hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Wi-Fi Innovation Act

Bill: 113-s-2505
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2014-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Elementary and secondary education
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Government studies and investigations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Licensing and registrations
Poverty and welfare assistance
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: 
Wi-Fi Innovation Act - Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to provide additional unlicensed spectrum in the 5850-5925 megahertz band under technical rules suitable for the widespread commercial development of unlicensed operations. 
 
Provides for such technical rules to permit outdoor unlicensed operations without requiring devices to dynamically detect signals from other systems. 
 
Directs the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology to seek public comments on proposals for interference-mitigation techniques and potential rechannelization that would accommodate both incumbent licensees and widespread commercial unlicensed operations in such band. 
 
Sets forth a process for the FCC to test mitigation measures and methods of sharing spectrum with unlicensed devices within such band in a manner that would not cause harmful interference to incumbent licensees.
 
Directs the FCC, if it determines that existing licensees would not be harmed by interference, to modify regulations to adopt technical rules for widespread commercial deployment of unlicensed operations for such band. Prohibits modification of such regulations if the FCC determines that mitigation, rechannelization, or sharing would not prevent harmful interference. Requires the FCC to notify Congress, the Department of Transportation (DOT), and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of a harmful interference determination.
 
Requires the FCC to modify regulations relating to Intelligent Transportation Systems radio service and dedicated short-range communications service on-board units if such modification would maximize utility of such band while protecting existing licensees. 
 
Directs the FCC to make recommendations to Congress regarding the availability of broadband Internet access using unlicensed spectrum and wireless networks in low income neighborhoods. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
CREATE Graduates Act

Bill: 113-s-2506
Sponsor: Sen. Hagan, Kay R. [D-NC]
Introduced: 2014-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Higher education
School administration
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: 
Correctly Recognizing Educational Achievements To Empower Graduates Act or the CREATE Graduates Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states and, through them, subgrants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) or systems of higher education to:
 
 
identify current or former students who have earned at least 60 postsecondary credit hours (or the state-required minimum for earning an associate's degree) at the IHE or at an IHE within the system but have not been issued a postsecondary degree by such IHE or an associate's or bachelor's degree elsewhere;
 
perform a degree audit on each of those students to identify those who are eligible to obtain an associate's degree and those who are eligible to obtain such a degree upon the completion of 12 or fewer postsecondary credit hours (or the equivalent);
 
provide outreach and award an associate's degree to each of those students identified as eligible to obtain an associate's degree unless the student declines the degree; and
 
provide outreach to those students identified as eligible to obtain such a degree upon the completion of 12 or fewer postsecondary credit hours, including guidance on the steps they can take to attain such a degree.
 
 
Allows states to use up to: (1) 15% of their grant for administrative purposes, including the purchase of the technology to carry out grant requirements; and (2) 5% of their grant to create articulation agreements between 2-year and 4-year IHEs to facilitate the transfer of students between such schools.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
United States Cadet Nurse Corps Equity Act

Bill: 113-s-2507
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2014-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health personnel
Military medicine
Nursing
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: United States Cadet Nurse Corps Equity Act - Deems service of a person as a member of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps between July 1, 1943, and December 15, 1945 (qualified service) to be active military service for purposes of all laws administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). 
Requires: (1) the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to issue an honorable discharge to each person whose qualified service warrants one, and (2) the discharge to be issued within one year after enactment of this Act. 
Prohibits benefits from being paid to persons as a result of the enactment of this Act for any period before this Act's enactment date.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Guantanamo Bay Detainee Transfer Suspension Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2510
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2014-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Caribbean area
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Cuba
Detention of persons
Latin America
Middle East
Military facilities and property
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Qatar
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: 
Guantanamo Bay Detainee Transfer Suspension Act of 2014 - Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds to transfer or release any covered detainee at the U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Guantanamo) to the custody or control of such individual's country of origin, any other foreign country, or any other foreign entity until the earlier of 90 days after the submittal to Congress of a report required by this Act or 180 days after this Act's enactment, except pursuant to an order issued by a court or competent tribunal of the United States having lawful jurisdiction.
 
Makes a U.S. officer or employee liable in his or her individual capacity for a civil penalty of $10,000 for each covered detainee transferred or released in violation of such prohibition. Prohibits the U.S. government from providing representation to, or retaining or reimbursing private counsel for the representation of, such officer or employee.
 
Authorizes a person to bring a civil action for a violation of such prohibition in the name of the government, subject to specified requirements.
 
Requires the Secretary to submit a report regarding the risk that the five detainees transferred from Guantanamo to Qatar on May 31, 2014, would reengage in terrorist activity after transfer.
 
Prohibits the transfer or release of a covered detainee from Guantanamo to a foreign country without the President's express written authorization.
 
Defines a "covered detainee" as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who: (1) is not a U.S. citizen or a member of the U.S. Armed Forces; (2) is or was held on January 20, 2009, at Guantanamo by the Department of Defense (DOD); and (3) is held as of the date of enactment of this Act at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by DOD.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Emergency Interstate Bridge Safety Fund Act

Bill: 113-s-2512
Sponsor: Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY]
Introduced: 2014-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government trust funds
Labor standards
Public contracts and procurement
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: 
Emergency Interstate Bridge Safety Fund Act - Repeals the Davis-Bacon Act (which requires that the locally prevailing wage rate be paid to various classes of laborers and mechanics working under federally-financed or federally-assisted contracts for construction, alteration, and repair of public buildings or public works).
 
Establishes in the Treasury an Emergency Interstate Bridge Safety Fund.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer to the Fund regularly amounts equal to the savings achieved through this repeal from the capital budgets of each affected federal agency.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to compile a prioritized list of emergency interstate bridge projects on the federal-aid highway system meeting specified criteria (e.g., the bridge is deemed functionally obsolete). Authorizes the obligation of Fund amounts for such projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3899)
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3899)
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Advancing Competency-Based Education Demonstration Project Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2513
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2014-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Education
Education programs funding
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: 
Advancing Competency-Based Education Demonstration Project Act of 2014 - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to select up to 15 institutions of higher education (IHEs), systems of IHEs, or consortia of IHEs to participate in a competency-based education demonstration project that provides participants with the ability to offer competency-based education that does not meet certain statutory and regulatory requirements that would otherwise prevent them from participating in federal student aid programs.
 
Defines "competency-based education" as an educational process that is characterized by the direct measurement of student learning instead of, or in addition to, measuring students' credit or clock hours.
 
Deems IHEs to be eligible to participate in the project if they are eligible to participate in title IV programs and are not proprietary or foreign IHEs.
 
Requires project applicants to provide the Secretary with a description of the statutory and regulatory requirements they would like waived and the reasons for seeking each waiver.
 
Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences, to: (1) develop performance measures to be used by project participants in gauging their progress, (2) evaluate the implementation and impact of project activities, and (3) identify promising competency-based education practices and disseminate research on such practices. 
 
Requires the Secretary to conduct an annual evaluation of the competency-based education program offered by each demonstration project participant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
ORDEAL Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2514
Sponsor: Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2014-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: 
Ozone Regulatory Delay and Extension of Assessment Length Act of 2014 or the ORDEAL Act of 2014 - Amends the Clean Air Act to lengthen from 5 years to 10 years the intervals at which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is required to review and revise air quality criteria and primary and secondary national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). Eliminates the EPA's authority to review and revise criteria or promulgate new standards for ozone concentrations earlier or more frequently than required. Prohibits the EPA from reviewing and revising NAAQS for ozone concentrations before February 1, 2018. Requires the EPA to complete a thorough review of the standards and make revisions not later December 31, 2018.
 
Lengthens from 5 years to 10 years the intervals at which an independent scientific review committee is required to review air quality criteria and NAAQS and recommend any new standards or revisions to existing criteria and standards. Delays the review by an independent scientific review committee of NAAQS for ozone concentrations until February 1, 2018. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
action_date: 2014-06-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3900-3901)
Community Integration Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2515
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2014-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Home and outpatient care
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Housing supply and affordability
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: 
Community Integration Act of 2014 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require state Medicaid plans to give an individual with disabilities needing the level of care provided in an institutional setting the choice and opportunity to receive such care in a home and community-based setting, including rehabilitative services, assistance and support in accomplishing activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living, and health-related tasks, and assistance in acquiring, maintaining, or enhancing skills necessary to accomplish such activities, tasks, or services.
 
Prescribes requirements for providing in home and community-based settings those services such an individual would otherwise receive in an institutional setting, such as a nursing facility, intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded, institution for mental disease, or other similarly restrictive or institutional setting.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3940-3941)
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
DISCLOSE Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2516
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2014-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Business records
Congressional elections
Corporate finance and management
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
Labor-management relations
Political advertising
Political parties and affiliation
Public participation and lobbying
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: 
Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections Act of 2014 or the DISCLOSE Act of 2014 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) to redefine the term "independent expenditure" as an expenditure by a person that, when taken as a whole, expressly advocates the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, or is the functional equivalent of express advocacy because it can be interpreted by a reasonable person only as advocating the election or defeat of a candidate, taking into account whether the communication involved mentions a candidacy, a political party, or a challenger to a candidate, or takes a position on a candidate's character, qualifications, or fitness for office.
 
Expands the period during which certain communications are treated as electioneering communications.
 
Prescribes disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, and certain other entities, including a political committee with an account established for the purpose of accepting donations or contributions that do not comply with the contribution limits or source prohibitions under FECA (but only with respect to such accounts).
 
Repeals the prohibition against political contributions by individuals age 17 or younger.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Committee on Rules and Administration. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-610.
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Holding the IRS Leadership Accountable Act

Bill: 113-s-2517
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2014-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of the Treasury
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Performance measurement
Political movements and philosophies
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: 
Holding the IRS Leadership Accountable Act - Prohibits the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from providing any performance awards, including bonuses, step increases, and leave time, to IRS senior-level executives until such time as the Inspector General for Tax Administration of the Department of the Treasury certifies that the IRS has provided all documents, including all electronic communications, requested by the congressional committees investigating the targeting of certain taxpayers who applied for tax-exempt status as a social welfare organization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the James L. Oberstar Memorial Highway and the James L. Oberstar National Scenic Byway in the State of Minnesota.

Bill: 113-s-2522
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2014-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Congressional tributes
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Minnesota
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: 
Designates: (1) the segment of Interstate Route 35 between milepost 133 at Forest Lake, Minnesota, and milepost 259 at Duluth, Minnesota, as the &quot;James L. Oberstar Memorial Highway&quot;; and (2) the segment of U.S. Route 61 between milepost 0 at Duluth, Minnesota, and milepost 150 at Grand Portage, Minnesota, as the &quot;James L. Oberstar National Scenic Byway.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14 3rd Avenue, NW., in Chisholm, Minnesota, as the "James L. Oberstar Memorial Post Office Building".

Bill: 113-s-2523
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2014-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Minnesota
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14 3rd Avenue, NW, in Chisholm, Minnesota, as the "James L. Oberstar Memorial Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-12-04
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2014-12-04
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6305-6306; text as passed Senate: CR S6306)
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S6305-6306; text as passed Senate: CR S6306)
action_date: 2014-11-13
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 584.
action_date: 2014-11-13
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Carper without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2014-11-13
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Carper without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2014-11-12
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Pathways to Prosperity Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2524
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2014-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Census and government statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Personnel records
Vocational and technical education
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: 
Pathways to Prosperity Act of 2014 - Amends the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act to replace specified minimum measures of student attainment in the core indicators of performance for career and technical education students at the secondary level with a measure of the median earnings of students employed during the second quarter after completing a career and technical education program of study in the state.
 
Requires the national research center, established under the Act, to engage in evaluation and technical assistance activities that will assist in: (1) collecting information on the industry-recognized credentials awarded to participants in career and technical education programs, and (2) developing the necessary infrastructure to support the state and local reporting of specified related information.
 
Makes it a responsibility of the state agency involved to establish statewide credit transfer agreements aligned to approved career and technical education programs of study.
 
Requires each local plan for career and technical education programs to describe how the eligible recipient of assistance will partner with business and industry to: (1) identify opportunities for experiential and work-based learning opportunities either in-person or virtually, (2) ensure the career and technical education programs of study are responsive to community and employment demands and meet other specified criteria, and (3) ensure funding under the Act is spent in a coordinated manner with other local resources.
 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to revise the purpose of grants for demonstration projects of innovative practices to require the projects to show the most promise of enabling the children served to meet rigorous, state-identified college and career readiness standards that address both certain academic content and certain career and technical education content.
 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate