hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Byrne/JAG Program Accountability Act

Bill: 113-hr-3908
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2014-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Law enforcement administration and funding
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: 
Byrne/JAG Program Accountability Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to require states and local governments receiving grants under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program to implement policy, practice, and system improvement strategies to identify and reduce racial and ethnic disparities among individuals who come into contact with or are under the supervision of the criminal justice system, without establishing or requiring numerical standards or quotas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
Postmark Payment Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-3909
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2014-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Postmark Payment Act of 2014 - Deems any payment required to be made on or before a prescribed date that is delivered by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) after such date to be received by the payee on the date of the U.S. postmark stamped on the envelope or other cover in which such payment is mailed. 
Exempts from this Act any payment: (1) other than a payment on a bill, invoice, or statement of account due; (2) which is required by law, regulation, or contract to be delivered by any method other than by mail; or (3) which is subject to any other provision of federal law specifying how a postmark date shall be used in determining the date on which such payment shall be deemed to have been delivered or made. 
Applies the provisions of this Act only if: (1) the postmark date falls on or before the prescribed date for making the payment; and (2) the payment was, on or before such date, deposited in the mail in the United States in an envelope or under other appropriate cover, postage prepaid, and properly addressed to the payee.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
Expand Nonpostal Services to Americans Act

Bill: 113-hr-3910
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2014-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Executive agency funding and structure
Postal service
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: 
Expand Nonpostal Services to Americans Act - Expands the enumerated powers of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to include the authority to provide nonpostal services.
 
Removes existing conditions that limit nonpostal services to certain services offered as of January 1, 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to include bullying and harassment prevention programs.

Bill: 113-hr-3911
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2014-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Crime prevention
Crimes against children
Disability and health-based discrimination
Elementary and secondary education
Performance measurement
Racial and ethnic relations
Religion
School administration
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: 
 Amends the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to require: (1) states to use grants for safe and drug-free schools to collect and report information on the incidence of bullying and harassment, and (2) local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools to use subgrants to prevent and respond to incidents of bullying and harassment.
 
Requires such LEAs or schools to: (1) notify parents and students annually of conduct prohibited in their school discipline policies, that now must include bullying and harassment; and (2) establish complaint procedures for students and parents to register complaints regarding such conduct.
 
Includes bullying and harassment within the Act's definition of violence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
RIDE Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-3912
Sponsor: Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2014-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Health care coverage and access
Medicaid
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: 
Recruiting Individuals to Drive Our Elders Act of 2014 or RIDE Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to publish an interim final rule to revise certain Medicaid transportation regulations to allow a state plan under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide, at state option, reimbursement for costs attributable to providing no-load volunteer travel services to Medicaid-eligible individuals who require transportation to receive non-emergency medical treatment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 to require agencies to make considerations relating to the promotion of efficiency, competition, and capital formation before issuing or modifying certain regulations.

Bill: 113-hr-3913
Sponsor: Rep. Duffy, Sean P. [R-WI-7]
Introduced: 2014-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Competition and antitrust
Department of the Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Reserve System
Financial services and investments
National Credit Union Administration
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: 
Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 with respect to certain prohibitions against proprietary trading by banking entities and certain relationships of such entities with hedge funds and private equity funds (Volcker rule).
 
Directs the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the appropriate federal banking agencies, when issuing or modifying any regulation related to such prohibitions, to consider: (1) whether it is necessary or appropriate in the public interest; (2) whether it will promote efficiency, competition, and capital formation; and (3) the impact it would have on competition.
 
Prohibits such agencies from adopting a regulation that would impose a burden on competition neither necessary nor appropriate in furtherance of the Act.
 
Directs such agencies to include in the statement of basis and purpose incorporated in the regulation the reasons for determining that any burden on competition imposed by the regulation is necessary or appropriate in furtherance of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 32 - 22.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Prior to Referral.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act

Bill: 113-hr-3914
Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11]
Introduced: 2014-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional oversight
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Justice
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Immigration status and procedures
Lawyers and legal services
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: 
Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) establish and maintain, within the Executive Office for Immigration Review, an Office of Legal Access Programs to develop and administer a system of legal orientation programs to make immigration proceedings more efficient and cost-effective by educating aliens regarding administrative procedures and legal rights under U.S. immigration law and to establish other programs to assist in providing aliens access to legal information; and (2) submit to Congress within 180 days a plan that includes a schedule to develop and deploy legal orientation programs for all detainees within 1 year after enactment of this Act.
 
Requires the legal orientation programs to: (1) provide programs to assist detained aliens in making decisions regarding their removal and eligibility for relief from removal in order to increase efficiency and reduce costs in immigration proceedings and federal custody processes and to improve access to legal services; (2) ensure that programs and written notice of rights are available in English and the five most common native languages spoken by the detainees held in custody at that location during the preceding fiscal year; and (3) identify unaccompanied alien children, aliens with a serious mental disability, and other particularly vulnerable aliens for right to counsel considerations.
 
Authorizes such programs to provide services to detained aliens in specified immigration (detention and removal) and asylum proceedings.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish procedures: (1) that ensure that legal orientation programs are available for all detained aliens within five days of arrival into custody; and (2) to inform such aliens of the basic procedures of immigration hearings, their rights relating to those hearings, information that may deter such aliens from filing frivolous legal claims, and a contact list of potential legal resources and providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Education to modify the FAFSA to include a space for the purpose of identifying whether a student is a foster youth, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-3915
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2014-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: 
Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to:
 
 
 include a space on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form to identify students who are or were in the foster care system and are seeking assistance under title IV, and 
 
notify students who identify themselves as such of their potential eligibility for financial aid under title IV and other federal programs.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
Promoting Rural Broadband Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-3916
Sponsor: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2014-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Licensing and registrations
Public contracts and procurement
Rural conditions and development
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: 
Promoting Rural Broadband Act of 2014 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), when prescribing regulations concerning the competitive bidding system under which electromagnetic spectrum licenses are auctioned to qualified bidders, to promote the expansion of spectrum-based services to exceptionally hard-to-serve populations in unserved and underserved geographic locations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-3917
Sponsor: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2014-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Washington State
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: 
 Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 2014 - Designates certain federal land in the Olympic National Forest in the state of Washington as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Designates certain other land, identified on the same map as such proposed areas, as potential wilderness. 
 
Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate as wild, scenic, or recreational rivers specified segments of the following rivers in the state of Washington:
 
 
Elwha River;
 
Dungeness River;
 
Big Quilcene River;
 
Dosewallips River;
 
Duckabush River;
 
Hamma Hamma River;
 
South Fork Skokomish River;
 
Middle Fork Satsop River;
 
West Fork Satsop River;
 
Wynoochee River;
 
East Fork Humptulips River;
 
West Fork Humptulips River;
 
Quinault River;
 
Queets River;
 
Hoh River;
 
Bogachiel River;
 
South Fork Calawah River;
 
Sol Duc River; and
 
Lyre River.
 
 
Withdraws the federal land within the boundaries of the designated river segments from: (1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) disposition under all laws relating to mineral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship Enhancement Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-3918
Sponsor: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2014-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Department of Commerce
Executive agency funding and structure
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Performance measurement
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Small business
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: 
Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship Enhancement Act of 2014 - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to: (1) expand the duties and reporting requirements of the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, including by requiring the development of a strategic plan to guide the activities of the Office; (2) authorize appropriations for such Office for FY2014-FY2018; and (3) modify the Regional Innovation Program established by such Act to eliminate provisions relating to science and research parks and require outreach to public and private sector entities in rural communities to encourage participation in Program activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
Rock Creek National Park in the District of Columbia Act

Bill: 113-hr-3919
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2014-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: District of Columbia
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: 
Rock Creek National Park in the District of Columbia Act - Redesignates the Rock Creek Park in the District of Columbia as Rock Creek National Park in the District of Columbia. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
American Privacy Protection Act

Bill: 113-hr-3920
Sponsor: Rep. Nugent, Richard B. [R-FL-11]
Introduced: 2014-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Business records
First Amendment rights
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Right of privacy
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: 
American Privacy Protection Act - Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA), with respect to the authority of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to make an application to a FISA court for an order requiring the production of tangible things (commonly referred to as &quot;business records&quot;), to limit the items that the FBI may seek to tangible things not pertaining to a U.S. person for an investigation to obtain foreign intelligence information not concerning a U.S. person (thus removes the FBI's authority to make such applications for an investigation regarding a U.S. person or to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2014-01-16
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-01-16
text: Introduced in House
Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-3922
Sponsor: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2014-01-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Washington State
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-17
text: 
 Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 2014 - Designates certain federal land in the Olympic National Forest in the state of Washington as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Designates certain other land, identified on the same map as such proposed areas, as potential wilderness. 
 
Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate as wild, scenic, or recreational rivers specified segments of the following rivers in the state of Washington:
 
 
Elwha River;
 
Dungeness River;
 
Big Quilcene River;
 
Dosewallips River;
 
Duckabush River;
 
Hamma Hamma River;
 
South Fork Skokomish River;
 
Middle Fork Satsop River;
 
West Fork Satsop River;
 
Wynoochee River;
 
East Fork Humptulips River;
 
West Fork Humptulips River;
 
Quinault River;
 
Queets River;
 
Hoh River;
 
Bogachiel River;
 
South Fork Calawah River;
 
Sol Duc River; and
 
Lyre River.
 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to take necessary measures to control fire, insects, and diseases in the wilderness areas designated by this Act. 
 
Withdraws the federal land within the boundaries of the designated river segments from: (1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) disposition under all laws relating to mineral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2014-01-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-01-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-01-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 to expand the authority of governmental social service agencies with child protection responsibilities to access the national crime information databases.

Bill: 113-hr-3923
Sponsor: Rep. Bass, Karen [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2014-01-17 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Domestic violence and child abuse

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-17
text: 
Amends the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 to repeal a provision ensuring governmental social service agencies with child protection responsibilities access to the national crime information databases only when investigating or responding to reports of child abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-01-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-01-17
text: Introduced in House