hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act Reauthorization of 2013

Bill: 113-s-116
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Elementary and secondary education
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Higher education
Mental health
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act Reauthorization of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize and revise a research, training, and technical assistance resource center to prevent suicides (the Suicide Prevention Resource Center). Expands the program's focus from youth suicides to suicides among all ages, particularly among groups that are at high risk for suicide. Repeals authority for grants to establish research, training, and technical assistance centers related to mental health, substance abuse and the justice system. 
 
Reauthorizes a program of grants for the development of state or tribal youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies.
 
Reauthorizes and revises a grant program to enhance services for students with mental health or substance use disorders at institutions of higher education. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) (who currently is merely authorized), acting through the Director of the Center for Mental Health Services, to award grants to enhance such services and to develop best practices for the delivery of such services. Permits grant funds to be used for the provision of such services to students and to employ appropriately trained staff. Requires the Secretary to give special consideration to applications for grants that describe programs that demonstrate the greatest need for new or additional mental and substance use disorder services and the greatest potential for replication.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S222-223)
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-117
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Inflation and prices
Medicare
Prescription drugs
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
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: 2013-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit the use of public funds for political party conventions.

Bill: 113-s-118
Sponsor: Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government trust funds
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal provisions providing for the use of funds from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund for presidential nominating conventions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Global Democracy Promotion Act

Bill: 113-s-119
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Foreign aid and international relief
Health promotion and preventive care
International organizations and cooperation
Public participation and lobbying
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Global Democracy Promotion Act - Declares that foreign nongovernmental organizations: (1) shall not be ineligible for assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 solely on the basis of health or medical services (including counseling and referral services) provided by them with non-U.S. government funds if such services do not violate the laws of the country in which they are being provided, and would not violate U.S. federal law if provided in the United States; and (2) shall not be subject to requirements relating to the use of non-U.S. government funds for advocacy and lobbying activities other than those that apply to U.S. nongovernmental organizations receiving such assistance.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to establish the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking to review Federal Government policy on human trafficking.

Bill: 113-s-121
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Human trafficking

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
Establishes the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, which shall provide advice and recommendations to the Senior Policy Operating Group and the President's Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.
 
Directs the Council to: (1) meet at least annually or at the request of the Group to review federal government policy and programs intended to combat human trafficking, (2) formulate assessments and recommendations to ensure that U.S. policy and programming efforts conform to best practices in the field of human trafficking prevention, (3) meet with the Group at least annually to formally present the Council's findings and recommendations, and (4) submit annual reports to the Task Force.
 
Sunsets this Act on September 30, 2020.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
No Budget, No Pay Act

Bill: 113-s-124
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2013-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Legislative rules and procedure
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: 
No Budget, No Pay Act - Prohibits the payment of any pay to any Member of Congress (excluding the Vice President): (1) if both houses of Congress have not approved a concurrent resolution on the budget for a fiscal year before October 1 of that fiscal year and have not passed all the regular appropriations bills for the next fiscal year by such date, or (2) until both houses of Congress approve such a budget resolution and pass all such appropriations bills. Prohibits any retroactive pay for such a period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-28
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 6.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2013-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Strategic Response to Asian Carp Invasion Act

Bill: 113-s-125
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2013-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Congressional oversight
Fishes
Lakes and rivers
Mississippi River
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: 
Strategic Response to Asian Carp Invasion Act - Requires the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), in coordination with the Chief of Engineers, the National Park Service (NPS), and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), to lead a multiagency effort to slow the spread of Asian Carp in the Upper Mississippi and Ohio River basins and tributaries by providing support to state and local governments in carrying out activities designed to slow, and eventually eliminate, the threat posed by such carp. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Earmark Elimination Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-126
Sponsor: Sen. Toomey, Patrick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2013-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Legislative rules and procedure
Senate
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: 
Earmark Elimination Act of 2013 - Makes it out of order in the Senate to consider a bill or resolution introduced in either chamber or any other measure that includes an earmark.
 
Permits waiver of any or all such points of order by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Members.
 
Makes this Act inapplicable to any authorization of appropriations to a federal entity if such authorization is not specifically targeted to a state, locality, or congressional district.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide a permanent deduction for State and local general sales taxes.

Bill: 113-s-127
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2013-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the taxpayer election to deduct state and local general sales taxes in lieu of state and local income taxes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act

Bill: 113-s-128
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2013-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against women
Criminal justice information and records
Domestic violence and child abuse
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Higher education
School administration
Sex offenses
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: 
Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education (IHEs) to include in their annual security report policies encouraging the accurate and prompt reporting of all crimes to campus police and appropriate law enforcement agencies when crime victims elect to, or are unable to, report the crimes. 
 
Requires that report to include: (1) data on the occurrence of certain violent crimes that are motivated by the victim's nationality; and (2) statistics concerning the occurrence of domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking incidents reported to campus security authorities or local police.
 
Requires schools to protect victim confidentiality when reporting criminal threats to the campus community.
 
Directs IHEs to include in their annual security report a statement of policy regarding their programs to prevent domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and the procedures they follow when such an offense is reported.
 
Requires an IHE's policy regarding those offenses to include: 
 
 
 education that promotes awareness of the offenses; 
 
 possible sanctions or protective measures imposed following disciplinary action; 
 
 procedures victims should follow after such an offense occurs; 
 
 institutional disciplinary procedures; 
 
 information about how the IHE will protect victim confidentiality; 
 
 the written notification of students and employees concerning on-campus and community services available for victims; and 
 
 the written notification of victims regarding their options for, and assistance in, changing academic, living, transportation, and working situations, regardless of whether or not they choose to report the crime.
 
 
Requires students and employees who report having been the victim of such an offense to their IHE, whether it occurred on or off campus, to receive a written notification of their rights and options under the IHE's policy.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to seek the counsel of the Attorney General and Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding the development, and dissemination to IHEs, of best practices for preventing and responding to incidents of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
SMART Prevention Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-129
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2013-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Child health
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against women
Domestic violence and child abuse
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Health programs administration and funding
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Sex offenses
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: 
Saving Money and Reducing Tragedies through Prevention Act of 2013 or the SMART Prevention Act of 2013 - Amends the Violence against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) to replace provisions regarding grants to assist children and youth exposed to violence with a Saving Money and Reducing Tragedies through Prevention (SMART Prevention) grant program.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants for the purpose of preventing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking (such violence) by taking a comprehensive approach that focuses on youth, children exposed to violence, and men as leaders and influencers of social norms.
 
Permits the use of grant funds to develop, maintain, or enhance programs that: (1) change attitudes and behaviors around the acceptability of such violence and provide education and skills training to young individuals and those who influence them; (2) are designed to prevent future incidents of such violence by preventing, reducing, and responding to children's exposure to violence in the home; and (3) work with men to prevent such violence by helping men to serve as role models and social influencers of other men and youth at the individual, school, community, or statewide levels.
 
Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) eligible entities to receive grants; (2) grantee requirements; and (3) fund allotments, including for Indian tribes or tribal organizations. Repeals provisions of: (1) VAWA regarding development of curricula and pilot programs for home visitation projects and regarding engaging men and youth in preventing such violence, and (2) the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 regarding a public awareness campaign regarding domestic violence against pregnant women.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
New Columbia Admission Act

Bill: 113-s-132
Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2013-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Congressional operations and organization
Constitution and constitutional amendments
District of Columbia
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Legislative rules and procedure
Members of Congress
State and local government operations
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: 
New Columbia Admission Act - Sets forth procedures for admission into the United States of the state of New Columbia. 
Requires the Mayor of the District of Columbia to: (1) submit to the eligible voters propositions for statehood and adoption of a State Constitution, and (2) issue a proclamation for the first elections to Congress of two Senators and one Representative of New Columbia. Requires the President, upon adoption of such propositions and certification of such elections, to issue a proclamation announcing the results and admitting New Columbia into the Union. 
Provides for conversion of District government offices to state offices. 
Provides that New Columbia shall consist of all territory of the District as of the enactment of this Act, excluding land within specified metes and bounds that shall remain the District of Columbia and that shall include the principal federal monuments, the White House, the Capitol Building, the Supreme Court Building, the federal executive, legislative, and judicial office buildings located adjacent to the Mall and the Capitol Building, and certain military property. 
Prohibits New Columbia from imposing taxes on federal property except as provided by Congress. 
Maintains the applicability to New Columbia of current District laws and continues pending judicial proceedings. 
Maintains: (1) the District of Columbia as the seat of the federal government, and (2) the federal government's authority over military lands and specified other property. 
Requires each state that is the last place an individual resided before residing in the District of Columbia to permit such individual to vote in federal elections by absentee ballot. Sets forth a rule for expedited consideration of a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to repeal the 23rd amendment (which provides for the appointment of electors for President and Vice President for the District).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-713.
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S287)
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
PATIENTS Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-133
Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2013-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Genetics
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: 
Preserving Access to Targeted, Individualized, and Effective New Treatments and Services (PATIENTS) Act of 2013 or PATIENTS Act of 2013 - Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from using data obtained from comparative effectiveness research, including any conducted or supported using funds appropriated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) or authorized or appropriated under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to deny or delay coverage of an item or service under a federal health care program. Requires the Secretary to ensure that comparative effectiveness research conducted or supported by the federal government accounts for factors contributing to differences in the treatment response and preferences of patients, including patient-reported outcomes, genomics and personalized medicine, the unique needs of health disparity populations, and indirect patient benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act

Bill: 113-s-135
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2013-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Congressional oversight
Family planning and birth control
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: 
Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Service (HHS) from providing any federal family planning assistance to an entity unless the entity certifies that, during the period of such assistance, the entity will not perform, and will not provide any funds to any other entity that performs, an abortion. Excludes an abortion where: (1) the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest; or (2) a physician certifies that the woman suffered from a physical disorder, injury, or illness that would place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed, including a condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy. Excludes hospitals from such requirement so long as the hospital does not provide funds to any non-hospital entity that performs an abortion.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide Congress annually: (1) information on grantees who performed abortions under the exceptions, and (2) a list of entities to which grant funds are made available. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Ethical Stem Cell Research Tax Credit Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-136
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2013-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cell biology and embryology
Health promotion and preventive care
Income tax credits
Medical research

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: 
Ethical Stem Cell Research Tax Credit Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 30% of qualified stem cell research expenses paid or incurred in a taxable year. Defines &quot;qualified stem cell research expenses&quot; as expenses for carrying out basic and applied research to develop techniques for the isolation, derivation, production, testing, and human clinical use of stem cells that may result in improved understanding of or treatments for diseases and other adverse health conditions. Prohibits a tax credit for any research expenses that may involve: (1) the creation of a human embryo for research purposes; (2) the destruction of or discarding of, or risk of injury to, a human embryo; or (3) the use of any stem cell for prohibited purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate