hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Healthy Housing Council Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5244
Sponsor: Rep. Esty, Elizabeth H. [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2014-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Child health
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental health
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Housing and community development funding
Housing industry and standards
Low- and moderate-income housing

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: 
Healthy Housing Council Act of 2014 - Establishes in the executive branch an independent Interagency Council on Healthy Housing.
 
Requires the Council to: (1) review federal programs and services that provide housing, health, energy, or environmental services to families and individuals; (2) monitor, evaluate, and recommend improvements in programs and services administered, funded, or financed by federal, state, and local agencies; (3) recommend ways to reduce duplication among federal programs and services; and (4) ensure collaboration among and within agencies in the provision and availability of such programs and services.
 
Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to report to Congress an analysis of the same issues as, and updating the findings and conclusions of, the GAO report to the Ranking Minority Member of the House Committee on Government Reform of January 1999 entitled &quot;Lead Poisoning: Federal Health Care Programs Are Not Effectively Reaching At-Risk Children&quot; (GAO/HEHS-99-18).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 314 Lennon Drive in Wilmington, North Carolina, as the "Meadowlark Lemon Post Office".

Bill: 113-hr-5245
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2014-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
North Carolina
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 314 Lennon Drive in Wilmington, North Carolina, as the "Meadowlark Lemon Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Introduced in House
To require the United States attorney to bring the matter of an individual's contempt of Congress before a grand jury not later than 30 days after receiving a certification from the Speaker of the House of Representatives or the President of the Senate that the individual is in contempt.

Bill: 113-hr-5246
Sponsor: Rep. Jordan, Jim [R-OH-4]
Introduced: 2014-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Evidence and witnesses
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: 
Requires the United States attorney to bring the matter of an individual's contempt of Congress before a grand jury not later than 30 days after receiving a certification from the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of a statement of facts that the individual is in contempt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to eliminate the consumptive demand exception to prohibition on importation of goods made with convict labor, forced labor, or indentured labor, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-5247
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2014-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Labor standards
Trade restrictions
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: 
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to eliminate the consumptive demand exception to the prohibition on the importation of goods made with convict labor, forced labor, or indentured labor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Introduced in House
To provide for United States participation in the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-5248
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2014-07-29 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: International organizations and cooperation
Political movements and philosophies

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of State to facilitate the U.S. readmission and participation in the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and to pay related annual membership expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Restore Opportunity, Strengthen, and Improve the Economy Act

Bill: 113-hr-5250
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2014-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Defense
Department of Labor
Employee benefits and pensions
Employee leave
General Services Administration
Labor-management relations
Military procurement, research, weapons development
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Public contracts and procurement
Wages and earnings
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: 
Restore Opportunity, Strengthen, and Improve the Economy Act - Prohibits an executive agency from awarding a contract for the acquisition of supplies or services to a source that is not a Good Jobs Model Employer, unless there is no offer from such an employer.
 
Defines a &quot;Good Jobs Model Employer&quot; as one that:
 
 
 respects employees' rights to bargain collectively with their employers without being forced to take strike action to win better wages and working conditions;
 
 offers to each employee living wages, decent benefits including health care, paid leave for sickness and caregiving, and fair work schedules that are predictable and stable;
 
affirmatively demonstrates an exemplary standard of compliance with workplace protection laws, including laws governing labor relations, wages and hours, and health and safety, as well as other applicable labor laws;
 
 limits executive compensation to 50 times the median salary paid to the company's workers; 
 
 employs a workforce not less than 35% of which reside within one or more Historically Underutilized Business Zones; and
 
 subcontracts only with other Good Jobs Model Employers.
 
 
Prohibits an executive agency from providing other forms of assistance to entities that are not model employers when there is a similarly situated Good Jobs Model Employer that could receive the assistance, unless doing so would substantially undermine the value of the assistance to the public good. 
 
Requires executive agencies to incorporate into each new contract or assistance agreement a clause requiring the contractor or recipient to conduct itself as a Good Jobs Model Employer for the duration of the contract. Provides for the suspension of a contractor or assistance recipient that fails to do so and for debarment for multiple violations.
 
Requires: (1) the Secretary of Labor to promulgate regulations implementing such Good Jobs Model Employer standards, and (2) specified officials to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation to effect the policy and purposes of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1264-1265)
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Incentivizing Foreign Investment to Upgrade America's Infrastructure Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5251
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, William L. [D-NY-21]
Introduced: 2014-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Real estate business
Taxation of foreign income
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: 
Incentivizing Foreign Investment to Upgrade America's Infrastructure Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt a qualified foreign pension fund from taxation of gain or loss from, or tax withholding requirements on, the disposition of U.S. real property interests. Defines "qualified foreign pension fund" as any trust, corporation, or other organization or arrangement that: (1) is created or organized outside the United States; (2) is established to provide employee retirement or pension benefits; (3) does not have a single participant or beneficiary with a right to more than 5% of its assets; (4) is subject to regulation and tax reporting requirements in the country in which it is established or operates; and (5) is provided favorable tax treatment by the laws of the country in which it is established or operates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Tax and Fee Collection Fairness Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5252
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2014-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: 
Tax and Fee Collection Fairness Act of 2014 - Prohibits a state from requiring any person to collect from, or remit on behalf of, any other person any state or local fee, tax, or surcharge imposed on a purchaser or user with respect to the purchase or use of any product or service within a state, unless there is transactional nexus between the person from whom the state seeks to require such collection or remittance and the purchaser or user of such product or service. Defines "transactional nexus" as a direct monetary transaction between the person required to collect or remit the fee, tax, or surcharge and the purchaser or user upon whom the fee, tax, or surcharge is imposed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Introduced in House
UAC State Authority Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5253
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2014-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Border security and unlawful immigration
Child safety and welfare
Department of Homeland Security
Detention of persons
Government information and archives
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Human trafficking
Immigration status and procedures
Intergovernmental relations
Public contracts and procurement
Public participation and lobbying
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: 
UAC State Authority Act of 2014 - Amends the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), before awarding grants or contracts to provide housing facilities for unaccompanied alien children, to: (1) consult with state elected officials and agencies; (2) hold a public hearing; and (3) provide for a period during which the governor of the state in which the facility would be located may submit to the Secretary an objection to the contract, which, if timely submitted, shall preclude the Secretary from awarding the grant or contract.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Introduced in House
VA Bonus Accountability Act

Bill: 113-hr-5254
Sponsor: Rep. Sinema, Kyrsten [D-AZ-9]
Introduced: 2014-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: 
Stop Wasteful Bonuses in Department of Veterans Affairs Act of 2014 or the VA Bonus Accountability Act - Prohibits a federal agency from awarding a bonus to any employee for five years after the end of a fiscal year in which the Inspector General of the agency or another senior ethics official or the Comptroller General (GAO) makes an adverse finding relating to the employee. Requires repayment of a bonus awarded in any year in which an adverse finding is made. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1262)
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Introduced in House
RFP-IT Act

Bill: 113-hr-5255
Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-18]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
General Services Administration
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Public contracts and procurement
Public-private cooperation
Small Business Administration
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Reforming Federal Procurement of Information Technology Act or RFP-IT Act - Establishes an increased $500,000 simplified acquisition threshold for contracts for the purchase of information technology services from a small business concern. 
 
Makes permanent the authority to issue solicitations for purchases of commercial items in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold. 
 
Establishes within the General Services Administration (GSA) the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program to bring non-government innovators into the federal government to solve challenges of national importance.
 
Redesignates the Office of Electronic Government as the United States Digital Government Office or United States DGO. Designates the head of such Office as the U.S. Chief Information Officer.
 
Establishes in the DGO the Digital Service Pilot Program to provide digital services to support executive agencies on high-priority federal information technology projects. 
 
Directs the GSA Administrator to conduct an in-depth analysis of IT Schedule 70. Defines "IT Schedule 70" as the multiple award supply of GSA for the procurement of information technology. 
 
Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to report to Congress on: (1) the effectiveness of the 18F program of GSA, (2) IT Schedule 70, and (3) challenges and barriers to entry for small business technology firms into the federal marketplace. 
 
Requires the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to be revised to clarify that agency acquisition personnel are permitted and encouraged to engage in responsible and constructive exchanges with industry, so long as such exchanges are consistent with existing law and do not promote an unfair competitive advantage. 
 
Requires the U.S. Chief Information Officer to advise the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on improving the performance of federal agencies in development specifications for an information technology project contract.
 
Makes the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) a member of the FAR Council. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Stop Discrimination in the Workplace Act

Bill: 113-hr-5256
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Wages and earnings
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Stop Discrimination in the Workplace Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit discharging or retaliating against any employee because such employee has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed comparative compensation information for the purpose of determining whether the employer is compensating an employee in a manner that provides equal pay for equal work.
 
Makes such prohibition inapplicable to instances in which an employee who has access to the wage information of other employees as a part of such employee's job functions discloses the wages of such other employees other than in response to a charge or complaint or in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action under provisions prohibiting sex discrimination, including an investigation conducted by the employer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Empowering Families at Home and at Work Act

Bill: 113-hr-5257
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Tax treatment of families
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Empowering Families at Home and at Work Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a married taxpayer who files a joint tax return a tax deduction for 20% of the first $60,000 of the wages and self-employment income of the lesser earning spouse. Disallows such deduction for taxpayers whose adjusted gross income exceeds $110,000. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Families First Act

Bill: 113-hr-5258
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adult day care
Child care and development
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion
Inflation and prices
Tax treatment of families

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Families First Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an adjustment for inflation in calendar years after 2014 to amounts allowed with respect to the tax credit for dependent care expenses necessary for employment and the exclusion from gross income for employer-provided dependent care assistance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Investing for Tomorrow's Schools Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5259
Sponsor: Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Building construction
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government trust funds
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Infrastructure development
Intergovernmental relations
Labor standards
Libraries and archives
Noise pollution
Public contracts and procurement
Solid waste and recycling
State and local finance
Wages and earnings
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Investing for Tomorrow's Schools Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into cooperative agreements with states to establish state and multistate infrastructure banks that make loans to local educational agencies, public libraries, and charter schools or their developers to construct or renovate public elementary or secondary schools and public libraries. Requires loans also to community learning centers to connect and improve broadband services.
 
Grants congressional consent to states for interstate compacts to establish multistate infrastructure banks.
 
Directs the Secretary to make grants to such banks to provide initial capital for such loans.
 
Requires states to contribute from nonfederal sources at least 25% of the amount of each federal capitalization grant made to the state and contributed to the bank.
 
Lists types of projects eligible for such bank loans.
 
Requires borrowers to use, to the maximum extent practicable, green construction or renovation practices that are consistent with: (1) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building rating standards, (2) Energy Star standards, (3) Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) criteria, (4) Green Building Initiative environmental design and rating standards (Green Globes), or (5) equivalent standards adopted by the entities that have jurisdiction over them.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Student Worker Exemption Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5262
Sponsor: Rep. Meadows, Mark [R-NC-11]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Higher education
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Student Worker Exemption Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude students who are employed by an institution of higher education (IHE) and carrying a full-time academic workload at the IHE from being counted as full-time employees in calculating the IHE's shared responsibility regarding health care coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make the work opportunity credit permanent.

Bill: 113-hr-5264
Sponsor: Rep. Schock, Aaron [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2014-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee hiring
Income tax credits
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the work opportunity tax credit permanent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-30
text: Introduced in House