hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Cyber Information Sharing Tax Credit Act

Bill: 113-s-2717
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business expenses
Computer security and identity theft
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Cyber Information Sharing Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable tax credit for qualified Information Sharing and Analysis Organization costs (defined as the sum of dues for membership in the Organization, personnel participation costs, product and service costs directly related to the sharing of information with the Organization, and other amounts [not including amounts for travel] relating to participation in activities of the Organization).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Manufacturing Universities Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2719
Sponsor: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Higher education
Manufacturing
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Science and engineering education
Small business
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Manufacturing Universities Act of 2014 - Authorizes the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to establish a program to designate up to 25 institutions of higher education as U.S. manufacturing universities that are to be awarded funds over a four-year period.
 
Requires an institution applying for such program to submit a plan describing its engineering programs, its relationship to manufacturing industries, and its ability to positively impact local and regional economic development. 
 
Requires NIST to recommend adaptations to certain Small Business Act programs to assist small businesses that collaborate with such universities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
ROAD Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2720
Sponsor: Sen. Hagan, Kay R. [D-NC]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: North Carolina
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Route to Opportunity And Development Act of 2014 or the ROAD Act of 2014 - Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, as amended, to revise the high priority Raleigh-Norfolk Corridor of the National Highway System between Raleigh, North Carolina, and Norfolk, Virginia, to include Rocky Mount, Williamston, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Natural Gas Long Haul Truck Competitiveness Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2721
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Motor carriers
Motor fuels
Oil and gas
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Natural Gas Long Haul Truck Competitiveness Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to issue regulations to allow natural gas vehicles to exceed any federal weight limitations to operate on the Interstate Highway System by an amount equal to the difference between the weight of the vehicle attributable to the natural gas tank and fueling system and the weight of a comparable diesel tank and fueling system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Our Infants Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2722
Sponsor: Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Congressional oversight
Drug therapy
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Hereditary and development disorders
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Prescription drugs
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Protecting Our Infants Act of 2014 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to study maternal opiate abuse and neonatal abstinence syndrome, identify gaps in evidence-informed recommendations for health care professionals and facilities regarding neonatal abstinence syndrome, and identify priority areas for additional research.
 
Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to assist states in collecting data on neonatal abstinence syndrome, including incidence, causes, and demographics.
 Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to evaluate the effectiveness of federal activities regarding substance abuse treatment for pregnant women and their children.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5221-5222)
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Housing for Homeless Students Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2723
Sponsor: Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Income tax credits
Low- and moderate-income housing
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Housing for Homeless Students Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify low-income building units that provide housing for full-time students who were homeless youth or homeless veterans during a five-year period prior to occupying a low-income housing unit for the low-income housing tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Incentivize Growth Now In Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2724
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Incentivize Growth Now In Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish tax-exempt small business start-up accounts to allow businesses that employ 50 or fewer full-time employees to make distributions for operating capital, the purchase of equipment or facilities, marketing, training, incorporation, and accounting fees. Allows a tax deduction from gross income for contributions to such accounts, limited by the taxpayer's adjusted gross income. Limits the annual amount that may be contributed to such accounts to the lesser of $10,000, or the compensation that is includible in the taxpayer's gross income. 
 
Sets forth reporting requirements for the trustee of a small business start-up account. 
 
Makes the tax penalties for prohibited transactions and excess contributions applicable to such accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Captive Insurers Clarification Act

Bill: 113-s-2726
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Insurance industry and regulation
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Captive Insurers Clarification Act - Amends the Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010 to define &quot;captive insurance company&quot; as an insurance company wholly owned directly or indirectly: (1) by a single parent company and whose primary purpose is to insure the risks of that single parent company or its affiliates; (2) by a group of companies and whose primary purpose is to insure the risks of that group or its affiliates; and (3) by an industry, trade, or service group or association, and whose primary purpose is to insure the risks of any member in that group or association, including any member affiliate.
 
Excludes a captive insurance company from the meaning of a &quot;nonadmitted insurer&quot; (that is not licensed to engage in the business of insurance in a state), and from any requirements (including state tax requirements) applying to a nonadmitted insurer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5222)
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Private Landowner Protection Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2729
Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Commerce
Department of the Interior
Economic performance and conditions
Electric power generation and transmission
Endangered and threatened species
Land use and conservation
State and local finance
Unemployment
Water use and supply
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Private Landowner Protection Act of 2014 - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require the Department of the Interior or the Department of Commerce through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to exclude an area from designation as a critical habitat to conserve an endangered or threatened species if the benefits of exclusion outweigh the benefits of including the area, unless the failure to designate the area as critical habitat will result in the extinction of the species.
 
Requires the appropriate department to make available for public comment with any proposed rule to designate a critical habitat an analysis that: (1) examines the economic effects of all actions that are related to a critical habitat designation or the protection of the species, (2) is quantitative and qualitative, and (3) examines the incremental effects of the critical habitat designation and the cumulative economic effects of both the critical habitat designation and the listing determination.
 
Prohibits the analysis from effecting the determination to list a species.
 
Applies the requirements to any critical habitat designation proposed or promulgated on or after October 30, 2013. Requires any designation finalized on or after that date to be reopened for analysis within 30 days of this Act's enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the application of Medicare secondary payer rules to certain workers' compensation settlement agreements and qualified Medicare set-aside provisions.

Bill: 113-s-2731
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability assistance
Employee benefits and pensions
Judicial review and appeals
Medicare
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) create an exception to Medicare secondary payer requirements for certain workers' compensation settlement agreements, and (2) provide for the satisfaction of such requirements through use of qualified Medicare set-asides under such agreements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Examination and Reporting Threshold Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2732
Sponsor: Sen. Toomey, Patrick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Examination and Reporting Threshold Act of 2014 - Amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to raise the examination threshold that brings an insured depository institution or insured credit union within its supervisory purview from assets of $10 billion or more to assets of $50 billion or more.
 
Increases from assets of $10 billion or less to assets of $50 billion or less the size of an insured depository institution or insured credit union that is subject to the Act's reporting requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Obamacare Opt-Out Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2733
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Obamacare Opt-Out Act of 2014 - Exempts from the minimum essential coverage requirements under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act individuals who request an exemption through a health care marketplace or on their federal income tax return. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Oregon and California Land Grant Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2734
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Dams and canals
Ecology
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Government studies and investigations
Income tax rates
Indian lands and resources rights
Lakes and rivers
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
Oregon
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Railroads
Water storage
Water use and supply
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
 Oregon and California Land Grant Act of 2014 - Directs the U.S. International Trade Commission to report to Congress on competition in the trade of wood and related products. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to adjust and make permanent the special tax rate for corporations with timber gains. 
 
 Amends the Act of August 28, 1937, to require any part of the revested Oregon and California Railroad or the reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior to be managed pursuant to this Act.
 
 Requires covered lands to be managed for the provision of a permanent forest production, protection of watersheds and regulation of stream flow, economic stability, and the provision of recreational facilities. 
 
Establishes restrictions on the cutting, removal, and commercial sale of old growth trees within covered areas. 
 
Requires Interior to carry out an aquatic conservation strategy and establish riparian buffers to protect natural ecological functions and processes. Specifies buffers and sets forth prohibited and permitted forest management activities in specified areas. 
Requires Interior to develop landscape prioritization plans and sets forth procedures for environmental impact statements and judicial review. 
 
Establishes requirements for timber harvests on designated lands, including restricting roads and harvesting timber to reduce the likelihood of wildfires. 
Designates lands for conservation and establishes requirements for management, including restricting timber harvesting, motorized vehicles, and roads. 
Specifies a formula for sharing receipts from activities on the lands with counties. 
Establishes and modifies specified wilderness areas and designations under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. 
Transfers specified lands to be held in trust as part of the reservations of designated tribes. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for an extension of the Internet Tax Freedom Act.

Bill: 113-s-2735
Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Retail and wholesale trades
Sales and excise taxes
State and local government operations
State and local taxation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to extend until December 31, 2014: (1) the ban on state and local taxation of Internet access and on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce, and (2) the grandfather provisions allowing states that imposed and enforced laws imposing a tax on internet access prior to October 1, 1998, to continue enforcing such laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax Refund Theft Prevention Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2736
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Crime victims
Employee hiring
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Tax Refund Theft Prevention Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish a safe harbor rule for errors on tax information and payee statements to treat such statements as correctly filed if there are one or more errors on such statements and no single erroneous amount differs from the correct amount by more than $25; (2) require any tax return that is prepared electronically, but is printed and filed on paper, to bear a code which can, when scanned, convert such return to an electronic format; (3) impose a fine and/or prison term on any person who willfully misappropriates another person's taxpayer identity; (4) require a tax statement reporting wages and other tax information to show an identifying number for the employee (currently, requires the employee's social security number); (5) increase civil and criminal penalties for tax return preparers who improperly disclose or use tax return information; (6) enhance requirements relating to electronic filing of tax returns and the filing of W-2 and 1099 forms; and (7) impose a due diligence requirement on tax return preparers to verify the identity of a taxpayer for whom they file a return or refund claim. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) make available on a website resources and guidance that will allow taxpayers to prepare and file (in batches of not more than 50) forms 1099, prepare forms 1099 for distribution to recipients other than the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and create and maintain necessary taxpayer records; (2) establish a single point of contact with an IRS employee for taxpayers whose tax returns have been delayed or affected due to misappropriation of the taxpayer's identity; (3) implement a password system for the prevention of identity theft tax fraud; (4) issue regulations that restrict the delivery or deposit of multiple individual income tax refunds from the same tax year to the same individual account or mailing address; and (5) report on the extent and nature of fraud involving the use of misappropriated taxpayer identity. 
 
Grants the Secretary access to information in the National Directory of New Hires for the sole purpose of identifying and preventing fraudulent tax return filings and claims for tax refunds. 
 
Amends the federal criminal code to include within the definition of aggravated identity theft the misappropriation of taxpayer identity in connection with tax fraud. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5222-5224)
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Invest in American Jobs Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2737
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Building construction
Buy American requirements
Congressional oversight
Department of Transportation
Disaster relief and insurance
Economic development
Economic performance and conditions
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government lending and loan guarantees
Infrastructure development
Manufacturing
Metals
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
Public contracts and procurement
Public transit
Railroads
Roads and highways
Trade agreements and negotiations
Trade restrictions
Transportation programs funding
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Invest in American Jobs Act of 2014 - Revises Buy American requirements with respect to federal-aid highways, capital investment grants to support intercity passenger rail service (rail grants), and Amtrak, particularly the handling of waiver requests.
 
Revises similar Buy American requirements with respect to public transportation, particularly rolling stock. Requires the cost of rolling stock components and subcomponents produced in the United States to increase from 60% in FY2013 by 10% annual increments up to 100% for FY2017 and ensuing fiscal years. Revises waiver requirements as well to mirror those for federal-aid highways.
 
Applies the rail grant Buy American requirements under this Act to recipients of rail loans and loan guarantees with respect to railroad rehabilitation and improvement.
 
Prescribes Buy American requirements for procurement of a facility or equipment under federal aviation programs similar to those for rolling stock.
 
Requires the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to report annually to Congress on: (1) each project for which a waiver of Buy American requirements was issued; and (2) the country of origin and product specifications for steel, iron, or manufactured goods acquired pursuant to each waiver.
 
Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to prescribe Buy American requirements for steel, iron, and manufactured goods used in the construction of a public water system.
 
Adds similar Buy American requirements to the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, with respect to economic development programs, and to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, with respect to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.
 
Amends the Truman-Hobbs Act to prescribe Buy American requirements for steel, iron, and manufactured goods used in the alteration of a bridge over U.S. navigable waters. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate