preemption of state and local law relating to a price, route, or service of any motor carrier of property shall not apply to the authority of a state, local government, or the political authority of two or more states to adopt requirements for motor carriers providing services at port facilities that are reasonably related to the reduction of environmental pollution, traffic congestion, the improvement of highway safety, or the efficient utilization of such port facilities, provided adoption or enforcement of such requirements does not conflict with federal law.
 
Declares that nothing in this Act may be construed to limit the rights reserved to any state or political subdivision of a state under the Clean Air Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Children's Sleepwear Labeling Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-2012
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2011-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child safety and welfare
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Fires
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: 
Children's Sleepwear Labeling Act of 2011 - Directs the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to require flame resistant children's sleepwear to include a label that indicates: (1) that it is flame resistant, and (2) the chemical name of the flame retardant used.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 32, United States Code, the body of laws of the United States dealing with the National Guard, to recognize the City of Salem, Massachusetts, as the Birthplace of the National Guard of the United States.

Bill: 112-s-2013
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2011-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Massachusetts
Military history
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: 
Recognizes Salem, Massachusetts, the site of the first muster of a militia regiment in 1637 in what became the United States, as the Birthplace of the National Guard of the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Fresh Regional Eating for Schools and Health Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-2016
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2011-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Food industry and services
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Nutrition and diet
Retail and wholesale trades
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: 
Fresh Regional Eating for Schools and Health Act of 2011 - Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (formerly known as the Food Stamp Act of 1977) regarding the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP, formerly food stamp program) to: (1) authorize pilot programs that will assist SNAP beneficiaries in meeting federal nutrition guidelines and promote innovative local projects, (2) implement smartphone and tablet technology for acceptance of electronic benefit transfers, (3) require retail stores with gross annual SNAP sales in excess of $1 million to report food purchased by program recipients to the Department of Agriculture (USDA), and (4) include qualifying online food retailers within SNAP.
 
Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 regarding the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children program (WIC) to: (1) implement smartphone and tablet technology for acceptance of electronic benefit transfers; and (2) permit retail stores to receive alternative program training, including through videoconferencing.
 
Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to permit schools to use 50% of USDA funds for agricultural commodities to purchase locally grown food for food service programs under such Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966.
 
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act regarding direct agricultural real estate loans to: (1) extend eligibility to a new farmer who has obtained a baccalaureate degree related to farm management (including horticulture and agricultural business management), and (2) suspend loan time limits. 
 
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to extend operating loan eligibility to food banks and other nonprofit hunger assistance organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8736-8737)
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Democracy Restoration Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-2017
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2011-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Law enforcement administration and funding
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: 
 Democracy Restoration Act of 2011 - Declares that the right of a U.S. citizen to vote in any election for federal office shall not be denied or abridged because that individual has been convicted of a criminal offense unless, at the time of the election, such individual is serving a felony sentence in a correctional institution or facility. Provides for enforcement and remedies for violations of this Act.

Specifies that: (1) nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit a state from enacting any state law that affords the right to vote in any election for federal office on terms less restrictive than those terms established by this Act; and (2) the rights and remedies established by this Act shall be in addition to all other rights and remedies provided by law, and shall not supersede, restrict, or limit the application of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 or the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. 
Prohibits any state, unit of local government, or other person from receiving or using any federal grant amounts to construct or improve a place of incarceration unless that person has a program to notify each U.S. citizen incarcerated in that person's jurisdiction, on release from such incarceration, of that individual's rights under this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8737-8738)
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Los Angeles Residential Helicopter Noise Relief Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-2019
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2011-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
California
Department of Transportation
Noise pollution
Transportation safety and security
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: 
Los Angeles Residential Helicopter Noise Relief Act of 2011 - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to prescribe regulations for helicopter operations in Los Angeles County, California, that include requirements for helicopter flight paths and altitudes to reduce helicopter noise pollution in residential areas, increase safety, and minimize commercial aircraft delays.
 
Requires the Administrator to exempt from such requirements helicopter operations related to emergency, law enforcement, or military activities.
 
