hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Public Servant Retirement Protection Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2797
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2011-08-05 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Social security and elderly assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: 
Public Servant Retirement Protection Act of 2011 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to repeal the current windfall elimination provision (WEP) (that reduces the Social Security benefits of workers who also have pension benefits from employment not covered by Social Security) for individuals first performing non-covered service beginning one year after enactment of this Act. 
 
Establishes a new formula for the treatment of non-covered earnings in determining Social Security benefits. Applies such formula to individuals subject to the current WEP if the benefit under the new formula would be higher.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
`Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Act

Bill: 112-hr-2798
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2011-08-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aging
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Neurological disorders

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: 
Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to public and nonprofit private health care providers to expand training and support services for families and caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
Minority Diabetes Initiative Act

Bill: 112-hr-2799
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2011-08-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Digestive and metabolic diseases
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: 
Minority Diabetes Initiative Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to public and nonprofit private health care providers to provide treatment for diabetes in minority communities. Requires the Secretary to ensure that such grants cover a variety of diabetes-related health care services, including routine care for diabetic patients, public education on diabetes prevention and control, eye care, foot care, and treatment for kidney disease and other complications of diabetes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
E-SAFETI Task Force Act

Bill: 112-hr-2801
Sponsor: Rep. Bass, Karen [D-CA-33]
Introduced: 2011-08-05 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Crime prevention
Department of State
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Human trafficking
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: 
Eliminate and Stop Abuse, Frequent Exploitation, and Trafficking on the Internet Task Force Act or the E-SAFETI Task Force Act - Establishes in the Department of State a three-year task force to be known as the Eliminate and Stop Abuse, Frequent Exploitation, and Trafficking on the Internet (E-SAFETI) Task Force to study and make recommendations to prevent internet-facilitated human trafficking.
 
Defines "internet-facilitated human trafficking" as the use of the Internet to engage in severe forms of trafficking in persons as that term is defined in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-09-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-09-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2011-09-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
Sunshine in the Courtroom Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2802
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2011-08-05 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Evidence and witnesses
Judicial procedure and administration
Photography and imaging
Sound recording
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: 
Sunshine in the Courtroom Act of 2011 - Authorizes the presiding judge of a U.S. appellate court (including the Supreme Court) or U.S. district court to permit the photographing, electronic recording, broadcasting, or televising to the public of court proceedings over which that judge presides, except when such action would constitute a violation of the due process rights of any party.
 
Directs: (1) a district court, upon the request of any witness in a trial proceeding other than a party, to order the face and voice of the witness to be disguised or otherwise obscured to render the witness unrecognizable to the broadcast audience of the trial proceeding; and (2) the presiding judge in a trial proceeding to inform each witness who is not a party of the right to make such request. 
 
Authorizes the Judicial Conference to promulgate mandatory guidelines with respect to the management and administration of photographing, recording, broadcasting, or televising described in this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on stannic oxide.

Bill: 112-hr-2804
Sponsor: Rep. Himes, James A. [D-CT-4]
Introduced: 2011-08-05 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on stannic oxide.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
Doctors for Underserved Areas in America Act

Bill: 112-hr-2805
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2011-08-05 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Foreign labor
Health personnel
Immigration status and procedures
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: 
Doctors for Underserved Areas in America Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1994 to make the J-1 visa waiver (Conrad state 30/medical services in underserved areas) program permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
Workforce Fairness and Tax Relief Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2806
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2011-08-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Trade adjustment assistance
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: 
Workforce Fairness and Tax Relief Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the inclusion of unemployment compensation in gross income for income tax purposes, (2) exclude from gross income trade adjustment assistance (TAA) provided by the Trade Act of 1974, and (3) allow penalty-free distributions from tax-exempt retirement plans to individuals who have been separated from employment and have received unemployment compensation for 24 consecutive weeks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Lending to Entrepreneurs for Growth in Underserved Populations Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2807
Sponsor: Rep. Richmond, Cedric L. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2011-08-05 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Business investment and capital
Credit and credit markets
Government trust funds
Housing and community development funding
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: 
Small Business Lending to Entrepreneurs for Growth in Underserved Populations Act of 2011 or the Small Business Leg-Up Act of 2011 - Requires, upon the expiration of investment authority for the Small Business Lending Fund Program provided in the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, that all unobligated funds in the Small Business Lending Fund be transferred to the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund. Directs that all funds received in connection with certain purchases of preferred stock and other financial instruments pursuant to such authority be transferred to the CDFI Fund. 
 
