hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
CAP Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1605
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Economic performance and conditions
Executive agency funding and structure
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Commitment to American Prosperity Act of 2011 or CAP Act of 2011 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to require: (1) the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to estimate the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) outlay limit for the target fiscal year at the outset of the previous fiscal year, on April 30, on August 20, and 15 days after the conclusion of the fiscal year; (2) the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to provide advisory reports calculating the GDP outlay limit at identical times; and (3) a sequestration by OMB within 45 calendar days after the beginning of a fiscal year to eliminate the excess outlay amount.
 
Prescribes requirements for CBO and OMB advisory sequestration preview reports and an OMB final sequestration report, accompanied by a presidential order detailing the uniform spending reduction.
 
Requires the House and the Senate budget committees to report a resolution directing their committees to change the existing law to achieve the goals outlined in the OMB August 20 report if it projects a sequestration.
 
Allows total federal outlays to exceed the GDP outlay limit if during the fiscal year the excess amount is being paid to reduce the public debt or the public debt is zero.
 
 States that if, after November 15, a bill resulting in outlays for the current fiscal year is enacted that causes excess outlays, the excess outlays for the next fiscal year shall be increased by the amount or amounts of that breach.
 
 
Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it out of order in both chambers to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that includes any provision that would cause the most recently reported current GDP outlay limits in the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act to be exceeded. Prescribes procedures for waiver or suspension of this rule.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Special Care Dentistry Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1606
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Dental care
Disability and paralysis
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Special Care Dentistry Act of 2011 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require a state to provide oral health coverage for aged, blind, or disabled individuals through a separate state adult dental program.
 

 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Creating Real Opportunities for Prosperity (CROP) Act

Bill: 112-hr-1607
Sponsor: Rep. Fincher, Stephen Lee [R-TN-8]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Creating Real Opportunities for Prosperity (CROP) Act - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to suspend the limitation on the period for which borrowers are eligible for loan guarantee assistance through December 31, 2013.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, and Credit.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E745)
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Mohave County Radiation Compensation Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1608
Sponsor: Rep. Franks, Trent [R-AZ-2]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Arizona
Cancer
Government liability
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Nuclear weapons
Radiation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Mohave County Radiation Compensation Act of 2011 - Amends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to include the county of Mohave, Arizona, among affected areas for purposes of payments to individuals with certain medical conditions who were exposed to fallout emitted during the U.S. government's atmospheric nuclear tests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
War Powers Reform Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1609
Sponsor: Rep. Gibson, Christopher P. [R-NY-20]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Congressional-executive branch relations
Defense spending
Israel
Middle East
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Military operations and strategy
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
War Powers Reform Act of 2011 - Amends the War Powers Resolution to repeal an existing framework under which the President is required to terminate, within 60 days, subject to a possible 30-day extension, any use of Armed Forces with respect to which the President has submitted (or is required to submit) a report concerning the introduction of Armed Forces into hostilities in the absence of a declaration of war, unless: (1) Congress declares war or enacts specific authorization, (2) extends the 60-day period, or (3) is physically unable to meet as a result of an armed attack upon the United States. Strikes provisions concerning congressional action to remove Armed Forces engaged in hostilities without a declaration of war or specific statutory authorization.
 
Replaces such framework with a process that prohibits funds available for the Armed Forces from being obligated or expended for introducing the Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated, in the absence of: (1) a declaration of war; (2) specific statutory authorization or obligation under a treaty; or (3) a national emergency created by an attack or imminent threat of attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or the Armed Forces.
 
Provides that such prohibition shall not be construed to prohibit the use of such funds to provide for the defense of Israel created by an attack upon Israel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Clean Energy Empowerment Zone Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1611
Sponsor: Rep. Grimm, Michael G. [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Building construction
Business investment and capital
Capital gains tax
Employee hiring
Government lending and loan guarantees
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Securities
Small business
User charges and fees
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Clean Energy Business Zone Act of 2011 and the Clean Energy Empowerment Zone Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to designate 40 clean energy business zones between 2011 and 2014, (2) allow an increased tax credit for wages paid in such a zone, (3) allow a work opportunity tax credit for wages paid to an employee in such a zone, (4) allow financing of any qualified Green building or clean energy facility with clean renewable energy bonds, (5) allow increased expensing of property in such a zone, and (6) allow an exclusion from gross income of gain from the sale or exchange or any clean energy business zone asset held for more than five years.
 
Amends the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to waive loan fees for qualified Green building and clean energy facility loans made before 2022.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Defense to establish a commission on urotrauma.

Bill: 112-hr-1612
Sponsor: Rep. Guthrie, Brett [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government studies and investigations
Health promotion and preventive care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medical research
Sex and reproductive health
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD), in order to continue and expand the DOD study conducted in 2011, to establish the Commission on Urotrauma to: (1) conduct a study on urotrauma (injury to the urinary tract from a penetrating, blunt, blast, thermal, chemical, or biological cause) among members of the Armed Forces and veterans; and (2) provide an interim and final report to the congressional defense and veterans committees on such study.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Fire Protection Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1613
Sponsor: Rep. Heck, Joseph J. [R-NV-3]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Fires

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Fire Protection Act of 2011 - Amends the Clean Air Act to exempt a substance listed as acceptable for use as a fire suppression agent for nonresidential applications from the prohibition against introducing into interstate commerce or using any class II substance (specified hydrochlorofluorocarbons).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Family Cord Blood Banking Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1614
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Blood and blood diseases
Cell biology and embryology
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Organ and tissue donation and transplantation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Family Cord Blood Banking Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat the cost of private umbilical cord blood banking services as a medical care expense for purposes of the tax deduction for medical expenses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Gallium metal.

Bill: 112-hr-1615
Sponsor: Rep. Himes, James A. [D-CT-4]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Gallium metal.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
WILL Act

Bill: 112-hr-1616
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Adult education and literacy
Employment and training programs
Libraries and archives
State and local government operations
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Workforce Investments through Local Libraries Act or WILL Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to revise requirements for member composition of state and local workforce investment boards to include individuals and organizations representing public libraries.
 
Requires state workforce investment plans to include a description of the procedures states will take to assure coordination of and avoid duplication among employment, training, and literacy services carried out by public libraries. Requires local workforce investment plans similarly to describe how local boards will coordinate investment activities carried out in the local area with such services carried out by public libraries.
 
Allows a human resource program operated by a one-stop partner to include employment, training, and literacy services carried out by public libraries.
 
Allows public libraries, among other appropriate entities, to contract with the one-stop delivery system to deliver intensive services for employment and training for adults and dislocated workers supported by workforce investment funds. 
 
Allows demonstration and pilot, multiservice, research, and multistate projects of the Department of Labor for providing employment opportunities and training services to individuals to include the establishment of employment resource centers in public libraries to provide unemployed and underemployed individuals access to such opportunities and services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Produce the Note Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1618
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer affairs
Government information and archives
Housing finance and home ownership
Judicial procedure and administration

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Produce the Note Act of 2011 - Prohibits commencement of any foreclosure in connection with certain residential mortgages unless the person commencing the foreclosure complies with specified prerequisites, including identification of the actual holder of the mortgage note, the originating mortgage lender and all subsequent assignees, and other all parties who have an interest in the real estate subject to the mortgage or in the mortgage or its proceeds.
 
Requires the person commencing the foreclosure to: (1) notify the mortgagor, in writing, not less than five days before any action is taken to commence foreclosure; and (2) certify to the court, in the case of a judicial foreclosure, or to the office of the state to which notice is required under state law, that such notice has been provided.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
MADE Act

Bill: 112-hr-1619
Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Dale E. [D-MI-5]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Buy American requirements
District of Columbia
Licensing and registrations
Monuments and memorials
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Monuments Assembled and Domestically Engineered Act or the MADE Act - Requires a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its environs to be constructed using: (1) unmanufactured material mined or produced in the United States; and (2) material manufactured in the United States substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States. 
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior or the Administrator of General Services (GSA), before issuing a permit for the construction of such a work, to determine that the contract documents demonstrate that the material to be used in its construction complies with such requirement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1620
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Land use and conservation
State and local finance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop a multipurpose cadastre of federal real property (an inventory of real property of the federal government) to assist with federal land management, resource conservation, environmental protection, and use of real property. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cost-sharing agreements with states to include any non-federal lands in a state in such cadastre. Limits the federal share of any such agreement to 50% of the total cost to a state for the development of the cadastre of the non-federal lands in the state. 
 
Requires the Secretary to submit a report on: (1) existing real property inventories or any components of any cadastre, (2) consolidation of inventories and components, (3) the use of existing inventories and components of any cadastre, (4) the cost savings that will be achieved, and (4) recommendations for legislation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-03
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2011-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Marine Corps Aviation Centennial Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 112-hr-1621
Sponsor: Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Commemorative events and holidays
Currency
Military history
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Marine Corps Aviation Centennial Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, during the one-year period beginning on January 1, 2015, to mint and issue up to 100,000 $10 coins emblematic of the warrior ethos of the U.S. Marine Corps.
 
Requires all coin sales to include a $35 surcharge, and all surcharges received to be paid promptly to the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation for construction of the Marine Corps Heritage Center. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Spectrum Innovation Act

Bill: 112-hr-1622
Sponsor: Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Spectrum Innovation Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that, if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) determines that it is consistent with the public interest in spectrum utilization for a licensee to voluntarily relinquish licensed spectrum usage rights to permit the assignment of new initial licenses subject to new service rules, the proceeds from granting such rights to another licensee under an appropriate competitive bidding system must be shared (subject to the FCC retaining certain offsets and deposits for specified program qualification and implementation costs), in an amount or percentage that the FCC considers appropriate, with the licensee who voluntarily relinquished such rights.
 
Directs the FCC to establish rules for such voluntary incentive auction revenue sharing. 
 
Prohibits the FCC from reclaiming frequencies of broadcast television licensees directly or indirectly on an involuntary basis for certain licensing purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House