hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Lower Electric Bill Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4654
Sponsor: Rep. Yoder, Kevin [R-KS-3]
Introduced: 2014-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Coal
Economic performance and conditions
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Government studies and investigations
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Metals
Oil and gas
Public utilities and utility rates

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-09
text: 
Lower Electric Bill Act of 2014 - Delays the implementation, administration, or enforcement of the standards for mercury and hazardous air pollutants emitted from new power plants published on February 16, 2012. (The final rule entitled, &quot;National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants From Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units and Standards of Performance for Fossil-Fuel-Fired Electric Utility, Industrial-Commercial-Institutional, and Small Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating Units&quot; is delayed until the later of five years after enactment of this Act or the date on which the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] completes a study on the economic impacts on local communities.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2014-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Caring for America's Heroes Act

Bill: 113-hr-4656
Sponsor: Rep. Gardner, Cory [R-CO-4]
Introduced: 2014-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Hospital care
Mental health
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-13
text: 
Caring for America's Heroes Act - Eliminates the limit on the number of days each year inpatient mental health services may be provided to military dependents under the Department of Defense (DOD) TRICARE program (a DOD managed care program).
 
Eliminates the need for TRICARE Standard beneficiaries to obtain: (1) a nonavailability statement or preauthorization to receive mental health services from a civilian provider, or (2) a nonavailability statement to receive mental health services in specialized treatment facilities outside the 200-mile radius of a military medical treatment facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2014-05-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2014-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-13
text: Introduced in House
Timber Revitalization and Economic Enhancement Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4657
Sponsor: Rep. Griffin, Tim [R-AR-2]
Introduced: 2014-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Forests, forestry, trees
Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-13
text: 
Timber Revitalization and Economic Enhancement Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the reduced tax rate on the net timber gains of corporations, to: (1) adjust the formula for calculating such rate, and (2) make such reduced rate permanent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to eliminate civil money penalties for inducements to physicians to limit services that are not medically necessary, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-4658
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2014-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health personnel
Hospital care
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-13
text: 
Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to restrict civil monetary penalties for inducements to physicians to limit services to services that are medically necessary only. (Thus eliminates such penalties for inducements to physicians to limit services that are not medically necessary.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-05-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-05-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-05-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E746)
action_date: 2014-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-13
text: Introduced in House
EB-5 Regional Center Extension Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4659
Sponsor: Rep. Schock, Aaron [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2014-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Employee hiring
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
U.S. and foreign investments
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-13
text: 
EB-5 Regional Center Extension Act of 2014 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate per-country limits on employment-based immigrant visas.
 
Makes the EB-5 Regional Center program permanent. 
 
Reserves at least 3,000 visas per fiscal year for program applicants.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to give employment-creation visa priority to program applicants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2014-05-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-13
text: Introduced in House
Bureau Advisory Opinion Act

Bill: 113-hr-4662
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2014-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: 
Bureau Advisory Opinion Act - Amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to require the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to: (1) establish a procedure to respond to specific inquiries by a covered person concerning conformance of prospective conduct with federal consumer financial law, and (2) issue an opinion in response to the inquiry within 90 days (with a single allowable extension of another 45 days).
 
(A "covered person" under the Act is: (1) any person that engages in offering or providing a consumer financial product or service, and (2) any affiliate of that person if the affiliate acts as a service provider to the person.)
 
Creates a rebuttable presumption in any action brought under federal consumer financial law that any conduct for which the Director has issued an opinion that it is in conformity with the opinion is indeed in compliance with federal consumer financial law.
 
Exempts such inquiries and advisory opinions from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-11
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 32 - 27.
action_date: 2014-06-11
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Prior to Referral.
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Protect Patient Access and Promote Hospital Efficiency Act

Bill: 113-hr-4663
Sponsor: Rep. Black, Diane [R-TN-6]
Introduced: 2014-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Allied health services
Hospital care
Medicare
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: 
Protect Patient Access and Promote Hospital Efficiency Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to authorize nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, physician assistants, and certified nurse-midwives who order inpatient hospital services to certify their medical necessity for payment under the Medicare program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Social Security and Marriage Equality Act

Bill: 113-hr-4664
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2014-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Marriage and family status
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: 
Social Security and Marriage Equality Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act with respect to the determination of a valid marriage to account for marriages in jurisdictions other than a state.
 
Authorizes the courts of any state to find that an OASDI benefit applicant and an insured individual were validly married in a jurisdiction other than a state at the time the applicant files a benefit application or, if the insured individual is dead, at the time the individual died.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Korea Security Partnership Act

Bill: 113-hr-4665
Sponsor: Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2014-05-15 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
Computers and information technology
South Korea
Technology transfer and commercialization
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: 
Korea Security Partnership Act - Deems the Republic of Korea to be a &quot;favorable treatment country&quot; eligible for the export license exception for encryption commodities, software and technology under the Export Administration Regulations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the conveyance of a portion of the former Air Force Norwalk Defense Fuel Supply Point in Norwalk, California.

Bill: 113-hr-4666
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-38]
Introduced: 2014-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: California
Land transfers
Military facilities and property

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey, without consideration, to the city of Norwalk, California, all U.S. interest in a parcel of real property consisting of up to 15 acres at the former Air Force Norwalk Defense Fuel Supply Point for the purpose of permitting the city to use the property for public purposes. Conditions such conveyance on the city actively assisting the United States in disposing of the residual portion of the Point (approximately 36 acres) using General Services Administration (GSA) disposal authority.
 
Directs the Secretary to require the city to cover the administrative costs of carrying out such conveyance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Nuclear Plant Decommissioning Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4667
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2014-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Government information and archives
Licensing and registrations
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Nuclear power
Public participation and lobbying
Radioactive wastes and releases
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: 
Nuclear Plant Decommissioning Act of 2014 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensee, after consulting each affected state and local governments, to develop and submit to the NRC a post-shutdown decommissioning activities report (PSDAR) for any of the licensee's shutdown facilities for which a PSDAR is required.
 
Requires the NRC to: (1) solicit written comments on the proposed PSDAR from the public and conduct at least two public hearings in the facility's host state; and (2) invite the host state to file a statement of support, of conditional support with specific recommendations for changes, or of nonsupport for the proposed PSDAR.
 
Directs the NRC, after receiving the state's statement of support or nonsupport, to determine whether the proposed PSDAR is adequate or inadequate on the basis of specified considerations, and issue a decision of approval or disapproval, as appropriate.
 
Prescribes requirements for determining whether a proposed PSDAR is permissible if the host state files a statement of conditional support.
 
Requires a licensee to develop and submit a new proposed PSDAR if the first one is rejected.
 
Prohibits the NRC from approving a proposed PSDAR unless it includes a requirement that the licensee comply with state law relating to air, water, or soil quality or radiological standards if they are more restrictive than federal law.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Servicemembers Insurance Relief Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4669
Sponsor: Rep. Royce, Edward R. [R-CA-39]
Introduced: 2014-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Department of the Treasury
Federal preemption
Life, casualty, property insurance
Military personnel and dependents
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: 
Servicemembers Insurance Relief Act of 2014 - Declares that a member of a servicemember's household neither loses nor acquires a residence or domicile for purposes of insuring a motor vehicle primarily for personal, family, or household use if: (1) the servicemember has temporarily moved to comply with any temporary duty or permanent change of station order, or (2) the member of the household has temporarily moved to accompany a servicemember who is complying with such an order.
 
Defines: (1) "servicemember" as a member of the uniformed services, the National Guard, or reserve components; and (2) "member of a household" as the servicemember, the spouse of a servicemember, or any dependent residing with such a servicemember or a servicemember's spouse.
 
Requires insurers to provide a member of a servicemember's household with a servicemembers insurance choice notice if a household member notifies the insurer of such a move. 
 
Directs the Federal Insurance Office of the Department of the Treasury to promulgate a standard servicemembers insurance choice notice that: (1) summarizes the right of servicemembers and members of their households, in addition to options available under current law, to continue an existing auto insurance policy as allowed by the insurer with appropriate adjustments that relate only to location risk factors; (2) notifies the servicemember that the insurer will explain the coverage options available to the servicemember as a result of the move; and (3) requires no alterations or additions for an insurer to be in compliance with such notification requirements. 
 
Prohibits this Act from requiring an insurer to continue providing coverage to such a member.
 
Provides enforcement authority to the states in which the relevant auto insurance policy was issued or renewed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Public Interest Declassification Board Reauthorization Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4671
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2014-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government information and archives
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: 
Public Interest Declassification Board Reauthorization Act of 2014 - Amends the Public Interest Declassification Act of 2000 to extend through December 31, 2015, the authority of the Public Interest Declassification Board (advises the President, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, the Office of Management and Budget [OMB], and other executive branch officials on the identification, collection, review for declassification, and release to Congress, interested agencies, and the public of declassified records and materials that are of archival value).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to provide protections for active duty military consumers, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-4672
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-38]
Introduced: 2014-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: 
Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act with respect to an item of adverse information about an active duty military consumer.
 
Declares that, if the action or inaction that gave rise to the item occurred while the consumer was an active duty military consumer, then: (1) the consumer may provide appropriate proof, including official orders, to a consumer reporting agency that the consumer was an active duty military consumer at the time the action or inaction occurred; and (2) any consumer report made by the agency including that item of information shall clearly and conspicuously disclose that the consumer was an active duty military consumer when the action or inaction that gave rise to the item occurred.
 
Requires a consumer reporting agency to notify promptly an active duty military consumer whenever it receives an item of adverse information about him or her, along with a description of the item and the method by which the consumer can dispute the validity of the item.
 
Requires an agency also to use any separate contact information an active duty military consumer has given it for all communications while the individual is an active duty military consumer.
 
Declares the sense of Congress that any person making use of a consumer report containing an item of adverse information that occurred while the consumer was an active duty military consumer should take that fact into account when evaluating the consumer's creditworthiness.
 
Requires a consumer reporting agency, with respect to an item of information under dispute by an active duty military consumer, to include in the consumer's file that he or she was an active duty military consumer at the time the action or inaction that gave rise to the disputed item occurred.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Introduced in House
BACPAC Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4673
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2014-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care quality
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: 
Bundling and Coordinating Post-Acute Care Act of 2014 or the BACPAC Act of 2014 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require a single bundled payment for post-acute care services under Medicare parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance).
 
Defines &quot;PAC physician&quot; as the physician with primary responsibility for supervising delivery to an individual of a post-acute care (PAC) bundle of services between a qualifying discharge and the earlier of: (1) 90 days later, or (2) the date on which the individual is admitted to a hospital to receive services for a condition unrelated to the one for which he or she received the acute care inpatient hospital services. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) establish a new Transitional Care Management (TCM) code, with respect to geographic adjustments to the physicians' fee schedule, to pay for care management by a PAC physician; or (2) revise and expand the use of existing TCM codes 99495 and 99494.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Guarantee Housing for Terminally Ill Veterans Act

Bill: 113-hr-4674
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2014-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Housing for the elderly and disabled
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: 
Guarantee Housing for Terminally Ill Veterans Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to give priority, in providing specially adapted housing assistance for disabled veterans, to an individual who is otherwise eligible and is diagnosed with a terminal illness.
 
Requires reimbursement of the costs of specially adapted housing if such a veteran has applied for, but not yet received, assistance for acquisition and adaptation expenses.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-19
text: Introduced in House