 Amends the Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994 to direct the Administrator of the CDFI Fund to carry out a Small Business Capital Investment (SBCI) Program (a small business revolving loan program) to continue making capital investments in eligible community development financial institutions in order to increase the availability of credit for small businesses.
 
Requires that: (1) all funds the Administrator receives in connection with SBCI Program purchases be deposited in the CDFI Fund, and (2) the authority to make such capital investments continue so long as specified funding amounts are available.
 
Allows eligible community development financial institutions (with maximum assets of $10 billion as reported in audited financial statements) to apply to receive a capital investment of up to 10% of total assets, or another appropriate percentage determined by the Administrator.
 
Directs the Administrator, to the extent practicable and except as otherwise provided, to carry out the SBCI Program in the same manner as the Small Business Lending Fund Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
Gulf Coast Disadvantaged Business Relief Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2808
Sponsor: Rep. Richmond, Cedric L. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2011-08-05 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Alabama
Business investment and capital
Disaster relief and insurance
Government lending and loan guarantees
Louisiana
Mississippi
Natural disasters
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: 
Gulf Coast Disadvantaged Business Relief Act of 2011 - Permits any small business located in a Louisiana parish or Mississippi or Alabama county that was designated by the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) as a disaster area by reason of Hurricane Katrina or Rita while it was participating in a SBA small business and capital ownership development program to continue participation and eligibility in such program for an additional 24 months. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
To rescind all unobligated funds made available for capital assistance for high-speed rail corridors under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Bill: 112-hr-2811
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Austin [R-GA-8]
Introduced: 2011-08-05 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Appropriations
Railroads
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: 
Rescinds all unobligated stimulus funds made available for capital assistance for high-speed rail corridors under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
Heat is Power Act

Bill: 112-hr-2812
Sponsor: Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-21]
Introduced: 2011-08-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Income tax credits
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: 
Heat is Power Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow through 2017: (1) an energy tax credit for investment in wasted heat to electricity property; and (2) a tax credit for the production of electricity from renewable resources for wasted heat. Defines "wasted heat to electricity property" as property comprising a system which generates electricity through the recovery of a qualified wasted heat resource (e.g., exhaust heat or flared gas from any industrial process or waste gas or industrial tail gas, but not a heat resource from a process whose primary purpose is the generation of electricity using a fossil fuel).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
Milk Import Tariff Equity Act

Bill: 112-hr-2813
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-08-05 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agricultural trade
Tariffs
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: 
Milk Import Tariff Equity Act - Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to impose tariff-rate quotas (quantitative import limits) and provide various duty rates on certain casein, caseinates, milk protein concentrate, and other casein derivatives and glues imported into the United States (except imports from a country which has entered into a free trade agreement with the United States).
 
Authorizes the President to: (1) enter into a trade agreement, or enter into negotiations pursuant to an existing trade agreement, with a foreign country to grant new concessions as compensation in order to maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions; and (2) proclaim any necessary modification or continuance of any existing duty, or continuance of existing duty-free or excise treatment, or any quantitative limitation. Sets forth certain limits on the reduction of duties on such products.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-05
text: Introduced in House
Furloughed FAA Employees Compensation Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2814
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2011-08-09 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government trust funds
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-09
text: 
Furloughed FAA Employees Compensation Act of 2011 - Requires federal employees furloughed as a result of the lapse in expenditure authority from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund after 11:59 p.m. on July 22, 2011, through August 5, 2011, to be compensated for such lapse at their standard rates of compensation.
 
