hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Online Job Training Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-114
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2013-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: 
Online Job Training Act of 2013 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require the Secretary of Labor to award National Online Workforce Training Grants for workforce training programs using distance-learning technologies, such as the Internet. Requires such grants to be awarded on a competitive basis to educational institutions, community-based organizations, nonprofit organizations, state or local boards, or units of general local government that provide online workforce training. 
 
Directs the Secretary to award one grant to an eligible postsecondary educational institution to: (1) provide technical assistance to entities that receive grants, (2) collect and nationally disseminate the data gathered by entities that receive grants, and (3) disseminate best practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
School Building Enhancement Act

Bill: 113-hr-115
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2013-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Energy efficiency and conservation
Motor fuels

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: 
School Building Enhancement Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide grants to: (1) states and local educational agencies (LEAs) for providing intensive technical assistance for, and assisting the implementation of, the EnergySmart Schools Program of the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Energy Star for K-12 School Districts program of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); (2) LEAs that become partners through such Energy Star program; and (3) states for use in the development, in partnership with the Secretary of Energy, of state-level school energy efficiency quality plans.
 
Requires the Secretary of Education to give priority to projects to provide assistance to state and local educational agencies with a demonstrated need for energy efficiency improvement. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Medical Checklist Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-116
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2013-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Medical research

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: 
Medical Checklist Act of 2013 - Requires the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, acting through the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, to conduct a study on the development and efficacy of medical checklists, including: (1) the testing of different models of medical checklists, (2) an examination of checklist development and use in other industries, and (3) a measurement of the effects of the use of medical checklists on patient safety and health outcomes. Requires dissemination of the results of such study to patient safety organizations. Defines &quot;medical checklist&quot; as a predetermined, evidence-based, well-defined set of steps that should be completed during a designated medical clinical encounter or medical procedure. 
 
Requires the Health IT Policy Committee to develop policy recommendations regarding: (1) the extent to which the use of medical checklists should be incorporated into health information technology systems, and (2) measures to determine the effectiveness of such use.
 
Requires the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Engineering to conduct a study on medical checklists that includes: (1) a review of available medical checklists and similar quality improvement techniques, (2) an identification of areas of research needed to improve medical checklists, (3) an analysis of organizational impediments to the adoption and use of medical checklists, and (4) a determination of whether the availability of an increased number of medical checklists would improve patient safety and health outcomes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Handgun Licensing and Registration Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-117
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2013-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Firearms and explosives
Government information and archives
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: 
Handgun Licensing and Registration Act of 2013 - Amends the federal criminal code to direct the Attorney General to establish a federal system for the licensing and registration of all handguns in the United States, including a method for easily retrieving information sufficient to identify each resident of a state who owns, possesses, or controls a handgun and each such handgun.
 
Prohibits the ownership, possession, or control of a handgun in a state by a person who: (1) is not licensed under such system; and (2) has not registered the handgun with a federal, state, or local law enforcement agency. Provides for a fine and/or imprisonment not less than 15 years for violations. Prohibits the court from suspending a sentence of imprisonment or imposing a probationary sentence for anyone who knowingly violates such prohibition.
 
Exempts states the Attorney General certifies have in effect such a licensing and registration system that imposes criminal penalties on anyone who owns, possesses, or controls a handgun and who: (1) has not completed training in firearms safety; (2) is not licensed by the state to possess a handgun; or (3) has not registered the handgun with a federal, state, or local law enforcement agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
National STEM Education Tax Incentive for Teachers Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-118
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2013-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Income tax credits
Science and engineering education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: 
National STEM Education Tax Incentive for Teachers Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain full-time elementary and secondary school teachers of math, science, engineering, or technology courses a refundable tax credit for 10% of their undergraduate tuition up to $1,000 in any taxable year. Increases such credit amount to $1,500 for teachers in schools serving disadvantaged children. Terminates such credit after the 10th taxable year for which such credit is allowed. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the credit for increasing research activities.

Bill: 113-hr-119
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2013-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the tax credit for increasing research activities permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Create Jobs by Expanding the R&D Tax Credit Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-120
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2013-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Research and development
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: 
Create Jobs by Expanding the R&D Tax Credit Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the rate of the tax credit for increasing research activities in 2013 and 2014, (2) extend such tax credit through 2014, and (3) allow certain small business concerns to assign research tax credit amounts in 2013 and 2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 5-year reinstatement of the real property standard deduction and to adjust such deduction for inflation.

Bill: 113-hr-121
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2013-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Inflation and prices
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) reinstate in 2013 and extend through 2017 the additional deduction for real property taxes in the standard tax deduction, and (2) allow an annual inflation adjustment to the allowable amount of the standard tax deduction. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Creating Jobs From Innovative Small Businesses Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-122
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2013-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Financial services and investments
Income tax credits
Research and development
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: 
Creating Jobs From Innovative Small Businesses Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a general business tax credit of 20% of the amount paid to acquire an equity investment in a qualified high technology small business concern. Defines "qualified high technology small business concern" as a small business concern that employs an average of fewer than 500 employees during a year and devotes at least 50% of its gross expenditures to research and experimentation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Water Advanced Technologies for Efficient Resource Use Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-123
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2013-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Public contracts and procurement
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: 
Water Advanced Technologies for Efficient Resource Use Act of 2013 - Establishes within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a WaterSense program to identify and promote water efficient products, buildings and landscapes, and services to reduce water use, conserve energy, and preserve water resources. Sets forth the duties of the EPA Administrator for promoting, publicizing, and administering the WaterSense program.
 
Requires federal agencies to purchase WaterSense products or services or a Federal Energy Management Program designated product through their procurement process. 
 
Establishes a program to provide financial incentives for consumer purchase and installation of residential water efficient products and services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
To redesignate the Department of the Navy as the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps.

Bill: 113-hr-124
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2013-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
Military command and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: 
Redesignates: (1) the Department of the Navy as the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps, and (2) the Secretary of the Navy as the Secretary of the Navy and Marine Corps. Makes similar redesignations with respect to the Department Under Secretary, the Department Assistant Secretaries, and the General Counsel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Congressional Oversight of Afghanistan Agreements Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-125
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2013-01-03 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Afghanistan
Asia
Congressional oversight
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Military operations and strategy

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: 
Congressional Oversight of Afghanistan Agreements Act of 2013 - Directs the Legal Advisor to the Secretary of State to submit to Congress an unclassified report providing the justification for the President's decision to deny Congress its constitutionally protected role by concluding an agreement on the future of the security relationship between the United States and Afghanistan as an executive agreement.
 
 Requires such report to include a legal analysis of the constitutional powers asserted by the President in concluding that such an agreement does not require congressional approval.
 
 Expresses the sense of Congress that any bilateral agreement between the United States and Afghanistan involving commitments or risks affecting the nation as a whole, including a Bilateral Security Agreement, that is not a treaty approved by two-thirds of the Senate under Article II of the Constitution or authorized by legislation does not have the force of law. 
 
Prohibits funds from being authorized or appropriated to carry out any bilateral agreement between the United States and Afghanistan involving commitments or risks affecting the nation as a whole, including a Bilateral Security Agreement, that is not a treaty approved by two-thirds of the Senate under Article II of the Constitution or authorized by legislation passed by both houses of Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
To restore the Free Speech and First Amendment rights of churches and exempt organizations by repealing the 1954 Johnson Amendment.

Bill: 113-hr-127
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2013-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
First Amendment rights
Religion
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the prohibition against churches and other tax-exempt organizations participating in political campaigns or supporting or opposing candidates for public office. Provides that this repeal shall not invalidate or limit any provision of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Fairness in Political Advertising Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-128
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2013-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Political advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: 
Fairness in Political Advertising Act of 2013 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require each licensee for a television broadcasting station to make available free broadcast time in each even-numbered year for political advertising. Provides standards for time allotment, including total time to be allotted, the length of each unit of such free time, the hours of the day and the time of the year in which such free time must be allowed, a limitation on such free time, and the use of such free time. Requires candidates meeting certain minimum qualifying standards to be treated equally for purposes of such allotment.
 
Provides that nothing in this Act shall restrict a candidate's right to purchase other broadcast time on such station. 
 
Requires a cable operator to make available annually free cable time for political advertising under similar requirements. 
 
Prohibits the renewal of the license of any television broadcast station licensee, or the franchise of any cable operator, that fails to comply with such requirements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Return to Prudent Banking Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-129
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2013-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Corporate finance and management
Department of the Treasury
Federal Reserve System
Federal appellate courts
Federal district courts
Financial services and investments
Securities
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: 
Return to Prudent Banking Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) to prohibit an insured depository institution from being an affiliate of any broker or dealer, investment adviser, investment company, or any other person or entity engaged principally in the issue, flotation, underwriting, public sale, or distribution of stocks, bonds, debentures, notes, or other securities.
 
Prohibits officers, directors and employees of securities firms from simultaneous service on the boards of depository institutions, except in specified circumstances.
 
Requires any such individual serving as an officer, director, employee, or other institution-affiliated party of any insured depository institution to terminate such service as soon as practicable after enactment of this Act. Requires an insured depository institution to wind-down in an orderly manner and terminate any affiliation prohibited by this Act. 
 
Amends the Banking Act of 1933 (Glass-Steagall Act) to expand its prohibition against the transaction of banking activities by securities firms.
 
Declares that Congress ratifies the interpretation by the Supreme Court of specified statutory language in the case of 
Investment Company Institute v. Camp
 (
ICI
) regarding permissible activities of banks and securities firms. 
 
Declares that the reasoning of the Court in that case shall continue to apply to the limitations placed upon security affiliations under the FDIA as enacted by this Act. Prohibits a federal banking agency or federal court from issuing an interpretation regarding such security affiliations that is narrower than that of the Court in 
ICI
.
 
Makes technical and conforming changes to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Revised Statutes of the United States, and specified federal law.
 
Requires the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Comptroller of the Currency, or another appropriate federal banking agency to report to Congress a detailed description of the basis for its decision each time it makes a determination or grants an extension concerning an affiliation between insured depository institutions and investment banks or securities firms.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Democratizing the Federal Reserve System Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-130
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2013-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Congressional oversight
Congressional-executive branch relations
Federal Reserve System
Federal officials

Summary:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: 
Democratizing the Federal Reserve System Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Reserve Act to reduce from 14 years to 7 years the term of office of the members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
 
Increases from two years to four years the post-service restriction which renders Board members ineligible to hold any office, position, or employment in any member bank.
 
Revises the terms for ongoing service on the Board with respect to its Chairman and Vice Chairman.
 
Requires the Speaker and the minority leader of the House of Representatives, the majority leader and minority leader of the Senate, and specified committee chairpersons and ranking members to create jointly a list of five candidates in rank order to present to the President for consideration for a Board vacancy if the President has not made a nomination to fill it within a specified time period.
 
Requires the President, no later than 30 days after the transmittal of such list, to nominate a person to fill the vacancy, whether from such list or another person. 
 
Increases the membership of the Federal Open Market Committee from five to six members. Revises the distribution of Federal Open Market Committee membership.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Introduced in House