hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Duckwater Shoshone Land Conveyance Act

Bill: 113-hr-5608
Sponsor: Rep. Horsford, Steven [D-NV-4]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Gambling
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Nevada

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Duckwater Shoshone Land Conveyance Act - Requires that approximately 25,977 acres of land in Nevada administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) be held in trust for the benefit of the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe as part of the Tribe's reservation.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to complete a survey of the boundary lines to establish the boundaries of the land taken into trust.
 
Prohibits class II or class III gaming on such land.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-10-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Vessel Incidental Discharge Act

Bill: 113-hr-5609
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan D. [R-CA-50]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Aquatic ecology
Coast guard
Department of Homeland Security
Environmental regulatory procedures
Environmental technology
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Licensing and registrations
Marine and inland water transportation
Marine pollution
Technology assessment
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Vessel Incidental Discharge Act - Sets forth provisions concerning standards for waste water discharges incidental to the normal operation of a vessel, including discharges of ballast water (water taken into the ship's ballast to maintain stability). 
 
Requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish and implement enforceable uniform national standards for the regulation of discharges from vessels into navigable waters and best management practices for discharges other than ballast water.
 
Sets as the national standard the Coast Guard's 2012 "Standards for Living Organisms in Ships' Ballast Water Discharged in U.S. Waters." Requires DHS to revise the ballast water performance standard so that those discharges will contain less than specified concentrations of living organisms, indicator microbes, and viruses if DHS finds that the standard would be feasible. 
 
Requires ballast water treatment technology to be certified by DHS. Prohibits DHS from certifying a technology that uses certain biocides (substances or organisms introduced into or produced by the technology to reduce or eliminate aquatic nuisance species). 
 
Sets forth exemptions from permit requirements, prohibitions of any other law, and discharge standards under this Act for specified discharges and vessels. 
 
Authorizes DHS to establish alternative programs for compliance with ballast water discharge regulations for specified vessels. Directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate standards for the reception of ballast water from a vessel into a reception facility and the disposal or treatment of the ballast water.
 
Establishes this Act as the exclusive statutory authority for federal regulation of discharges incidental to the normal operation of a vessel to which this Act applies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5610
Sponsor: Rep. Hurt, Robert [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 2014 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ensure individuals who enter personal information on a health exchange website can remove their information from the website if they decide not to apply for health care coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Public School Emergency Relief Act

Bill: 113-hr-5611
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Immigrant health and welfare
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Public School Emergency Relief Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to provide emergency impact aid payments to states and, through them, to local educational agencies and Indian schools for each quarter of the 2014-2015 school year for any increase in the enrollment of immigrant children from the corresponding quarter of the 2012-2013 school year.
 
Requires the payments to be used to provide services and assistance to schools that enroll immigrant students. 
 
Authorizes the funds to be used for:
 
 
compensating school personnel,
 
identifying and acquiring curricular material and mobile educational units and leasing sites or spaces,
 
basic instructional services for immigrant students,
 
reasonable transportation costs,
 
health and counseling services,
 
education and support services, and
 
other uses allowed under title III (Language Instruction for Limited English Proficient and Immigrant Students) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
 
 
Requires any payment made on behalf of a disabled immigrant student to be used for special education and related services.
 
Prohibits the use of the emergency impact aid for any expenses that are not incurred during the 2014-2015 school year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
TEST Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5612
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Language arts
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Tackling Excessive Standardized Testing Act of 2014 or the TEST Act of 2014 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to alter the frequency with which students must take the tests used in determining whether they are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic achievement standards in mathematics and reading or language arts. (Currently, students must take those tests in each of grades 3 through 8.) Authorizes a public school to administer the academic assessments in mathematics: (1) in each of grades 4, 6, and 8; or (2) in each of grades 4 and 8 if the school is at the 15th percentile or above for mathematics in the state or its students are making appropriate progress, as determined by the Secretary of Education, toward state mathematics achievement standards. Authorizes a public school to administer the academic assessments in reading or language arts: (1) in each of grades 3, 5, and 7; or (2) in each of grades 3 and 7 if the school is at the 15th percentile or above for reading or language arts or its students are making appropriate progress toward state reading or language arts achievement standards.
 
Excludes limited English proficient students who are in their first 12 months of enrollment in a public school from the determination as to whether students are making AYP toward state academic achievement standards.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from waiving the application of any of this Act's provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Our Kids' Medicine Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5613
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child health
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Protecting Our Kids' Medicine Act of 2014 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the sale of liquid formulations of over-the-counter drugs that are not packaged with a dosage delivery device, such as a calibrated cup or spoon, and that do not have measurements on the label and on the dosage delivery device exclusively in metric units. Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to waive the requirement for metric units if that requirement would not benefit public health.
 Prohibits the sale of over-the-counter liquid drugs labeled for pediatric use that do not have a flow restrictor or another mechanism to reduce accidental ingestion.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
United States Anti-Doping Agency Reauthorization Act

Bill: 113-hr-5614
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Bill [R-OH-6]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Athletes
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Olympic games

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
United States Anti-Doping Agency Reauthorization Act - Amends the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2006 to: (1) authorize appropriations for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for FY2014-FY2020, (2) require that the Agency be recognized worldwide as the independent national anti-doping organization for the United States, and (3) replace the Agency's role in preventing the use by U.S. amateur athletes of performance-enhancing genetic modifications accomplished through gene doping with a role in preventing the use of prohibited performance-enhancing methods adopted by the Agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Tax Equalization and Compliance Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5615
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment taxes
Income tax credits
Self-employed
Small business
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Small Business Tax Equalization and Compliance Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the tax credit for social security taxes paid for employee cash tips to employers of cosmetologists. 
 
Requires employers of cosmetologists to report income and tips of their cosmetology employees and to provide income and tip information to self-employed cosmetologists to whom they pay more than $600 in the taxable year. Imposes similar reporting requirements upon individuals who rent chairs to cosmetologists. Requires such employers to provide their cosmetology employees and self-employed cosmetologists with information on the tax and tip reporting obligations of employees and self-employed individuals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Urban Agriculture Production Act

Bill: 113-hr-5616
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural practices and innovations
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Agricultural research
Animal and plant health
Congressional oversight
Department of Agriculture
Executive agency funding and structure
Farmland
Food assistance and relief
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Performance measurement
Pest management
Poverty and welfare assistance
Research administration and funding
Travel and tourism
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Urban Agriculture Production Act - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish an urban agriculture outreach program to award grants to eligible entities for: (1) infrastructure, (2) land acquisition and conversion, (3) education and training, (4) assistance to farmers or ranchers in urban areas, and (5) other activities that support urban agricultural production. 
 
Defines &quot;eligible entities&quot; to include a community organization, a nonprofit organization, a municipality, a local educational agency, an institution of higher education, or other entity determined by the USDA. Requires the USDA to give preference to grants for activities in historically underserved communities. 
 
Amends the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 to expand the purpose and duties of the USDA Office of Advocacy and Outreach to include activities on behalf of urban farmers or ranchers. 
 
Requires the USDA to award grants for scientific research on promoting and enhancing agricultural production in urban areas.
 
Amends the Farmer-to-Consumer Direct Marketing Act of 1976 to expand the Farmer's Market Promotion Program by adding loans and loan guarantees, expanding assistance for development of local food business enterprises, requiring that priority be given to grants that benefit urban areas, and providing additional funding. 
 
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend the Seniors Farmers' Market Nutrition Program and provide additional funding. 
 