Ratifies and approves all actions taken by federal employees, contractors, and grantees to maintain the essential level of government operations, services, and activities to protect life and property and to bring about orderly termination of government functions during such lapse, if otherwise in accord with the provisions of the Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2011, Part IV.
 
Requires funds used by the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to compensate such employees to be: (1) derived from funds previously authorized out of the Airport and Airway Fund and made available or limited to DOT by the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011; and (2) subject to the obligation limitations established in such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2011-08-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2011-08-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2011-08-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-09
text: Introduced in House
To revise the Federal charter for the Blue Star Mothers of America, Inc., to reflect a change in eligibility requirements for membership.

Bill: 112-hr-2815
Sponsor: Rep. Tipton, Scott  R. [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2011-08-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Federally chartered organizations
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-09
text: 
Revises the membership eligibility requirements of the federal charter for the Blue Star Mothers of America, Inc.
 
Redefines &quot;mother&quot; to mean a woman who filled the role of birth mother. Adds, in addition to adoptive mother and stepmother (as in the current charter), foster-mother, grandmother, or legal guardian of a person who is serving in the Armed Forces or has served in, or has been honorably discharged from it (as in the current charter).
 
Repeals the limitation to service in World War II or the Korean hostilities of the Armed Forces service of the eligible mother's son or daughter.
 
Allows the eligible mother to be a U.S. citizen living outside the United States. (Currently the charter limits membership to eligible mothers living in the United States.)
 
 

action_date: 2011-12-05
text: 

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

 
Revises the membership eligibility requirements of the federal charter for the Blue Star Mothers of America, Inc.
 
Redefines &quot;mother&quot; to mean a woman who filled the role of birth mother. Adds, in addition to adoptive mother and stepmother (as in the current charter), foster-mother, grandmother, or legal guardian of a person who is serving in the Armed Forces or has served in, or has been honorably discharged from it (as in the current charter).
 
Repeals the limitation to service in World War II or the Korean hostilities of the Armed Forces service of the eligible mother's son or daughter.
 
Allows the eligible mother to be a U.S. citizen living outside the United States. (Currently the charter limits membership to eligible mothers living in the United States.)
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-05
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 213.
action_date: 2011-12-05
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 112-314.
action_date: 2011-12-05
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 112-314.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2011-11-17
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2011-11-15
text: Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement Discharged.
action_date: 2011-08-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-08-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-08-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-09
text: Introduced in House
Promoting Health as Youth Skills In Classrooms And Life Act

Bill: 112-hr-2816
Sponsor: Rep. Fudge, Marcia L. [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2011-08-12 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Child health
Department of Education
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Health programs administration and funding
Physical fitness and lifestyle

Summary:
action_date: 2011-08-12
text: 
Promoting Health as Youth Skills In Classrooms And Life Act - Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish an Office of Safe and Healthy Students in the Department of Education to assume the responsibilities of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools and expand such responsibilities to broader health and physical education issues.
 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to include health education and physical education in the definition of &quot;core academic subjects.&quot; 
 
Requires each state to determine the most feasible measure for assessing students in health education and physical education, including through adaptive assessments, to measure student knowledge and performance against state standards.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to, and enter into contracts with, local educational agencies (LEAs), community-based organizations, and nonprofit organizations to initiate, expand, and improve health education programs for students in kindergarten through grade 12, especially in rural areas.
 
Authorizes appropriations for FY2012-FY2016 for the Carol M. White Physical Education Program, which provides matching grants to LEAs and community-based organizations to initiate, expand, and improve physical education programs (including after-school programs) for students in kindergarten through grade 12.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-08-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-08-12
text: Introduced in House