hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
California Federal Milk Marketing Order Act

Bill: 113-hr-1396
Sponsor: Rep. Valadao, David G. [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural marketing and promotion
California

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
California Federal Milk Marketing Order Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), upon the petition and approval of California dairy producers, to designate California as a separate federal milk marketing order. 
 
Provides that if so designated, the order covering California shall have the right to reblend and distribute order receipts to recognize quota value.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development, and Credit.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Project Rebuild Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1397
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Appropriations
Buy American requirements
Employee hiring
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing supply and affordability
Labor standards
Low- and moderate-income housing
Property rights
Public contracts and procurement
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Rural conditions and development
Urban and suburban affairs and development
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Project Rebuild Act of 2013 - Appropriates funds for assistance to eligible entities including state and local governments, and qualified nonprofit organizations, businesses or eligible consortia for the redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed-upon properties and for stabilization of affected neighborhoods (Project Rebuild).
 
Allows the use of funds to: (1) establish financing mechanisms for the purchase and redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed-upon properties; (2) purchase and rehabilitate such properties; (3) establish and operate land banks for them; (4) demolish blighted structures (except public housing); and (5) redevelop abandoned, foreclosed, demolished, or vacant properties. 
 
Requires each state to receive at least $20 million of formula funds, all of which shall be used with respect to low and moderate-income individuals and families.
 
Requires each state and local government grantee to establish procedures to create preferences for development of affordable rental housing.
 
Allows a grantee to use up to 10% to create jobs by establishing and operating a program to maintain eligible neighborhood properties.
 
Sets forth Buy American requirements. 
 
 Requires all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors on federally-assisted projects to be paid wages at the locally prevailing rates (Davis-Bacon Act).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Advancing Offshore Wind Production Act

Bill: 113-hr-1398
Sponsor: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alternative and renewable resources
Atmospheric science and weather
Department of the Interior
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures
Licensing and registrations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Advancing Offshore Wind Production Act - Exempts any project determined by the Secretary of the Interior to be an offshore meteorological site testing and monitoring project from environmental impact statement requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA).
 
Defines an "offshore meteorological site testing and monitoring project" as a project that is administered by the Department of the Interior and carried out on or in the waters of the Outer Continental Shelf to test or monitor weather (including wind, tidal, current, and solar energy) using towers, buoys, or other temporary ocean infrastructure and that: (1) causes less than one acre of surface or seafloor disruption at the location of each meteorological tower or other device and no more than five acres of surface or seafloor disruption within the proposed area affected by the project (including hazards to navigation), (2) is decommissioned within five years of its commencement, and (3) provides meteorological information to the Secretary of the Interior.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) require that any applicant seeking to conduct an offshore meteorological site testing and monitoring project on the outer Continental Shelf obtain a permit and right of way; (2) determine whether to issue such a permit and right of way within 30 days after receiving an application; (3) provide an opportunity for submission of comments by the public; (4) consult with the Secretary of Defense (DOD), the Commandant of the Coast Guard, and the heads of other federal, state, and local agencies that would be affected by issuance of the permit and right of way; and (5) provide an applicant the opportunity to remedy deficiencies in an application that was denied.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Hydrographic Services Improvement Amendments Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1399
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arctic Ocean
Arctic and polar regions
Congressional oversight
Department of Commerce
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Hydrology and hydrography
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Navigation, waterways, harbors

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Hydrographic Services Improvement Amendments Act of 2013 - Reauthorizes the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 with specified appropriations to the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) through FY2017. 
 
Designates amounts authorized for use to acquire: (1) hydrographic data, provide hydrographic services, conduct coastal change analyses necessary to ensure safe navigation, and improve the management of coastal change in the Arctic; and (2) hydrographic data and provide hydrographic services in the Arctic necessary to delineate the U.S. extended continental shelf. 
 
Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to compare the unit costs of NOAA-conducted hydrographic surveys to the unit costs of procuring such surveys.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-06-13
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify that children of certain veterans are eligible for the Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry scholarship.

Bill: 113-hr-1400
Sponsor: Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Family relationships
Higher education
Military personnel and dependents
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: 
Entitles to post-9/11 veterans' educational assistance the child of a person who, on or after September 11, 2001, dies as the result of a service-connected disability. (Under current law, such assistance is available only to the child of a person who, on or after such date, dies in the line of duty while serving on active duty.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E359)
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Jose Luis Alvarado Cardenas.

Bill: 113-hr-1401
Sponsor: Rep. Pastor, Ed [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2013-03-21 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Provides for the relief of Jose Luis Alvarado Cardenas.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Introduced in House
Family Telephone Connection Protection Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1403
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2013-03-25 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Competition and antitrust
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Telecommunication rates and fees
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-25
text: 
Family Telephone Connection Protection Act of 2013 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to consider the following types of regulation of inmate telephone service: (1) prescribing a maximum uniform per-minute rate (paid to telephone service providers), (2) prescribing a maximum uniform service connection or other per-call rate, (3) prescribing variable maximum rates depending on factors such as carrier costs or the size of the correctional facility, (4) requiring providers of inmate telephone service to offer both collect calling and debit account services, (5) prohibiting the payment of commissions by such providers to administrators of correctional facilities, and (6) requiring such administrators to allow more than one service provider at a facility so that prisoners have a choice.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2013-03-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-03-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-25
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Expansion Repeal and State Flexibility Act

Bill: 113-hr-1404
Sponsor: Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2013-03-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-25
text: 
Medicaid Expansion Repeal and State Flexibility Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), to eliminate: (1) the increased federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for medical assistance for newly eligible mandatory individuals, (2) related equitable Medicaid support for certain states, (3) maintenance of effort requirements pending full operation of a state healthcare insurance exchange, and (4) minimum essential coverage according to PPACA for Medicaid benchmark benefits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-03-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-03-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-25
text: Introduced in House
Animal Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1408
Sponsor: Rep. Gardner, Cory [R-CO-4]
Introduced: 2013-04-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Animal and plant health
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Executive agency funding and structure
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
User charges and fees
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: 
Animal Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2013 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to extend for FY2014-FY2018 the authority of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to collect generic animal drug user fees, specifically abbreviated application fees for generic new animal drugs, generic new animal drug product fees, and generic new animal drug sponsor fees.
 
