hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Schools of the Future Act

Bill: 113-hr-3692
Sponsor: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2]
Introduced: 2013-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Performance measurement
Rural conditions and development
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: 
Schools of the Future Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive three- to five-year grants to eligible partnerships to implement and evaluate the results of technology-based learning practices, strategies, tools, or courses at rural schools.
 
Defines &quot;eligible partnerships&quot; as those composed of a school partner, a digital learning partner, and an evaluation partner.
 
Describes a &quot;school partner&quot; as a: (1) local educational agency, (2) charter school network that does not include virtual schools, (3) consortium of public elementary or secondary schools, (4) regional educational service provider, or (5) consortium of such entities.
 
Describes a &quot;digital learning partner&quot; as an institution of higher education, a nonprofit organization, or an organization with school development or turnaround experience.
 
Includes among the grant-funded technology-based learning practices, strategies, tools, or courses, those that: (1) personalize the learning experience, (2) aid and inform instruction, (3) meet the needs of students with specific educational needs, (4) help students develop 21st century skills, and (5) give students access to courses that would otherwise be unavailable to them.
 
Requires each partnership's evaluation partner, after the third year of the grant, to evaluate the effect of the technology-based learning practices, strategies, tools, or courses on student achievement and its school partner's costs and savings.
 
Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences, to: (1) evaluate the implementation and impact of the activities supported by this Act's grants, (2) identify best practices, and (3) disseminate research on best practices in school leadership.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-10
text: Introduced in House
Flood Insurance Relief and Transparency Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3693
Sponsor: Rep. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2013-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: 
Flood Insurance Relief and Transparency Act of 2013 - Delays until March 1, 2015, the effective date of specified changes in risk premium rates for flood insurance under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
 
Directs the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to make publicly available all data affecting any changes in such risk premium rates. 
 
Amends the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 to remove the $750,000 restriction from the maximum amount of funds available to FEMA for the study of participation in and affordability of NFIP for certain flood insurance policyholders.
 
Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to require FEMA to provide policyholders with the option of paying chargeable risk premiums for flood insurance coverage on an annual (as under current law) or a monthly basis. Sets forth criteria for policyholder eligibility to exercise the monthly option.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Introduced in House
Net Price Calculator Improvement Act

Bill: 113-hr-3694
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2013-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Government information and archives
Higher education
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: 
Net Price Calculator Improvement Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish the minimum requirements for the net price calculator that each institution of higher education (IHE) receiving federal funds under title IV (Student Assistance) of the Act must include on its website. (An IHE's "net price" is the average yearly price actually charged to first-time, full-time undergraduate students receiving student aid at the school after deducting such aid.)
 
Requires the link for the calculator to be clearly labeled and conspicuously posted on an IHE's website.
 
Requires each calculator's results page to include:
 
 
the net price of attending the IHE;
 
the cost of attending the IHE;
 
the estimated total need- and merit-based grant aid, from federal, state, and institutional sources, that may be available to first-time, full-time undergraduate students enrolled at the IHE;
 
the percentage of such students enrolled at the school who receive any of that grant aid; and
 
a notice that an estimate of an individual's net price is non-binding and subject to change.
 
 
Requires calculators that estimate a user's eligibility for veterans' education benefits or educational benefits for active duty service members to clearly distinguish those benefits from other grant-aid. Requires calculators that do not make such estimates to provide users with notice of, and a link to information concerning, those benefits.
 
Directs IHEs to populate their calculators with data from not later than two academic years prior to the most recent academic year.
 
Requires the calculators to: (1) clearly indicate which questions need to be completed for a net price estimate, (2) clearly mark requests for contact information as optional, and (3) prohibit personally identifiable information from being sold or made available to third parties.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to develop a universal net price calculator that enables users to answer one set of questions and receive net prices for any IHE that is required to have a net price calculator.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Introduced in House
Two-Midnight Rule Delay Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3698
Sponsor: Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6]
Introduced: 2013-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Hospital care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: 
Two-Midnight Rule Delay Act of 2013 - Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from enforcing the two-midnight rule to a hospital for which payment is made under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for admissions occurring before October 1, 2014.
 
(The two-midnight rule allows Medicare coverage of only hospital stays for which a physician admits to a hospital a beneficiary expected to require care that crosses two midnights, but generally denies coverage of care expected to require less than a two-midnight stay.)
 
Applies such prohibition to Medicare review contracts. 
 
Prohibits Medicare review contractors from denying a claim for inpartient hospital services furnished by a hospital, or inpatient critical access hospital services furnished by a critical access hospital, for discharges occurring before October 1, 2014: (1) for medical necessity due to the length of an inpatient stay in such hospital or due to a determination that the services could have been provided on an outpatient basis; or (2) for requirements for orders, certifications, or recertifications, and associated documentation relating to such matters.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from increasing the sample of claims selected for prepayment review under the Medicare Probe and Educate program above the number and type established by the Secretary as of November 4, 2013.
 
Directs the Secretary to develop: (1) a Medicare hospital payment methodology for short inpatient hospital stays; (2) general equivalency maps to link the relevant International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD)-10 codes (used to report medical diagnoses and inpatient procedures) to relevant Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes, and the relevant CPT codes to relevant ICD-10 codes, in order to permit comparison of inpatient hospital services and hospital outpatient department servives; and (3) a second crosswalk between Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) codes for inpatient hospital services and Ambulatory Payment Class codes for outpatient hospital services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Introduced in House
Structured Settlement Claimants Rights Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3699
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-26]
Introduced: 2013-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Judicial procedure and administration
Lawyers and legal services

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: 
Structured Settlement Claimants Rights Act of 2013 - Amends the federal judicial code to declare that a claimant in any civil action before a federal court shall have the right to retain a structured settlement broker to act on behalf of that claimant for purposes of negotiating a schedule of payments or other terms of payment previously agreed to be paid by or on behalf of the defendant in satisfaction of a judgment against that defendant or in accordance with the terms of a settlement.
 
Requires that a party to an administrative proceeding have the same right to retain such a structured settlement broker for negotiations with other parties. 
 Directs: (1) the court or the agency in an administrative proceeding to inform the claimant of this right at the appropriate time, and (2) the defendant to provide timely notice of any current or previous professional relationship between the defendant and the broker.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2014-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Introduced in House
Building Community Financial Institutions' Capacity to Combat Money Laundering Act

Bill: 113-hr-3700
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2013-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Crime prevention
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government trust funds
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: 
Building Community Financial Institutions' Capacity to Combat Money Laundering Act - Establishes the BSA Compliance Fund.
 
Requires deposit into the Fund of: (1) 25% of all civil money penalties imposed upon domestic financial institutions for violations related to mandatory reports and recordkeeping on monetary instruments transactions, and (2) 25% of any civil fine paid by a domestic financial institution for violations of other federal law with respect to actions for which a civil money penalty is also imposed for prohibited monetary transactions.
 
Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) use the Fund to make grants to community financial institutions with under $10 billion in assets to improve their compliance with statutory requirements governing reports and recordkeeping on monetary instruments transactions, and (2) give grant priority to institutions located in counties that have 20% or more of residents living below the federal poverty line.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Introduced in House
U.S. Financial Services Global Viability Act

Bill: 113-hr-3701
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-2]
Introduced: 2013-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Corporate finance and management
Department of the Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Reserve System
Financial services and investments
Foreign and international banking
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: 
U.S. Financial Services Global Viability Act - Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 to delay the effective date for prohibitions or the mandate for related rulemaking against proprietary trading by a banking entity and any equity, partnership, or other ownership interest of a banking entity in or sponsorship of hedge funds or private equity funds. (Currently the effective date of such prohibitions and the mandate to make related regulations is the earlier of 12 months after the date of the issuance of final rules or 2 years after the date of enactment [July 21, 2010].)
 
 Delays the effective date of such prohibitions and regulatory mandate until the Secretary of the Treasury: (1) identifies the foreign countries having foreign banks chartered and headquartered in them that compete significantly with banking entities subject to such Act, and (2) certifies that such countries have applied to such foreign banks (including subsidiaries and affiliates) requirements equivalent to those set forth under such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Introduced in House
Refinery Regulatory Reduction Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3702
Sponsor: Rep. Kingston, Jack [R-GA-1]
Introduced: 2013-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Economic performance and conditions
Energy prices
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Industrial facilities
Inflation and prices
Motor fuels
Oil and gas
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: 
Refinery Regulatory Reduction Act of 2013 - Delays, until a report is submitted by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pursuant to this Act and enactment of a law setting such date, the effective date of a final rule: (1) requiring a reduction in sulfur content of gasoline, (2) establishing or revising a standard of performance for new stationary sources under the Clean Air Act applicable to the emission of any air pollutant from a petroleum refinery, or (3) concerning the emission of a greenhouse gas from a petroleum refinery.
 
Requires the report submitted upon finalizing any such rule to include: (1) estimates of impacts on competitiveness, prices, and employment; (2) estimates of cumulative costs and benefits; and (3) an assessment of the cumulative impacts on consumers and economic sectors, including oil refinery production.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Introduced in House
Sedona-Red Rock National Scenic Area Act of 2010

Bill: 113-hr-3704
Sponsor: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2013-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Forests, forestry, trees
Government trust funds
Land transfers
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: 
Sedona-Red Rock National Scenic Area Act of 2010 [
sic
] - Establishes the Sedona-Red Rock National Scenic Area in the Coconino National Forest in Arizona to limit exchanges of land involving National Forest System land included in the Scenic Area and to manage the System land included in the Scenic Area as provided in the land resource management plan for the Forest. 
 
Bars the inclusion of any land located outside the boundaries of Coconino National Forest in the Scenic Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Introduced in House
Excellence in Diagnostic Imaging Utilization Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3705
Sponsor: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2013-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Government information and archives
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: 
Excellence in Diagnostic Imaging Utilization Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to establish appropriateness requirements for certain outpatient advanced diagnostic imaging services for which payment is made under the technical or professional component of the physicians' fee schedule or the prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department services.
 
Defines &quot;applicable advanced diagnostic imaging services&quot; as those for which defined appropriate use criteria (and related guidelines) have been: (1) developed or endorsed by national professional medical specialty societies, and (2) selected by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) in consultation with such societies and other stakeholders.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) qualify imaging appropriateness registries developed and maintained by such societies, (2) publish a list of qualified suppliers of approved electronic clinical decision support tools, and (3) establish standards for the approval of such tools.
 
Directs the Secretary, for the purpose of making incentive payments for quality reporting, to treat an eligible advanced diagnostic imaging services professional as satisfactorily submitting data on quality measures if, instead of reporting measures under the established quality reporting system, the professional demonstrates compliance with the registry submission or consultation requirements of this Act for at least 90% of claims for applicable advanced diagnostic imaging services submitted in the year. Limits this treatment to eligible professionals who furnish the technical or professional component of applicable advanced diagnostic imaging services or who order such services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2013-12-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2013-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Introduced in House
To ensure the emergency protection of Iranian dissidents living in Camp Liberty/Hurriya and to provide for their admission as refugees to the United States.

Bill: 113-hr-3707
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2013-12-11 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Immigration status and procedures
International law and treaties
International organizations and cooperation
Iran
Iraq
Middle East
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Terrorism
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: 
Directs the United States to: (1) take all necessary and appropriate steps to ensure the safety of the residents of Camp Liberty/Hurriya in Iraq; (2) provide all necessary and appropriate assistance to the United Nations (U.N.) High Commissioner for Refugees to process refugee applications by the residents of Camp Liberty/Hurriya and to secure their safe resettlement outside of Iraq; and (3) admit the residents of Camp Liberty/Hurriya as refugees in the United States and not delay or bar such resettlement because any such resident is or has been a member of, or supports or has supported, organizations or groups that were subject to the Secretary of State's decision of September 21, 2012. 
 
Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to report to Congress on U.S. efforts to guard the safety of Camp Liberty/Hurriya residents and secure their orderly resettlement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2013-12-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2013-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-11
text: Introduced in House