Directs the Administrator to make reasonable efforts to consult with local communities and local helicopter operators to develop regulations that meet the needs of local communities, helicopter operators, and the FAA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8739)
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8738-8739)
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Keeping All Students Safe Act

Bill: 112-s-2020
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2011-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government information and archives
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: 
Keeping All Students Safe Act - Requires each state and local educational agency (LEA) that receives federal funds to prohibit school personnel, contractors, and resource officers from subjecting students to: (1) seclusion, (2) mechanical or chemical restraint, (3) aversive behavioral intervention that compromises student health and safety, or (4) physical restraint that is life-threatening or contraindicated based on the student's health or disability status.
 
Allows physical restraint only when: (1) the student's behavior poses an immediate danger of serious bodily injury to the student or others; (2) the restraint does not interfere with the student's ability to communicate; and (3) the restraint occurs after less restrictive interventions have proven ineffective in stopping the danger, except in certain emergencies when immediate restraint is necessary.
 
Requires school personnel imposing physical restraint to: (1) be trained and certified by a state-approved crisis intervention training program, though others may impose such restraint in certain instances when trained personnel are not immediately available; and (2) engage in continuous face-to-face monitoring of the restrained student.
 
Requires: (1) the parents of a physically restrained student to be notified on the day such restraint occurs; (2) a debriefing session to be held as soon as practicable for the restrained student, the student's parents, and certain personnel involved in, or having duties with regard to, the event; and (3) the state, LEA, local law enforcement, and any protection and advocacy system serving an affected student to be notified within 24 hours of any death or bodily injury that occurs in conjunction with efforts to control a student's behavior.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to states and, through them, competitive subgrants to LEAs to: (1) establish, implement, and enforce policies and procedures to meet this Act's requirements; (2) improve their capacity to collect and analyze data related to physical restraint; and (3) implement school-wide positive behavioral interventions and supports.
 
Requires states to allow private school personnel to participate, on an equitable basis, in activities supported by such grants and subgrants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8740-8742)
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8739-8740)
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
SIGN Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-2021
Sponsor: Sen. Toomey, Patrick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2011-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Intergovernmental relations
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: 
Stopping Intrusive Government Now Act of 2011 or SIGN Act of 2011 - Prohibits the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) from promulgating, implementing, or enforcing a minimum retroreflectivity level standard for a traffic control device under the jurisdiction of a state or local government.
 
Directs the Secretary to modify the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 2009 Edition, to eliminate federal minimum retroreflectivity level standards for traffic control devices and the schedule for their implementation. (Replacement of regulatory, warning, and post-mounted guide [except street name] signs is required by January 22, 2015. Replacement of street name signs and overhead guide signs is required by January 22, 2018.)
 
Repeals the requirement that the Secretary revise the Manual to include a federal standard for a minimum level of retroreflectivity for pavement markings and signs on all public roads.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
CINCH Demonstration Program Act

Bill: 112-s-2022
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2011-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medicare
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: 
Community Integrated Nursing Care Homes Demonstration Program Act or the CINCH Demonstration Program Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish the CINCH demonstration program to test the viability of multiple small-house nursing care homes that are embedded within residential neighborhoods and collectively certified to provide services through a single eligible operating entity in order to reduce administrative costs and provide cost savings to Medicare and Medicaid programs.
 
Sets forth requirements a small-house nursing care home must meet to be eligible to participate, including requirements to: (1) be certified by a government entity to operate a nursing home; (2) operate in compliance with any direct care and certified nurse assistant staffing requirements under federal, state, and local law; (3) provide nursing home services that shall not be less comprehensive or high-acuity than services provided by the eligible operating entity within the immediate surrounding community; (4) provide for meals cooked in the nursing home; (5) meet specified staffing, care, service, and training levels; and (6) consist of a specified physical environment that is designed to look and feel like a home, rather than an institution.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct the program for a five-year period; (2) select up to six sites to participate, each to be operated by a different entity, with not less than two sites located in rural areas; (3) develop a process to allow a site, after the demonstration program, to continue operation through a single entity and to receive certification as a single provider for purposes of Medicare and Medicaid; and (4) select a technical assistance provider responsible for selecting, assisting, and evaluating the performance of eligible operating entities and ensuring that small-house nursing care homes satisfy this Act's requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to establish a safety performance rating system for motorcoach services and operations.

Bill: 112-s-2023
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2011-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Marketing and advertising
Motor carriers
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to prescribe regulations requiring each motor carrier owning or leasing at least one motorcoach transporting passengers subject to DOT jurisdiction to display prominently in each motorcoach an understandable letter grade rating system allowing motorcoach passengers to compare the safety performance of motorcoach operators. Requires that such regulations also require motor carriers and any person selling motorcoach tickets to display the rating system in all announcements, advertisements, and points of sale for such motorcoach services and operations.
 
Defines &quot;motorcoach&quot; as the term &quot;over-the-road bus&quot; is defined under the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, except that &quot;motorcoach&quot;: (1) includes a motor vehicle used to transport passengers that has a gross vehicle weight of at least 10,001 pounds, and (2) excludes a bus used in public transportation that is provided by a state or local government or a school bus.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Sandia Pueblo Settlement Technical Amendment Act

Bill: 112-s-2024
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2011-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Forests, forestry, trees
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
New Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: 
Sandia Pueblo Settlement Technical Amendment Act - Amends the T'uf Shur Bien Preservation Trust Area Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture, upon the receipt of certain consideration and at the request of the Sandia Pueblo of New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior, to transfer certain National Forest land to the Secretary of the Interior to be held in trust for the Pueblo, provided a land exchange with the Pueblo required by that Act is not completed within 90 days of this Act's enactment.
 
Requires that National Forest land to be preserved in its natural state.
 
 Requires the Pueblo to transfer to the Secretary, in exchange for such land, the Pueblo's La Luz tract and an amount equal to the difference between the value of: (1) the National Forest land in its natural state, and (2) the La Luz tract and the compensation owed to the Pueblo by the Secretary for the right-of-way and conservation easement on its Piedra Lisa tract.
 

 

action_date: 2012-12-11
text: 
Sandia Pueblo Settlement Technical Amendment Act - Amends the T'uf Shur Bien Preservation Trust Area Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture, upon the receipt of certain consideration and at the request of the Sandia Pueblo of New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior, to transfer certain national forest land to the Secretary of the Interior to be held in trust for the Pueblo, provided a land exchange with the Pueblo required by that Act is not completed within 90 days of this Act's enactment.
 
Requires that national forest land to be preserved as open space in its natural state.
 
 Requires the Pueblo to transfer to the Secretary, in exchange for such land, the Pueblo's La Luz tract and an amount equal to the difference between the value of: (1) the national forest land as open space in its natural state, and (2) the La Luz tract and the compensation owed to the Pueblo by the Secretary for the right-of-way and conservation easement on its Piedra Lisa tract.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-11
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 561.
action_date: 2012-12-11
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Akaka with amendments. Without written report.
action_date: 2012-12-11
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Akaka with amendments. Without written report.
action_date: 2012-09-20
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Redundant Remapping Reform Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-2025
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2011-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: 
Redundant Remapping Reform Act of 2011 - Prohibits the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from updating or publishing a National Flood Insurance Program rate map during a covered period with respect to an area protected by a levee that is undergoing accreditation, planning, construction, or rehabilitation.
 
Instructs the Administrator to publish a notice to be used by owners of qualified levees to disclose to persons affected by such levees.
 
Requires owners of qualified levees to provide such notice to each person identified as affected by the qualified levee.
 
 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
ASSESS Act

Bill: 112-s-2026
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2011-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Poverty and welfare assistance
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: 
Allowing Social Security to Electronically Screen for Suitability Act of 2011 or ASSESS Act - Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI), VIII (Special Benefits for Certain World War II Veterans), and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act to subject representative payees to criminal background checks by the Attorney General and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate