hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Flood Insurance Fairness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3218
Sponsor: Rep. Nugent, Richard B. [R-FL-11]
Introduced: 2013-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection
Government studies and investigations
Insurance industry and regulation
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: 
Flood Insurance Fairness Act of 2013 - Prohibits the taking effect of specified flood insurance premium changes under the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 and the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (which prohibit the estimating of flood insurance premium rates for severe repetitive loss and other specified properties or extending premium subsidies to new or lapsed flood insurance policies, and which also require certain flood insurance risk premium rate adjustments) until 180 days after both chambers of Congress have completed consideration of a qualified joint resolution providing for legislative changes to ensure that risk premium rates for flood insurance coverage under the national flood insurance program are substantially affordable for all homeowners.
 
Directs the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to submit to Congress and make publicly available a determination of whether the risk premium rates for flood insurance coverage under the national flood insurance program resulting from such legislative changes are substantially affordable for all homeowners.
 
Sets forth procedures for expedited congressional consideration of the proposed joint resolution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2013-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2013-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Free Market Royalty Act

Bill: 113-hr-3219
Sponsor: Rep. Watt, Melvin L. [D-NC-12]
Introduced: 2013-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Congressional oversight
Contracts and agency
Government studies and investigations
Intellectual property
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Licensing and registrations
Music
Sound recording

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: 
Free Market Royalty Act - Amends federal copyright law to provide a public performance right for all audio transmissions of sound recordings, thereby extending such right to require terrestrial AM/FM broadcast radio stations to pay royalties for non-digital audio transmissions. (Currently, a performance right for sound recordings is provided only with respect to digital transmissions by cable, satellite, and Internet radio stations.)
 
Eliminates statutory licensing royalty rates set by Copyright Royalty Judges (CRJs) for the public performance of sound recordings by noninteractive digital audio services.
 
Allows any noninteractive services performing sound recordings publicly by means of an audio transmission (including cable, satellite, Internet, and AM/FM broadcasters) to collectively negotiate royalty rates for such performances.
 
Designates SoundExchange, Inc. (an independent, nonprofit organization that collects and distributes royalties), or any successor entity, as the sole common agent to negotiate, agree to, pay, and receive royalty payments.
 
Authorizes copyright owners of sound recordings, if a license is agreed to by the common agent, to subsequently negotiate and agree to royalty rates and license terms and conditions with any noninteractive services for the performance of such sound recordings (thus allows copyright owners to opt-out of rates or conditions negotiated by the common agent and to instead negotiate direct licenses for their recordings).
 
Sets forth the royalty payment distributions to be made by the common agent to copyright owners, featured recording artists, and non-featured musicians and vocalists.
 
Establishes procedures for CRJs to set rates and terms for nonsubscription broadcasts consisting solely of noncommercial educational and cultural radio programs when such rates and terms are not negotiated and agreed upon collectively between the common agent and the noncommercial educational broadcast station. 
 
Modifies ephemeral recording requirements (licenses to reproduce phonorecords to facilitate transmissions) to account for the removal of statutory licensing procedures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1404-1405)
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5, United States Code, to deny Federal retirement benefits to individuals convicted of certain offenses, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-3220
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2013-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Evidence and witnesses
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: 
Prohibits an individual, or a survivor or beneficiary of an individual, who is convicted of a crime relating to theft of public money, perjury, or subornation of perjury, or who leaves the United States to avoid prosecution for a crime, from receiving federal retirement benefits. Denies such individuals interest on refunds of amounts contributed and deposits made to provide for such benefits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Introduced in House
Adult Day Center Enhancement Act

Bill: 113-hr-3221
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2013-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adult day care
Disability and paralysis
Health programs administration and funding
Neurological disorders
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: 
Adult Day Center Enhancement Act - Requires the Assistant Secretary for Aging to initiate a comprehensive survey of current adult day programs that provide care and support to individuals, including young adults, living with neurological diseases or conditions such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, or traumatic brain injury. Requires the Assistant Secretary to identify ongoing successful adult day programs and which of these serve young adults with neurological diseases and conditions and develop a set of best practices to help guide the establishment and replication of additional successful adult day programs.
 Directs the Assistant Secretary to establish a competitive grant program for awarding grants annually to fund adult day programs serving younger people with neurological diseases or conditions. 
Defines an &quot;adult day program&quot; as a program that provides comprehensive and effective care and support services to individuals living with neurological diseases or conditions and to their family caregivers and that may assist participants in ways that: (1) maintain or improve their functional abilities or otherwise help them adjust to their changing functional abilities; (2) prevent the onset of complications associated with severe forms of the disease or condition; (3) promote alternatives to placement in nursing homes; (4) reduce the strain on family caregivers taking care of a family member living with such diseases or conditions; (5) focus on supporting the emotional, social, and intellectual needs of a younger adult population; or (6) address the needs of veterans living with such diseases or conditions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Introduced in House
Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act

Bill: 113-hr-3223
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2013-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: 
Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act - Provides for compensation of federal employees furloughed due to any lapse in appropriations that begins on or about October 1, 2013, for the period of such lapse in appropriations. 

action_date: 2013-10-05
text: 

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

 
Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act - Provides for compensation of federal employees furloughed due to any lapse in appropriations that begins on or about October 1, 2013, for the period of such lapse in appropriations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-07
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 208.
action_date: 2013-10-05
text: Received in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2013-10-05
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2013-10-05
text: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 407 - 0 (Roll no. 525). (text: CR H6296-6297)
action_date: 2013-10-05
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 407 - 0 (Roll no. 525).(text: CR H6296-6297)
action_date: 2013-10-05
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H6304)
action_date: 2013-10-05
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3223.
action_date: 2013-10-05
text: Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 371. (consideration: CR H6296-6305)
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Introduced in House
No Government No Pay Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3224
Sponsor: Rep. Nolan, Richard M. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2013-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: 
No Government No Pay Act of 2013 - Requires the withholding of pay of a Member of Congress during a government shutdown equal to the product of 1 day's worth of pay under such annual rate and the number of 24-hour periods during which the government shutdown is in effect. Makes such withholding applicable to days occurring during the 114th and succeeding Congresses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Introduced in House
Making continuing appropriations for veterans benefits in the event of a Government shutdown.

Bill: 113-hr-3225
Sponsor: Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2013-10-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Department of Veterans Affairs
Executive agency funding and structure
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: 
Appropriates for FY2014, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for FY2014 are not in effect, such sums as are necessary, at a rate for operations as provided in the applicable appropriations Acts for FY2013 and under the authority and conditions provided in such Acts, to administer and furnish the compensation, pension benefits, readjustment benefits, insurance and indemnities, housing benefits, and vocational rehabilitation benefits provided for under federal veterans' benefits laws.
 
Requires the appropriations and funds made available and authority granted pursuant to this Act to remain available until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) enactment of an appropriation (including a continuing appropriation) for any purpose for which amounts are made available in this Act, (2) enactment of the applicable regular or continuing appropriations resolution or other Act without any appropriation for such purpose, or (3) January 1, 2015.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Introduced in House
To remove from the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System certain properties in South Carolina.

Bill: 113-hr-3226
Sponsor: Rep. Rice, Tom [R-SC-7]
Introduced: 2013-10-01 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
South Carolina

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to revise Coastal Barrier Resources System maps relating to the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Unit SC-01 in South Carolina to remove the following parcels of land adjacent to property located at 10108 Kings Road in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina: (1) the parcel identified in the land records of Horry County, South Carolina, as TMS 155-00-01-115, consisting of approximately 6.94 acres; and (2) the parcel identified in such land records as TMS 155-00-01-051, consisting of approximately 13.91 acres.

action_date: 2014-12-01
text: 
Revises the boundaries of the Long Pond Unit SC-01 in the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System in South Carolina. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 476.
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-636.
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-636.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs Discharged.
action_date: 2014-04-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-10-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Introduced in House
To remove from the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System certain properties in South Carolina.

Bill: 113-hr-3227
Sponsor: Rep. Rice, Tom [R-SC-7]
Introduced: 2013-10-01 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
South Carolina

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to revise Coastal Barrier Resources System maps relating to the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Unit SC-03 in South Carolina to remove parcels of land at specified addresses on S. Waccamaw Drive and Sailfish Drive in Murrells Inlet, SC 29576, in the property records of Georgetown County, South Carolina.

action_date: 2014-12-01
text: 
Revises the boundaries of the Huntington Beach Unit SC-03 in the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System in South Carolina. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 477.
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-637.
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-637.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs Discharged.
action_date: 2014-04-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-10-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Introduced in House
Indian Health Service Advance Appropriations Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3229
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-10-01 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Appropriations
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Indian social and development programs
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: 
Indian Health Service Advance Appropriations Act of 2013 - Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to require that for each fiscal year, beginning with FY2015, discretionary new budget authority for the Indian Health Services and Indian Health Facilities accounts of the Indian Health Service includes advance discretionary new budget authority for the following fiscal year.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to include in documents submitted to Congress in support of the President's budget for each of those fiscal years detailed estimates of the funds needed for such accounts for the fiscal year following the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted.
 
Requires the President's budget to include information on estimates of those advanced appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-10-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2013-10-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and 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: 2013-10-01
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and 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: 2013-10-01
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and 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: 2013-10-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-01
text: Introduced in House
Continuing Protection for Victims and Law Enforcement Act

Bill: 113-hr-3231
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2013-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Appropriations
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Department of Justice
Executive agency funding and structure
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-10-02
text: 
Continuing Protection for Victims and Law Enforcement Act - Appropriates for FY2014, for any period during which a joint resolution or other Act making appropriations for commerce, justice, science, and related agencies is not in effect, such sums as may be necessary for continuing law enforcement, crime prevention, and victim services programs of the Department of Justice (DOJ) for which funds were made available in title II of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division B of P.L. 113-6), at a rate for operations as provided for by such Act (as reduced by the presidential sequestration order dated March 1, 2013).
 
Makes appropriations and funds made available and authority granted under this Act available until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in this Act, (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act for FY2014 without any provision for such project or activity, or (3) December 15, 2013.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2013-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-10-02
text: Introduced in House