hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Travel Regional Investment Partnership Act

Bill: 112-hr-3484
Sponsor: Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Industrial policy and productivity
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
Travel Regional Investment Partnership Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish a competitive grant program to promote domestic regional tourism growth and new domestic tourism markets. Limits grant amounts to a minimum of $100,000 and a maximum of $1 million. Allows such grants to be awarded to state tourism offices, local destination marketing organizations, and partnerships between a state or local government and local tourism entities. Requires matching funds from grant recipients.
 
Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on travel-generated expenditures, receipts, and employment related to the use of such grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
SOS Child Abuse Act

Bill: 112-hr-3486
Sponsor: Rep. Bass, Karen [D-CA-33]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Evidence and witnesses
Law enforcement administration and funding
Sex offenses
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
Speak Out to Stop Child Abuse Act or SOS Child Abuse Act - Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to require the state plan under a grant from the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for child abuse and neglect prevention and treatment programs to contain an assurance in the form of a certification by the state governor that the state has in effect and is enforcing a state law prescribing a criminal penalty against an individual age 18 or older who fails to report to a state or local law enforcement official or child protective services that the individual has witnessed another individual in the state engaging in sexual abuse of a child.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
Invest in America First Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3488
Sponsor: Rep. Bucshon, Larry [R-IN-8]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Economic performance and conditions
Foreign aid and international relief

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
Invest in America First Act of 2011 - Prohibits foreign assistance from being provided to a country with a GDP of $1.5 trillion or more. 
 
Exempts from such prohibition military, security, or humanitarian assistance.
 
Defines &quot;GDP&quot; as a country's gross domestic product on a purchasing power parity basis divided by the population of the country, as determined by the most recent publication of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) The World Factbook.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
White House Conference on Autism Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3489
Sponsor: Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Child health
Government studies and investigations
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Neurological disorders

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
White House Conference on Autism Act of 2011 - Requires the President, by December 31, 2012, to call the White House Conference on Autism (to be convened within 18 months of the selection of a Policy Committee) to make fundamental policy recommendations on ways to combat the autism epidemic in the United States.
 
Sets forth as purposes of the Conference to: (1) galvanize a national effort to find the underlying causes of autism, (2) identify viable solutions and valuable services to help autistic individuals and their families, (3) bring together the best scientific minds to chart a comprehensive research agenda, (4) bring together parents of autistic children and leaders in the fields of education and social services to begin a national dialogue on the challenges faced by these children and their families, (5) highlight emerging and innovative programs that effectively serve the needs of autistic children and adults, and (6) review the effectiveness of existing legislation and programs that provide autism research services and develop recommendations for legislative action for improvements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit former Members of Congress from engaging in lobbying contacts.

Bill: 112-hr-3491
Sponsor: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional officers and employees
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Members of Congress
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
Amends the federal criminal code to replace the current two-year ban on lobbying contacts by former Senators and one-year ban on lobbying contacts by former Members of the House of Representatives with any Member, officer, or employee of either chamber with an outright ban at any time on such contacts, subject to fines and/or imprisonment.
 
Specifies a one-year ban on lobbying contacts by former elected officers of the House with any House Member, officer, or employee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
Port Security Grant Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3492
Sponsor: Rep. Hahn, Janice [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Homeland security
Law enforcement administration and funding
Marine and inland water transportation
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
Port Security Grant Act of 2011 - Extends the authorization of appropriations for the port security grant program through FY2015.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2102)
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
National Commission on Employment and Economic Security Act

Bill: 112-hr-3493
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Economic performance and conditions
Government studies and investigations
Mental health
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
National Commission on Employment and Economic Security Act - Establishes the National Commission on Employment and Economic Security to: (1) examine the effects of economic and psychological insecurity caused by employment displacement and the decreasing number of well-paid jobs on U.S. workers and their families; and (2) recommend to the President and Congress potential solutions, including legislative and administrative action, to alleviate such problems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2106)
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
Market Based Manufacturing Incentives Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3495
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Economic performance and conditions
Income tax credits
Manufacturing

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
Market Based Manufacturing Incentives Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for the purchase (during a specified period of between 5 and 10 years based on the incentive needed with respect to each product) of new products certified as assembled in the United States and consisting of at least 60% of components assembled or otherwise arising in the United States.
 
Establishes the 21st Century American Manufacturing Commission to conduct research to designate products eligible for the tax credit allowed by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
America's Wildlife Heritage Act

Bill: 112-hr-3496
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Endangered and threatened species
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Federal-Indian relations
Forests, forestry, trees
Intergovernmental relations
Parks, recreation areas, trails
State and local government operations
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
America's Wildlife Heritage Act - Sets forth requirements concerning the maintenance of viable populations of existing native and desired non-native species within each planning area in the National Forest System's or the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) public lands. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to adopt and implement a strategically targeted monitoring program for determining the status and trends of native and desired non-native species populations on System and BLM lands. Defines: (1) native species to mean species of plants and animals indigenous to a planning area; and (2) desired non-native species to mean those wild species of plants and animals that are not indigenous to a planning area but are valued for their contribution to species diversity or their social, cultural, or economic value. 
 
