hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Military Tribunals for Terrorists Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1081
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2013-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Military law
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: 
Military Tribunals for Terrorists Act of 2013 - Requires trial only by a military commission for any foreign national who: (1) engages or has engaged in an offense relating to a terrorist attack against persons or property in the United States or U.S. government property or personnel outside the United States, and (2) is subject to trial for that offense by a military commission under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed 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: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed 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: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
President's Salary SUBMIT Act

Bill: 113-hr-1082
Sponsor: Rep. Bucshon, Larry [R-IN-8]
Introduced: 2013-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Budget process
Congressional-executive branch relations
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: 
President's Salary Suspended Unless Budget Measure Is On Time Act or President's Salary SUBMIT Act - Requires the payroll administrator responsible for the disbursement of the President's compensation to deposit in an escrow account all such payments otherwise required to be made, if by the first Monday in February of a year the President has not submitted his budget for the succeeding fiscal year.
 
Requires the deposits to begin the day after such Monday and to be released to the President on the earlier of:
 
 
the day on which he submits the budget, or
 
the last day of his term of office in which such first Monday occurs.
 
 
Makes this requirement inapplicable to a budget required to be submitted by the President within 30 days after:
 
 
the commencement date of the term for which the President is elected; or
 
 the date as of which a successor fills a vacancy in the office of the President which resulted from his removal from office, death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of such office.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
NADA Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1083
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2013-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Aviation and airports
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: 
No Armed Drones Act of 2013 or NADA Act of 2013 - Amends the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 to prohibit the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) from authorizing any person to operate an unmanned aircraft system (drone) in the national airspace system as a weapon or to deliver a weapon against a person or property. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of Congress to Muhammad Ali in recognition of his contributions to the Nation.

Bill: 113-hr-1084
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Andre [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2013-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Athletes
Congressional tributes

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: 
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to make arrangements for the presentation of a congressional gold medal to Muhammad Ali in recognition of his contributions to the nation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E271)
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend to 2025 the production certificate program that allows refunds of duties on certain articles produced in United States insular possessions.

Bill: 113-hr-1085
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend through 2025 the production certificate program requiring the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of the Interior to jointly issue to producers of watches and watch movements in the U.S. insular possessions production certificates entitling the certificate holders to a refund of duties paid on such articles imported into the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Offshoring Prevention Act

Bill: 113-hr-1086
Sponsor: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2013-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Foreign and international corporations
Income tax credits
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: 
Offshoring Prevention Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include in foreign base company income, for purposes of determining the foreign trade income of controlled foreign corporations, imported property income. Defines "imported property income" as, with certain exceptions, income attributable to property manufactured outside of the United States and imported for sale into the United States. Provides for a separate application of limitations on the foreign tax credit for imported property income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1087
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2013-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Africa
Immigration status and procedures
Liberia

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: 
Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 2013 - Adjusts to permanent resident status a qualifying Liberian national who: (1) has been continuously present in the United States between January 1, 2013, through the date of status adjustment application; or (2) is the spouse, child, or unmarried son or daughter of such an alien.
 
Requires adjustment applications to be filed not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Cheating Doesn't Pay Act

Bill: 113-hr-1088
Sponsor: Rep. Herrera Beutler, Jaime [R-WA-3]
Introduced: 2013-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Public contracts and procurement
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: 
Cheating Doesn't Pay Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to issue a rule that: (1) prohibits the use of disadvantaged business enterprise program funds by any enterprise no longer eligible under the program; (2) each grant award, contract, or subcontract prohibits any program funds from being provided to an enterprise as soon as it is no longer eligible; (3) recuperates any unobligated program funds made available to any enterprise no longer eligible under the program; and (4) ensures that if an enterprise is no longer eligible to receive program funds, the Secretary takes appropriate measures to expedite bidding with other eligible enterprises to complete any project started by that enterprise.
 
Requires the Secretary, in cases where the enterprise is no longer eligible to receive program funds solely on the basis of its size, to allow it to complete any existing projects but not, however, be eligible for additional program funds for any new projects unless the state recertifies it.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Elementary Educator STEM Content Coach Act

Bill: 113-hr-1090
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2013-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: 
Elementary Educator STEM Content Coach Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award grants to states and, through them, subgrants to partnerships between local educational agencies and public or nonprofit organizations to carry out professional development training programs for elementary school teachers that have at least three years of classroom teaching experience and exhibit content knowledge in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. 
 
Refers to those teachers as STEM Coaches.
 
Requires grant applicants to have adopted college- and career-ready standards in the STEM disciplines.
 
Requires public or nonprofit subgrantees to have expertise in developing or implementing before school, after school, summer learning, or expanded learning time activities for students.
 
Requires the professional development training programs to: (1) give STEM Coaches a deep understanding of the principles and concepts of the STEM disciplines; (2) create enthusiasm for the STEM disciplines; (3) provide opportunities for collaboration and teacher mentoring among STEM Coaches and between STEM Coaches and other teachers; and (4) allow STEM Coaches to connect student learning in the STEM disciplines to real-life applications, to out of school programs, and across the curriculum.
 
Directs the Secretary to plan a national evaluation of the professional development training program for STEM Coaches.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Life at Conception Act

Bill: 113-hr-1091
Sponsor: Rep. Jordan, Jim [R-OH-4]
Introduced: 2013-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Abortion
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Genetics

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: 
Life at Conception Act - Declares that the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being beginning at the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual comes into being. Prohibits construing this Act to authorize the prosecution of any woman for the death of her unborn child.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
No Knives Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1093
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2013-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Department of Homeland Security
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: 
No Knives Act of 2013 - Requires the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration [TSA]) to prohibit passengers from carrying aboard a domestic or foreign air carrier passenger aircraft any item that was prohibited from being carried aboard such aircraft on March 1, 2013.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Safeguard American Food Exports Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1094
Sponsor: Rep. Meehan, Patrick [R-PA-7]
Introduced: 2013-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food supply, safety, and labeling
Mammals
Meat
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: 
Safeguard American Food Exports Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the sale or transport of equines (horses and other members of the equidae family) or their parts (including flesh, meat, and viscera), or the importing or exporting of equines or their parts into or out of the United States, by any person who knows or should have known that such equines are to be slaughtered for human consumption as food.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development, and Credit.
action_date: 2013-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Enhancing the Quality of Parental Legal Representation Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1096
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2013-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Child safety and welfare
Lawyers and legal services
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local courts

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: 
Enhancing the Quality of Parental Legal Representation Act of 2013 - Amends title IV (Temporary Aid to Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to the highest state courts to enable them to provide legal representation for parents and legal guardians with respect to child welfare cases.
 
Increases funding for discretionary and targeted grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Preserving Jobs in the Oilfield Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1097
Sponsor: Rep. Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK-2]
Introduced: 2013-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Labor standards
Motor carriers
Oil and gas
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: 
Preserving Jobs in the Oilfield Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to ensure that, with respect to maximum hours of service for drivers, on-duty time does not include waiting time at a natural gas or oil well site for operators of commercial motor vehicles transporting supplies, equipment, or materials, including sand or water, to or from a natural gas or oil well site.
 
Applies this exclusion without regard to whether operators have received special training or operate vehicles specially constructed to service wells.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the Prevention and Public Health Fund.

Bill: 113-hr-1099
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2013-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Government trust funds
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: 
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal the establishment of, and appropriation of funds to, the Prevention and Public Health Fund (a Fund to provide for expanded and sustained national investment in prevention and public health programs to improve health and help restrain the rate of growth in private and public sector health care costs). Rescinds any unobligated balances appropriated to such Fund.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to post a notice of such rescission and the amounts of funds rescinded on the public HHS website within 10 days of enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Mental Health on Campus Improvement Act

Bill: 113-hr-1100
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2013-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Higher education
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: 
Mental Health on Campus Improvement Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to award grants to eligible institutions of higher education to improve mental and behavioral health services and outreach on college and university campuses.
 
Directs the Secretary to give special consideration to programs that: (1) demonstrate the greatest need, (2) propose effective approaches for initiating or expanding campus services, (3) target underserved and at-risk populations, (4) coordinate with a community mental health center or other community mental health resources, (5) identify how the college or university will address psychiatric emergencies, and (6) demonstrate the greatest potential for replication and dissemination.
 
Allows the Secretary to provide technical assistance to grantees.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, to convene an interagency, public-private sector working group to plan, establish, and begin coordinating and evaluating a targeted public education campaign that is designed to focus on mental and behavioral health on college campuses.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish the College Campus Task Force to discuss mental and behavioral health concerns on college and university campuses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1102
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Inflation and prices
Medicare
Prescription drugs
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: 
Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2013 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to negotiate with pharmaceutical manufacturers the prices that may be charged to Medicare part D prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsors and MedicareAdvantage (MA) organizations for covered part D drugs for part D eligible individuals who are enrolled under a PDP or under an MA-Prescription Drug (MA-PD) plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-03-12
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: 2013-03-12
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: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House