Subjects generic animal drug applications to a fee 50% of the amount of the normal fee if the application is for an animal drug which contains more than one active ingredient, or the labeling of the drug prescribes, recommends, or suggests use of the drug in combination with one or more other animal drugs, and the active ingredients or drugs intended for use in the combination have previously been separately approved.
 
Revises the due date for annual generic animal drug user fees to the later of January 31 of each year or the first business day after enactment of an appropriations act providing for the collection and obligation of fees for the fiscal year.
 
Establishes the total amount of revenue each type of generic user fee shall generate.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to accept payment of user fees prior to their due date.
 
 Extends requirements for the FDA to report to Congress on achieving goals related to the generic animal drug development and review process and the implementation of the authority to collect generic animal drug fees.
 
Terminates the authority to collect generic animal drug user fees October 1, 2018.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Introduced in House
Export Promotion Reform Act

Bill: 113-hr-1409
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2013-04-09 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Budget process
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Department of Commerce
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: 
Export Promotion Reform Act - Amends the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 to require the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC), in assessing the appropriate levels and allocation of resources among agencies in support of export promotion and export financing, to review the proposed annual budget of each agency before the agency submits it to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for inclusion in the budget the President submits to Congress.
 
Requires the President to take necessary steps to grant the TPCC chairperson authority to ensure that the TPCC carries out each of its duties and develops and implements its governmentwide strategic plan for federal trade promotion efforts.
 
Revises the authority of the Secretary of Commerce to establish foreign offices of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service. Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct every five years a global assessment of overseas markets to determine those with the greatest potential for increasing U.S. exports, and (2) deploy Commercial Service personnel and other resources on the basis of the global assessment.
 
Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to require the U.S. Foreign Service chief of mission to a foreign country, in promoting U.S. goods and services for export to that country, to do so through the development of a plan, drafted in consultation with the TPCC, for effective diplomacy to remove or reduce obstacles to exports of such goods and services.
 
Requires the precepts for selection boards responsible for recommending promotions into and within the Senior Foreign Service, especially members with economic affairs responsibilities, to emphasize performance which demonstrates the effectiveness of efforts to promote the export of U.S. goods and services in accordance with a commercial diplomacy plan.
 
Requires the inspections, investigations, and audits of the Inspector General of the Department of State to examine the effectiveness of commercial diplomacy relating to the promotion of exports of U.S. goods and services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2013-06-26
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2013-06-26
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2013-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Introduced in House
Keep the Promise Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1410
Sponsor: Rep. Franks, Trent [R-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2013-04-09 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Arizona
Gambling
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: 
Keep the Promise Act of 2013 - Prohibits Class II and III gaming on land within the Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan area that is acquired after April 9, 2013, by the Secretary of the Interior in trust for the benefit of an Indian tribe.
 
Terminates that prohibition on January 1, 2027.

action_date: 2013-09-17
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Keep the Promise Act of 2013 - Prohibits Class II and III gaming on land within the Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan area that is acquired after April 9, 2013, by the Secretary of the Interior in trust for the benefit of an Indian tribe.
 
Terminates that prohibition on January 1, 2027.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-18
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5556-5557)
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5556-5557)
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1410.
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5556-5562)
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Mr. Gosar moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 154.
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-210.
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-210.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 35 - 5.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs Discharged.
action_date: 2013-05-16
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Introduced in House
SelectUSA Authorization Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1413
Sponsor: Rep. Ruiz, Raul [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2013-04-09 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Foreign and international corporations
Manufacturing
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: 
SelectUSA Authorization Act of 2013 - Authorizes appropriations for FY2014-FY2018 for the SelectUSA Initiative (federal assistance aimed at increasing both foreign and domestic investment in U.S. business).
 
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to report to Congress during such fiscal years on Initiative activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Introduced in House
Innovative Technologies Investment Incentive Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1415
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2013-04-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Financial services and investments
Health technology, devices, supplies
Income tax credits
Securities
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: 
Innovative Technologies Investment Incentive Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a new business-related tax credit for 25% of the equity investment (i.e., stock and capital or profits interest) in a small business concern that is engaged in a high technology or biotechnology trade or business and employs an average of fewer than 500 employees in a taxable year. Establishes a national innovative technology investment credit limitation of $500 million.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Introduced in House
Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1416
Sponsor: Rep. Ellmers, Renee L. [R-NC-2]
Introduced: 2013-04-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Drug therapy
Health programs administration and funding
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: 
Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2013 - Declares that, notwithstanding the presidential sequestration order issued on March 1, 2013, the budgetary resources sequestered for payments for drugs and biologicals under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act shall be available for obligation for drugs and biologicals furnished on or after enactment of this Act in the same amount and manner as if such order had not been issued.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make any payments under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) that may be required to reimburse for reductions in payments made under the sequestration order for drugs and biologicals furnished on or after April 1, 2013, and before enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-04-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-04-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1867)
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and 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: 2013-04-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and 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: 2013-04-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and 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: 2013-04-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Introduced in House