hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
School Principal Recruitment and Training Act

Bill: 113-s-840
Sponsor: Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Performance measurement
Rural conditions and development
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
School Principal Recruitment and Training Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a principal recruitment and training grant program awarding renewable, matching grants to states, local educational agencies (LEAs), educational service agencies, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, and partnerships of those entities to recruit, prepare, place, and support principals in eligible schools.
 
Defines "eligible schools" as high-need schools, persistently low-achieving schools, achievement gap schools, schools with middle grades that feed students to high schools with low graduation rates, and rural schools served by high-need LEAs.
 
Requires grantees to work with experts and stakeholders to develop, during the first year of a grant, a leadership training program for principals, mentors, and other school leaders that prepares and supports them in leading effective school reform efforts in persistently low-achieving schools.
 
Requires grantees to use the grants, after that first year, to: (1) implement their leadership training program; (2) ensure that their training program is informed, on an ongoing basis, by consultations with experts and stakeholders and by tracking the performance of program graduates; (3) select cohorts of trained or experienced principals to lead school reform efforts in persistently low-achieving schools; (4) support and encourage interaction among principals who have completed the training program; and (5) disseminate information to principals, mentors, and other school leaders engaging in reform efforts in persistently low-achieving schools.
 
Makes grant renewal decisions dependent on the Secretary of Education's evaluation of the extent to which the principals recruited, prepared, placed, or supported by the grantee have improved school-level student outcomes.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish performance metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of the activities funded by the grant program; and (2) identify, and disseminate research on, best practices to improve school leadership.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Hospital Access Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-842
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Rural Hospital Access Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend through FY2014: (1) the Medicare-dependent hospital program, and (2) increased payments under the Medicare low-volume hospital program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Ammunition Management for More Obtainability Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-843
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Firearms and explosives
Law enforcement administration and funding
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Ammunition Management for More Obtainability Act of 2013 - Prohibits a federal agency, other than the Department of Defense (DOD), during the six-month period beginning on the enactment of this Act, from purchasing during any month or possessing at any one time more rounds of ammunition than the monthly average of rounds of ammunition purchased by the agency between January 1, 2001, and December 31, 2009. Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to report to Congress on federal agency purchasing of ammunition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Supporting Community Schools Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-844
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Child care and development
Child health
Community life and organization
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Public-private cooperation
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Supporting Community Schools Act of 2013 - Amends part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to authorize local educational agencies (LEAs) to use school improvement funds to transform schools identified as needing improvement, corrective action, or restructuring into community schools. (Schools are identified as needing improvement, corrective action, or restructuring when they fail to make adequate yearly progress [AYP] toward state academic performance standards.)
 
Defines a &quot;community school&quot; as a public elementary or secondary school that partners with community-based entities, both public and private, to address students' academic, health, and developmental needs while also serving as a community center that provides or hosts relevant community services.
 
Requires such schools to be based on research into successful practices in: (1) improving student achievement or growth, (2) closing achievement gaps between groups of students, and (3) increasing student attendance and graduation rates.
 
Authorizes LEAs to use funds under part D (Prevention and Intervention Programs for Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk) of title I of the ESEA to fund a community school coordinator who will support their community schools. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Professionals Educational Assistance Program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-845
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Medical education
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Extends through 2019 (under current law, 2014) the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health professionals educational assistance program.
 
Repeals the current $60,000 per-individual limit on education debt reduction payments made by the VA with respect to certain employees providing direct-patient care services or services incident thereto.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-203.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Family and Medical Leave Inclusion Act

Bill: 113-s-846
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee leave
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Home and outpatient care
Marriage and family status
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Family and Medical Leave Inclusion Act - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to provide for employee leave to care for a domestic partner (including a same-sex spouse) or his or her child, parent-in-law, adult child, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, son-in-law, or daughter-in-law (as well as for a spouse, child, or parent), if such person has a serious health condition.
 
Amends federal civil service law to apply the same leave allowance to federal employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3040-3041)
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3039-3040)
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Polar Bear Conservation and Fairness Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-847
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Canada
Endangered and threatened species
Hunting and fishing
Licensing and registrations
Mammals
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Polar Bear Conservation and Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to direct the Secretary of the Interior to issue a permit for the importation of any polar bear part (other than an internal organ) from a polar bear taken in a sport hunt in Canada to any person who submits proof that the polar bear was legally harvested before May 15, 2008 (currently by February 18, 1997), when polar bears were listed as a threatened species by the Department of the Interior.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-848
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative remedies
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Corporate finance and management
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013 - Amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to make Public Company Accounting Oversight Board disciplinary proceedings public unless the Board, on its own motion or after considering the motion of a party, orders otherwise.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3041-3042)
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Permanent Stewardship Contracting Authority Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-849
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Ecology
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Pest management
Public contracts and procurement
Rural conditions and development
Water quality
Watersheds
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Permanent Stewardship Contracting Authority Act of 2013 - Amends the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to authorize the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to enter into stewardship contracting projects with private persons or other public or private entities to perform services to achieve land management goals for the national forests and public lands that meet local and rural community needs.
 
States that the land management goals of a project may include: (1) road and trail maintenance or obliteration to restore or maintain water quality; (2) soil productivity, habitat for wildlife and fisheries, or other resource values; (3) setting of prescribed fires to improve the composition, structure, condition, and health of stands or to improve wildlife habitat; (4) removing vegetation or other activities to promote healthy forest stands, reduce fire hazards, or achieve other land management objectives; (5) watershed restoration and maintenance; (6) restoration and maintenance of wildlife and fish; or (7) control of noxious and exotic weeds and reestablishing native plant species.
 
Repeals a section of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 that provides for forest health protection.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act

Bill: 113-s-850
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Congressional-executive branch relations
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Labor-management relations
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act - Requires the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to cease all activity that requires a quorum of Board members. Prohibits the Board from appointing any personnel or implementing, administering, or enforcing any decision, rule, vote, or other action decided, undertaken, adopted, issued, or finalized on or after January 4, 2012, that requires a quorum of the Board members.
 
Terminates the requirements of this Act upon: (1) confirmation of all Board members constituting a quorum with the advice and consent of the Senate, (2) a decision by the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of Board appointments made in January 2012, or (3) the adjournment sine die of the first session of the 113th Congress.
 
Prohibits, in the event of this Act's termination, the implementation, administration, or enforcement of any Board action or appointment occurring on or after January 4, 2012, that requires authorization by not less than a quorum of the Board members, unless and until the action is considered and acted upon by a Board constituting a quorum, or the Supreme Court issues a decision on the constitutionality of the Board appointments made in January 2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Caregivers Expansion and Improvement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-851
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Caregivers Expansion and Improvement Act of 2013 - Extends to all veterans with a serious service-connected injury the eligibility to participate in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) program of comprehensive assistance to family caregivers of such veterans. (Under current law, such eligibility is limited to those veterans who incurred such an injury on or after September 11, 2001.)

action_date: 2013-09-17
text: 

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

 
Caregivers Expansion and Improvement Act of 2013 - Extends to all veterans with a serious service-connected injury the eligibility to participate in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) program of comprehensive assistance to family caregivers of such veterans. (Under current law, such eligibility is limited to those veterans who incurred such an injury on or after September 11, 2001.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 186.
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Reported by Senator Sanders without amendment. With written report No. 113-107. Minority views filed.
action_date: 2013-09-17
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Reported by Senator Sanders without amendment. With written report No. 113-107. Minority views filed.
action_date: 2013-07-24
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-203.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3042)
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3042)
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans' Health Promotion Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-852
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical education
Medical research
Mental health
Military personnel and dependents
Nutrition and diet
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Rural conditions and development
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Veterans' Health Promotion Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to designate and operate at least one center of innovation for complementary and alternative medicine in health research, education, and clinical activities in each of the Veterans Integrated Service Networks.
 
Directs the Secretary to carry out a three-year pilot program to assess the feasibility and advisability of establishing complementary and alternative medicine centers within current VA medical centers in order to promote the use and integration of such services for veterans' mental health diagnoses and pain management. Requires the establishment of at least 15 such centers in 15 different VA medical centers.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a three-year pilot program for the award of grants to public or private nonprofit entities to assess the feasibility and advisability of using wellness programs to complement the provision of mental health care to veterans and family members eligible for VA counseling services.
 
Directs the Secretary to carry out a two-year pilot program to assess the feasibility and advisability of promoting health through the payment of fitness center membership for veterans determined to be overweight or obese and who reside more than 15 minutes' driving distance from a VA fitness facility.
 
Requires the Secretary to carry out a three-year pilot program to assess the feasibility and advisability, through the establishment of VA fitness facilities, of promoting the achievement of a healthy weight in veterans enrolled in the VA system of annual patient enrollment. Prohibits the assessment of a user fee for program participants using such facilities.
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct a comprehensive study of barriers encountered by veterans in receiving complementary and alternative medicine from the VA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-203.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3043-3045)
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3042-3043)
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-853
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2013-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Appropriations
Aviation and airports
Congressional oversight
Department of Transportation
Employee leave
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Transportation employees
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 
Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013 - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation (DOT), notwithstanding the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-6), any other provision of law, or sequestration order, to transfer for FY2013 to any Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) appropriations account (such as the one for air traffic control operations) a certain amount from funds otherwise made available for discretionary grants-in-aid under the airport improvement program or any other FAA program.
 
Makes any transferred amount available immediately for obligation and expenditure as directly appropriated budget authority.
 
Prohibits any such transfer of funds unless the Secretary notifies Congress at least five days in advance.

action_date: 2013-04-25
text: 

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

 
Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013 - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation (DOT), notwithstanding the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-6), any other provision of law, or sequestration order, to transfer for FY2013 to any Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) appropriations account (such as the one for air traffic control operations) a certain amount from funds otherwise made available for discretionary grants-in-aid under the airport improvement program or any other FAA program.
 
Makes any transferred amount available immediately for obligation and expenditure as directly appropriated budget authority.
 
Prohibits any such transfer of funds unless the Secretary notifies Congress at least five days in advance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-30
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2013-04-30
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2013-04-30
text: Senate requests return of papers with respect to S. 853 by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2013-04-26
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2013-04-26
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2013-04-26
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S3059-3060; text as passed Senate: CR S3059-3060)
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S3059-3060; text as passed Senate: CR S3059-3060)
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate