hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
21st Century Classroom Innovation Act

Bill: 113-hr-5303
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
21st Century Classroom Innovation Act - Amends part A (Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting Fund) of title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow states to use that portion of their part A grant funds reserved for state activities to award competitive grants to local educational agencies (LEAs), charter schools, or consortia of such entities to carry out blended learning projects.
 
Defines a &quot;blended learning project&quot; as a formal education program that: (1) includes an element of online learning and instructional time in a supervised location away from home; (2) includes an element of student control over time, place, path, or pace; and (3) connects the modalities along each student's learning path within a course or subject to provide an integrated learning experience.
 
Requires the competitive grant funds to be used for: (1) planning activities, the purchase of digital instructional resources, initial professional development activities, and one-time information technology purchases; or (2) ongoing professional development for teachers, school leaders, or other personnel involved in the project.
 
Requires each state making such a grant to contribute non-federal funds equal to at least 10% of the grant.
 
Reduces, from 2.5% to 1.5%, that portion of part A grant funds that states must reserve for subgrants to local partnerships between institutions of higher education and high-need LEAs. (This increases the amount reserved for state activities.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Audiology Patient Choice Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5304
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, Lynn [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Audiology Patient Choice Act of 2014 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise the coverage of audiology services to treat as physicians qualified audiologists authorized by the state and acting within the scope of their license to furnish such services.
 
Enables Medicare beneficiaries to choose a qualified audiologist without regard to any requirement to be under the care of (or referred by) a physician or other health care practitioner, or that services be provided under the supervision of a physician or other health care practitioner.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-07-31
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: 2014-07-31
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: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Puerto Rico Chapter 9 Uniformity Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5305
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Pierluisi, Pedro R. [D-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Puerto Rico
State and local finance
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Puerto Rico Chapter 9 Uniformity Act of 2014 - Amends the fedral bankruptcy code to treat Puerto Rice as a state under chapter 9 (Adjustment of the Debts of a Municipality).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
America's Energy Security Trust Fund Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5307
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Congressional oversight
Employment taxes
Energy research
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Income tax credits
International law and treaties
Oil and gas
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Roads and highways
Sales and excise taxes
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
America's Energy Security Trust Fund Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax, beginning in calendar year 2016, on any taxable carbon substance sold by its manufacturer, producer, or importer. Defines &quot;taxable carbon substance&quot; as: (1) coal (including lignite and peat); (2) petroleum and any petroleum products; and (3) natural gas that is extracted, manufactured, or produced in the United States, or entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing. 
 
Establishes in the Treasury the America's Energy Security Trust Fund to assist industries negatively affected by this Act, make transfers to the Highway Trust Fund to cover shortfalls, and provide payroll tax relief. 

Allows individual taxpayers a tax credit equal to carbon tax rebate amounts calculated by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to study and report to Congress on the best methods to assess and collect taxes on non-carbon greenhouse gases.

Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should establish binding agreements with major greenhouse gas emitting nations to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2014-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
JAWS Act

Bill: 113-hr-5308
Sponsor: Rep. Farenthold, Blake [R-TX-27]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Fishes
Food industry and services
Foreign aid and international relief
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Trade restrictions
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Justice Attributed to Wounded Sharks Act or the JAWS Act - Prohibits federal assistance to a country that does not prohibit: (1) shark finning in its territorial waters; and (2) the importation, sale, possession, or consumption of shark fins obtained by shark finning. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Independence in the Education of Loan Originators Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5310
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Gary G. [R-CA-31]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Licensing and registrations
Real estate business
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Protecting Independence in the Education of Loan Originators Act of 2014 - Amends the S.A.F.E. Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 to prohibit the courses offered by lenders for their own employees from satisfying the pre-licensing education or continuing education requirement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Rocky Mountain Recreation and Wilderness Preservation Act

Bill: 113-hr-5311
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Forests, forestry, trees
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Motor vehicles
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Rocky Mountain Recreation and Wilderness Preservation Act - Amends the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 to designate certain federal lands in the White River National Forest in Colorado as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System as follows:
 
 
approximately 6,349 acres identified as the Proposed Ute Pass Wilderness, Proposed Acorn Creek Wilderness, and Proposed Ptarmigan Additions Wilderness;
 
approximately 5,172 acres as the Hoosier Ridge Wilderness;
 
approximately 7,577 acres as the Tenmile Wilderness;
 
approximately 9,338 acres as the Williams Fork Wilderness;
 
approximately 3,942 acres as a part of the Holy Cross Wilderness; and
 
approximately 7,082 acres, identified as the Proposed Freeman Creek Wilderness and Proposed Spraddle Creek Wilderness, as part of the Eagles Nest Wilderness.
 
 
 Designates certain federal lands in such forest, comprising approximately 2,338 acres and identified as the Proposed Spraddle Creek Potential Wilderness as a potential wilderness area, and as specified, to be designated as wilderness and incorporated in and deemed to be a part of the Eagles Nest Wilderness.
 
Designates certain federal lands in such forest, comprising approximately 11,417 acres, as the Tenmile Recreation Management Area.
 
Designates certain federal lands in such forest, comprising approximately 5,204 acres, as the Porcupine Gulch Protection Area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-08-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Safe Aviation and Flight Emergency Tracking Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5312
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Accidents
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
Government studies and investigations
International organizations and cooperation
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Safe Aviation and Flight Emergency Tracking Act of 2014 - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to: (1) issue regulations to ensure that a covered aircraft is equipped with technology that provides for the continuous tracking of information regarding the aircraft during flight and the timely and cost effective recovery of the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder in the event of a crash or other serious incident; (2) investigate automatic dependent surveillance, automatic deployable flight recorders, emergency locator transmitters, and satellite navigation and communications; and (3) work collaboratively with the International Civil Aviation Organization and other relevant stakeholders to develop and implement international standards that improve the tracking of aircraft in flight.
 
Defines &quot;covered aircraft&quot; to mean a passenger aircraft: (1) able to carry at least 120 passengers, (2) ordered on or after January 1, 2016, and (3) providing scheduled passenger air transportation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Mom and Pop SHOP Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5313
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Sean Patrick [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Marriage and family status
Self-employed
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Mom and Pop SHOP Act of 2014 or the Mom and Mom SHOP Act of 2014 or the Pop and Pop SHOP Act of 2014 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to make an individual (and his or her spouse or domestic partner) who owns, or is a partner in, a business that has no employees eligible for the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP Exchange).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
PREPARE Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5314
Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Atmospheric science and weather
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Emergency planning and evacuation
Executive agency funding and structure
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government information and archives
Natural disasters
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Performance measurement
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Preparedness and Risk Management for Extreme Weather Patterns Assuring Resilience Act of 2014 or the PREPARE Act of 2014 - Directs the President to establish the Interagency Council on Extreme Weather Resiliency, Preparedness, and Risk Management (Council), co-chaired by an employee of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
 
 Directs the Council on Environmental Quality to provide administrative support and additional resources to the Council. 
 
Requires the Council to establish government-wide goals and priorities for extreme weather preparedness and risk management.
 
Requires each agency to submit biannually to OMB and to the Council a comprehensive plan that integrates extreme weather into its operations and overall objectives. 
 
Requires the United States Global Change Research Program to designate a participating agency to maintain an Internet website providing extreme weather preparedness information. 
 
Directs the Council to publish biannually an inventory of all regional agency offices, centers, and programs that assist with extreme weather preparedness and risk management at the municipal level. 
 
Requires annual agency performance plans to include the most recent agency extreme weather plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2014-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the President to transfer certain military equipment to the Government of Ukraine, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-5315
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Europe
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Ukraine

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Authorizes the President to transfer certain military equipment on a lease basis to the government of Ukraine.
 
States that nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing the use of military force under the Authorization for Use of Military Force.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
P.J.'s Act

Bill: 113-hr-5317
Sponsor: Rep. Jeffries, Hakeem S. [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Crime prevention
Housing and community development funding
Lighting, heating, cooling
Public housing

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
P.J.'s Act - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to make the acquisition, installation, and maintenance of security cameras, safety lighting, and building locking mechanisms in public housing eligible for community development block grant (CDBG) assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
LATTS Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5318
Sponsor: Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Department of Health and Human Services
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health information and medical records
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Licensing and registrations
Medical education
Medical research
Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Label and Transport Tissues Safely Act of 2014 or the LATTS Act of 2014 - Sets forth guidelines for handling human tissue specimens.
 
Prohibits sale of human tissue for research or education unless the seller has a non-transplant tissue bank license and each package of tissue is labeled with specified information.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a process for the approval, suspension, and revocation of non-transplant tissue bank licenses.
 
Prohibits falsely labeling packages of human tissue.
 
Allows HHS or any accrediting body authorized by HHS to enter and inspect any establishment engaged in the preparation of any human tissue specimen.
 Requires HHS to recall any human tissue specimen that is an imminent or substantial hazard to public health.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Modernizing American Manufacturing Bonds Act

Bill: 113-hr-5319
Sponsor: Rep. Hultgren, Randy [R-IL-14]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax exclusion
Industrial facilities
Manufacturing
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Modernizing American Manufacturing Bonds Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to qualified small issue bonds for manufacturing purposes, to: (1) expand the definition of &quot;manufacturing facility&quot; to include a facility which is used in the creation or production of intangible property and which is functionally related and subordinate to a facility located on the same site and financed with not more than 25% of bond proceeds, and (2) increase from $10 million to $30 million the maximum bond limitation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Attorney General to provide State officials with access to criminal history information with respect to certain financial service providers required to undergo State criminal background checks, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-5320
Sponsor: Rep. Bachus, Spencer [R-AL-6]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Criminal justice information and records
Financial services and investments
Intergovernmental relations
Licensing and registrations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Amends the S.A.F.E. Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 to direct the Attorney General to provide appropriate state officials responsible for regulating financial service providers or related businesses (in addition to state officials responsible for regulating state-licensed loan originators) with access to criminal history information to the extent that criminal history background checks are required under state law for the licensing of such parties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2014-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Insurance Coverage for Sick Americans Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5321
Sponsor: Rep. Benishek, Dan [R-MI-1]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Disability and health-based discrimination
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Protecting Insurance Coverage for Sick Americans Act of 2014 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to maintain, upon repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health care provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, restrictions on health insurers rescinding or cancelling an enrollee's coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in House