Amends the Census of Agriculture Act of 1997 to require additional USDA reporting on farmers markets and agricultural production in urban areas. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Copyright and Marriage Equality Act

Bill: 113-hr-5617
Sponsor: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
Intellectual property
Intergovernmental relations
Marriage and family status
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Copyright and Marriage Equality Act - Amends federal copyright law to revise the definition of &quot;widow&quot; or &quot;widower&quot; for purposes of provisions concerning the transfer of a copyright to an author's spouse or other next of kin following the author's death. Declares that an individual is the widow or widower of an author if the courts of the state in which the individual and the author were married (or, if the individual and the author were not married in any state but were validly married in another jurisdiction, the courts of any state) would find that the individual and the author were validly married at the time of the author's death. (Currently, only the author's surviving spouse under the law of the author's domicile at the time of death is considered a widow.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
LEO Fair Retirement Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5619
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-2]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Law enforcement officers

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
LEO Fair Retirement Act of 2014 - Provides that for purposes of computing the annuity of a federal law enforcement employee under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS), the law enforcement availability pay and administratively uncontrollable overtime pay earned by such employee in excess of limitations imposed on such pay shall be included in the average pay of such employee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
First Responder Anthrax Preparedness Act

Bill: 113-hr-5620
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-2]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Chemical and biological weapons
Emergency medical services and trauma care
First responders and emergency personnel
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Immunology and vaccination
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
First Responder Anthrax Preparedness Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), for the purpose of domestic preparedness for and collective response to terrorism, to: (1) make available surplus vaccines and antimicrobials, and vaccines and antimicrobials with short shelf lives, from the strategic national stockpile for administration to emergency response providers who voluntarily consent to such administration; (2) establish any necessary logistical and tracking systems to facilitate making such vaccines and antimicrobials available; and (3) distribute disclosures regarding associated risks to end users.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct an 18-month pilot program to administer such vaccines and antimicrobials to emergency response providers, (2) select providers based in at least two states to participate in the program, and (3) provide to each participating provider disclosures and educational materials regarding the risks of any vaccine or antimicrobial administered and of exposure to anthrax.
 
Requires the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis to: (1) support homeland security-focused risk analysis and assessments of the threats posed by anthrax from an act of terror; (2) leverage homeland security intelligence capabilities and structures to enhance prevention, protection, response, and recovery efforts with respect to an anthrax terror attack; and (3) share information and provide tailored analytical support on threats posed by anthrax to state, local, and tribal authorities, as well as other national biosecurity and biodefense stakeholders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications.
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Transit Accessibility Innovation Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5621
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Disability and paralysis
Public participation and lobbying
Public transit
Regional and metropolitan planning
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Transit Accessibility Innovation Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to implement a transit accessibility innovation program by distributing competitive discretionary grants to public transit agencies for eligible projects in order to encourage public transit systems to take action to address deficiencies in service for individuals with disabilities.
 
Directs the Secretary, for each fiscal year, to use 2% of funds made available under this Act to carry out activities to ensure that innovative practices, program models, and new service delivery options are collected, reviewed, and disseminated to other public transit agencies for replication in other communities.
 
Directs the Secretary, for each fiscal year, also to use certain funds to carry out a transportation promotion pilot program to ensure that: (1) public transit agencies fulfill their requirements under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), and (2) individuals with disabilities have advocates to ensure greater opportunities for integration and access into transit systems.
 
Requires the Secretary to make grants to: (1) agencies implementing a system established under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 that have demonstrated histories of transportation expertise or advocacy, and (2) nonprofit organizations that have also demonstrated such histories.
 
Increases from 10% to 15% the limitation on the use of a recipient's annual formula apportionment for provision of nonfixed route paratransit transportation services in accordance with the ADA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act

Bill: 113-hr-5622
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Fires
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) 100% expensing in a current taxable year of the cost of automated fire sprinkler system retrofit property, as defined by this Act; and (2) accelerated depreciation (i.e., a 15-year recovery period) of automated fire sprinkler system retrofit property that is installed in a building or structure where the floor of any occupiable story is greater than 75 feet above the lowest level of fire department vehicle access and that has a certain classification by the National Fire Protection Association. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House