Requires the Secretaries to coordinate the management of planning areas of the System and the BLM with the management of the National Wildlife Refuge System and National Park System, other federal agencies, state fish and wildlife agencies, other state agencies responsible for management of natural resources, tribes, local governments, and non-governmental organizations engaged in species conservation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
action_date: 2011-11-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2011-11-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
Tutoring for Students Act

Bill: 112-hr-3498
Sponsor: Rep. McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [R-CA-25]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
Tutoring for Students Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to require states to: (1) reserve 10% of the school improvement funds they receive under part A of title I of the ESEA; and (2) reallocate 97% of the reserved funds to local educational agencies (LEAs) to provide, or arrange for the provision of, high-quality academic tutoring to impoverished students.
 
Requires states to determine which of their LEAs will participate in the program, but requires the inclusion of their lowest performing LEAs. 
 
Allocates the reserve funds among participating LEAs in proportion to their respective share of school improvement funds.
 
Requires states to develop processes for selecting, evaluating, and, if necessary, removing providers of academic tutoring. 
 
Requires providers to have a record of increasing student academic achievement and a capacity to do so in a manner that is consistent with the applicable LEA's instructional program and state academic content and achievement standards. 
 
Removes providers that fail for two consecutive years to improve the academic proficiency of impoverished students.
 
Requires states to maintain an updated list of approved providers, by school district, from which parents may choose.
 
Requires providers of academic tutoring to keep parents and LEAs apprised of a student's progress, and employ tutors that meet state-determined qualifications.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to conduct a national evaluation to determine the value of such tutoring and document best practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to use section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935, to provide compensation to certain poultry producers whose poultry production contracts were terminated or not renewed because of the closure of poultry processing plants and other cost cutting measures undertaken by a poultry processing company in bankruptcy protection.

Bill: 112-hr-3499
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Bankruptcy
Contracts and agency
Food industry and services
Meat

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), through the Farm Service Agency, to compensate certain poultry producers whose production contracts were terminated or not renewed because of the closure of poultry processing plants and other cost cutting measures undertaken by a poultry processing company in bankruptcy protection. 
 
Requires a producer seeking compensation to document the contract's termination or non-renewal and the economic losses incurred from such termination or non-renewal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the conveyance of a small parcel of National Forest System land in the Flathead National Forest in the State of Montana containing a World War II memorial to the Whitefish Mountain Resort.

Bill: 112-hr-3500
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Denny [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Forests, forestry, trees
Land transfers
Military history
Montana
Monuments and memorials

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to convey a parcel of National Forest System land, comprising approximately 652 square feet on Big Mountain within the Flathead National Forest in Montana, and containing a World War II memorial, to Whitefish Mountain Resort of Whitefish, Montana, in exchange for a parcel of land that is acceptable to the Secretary and approximately equal in value. 
 
Requires the Secretary and Whitefish Mountain Resort to share equally the nominal costs associated with a land exchange involving parcels of such a small size. 
 
Incorporates the land acquired by the United States in the land exchange under this Act into Flathead National Forest. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
Project Rebuild Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3502
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Appropriations
Buy American requirements
Employee hiring
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing supply and affordability
Labor standards
Low- and moderate-income housing
Property rights
Public contracts and procurement
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Rural conditions and development
Urban and suburban affairs and development
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
Project Rebuild Act of 2011 - Appropriates funds for assistance to eligible entities including state and local governments, and qualified nonprofit organizations, businesses or eligible consortia for the redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed-upon properties and for stabilization of affected neighborhoods (Project Rebuild).
 
Allows the use of funds to: (1) establish financing mechanisms for the purchase and redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed-upon properties; (2) purchase and rehabilitate such properties; (3) establish and operate land banks for them; (4) demolish blighted structures (except public housing); and (5) redevelop abandoned, foreclosed, demolished, or vacant properties. 
 
Requires each state to receive at least $20 million of formula funds, all of which shall be used with respect to low and moderate-income individuals and families.
 
Requires each state and local government grantee to establish procedures to create preferences for development of affordable rental housing.
 
Allows a grantee to use up to 10% to create jobs by establishing and operating a program to maintain eligible neighborhood properties.
 
Sets forth Buy American requirements. 
 
 Requires all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors on federally-assisted projects to be paid wages at the locally prevailing rates (Davis-Bacon Act).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to make Public Company Accounting Oversight Board disciplinary proceedings open to the public.

Bill: 112-hr-3503
Sponsor: Rep. Westmoreland, Lynn A. [R-GA-3]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative remedies
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Corporate finance and management
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
Amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to make Public Company Accounting Oversight Board disciplinary proceedings public unless the Board, on its own motion or after considering the motion of a party, orders otherwise.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
DebtPatriots.Gov Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3504
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: 
DebtPatriots.Gov Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to create a new website, www.DebtPatriots.gov, specifically for receiving gifts to reduce the public debt. Requires the Secretary and the President to provide a link to such website on the main page of their websites. 
 
Sets forth the required features of such website, including: (1) an opt-in check-box to allow donor names to be publically recognized, and (2) a linked website on which donors can be published according to specified levels of corporate and individual donations. Requires the President to issue a signed certification of appreciation recognizing the award level of each donor. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Bruce William Stewart, Dianne Stewart, Sarah Jane Caitlin Stewart, and Michael Bruce Albert Stewart.

Bill: 112-hr-3505
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2011-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Provides for the relief of Bruce William Stewart, Dianne Stewart, Sarah Jane Caitlin Stewart, and Michael Bruce Albert Stewart.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Introduced in House