hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Local Job Opportunities and Business Success Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3611
Sponsor: Rep. Heck, Joseph J. [R-NV-3]
Introduced: 2011-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Economic development
Employment and training programs
Performance measurement
Public-private cooperation
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: 
Local Job Opportunities and Business Success Act of 2011 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to limit the required composition of local workforce investment boards (local boards) to business representatives. Requires two-thirds of the members of a local board to be business owners or officers.
 
Requires local boards to conduct and regularly update analyses of: (1) local economic conditions, (2) immediate and long-term skilled workforce needs in the area, (3) the knowledge and skills of the local workforce, and (4) local workforce development activities.
 
Requires local boards to lead efforts to engage employers in the area to ensure that workforce investment activities meet their needs and support local economic growth.
 
Includes as part of those efforts the development or implementation of industry or sector partnerships that lead to collaborative planning, resource alignment, and training efforts across multiple firms to address the immediate and long-term skilled workforce needs of the local economy.
 
Requires local boards to develop strategies for using technological improvements to facilitate access to workforce development services.
 
Eliminates the requirement that each local board appoint a youth council as a subgroup of the board and select providers of youth activities on the basis of its recommendations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3612
Sponsor: Rep. Gibson, Christopher P. [R-NY-20]
Introduced: 2011-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Asia
Conflicts and wars
Disability and paralysis
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation
Vietnam

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: 
 Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2011- Includes as part of the Republic of Vietnam its territorial seas for purposes of the presumption of service connection for diseases associated with exposure by veterans to certain herbicide agents while in Vietnam.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Part D Beneficiary Appeals Fairness Act

Bill: 112-hr-3613
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2011-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: 
Part D Beneficiary Appeals Fairness Act - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to a prescription drug plan (PDP) that provides for any tiered cost-sharing within a formulary (including a structure that provides for different co-payment or coinsurance amounts for drugs in different tiers included within the formulary), to authorize a Medicare part D eligible individual enrolled in the plan to request an exception to the tiered cost-sharing structure.
 
States that in no case may the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) allow a PDP sponsor to make any element of the tiered cost-sharing structure (including a tier used for very high cost or unique items) ineligible for lower-cost sharing through an exception.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-12-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2011-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Achievement Through Technology and Innovation Reauthorization Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3614
Sponsor: Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-34]
Introduced: 2011-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: 
 Achievement Through Technology and Innovation Reauthorization Act of 2011 - Amends title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to rename part D (Achievement through Technology and Innovation) and reauthorize it through FY2017.
 
Requires states to use a portion of their allotted funds under subpart 1 (State and Local Grants) of part D to develop challenging academic content and achievement standards to ensure that students are technologically literate before the end of grade eight. Specifies that such standards are only for tracking technological literacy and not for assessing adequate yearly progress (AYP) under title I. Permits technological literacy testing to be embedded in other state tests or performance-based assessments portfolios, or made through other valid and reliable means.
 
Requires states to use the bulk of their allotment for two new subgrant programs for local educational agencies (LEAs), devoting: (1) 60% for formula subgrants to improve teaching and learning through technology, and (2) 40% for competitive subgrants for systemic school redesign through technology integration.
 
Requires LEAs to: (1) include a new or updated local long-range strategic educational technology plan in their applications, (2) use a specified percentage of each subgrant for teacher training, and (3) use each subgrant to acquire and apply technology to identify individual student learning needs and support personalized learning. Allows LEAs that receive funds for both programs to use all the funds for systemic school redesign through technology integration program activities.
 
Creates a new subpart 2 (State Competitive Grants) program to which all funding is to be directed if part D appropriations fall below a specified amount, otherwise all funding is to be made available for subpart 1 programs.
 
 Directs the Secretary to award competitive grants under subpart 2 to states and consortia of states to support LEAs' enhanced use of technology, including online and blended learning for systemic education transformation, curricula redesign, and new instructional strategies to personalize learning.
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2218)
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Accountability in Unemployment Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3615
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2011-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: 
Accountability in Unemployment Act of 2011 - Amends title III (Grants to States for Unemployment Compensation) of the Social Security Act to require state laws to deny unemployment compensation to applicants unless they undergo drug testing and test negative.
 
Requires a retest after a 30-day waiting period for applicants who test positive for any one of several specified drugs.
 
Denies unemployment compensation for five years to any applicant who tests positive for drugs three or more times.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Generator Regulatory Relief Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3616
Sponsor: Rep. Berg, Rick [R-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: 
 Generator Regulatory Relief Act of 2011 - Provides that: (1) the final rule published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on March 3, 2010, entitled &quot;National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines&quot; and any subsequent regulation that is substantially the same shall have no force or effect with respect to existing stationary compression ignition reciprocating internal combustion engines operated for generating electricity for emergency or demand response purposes or operating a water pump; and (2) the final rule of the same title published by EPA on August 20, 2010, the direct final action published by the EPA on March 9, 2011, entitled &quot;National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines,&quot; and any subsequent regulation that is substantially the same shall have no force or effect with respect to existing stationary spark ignition reciprocating internal combustion engines operated for such purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
See Something, Say Something Act

Bill: 112-hr-3617
Sponsor: Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2011-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Domestic violence and child abuse
Evidence and witnesses
Law enforcement administration and funding
Sex offenses
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: 
See Something, Say Something 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 any person age 18 or older who fails to report to a state or local law enforcement official or child protective services that the person has knowledge of child abuse or neglect that occurred in the state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Permanently Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3619
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2011-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Housing finance and home ownership
Low- and moderate-income housing

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: 
Permanently Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2011 - Amends the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009 to repeal its sunset date December 31, 2012 (thus making the Act permanent).
 
 
Establishes a private right of action to enforce compliance with such Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act

Bill: 112-hr-3620
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2011-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Nursing
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: 
Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop a maternity care quality measurement program with respect to childbearing women and newborns for voluntary use by: (1) a state in administering a state plan under SSA title XIX (Medicaid) or a state child health plan under SSA title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (CHIP), (2) health insurance issuers and managed care entities contracting with states to administer such plans, and (3) item and service providers (including accountable care organizations).
 
Directs the Secretary to make grants to eligible entities to support: (1) the development of new state and regional maternity care quality collaboratives, (2) expanded activities of existing maternity care quality collaboratives, and (3) maternity care initiatives within established state and regional quality collaboratives that are not focused exclusively on maternity care.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a maternity care home demonstration program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain adjustable metal lighting fixtures.

Bill: 112-hr-3621
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2011-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain adjustable metal lighting fixtures.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Assuring and Improving Cancer Treatment Education and Cancer Symptom Management Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3622
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2011-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medical research
Medicare
Nursing
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: 
Assuring and Improving Cancer Treatment Education and Cancer Symptom Management Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, to provide for Medicare coverage of comprehensive cancer patient treatment education services.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand, intensify, and coordinate programs for the conduct and support of research with respect to: (1) improving the treatment and management of symptoms and side effects associated with cancer and cancer treatment, and (2) evaluating the role of nursing interventions in the amelioration of such symptoms and side effects.
 
Requires the NIH Director to make nursing intervention research grants for studying cancer symptom management care and services delivered by registered nurses.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to enter into an arrangement under which the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences shall evaluate and report to the Secretary and Congress on the current state of symptom management, patient treatment education, and supportive care given to people with cancer. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-12-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2011-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To authorize and request the President to award the congressional Medal of Honor to Arthur Jibilian for actions behind enemy lines during World War II while a member of the United States Navy and the Office of Strategic Services.

Bill: 112-hr-3623
Sponsor: Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2011-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Congressional tributes
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: 
Authorizes and requests the President to award the Medal of Honor to Arthur Jibilian for his actions, while a member of the Navy and OSS, during the successful 1944 operation by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), code-named &quot;Operation Halyard,&quot; to protect and facilitate in the rescue of over 500 allied airmen behind enemy lines. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Student Loan Default Prevention Act

Bill: 112-hr-3624
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2011-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Financial literacy
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Public contracts and procurement
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: 
Student Loan Default Prevention Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education, upon the request of an eligible guaranty agency, to enter into or revise a voluntary, flexible agreement with that agency to provide services to borrowers and potential borrowers of Federal Family Education Loans (FFELs) or Direct Loans (DLs).
 
Treats guaranty agencies as eligible to participate in such agreements if they have extensive and relevant experience and demonstrated effectiveness in providing such services.
 
Authorizes those guaranty agencies to provide services that include: (1) delinquency prevention and default aversion activities, (2) collecting defaulted loans, (3) monitoring institutions that participate in the DL program, (4) training financial aid officials, and (5) informational outreach to schools and students that supports access to higher education and financial literacy.
 
Requires the Secretary to pay fees to such agencies that are cost neutral and take into account the savings projected from the provision of such services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Cardiomyopathy Health Education, Awareness, Risk Assessment, and Training in the Schools (HEARTS) Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3625
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2011-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child care and development
Child health
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Preschool education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: 
Cardiomyopathy Health Education, Awareness, Risk Assessment, and Training in the Schools (HEARTS) Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in conjunction with the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to develop and provide for dissemination to school administrators, educators, school health professionals, coaches, and families, as well as to state and local health departments, pediatricians, hospitals, and other health professionals, of public education and awareness materials and resources that include: (1) background information to increase education and awareness of cardiomyopathy; (2) a cardiomyopathy risk assessment worksheet for use by parents, guardians, or other caregivers; (3) guidelines regarding the placement of automated external defibrillators in schools and child care centers; (4) training information on defibrillators and cardiopulmonary resuscitation; and (5) recommendations for how schools and child care centers can develop and implement a cardiac emergency response plan.
 
Encourages the Secretary, in support of such effort, to: (1) establish an advisory panel, and (2) engage in a memorandum of understanding or cooperative agreement with a national nonprofit advocacy organization expert in all forms of cardiomyopathy.
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-08
text: Introduced in House