hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Accountability in Foreign Aid Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5673
Sponsor: Rep. Ellmers, Renee L. [R-NC-2]
Introduced: 2014-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Detention of persons
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Foreign aid and international relief
Immigrant health and welfare
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Right of privacy
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: 
Accountability in Foreign Aid Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program to reimburse states and their political subdivisions for qualifying education, incarceration, and public benefit expenses related to the presence of aliens having no lawful U.S. immigration status within their geographical area.
 
Makes specified foreign assistance amounts available for such reimbursements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2014-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Introduced in House
SAFE TOWERS Act

Bill: 113-hr-5675
Sponsor: Rep. Hultgren, Randy [R-IL-14]
Introduced: 2014-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Transportation safety and security
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: 
Standards Addressing Federal Transparency and Oversight With Evolving Recruitment Specifications Act or the SAFE TOWERS Act - Revises Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requirements for the hiring of air traffic controllers.
 
Directs the FAA Administrator to give preferential consideration in the hiring of air traffic controllers to:
 
 
individuals who have successfully completed air traffic controller training and graduated from an institution participating in the FAA's Collegiate Training Initiative program, and have received a recommendation from the institution; and
 
qualified individuals eligible for a veterans recruitment appointment or qualified eligible veterans who maintain aviation experience.
 
 
Directs the Administrator to revise FAA hiring practices for air traffic controller applicants with the Department of Transportation (DOT) to eliminate the use of biographical assessments or other personality tests that unduly disqualify applicants.
 
Changes from discretionary to mandatory the Administrator's authority to maintain the Collegiate Training Initiative program.
 
Directs the Administrator to establish an Air Traffic Control Education and Training Advisory Committee.
 
Requires the Administrator to take into consideration any locally developed training initiatives for air traffic controllers for use in establishing best practices nationwide.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Guard and Reserve Academic Protection Act

Bill: 113-hr-5676
Sponsor: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2014-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Higher education
Military education and training
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves
School administration
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: 
Guard and Reserve Academic Protection Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that institutions of higher learning provide members of the National Guard or Armed Forces Reserves who are receiving educational assistance from the VA or the military with a reasonable opportunity to complete educational assignments, tests, and other requirements that occur while they are performing: (1) inactive duty training, or (2) active duty training for less than 30 days.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Federal Wildland Firefighter Classification Act

Bill: 113-hr-5677
Sponsor: Rep. LaMalfa, Doug [R-CA-1]
Introduced: 2014-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Forests, forestry, trees
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: 
Federal Wildland Firefighter Classification Act - Requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to develop a separate and distinct wildland firefighter occupational series that more accurately reflects the variety of duties performed by such firefighters. Defines a "wildland firefighter" as a federal land management agency employee whose duties are primarily to perform work directly related to the prevention, control, suppression, and management of wildfires.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Introduced in House
ZZZ's to A's Act

Bill: 113-hr-5678
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-19]
Introduced: 2014-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Child health
Congressional oversight
Elementary and secondary education
Government studies and investigations
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: 
ZZZ's to A's Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to conduct a study examining the relationship between school start times and adolescent health, well-being, and performance that:
 
 
comprehensively reviews the scientific evidence relating to that relationship;
 
compares adolescent health, well-being, and performance among local educational agencies with different school start times; and
 
evaluates factors that contribute to or affect school start times.
 
 
Requires the Secretary to report the study's findings to Congress, including any recommendations the Secretary has that are based on those findings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Introduced in House
To clarify the ownership of crude oil produced within the jurisdiction of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq and to authorize the President to provide defense articles and defense services to the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq.

Bill: 113-hr-5679
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2014-09-19 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Energy revenues and royalties
Iraq
Middle East
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Oil and gas
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: 
States that crude oil produced within the jurisdiction of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq shall, upon entering U.S. jurisdiction, be deemed to be owned exclusively by the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq or by any person that purchased such crude oil from the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq.
 
Authorizes the President to provide defense articles and defense services directly to the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Access to Justice for Claims Against the United States Act

Bill: 113-hr-5683
Sponsor: Rep. DeSantis, Ron [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2014-11-12 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Government liability
Judicial review and appeals
Jurisdiction and venue

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: 
Ensuring Access to Justice for Claims Against the United States Act - Amends the federal judicial code with respect to the jurisdiction of federal courts over civil actions pending in, or on appeal from, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (USCFC) when the plaintiff also has pending in another federal court a civil action that includes a claim against the United States (or an agency or officer of the United States) arising from the same set of operative facts.
 
 Requires the court presiding over the action that was filed later to stay the later action until the action that was filed first is no longer pending. (Currently, the USCFC is prohibited from having jurisdiction of any claim in which the plaintiff has pending in any other court any suit or process against the United States or any person who was acting or professing to act under the authority of the United States.)
 
Provides an exception to the requirement to stay the later action if: (1) the parties in each of the actions agree, or (2) the required stay is not in the interests of justice.

action_date: 2014-12-08
text: 

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

 
Ensuring Access to Justice for Claims Against the United States Act - Amends the federal judicial code with respect to the jurisdiction of federal courts over civil actions pending in, or on appeal from, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (USCFC) when the plaintiff also has pending in another federal court a civil action that includes a claim against the United States (or an agency or officer of the United States) arising from the same set of operative facts.
 
 Requires the court presiding over the action that was filed later to stay the later action until the action that was filed first is no longer pending. (Currently, the USCFC is prohibited from having jurisdiction of any claim in which the plaintiff has pending in any other court any suit or process against the United States or any person who was acting or professing to act under the authority of the United States.)
 
Provides an exception to the requirement to stay the later action if: (1) the parties in each of the actions agree, or (2) the required stay is not in the interests of justice.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-08
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 488.
action_date: 2014-12-08
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 113-650.
action_date: 2014-12-08
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 113-650.
action_date: 2014-11-13
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2014-11-13
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Introduced in House
Point Reyes Coast Guard Housing Conveyance Act

Bill: 113-hr-5684
Sponsor: Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2]
Introduced: 2014-11-12 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Housing supply and affordability
Land transfers
Low- and moderate-income housing
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Navigation, waterways, harbors

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: 
Point Reyes Coast Guard Housing Conveyance Act - Directs the Coast Guard to sell property in Point Reyes Station to Marin County, California, for use as affordable housing or for a related purpose. Requires the property to be sold at fair market value.
 
Conditions conveyance on the county authorizing the United States to locate a navigational aid on the property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Introduced in House
Rewards for Justice Congressional Notification Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5685
Sponsor: Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]
Introduced: 2014-11-12 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information and records
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Human rights
International organizations and cooperation
Organized crime
Terrorism
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: 
Rewards for Justice Congressional Notification Act of 2014 - Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to require congressional notification not less than 15 days after a reward is authorized under the the Department of State's rewards for justice program.
 
Requires such notification to include information about the identity of the individual for whom the award is being made, the amount of the reward, the acts with respect to which the reward is being made, and how the reward is being publicized.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Introduced in House
Physician Ambassadors Helping Veterans Act

Bill: 113-hr-5686
Sponsor: Rep. Culberson, John Abney [R-TX-7]
Introduced: 2014-11-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Veterans Affairs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Licensing and registrations
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: 
Physician Ambassadors Helping Veterans Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to use the Secretary's authority to employ certain personnel without regard to civil service or classification laws, rules, or regulations to employ physicians on a without compensation basis in any practice area or specialty for which: (1) the average waiting time for veterans seeking an appointment with a physician exceeds the VA's waiting time goals, or (2) the VA facility where the physician will be employed has demonstrated staffing shortages.
 
Requires each VA medical facility to have a volunteer coordinator who: (1) seeks to establish relationships with medical associations serving the area, (2) recruits physicians for uncompensated employment at the facility, and (3) serves as the initial point of contact for physicians seeking uncompensated employment at the facility.
 
Conditions an uncompensated physician's receipt of a credential or privilege to practice medicine in a VA facility on the physician's commitment to serve at least 40 hours in the facility during the ensuing 12-month period.
 
Requires the Secretary to decide whether to grant an uncompensated physician's request for a credential or privilege to practice medicine in the VA facility within 60 days.
 
Requires the director of a VA medical facility to approve, and accept the uncompensated services of, any physician who has made the requisite service commitment and receives a credential or privilege to practice medicine in such facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 101 East Market Street in Long Beach, California, as the "Juanita Millender-McDonald Post Office".

Bill: 113-hr-5687
Sponsor: Rep. Hahn, Janice [D-CA-44]
Introduced: 2014-11-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: California
Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 101 East Market Street in Long Beach, California, as the "Juanita Millender-McDonald Post Office."
action_date: 2014-12-18
text: 

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

 
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 101 East Market Street in Long Beach, California, as the "Juanita Millender-McDonald Post Office."


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-18
text: Became Public Law No: 113-268.
action_date: 2014-12-18
text: Became Public Law No: 113-268.
action_date: 2014-12-18
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2014-12-18
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2014-12-17
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2014-12-17
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2014-12-16
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2014-12-15
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2014-12-15
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2014-12-15
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6841)
action_date: 2014-12-15
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S6841)
action_date: 2014-12-09
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2014-12-08
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2014-12-08
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8843)
action_date: 2014-12-08
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H8843)
action_date: 2014-12-08
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5687.
action_date: 2014-12-08
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8843-8844)
action_date: 2014-12-08
text: Mr. Meadows moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1527)
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 113-268
Stop Ebola Act

Bill: 113-hr-5688
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2014-11-12 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Immigrant health and welfare
Immigration status and procedures
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Travel and tourism
Visas and passports
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: 
Stop Ebola Act - Prohibits: (1) a consular officer from issuing an immigrant or nonimmigrant visa to any alien who is a citizen or national of a country designated by the World Health Organization as having widespread and intense transmissions under the World Health Organization Ebola Response Roadmap; and (2) an alien from being admitted into the United States if the alien's journey to the United States originated in, or included transit through, any such country.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Introduced in House
To allow the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma to lease or transfer certain lands.

Bill: 113-hr-5689
Sponsor: Rep. Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK-2]
Introduced: 2014-11-12 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Oklahoma

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: 
Allows the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma to lease, sell, convey, warrant, or transfer all or any part of its interests in any real property that is not held in trust by the United States for the tribe. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit tax-exempt status to professional sports leagues that promote the use of the term redskins.

Bill: 113-hr-5690
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2014-11-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Professional sports
Racial and ethnic relations
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth a special rule to deny tax-exempt status to a professional sports league that promotes, or allows a member club or franchise to promote, the use of the term &quot;redskin&quot; in connection with any team or club connected with such league.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1535-1536)
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Introduced in House
Luna and Hidalgo Counties Wilderness Study Area Release Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5691
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2014-11-12 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Land use and conservation
New Mexico
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: 
Luna and Hidalgo Counties Wilderness Study Area Release Act of 2014 - Releases specified wilderness study areas in the Luna and Hidalgo Counties in New Mexico from further study for designation as wilderness. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Introduced in House