hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
National Nurse Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3679
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2011-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Health personnel
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: 
National Nurse Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the position of National Nurse for Public Health within the Office of the Surgeon General. Includes among the duties of such position providing leadership and coordination of Public Health Service nursing professional affairs for the Office of the Surgeon General and other agencies of the Public Health Service, conducting media campaigns, and providing guidance and leadership for activities that will increase public safety and emergency preparedness. 
 
Requires the National Nurse for Public Health to: (1) participate in identification of national health priorities, (2) encourage volunteerism of nurses and strengthen the relationship between government agencies and health-related national organizations, and (3) promote the dissemination of evidence-based practice in educating the public on health promotion and disease prevention activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
One New Employee Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3681
Sponsor: Rep. Webster, Daniel [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2011-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee hiring
Income tax credits
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: 
One New Employee Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain business entities, including S corporations, partnerships, trusts, estates, tax-exempt cooperatives, or sole proprietorships, a business-related tax credit for hiring individuals who received federal or state unemployment compensation for not less than one week in the one-year period prior to hiring. Limits the maximum amount of such credit for each entity to $5,000. Terminates such credit after 2016.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
Hospital Admissions in Need of Study Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3683
Sponsor: Rep. Buerkle, Ann Marie [R-NY-25]
Introduced: 2011-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: 
Hospital Admissions in Need of Study Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to delay implementation of the Medicare hospital readmissions reduction program for five years from the start of FY2012 to the start of FY2017. 
 
Prohibits expansion of applicable conditions (for which readmissions are high volume or highly expensive) except to the extent specified in a subsequent law.
 
Requires a report on the potential impact of the reduction program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
Commuter Protection Act

Bill: 112-hr-3684
Sponsor: Rep. Grimm, Michael G. [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2011-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Department of Transportation
Roads and highways
Transportation costs
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: 
Commuter Protection Act
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Amends the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987 to expand the requirement that certain bridge tolls be just and reasonable to all bridges or tunnels constructed on a federal-aid highway. (Current law applies the just and reasonable toll requirement only to bridges constructed under the Bridge Act of 1906, the General Bridge Act of 1946, or the International Bridge Act of 1972.)
 
Requires that tolls for all such bridges and tunnels be subject to review and regulation by the Secretary of Transportation (DOT), upon complaint or the initiative of the Secretary, including with respect to increases in the amount of tolls.
 
Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations to define, determine, and, when appropriate, prescribe just and reasonable toll rates.
 
Requires that such regulations: (1) establish an administrative complaint process for aggrieved persons to challenge such determinations or toll rate increases on bridges or tunnels, (2) authorize the Secretary or an administrative law judge to conduct investigations and hold formal hearings on such complaints, and (3) permit complainants to seek judicial review of a final administrative determination in a U.S. district court.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to: (1) evaluate the use of tolls by interstate authorities to maintain and improve surface transportation facilities, and (2) make recommendations to increase transparency and accountability of the funding decisions by those authorities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3686
Sponsor: Rep. Keating, William R. [D-MA-10]
Introduced: 2011-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Temporary and part-time employment
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: 
Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 2011 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt certain returning H-2B aliens (temporary nonagricultural workers) from annual numerical limitations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for coverage under the beneficiary travel program of the Department of Veterans Affairs of certain disabled veterans for travel for certain special disabilities rehabilitation, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-3687
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2011-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Neurological disorders
Transportation costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: 
Authorizes payment under the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) beneficiary travel program of travel expenses in connection with medical examination, treatment, or care of a veteran with vision impairment, a spinal cord injury or disorder, or double or multiple amputations whose travel is in connection with inpatient care in a VA special disabilities rehabilitation program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3688
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2011-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Art, artists, authorship
Intellectual property
Library of Congress
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: 
Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011 - Requires, whenever a work of visual art is sold for at least $10,000 at an auction by someone other than the authoring artist, that the entity collecting the money or other consideration pay a royalty equal to 7% of the price to a visual artists' collecting society. 
 
Defines an &quot;auction&quot; as public sale run by an entity that: (1) sells to the highest bidder works of visual art in which the cumulative amount of such works sold during the previous year is over $25 million, and (2) does not solely conduct the sale of such visual art on the Internet.
 
Requires the collecting society to: (1) distribute half of the net royalty to the artist or their successor as copyright owner, and (2) deposit the other half into an escrow account to fund purchases by U.S. nonprofit art museums of works of visual art authored by living artists domiciled in the United States.
 
Establishes a copyright infringement offense for the failure of the entity collecting the money or other consideration to pay such a royalty. Subjects an infringer to the payment of statutory damages.
 
Excludes works of visual art from copyright notice procedures.
 
Directs the Register of Copyrights to issue regulations governing the designation and oversight of visual artists' collecting societies. 
 
Requires that specified fees be paid to the Register out of the total royalty payments received by collecting societies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
Common Sense Waiver Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3689
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, William L. [D-NY-23]
Introduced: 2011-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Air quality
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Industrial facilities
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: 
Common Sense Waiver Act of 2011 - Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to waive any emission standard or other requirements for hazardous air pollutants under the Clean Air Act applicable to the control of asbestos emissions in the demolition or renovation of a building if the the building has been condemned and there is a reasonable expectation of the building's structural failure.
 
Requires the Administrator to approve or disapprove a request for such a waiver within 90 days or the request shall be deemed to be approved.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
Senior Medicare Fairness Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3691
Sponsor: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2011-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aging
Disability and paralysis
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: 
Senior Medicare Fairness Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for plan year 2013 and subsequent plan years with respect to payments to Medicare + Choice organizations for original fee-for-service benefits under a specialized Medicare Advantage plan for special needs individuals that: (1) offers integrated Medicare and Medicaid services under contract with the state agency under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act; and (2) is offered by a Medicare Advantage organization that as of January 1, 2010, had a contract with such state Medicaid agency that participated in the &quot;Demonstrations Serving Those Dually-Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid.&quot;
 
 Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to apply the frailty adjustment under payment rules for programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) rather than those which would otherwise apply for plan enrollees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2011-12-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
Immigration and Naturalization Investment Ventures for Engineering, Science, and Technology in America Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3692
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2011-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Department of Homeland Security
Foreign labor
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Immigration status and procedures
Science and engineering education
Small business
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: 
Immigration and Naturalization Investment Ventures for Engineering, Science, and Technology in America Act of 2011 or INVEST in America Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide conditional permanent resident status for an alien entrepreneur (and spouse and children) who: (1) is in the process of completing, or has completed, a graduate level degree in science, technology, engineering, math or a related academic discipline from an accredited U.S. institute of higher education; (2) establishes a new commercial enterprise related to such study that meets specified employment and wage requirements; and (3) is admissible as an immigrant.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to terminate such alien's status for fraud or failure to meet status requirements during the 60-month period after obtaining such status.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Education to submit a recruitment, retainment, and investment strategic plan to Congress to attract skilled and talented foreign nationals to immigrate to the United States to create jobs and grow the economy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
Cents and Sensibility Act

Bill: 112-hr-3693
Sponsor: Rep. Stivers, Steve [R-OH-15]
Introduced: 2011-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Buy American requirements
Congressional oversight
Currency
Metals
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: 
Cents and Sensibility Act - Revises the discretionary authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe the weight and the composition of the alloy of the one-cent coin.
 
Requires that the one-cent coin be: (1) produced primarily of steel, and (2) treated to impart a copper color to its appearance so that the appearance is similar to one-cent coins produced of a copper-zinc alloy.
 
Instructs the Secretary, in minting 1-cent coins, to use only steel produced in the United States unless: (1) the Secretary determines doing so would be inconsistent with the public interest, or (2) steel is not produced in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities.
 
Directs the Secretary to submit to certain congressional committees the initial report concerning production costs and technologies required by the Coin Modernization, Oversight, and Continuity Act of 2010.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2012-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
STEEL Nickel Act

Bill: 112-hr-3694
Sponsor: Rep. Stivers, Steve [R-OH-15]
Introduced: 2011-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Buy American requirements
Congressional oversight
Currency
Metals
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: 
Saving Taxpayer Expenditures by Employing Less Imported Nickel Act or STEEL Nickel Act - Amends federal law governing the production of coins to repeal the statutory alloy composition of the 5-cent coin.
 
Requires that the 5-cent coin be: (1) produced primarily of steel, and (2) treated to impart a color so that its appearance is similar to 5-cent coins produced before enactment of this Act.
 
Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury, in minting 5-cent coins, to use only steel produced in the United States unless: (1) the Secretary determines doing so would be inconsistent with the public interest, or (2) steel is not produced in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities.
 
Prohibits the Secretary, in setting specifications for such coin, from: (1) requiring more than one change to coin-accepting and coin-handling equipment to accommodate coins produced pursuant to this Act; (2) facilitating or allowing the use of a coin with a lesser value produced by another country, or the use of any token or other easily or regularly produced metal device of minimal value, in the place of a circulating coin produced by the Secretary; or (3) requiring changes to coin-accepting or coin-handling equipment to accommodate both coins produced with the new specifications and coins produced on or before a specified date.
 
Directs the Secretary to submit to certain congressional committees the initial report concerning production costs and technologies required by the Coin Modernization, Oversight, and Continuity Act of 2010.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-11-29
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2012-04-17
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2012-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 14, United States Code, to modify the process for congressional nomination of individuals for appointment as cadets at the Coast Guard Academy, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-3695
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2011-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Coast guard
Congressional oversight
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Marine and inland water transportation
Members of Congress
Military education and training
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: 
Modifies the Coast Guard Academy cadet nomination process by requiring that half of each incoming class be composed of cadets nominated by: (1) the Vice President or, if there is no Vice President, the President pro tempore of the Senate; (2) a Senator; (3) a Member of the House of Representatives; and (4) the various delegates to Congress, including a Resident Commissioner and Resident Representative. Entitles each Senator, House Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, and Resident Representative to nominate three persons each year.
 
Requires nominees to be citizens or nationals of the United States and meet any minimum requirements established by the Secretary of the respective department in which the Coast Guard is operating.
 
Directs the Superintendent of the Academy to furnish any Member of Congress, upon written request, the name of the nominating authority responsible for the nomination of any named or identified person for appointment to the Academy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2271-2272)
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-15
text: Introduced in House
College Football Playoff Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3696
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2011-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Higher education
Marketing and advertising
School athletics

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: 
College Football Playoff Act of 2011 - Prohibits promoting, marketing, or advertising a post-season National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) game as a championship or national championship game (or any merchandise that refers to the game as a championship or national championship game) unless such game is the final game of a single elimination post-season playoff system for which all NCAA Division I FBS conferences and unaffiliated Division I FBS teams are eligible.
 
Treats a violation as an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act. 
 
Makes this Act applicable to any game that occurs after January 31, 2013.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of State to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-3698
Sponsor: Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]
Introduced: 2011-12-16 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Congressional oversight
Foreign and international banking
Immigration status and procedures
Iran
Middle East
Sanctions
Terrorism
Trade restrictions
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: 
 Directs the Secretary of State to: (1) designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization, and (2) report to Congress on IRGC terrorist activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign 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: 2011-12-16
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign 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: 2011-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Introduced in House