hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Flood Insurance Premium Parity Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-141
Sponsor: Rep. Jolly, David W. [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2015-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: 

Flood Insurance Premium Parity Act of 2015

 
Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from estimating reduced (subsidized) risk premium rates for flood insurance for residential property that is neither the primary residence of an individual (as under current law) nor the secondary residence of the property owner. 
 
Directs FEMA to establish standards for a residential property to qualify as a secondary residence eligible for subsidized risk flood insurance premium rates that: (1) require the owner to occupy the property for an appropriate minimum period of time each year, and (2) limit subsidized risk premium rates to but a single property of the owner. 
 
Repeals the prohibition against estimating subsidized risk premium rates for business property (thus qualifying business property for such rates).
 
Requires FEMA, when developing guidance and rate tables necessary to implement this Act, to consult with Write Your Own companies, which are participating property and casualty insurance companies that write and service standard flood insurance policies in cooperation with FEMA. Write Your Own companies shall have between six and eight months following issuance of final guidance and rate tables to implement the changes required by them.
 
Directs FEMA to refund directly to insureds any flood insurance premiums collected in excess of the rates required under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1989 to expand the Coast Guard Junior Reserve Officers Training Program Pilot Program to include a Coast Guard unit at Pinellas Park High School in Pinellas Park, Florida, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-142
Sponsor: Rep. Jolly, David W. [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2015-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Coast guard
Department of Homeland Security
Elementary and secondary education
Florida
Marine and inland water transportation
Military education and training
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: 
This bill amends the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1989 to expand the Coast Guard Junior Reserve Officers Training Program Pilot Program by authorizing the Coast Guard to establish and maintain a junior reserve officers training program in cooperation with the Pinellas County School District of Pinellas County, Florida.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Patient Freedom Act of 2014

Bill: 114-hr-143
Sponsor: Rep. Jolly, David W. [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2015-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: 

Patient Freedom Act of 2014 [
sic
]

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal, after 2013, the requirement that individuals maintain minimum essential health care coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Max Tax Act

Bill: 114-hr-144
Sponsor: Rep. Jolly, David W. [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2015-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment taxes
Income tax rates
Property tax
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Transfer and inheritance taxes
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: 

Alternative Maximum Tax Act or the Max Tax Act
 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for an alternative maximum tax for a taxpayer other than a corporate taxpayer. Limits the tax to 50% of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income, calculated by adding all federal, state, and local taxes paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year and dividing that amount by the taxpayer's adjusted gross income. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the work opportunity tax credit and to allow the transfer of such credit in the case of contracted veterans.

Bill: 114-hr-145
Sponsor: Rep. Jolly, David W. [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2015-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Employee hiring
Income tax credits
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the work opportunity tax credit, to: (1) make such credit permanent, and (2) allow the transfer of credit amounts to an individual other than the employer for computer services performed by a qualified veteran (i.e. an unemployed veteran with a service-connected disability).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that members of the Armed Forces serving on active duty who are diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury have access to hyperbaric oxygen therapy at military medical treatment facilities.

Bill: 114-hr-146
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2015-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Mental health
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
Neurological disorders

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to furnish hyperbaric oxygen therapy available at a military medical treatment facility to a member of the Armed Forces who is: (1) prescribed such therapy by a physician, (2) serving on active duty, and (3) diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Congressional Foreign Travel Cost Disclosure Act

Bill: 114-hr-147
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2015-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Government information and archives
Members of Congress
Military facilities and property
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: 

Congressional Foreign Travel Cost Disclosure Act 

 
This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to determine and disclose transportation costs incurred by DOD for congressional trips outside of the United States. The costs must be disclosed to the Member, officer, or employee involved; the House or Senate Armed Services Committees, and on DOD's public website. This disclosure requirement does not apply to trips with the sole purpose of visiting U.S. military installations or U.S. military personnel in a war zone. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that every military chaplain has the prerogative to close a prayer outside of a religious service according to the dictates of the chaplain's own conscience.

Bill: 114-hr-148
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2015-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents
Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: 
Authorizes a military chaplain, if called upon to lead a prayer outside of a religious service, to close the prayer according to the dictates of the chaplain's conscience.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to permit candidates for election for Federal office to designate an individual who will be authorized to disburse funds of the authorized campaign committees of the candidate in the event of the death of the candidate.

Bill: 114-hr-149
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2015-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: 
This bill amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to permit candidates for election to federal office to: (1) designate an individual for each of a candidate's authorized campaign committees who will be authorized to disburse funds of the committee in the event of the candidate's death, and (2) designate another individual to carry out the responsibilities of the designated individual in the event of the death or incapacity of the designated individual or the designated individual's unwillingness to carry out the responsibilities.
 
The bill prescribes procedures for filing and revoking such a designation, and permits the filing of a designation to contain the candidate's instructions regarding the disbursement of funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
No Political Funds for Personal Use Act

Bill: 114-hr-150
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2015-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: 

No Political Funds for Personal Use Act 

 
 Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 with respect to the use of campaign contributions to apply the prohibition against the conversion to personal use of contributions accepted by candidates also to contributions accepted by political committees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
To correct the boundaries of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Unit L06, Topsail, North Carolina.

Bill: 114-hr-151
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2015-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
North Carolina
Seashores and lakeshores

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: 
This bill revises the boundaries of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Unit L06 in Topsail, North Carolina.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
To restore the Free Speech and First Amendment rights of churches and exempt organizations by repealing the 1954 Johnson Amendment.

Bill: 114-hr-153
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2015-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
First Amendment rights
Religion
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the prohibition against churches and other tax-exempt organizations participating in political campaigns or supporting or opposing candidates for public office. Provides that this repeal shall not invalidate or limit any provision of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Close the Floodgates Act

Bill: 114-hr-154
Sponsor: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2015-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Political parties and affiliation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: 

Close the Floodgates Act

 
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended by the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, to repeal certain limits on separate contributions by persons or multicandidate political committees to political committees of a national political party which are not the authorized political committees of any candidate. Specifies those contributions used to defray expenses for:
 
 
a presidential nominating convention;
 
the construction, purchase, renovation, operation, and furnishing of party headquarters buildings; and
 
the preparation for and the conduct of election recounts, contests, and other legal proceedings. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H160)
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Defund Amnesty Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-155
Sponsor: Rep. Marino, Tom [R-PA-10]
Introduced: 2015-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Appropriations
Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional-executive branch relations
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign labor
Homeland security
Immigration status and procedures
Law enforcement administration and funding
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: 

Defund Amnesty Act of 2015 

 
This bill prohibits the use of funds appropriated or otherwise made available to implement or enforce specified immigration-related policies in: 
 
 
the memoranda issued by the Secretary of Homeland Security on November 20, 2014, 
 
the memoranda issued by the President on November 21, 2014, and 
 
any substantially similar memorandum issued after November 21, 2014.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-157
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2015-01-06 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Military operations and strategy

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: 

Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act of 2015

 
Places restrictions on the use of cluster munitions. 
 
Directs the President, within 90 days after the use of such munitions, to submit to Congress a plan for cleaning up any such munitions or submunitions which fail to explode and continue to pose a hazard to civilians.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Truth in Lending Act to allow certain loans that are not fully amortizing to be used in seller carryback financing on residential mortgage loans.

Bill: 114-hr-162
Sponsor: Rep. Schweikert, David [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2015-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: 
Amends the Truth in Lending Act to modify the exclusion from the definition of "mortgage originator" of a seller providing mortgage financing of three properties in a 12-month period to remove the requirement that a residential mortgage loan be fully amortizing. (Allows treatment as a mortgage originator of any seller providing mortgage financing of three properties in a 12-month period even if the mortgage loan involved is not fully amortizing.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
RATE Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-163
Sponsor: Rep. Schweikert, David [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2015-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Credit and credit markets
Federal Reserve System
Government information and archives
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: 

Rate of Average Time Execution Act of 2015 
 
or the
 
 RATE Act of 2015

 
Amends the Federal Reserve Act to direct the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to collect, publish, and keep current a set of indices, meeting specified criteria, that report the rate for dollar-denominated loans of various maturities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring the Full Faith and Credit of the United States and Protecting America's Soldiers and Seniors Act

Bill: 114-hr-164
Sponsor: Rep. Schweikert, David [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2015-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Military personnel and dependents
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: 

Ensuring the Full Faith and Credit of the United States and Protecting America's Soldiers and Seniors Act

 
 Requires the following to take equal priority over all other federally incurred obligations in the event that the public debt reaches the statutory limit: (1) the authority of the Department of the Treasury to pay with legal tender the principal and interest on debt held by the public; (2) the authority of the Commissioner of Social Security to pay monthly Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance benefits under title II of the Social Security Act; and (3) the payment of pay and allowances for members of the Armed Forces on active duty. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Transparency on Prioritizing Spending Act

Bill: 114-hr-165
Sponsor: Rep. Schweikert, David [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2015-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: 

Transparency on Prioritizing Spending Act 

 
This bill requires the President to submit a report to Congress detailing the priority of paying obligations of the federal government in the event that the statutory debt limit is reached. The report must be submitted no later than 30 days after enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judgeship and Reorganization Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-166
Sponsor: Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2]
Introduced: 2015-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Alaska
Arizona
California
Federal appellate courts
Guam
Hawaii
Idaho
Judges
Judicial procedure and administration
Montana
Nevada
Northern Mariana Islands
Oregon
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: 

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judgeship and Reorganization Act of 2015

 
Divides the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit into: (1) the Ninth Circuit, composed of California, Guam, Hawaii, and Northern Mariana Islands; and (2) the Twelfth Circuit, composed of Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.
 
Directs the President to appoint two additional judges for the former Ninth Circuit, three judges for the new Ninth Circuit, and two additional temporary judges for the former Ninth Circuit. 
 
Specifies the locations where new circuits are to hold regular sessions. 
 
Distributes active circuit judges of the former Ninth Circuit to the new circuits. Allows senior circuit judges of the former Ninth Circuit to elect assignment. 
 
Provides for the disposition of cases pending in the former Ninth Circuit before the effective date of this Act as follows: (1) proceedings in matters that have been submitted for decision shall continue without regard to this Act, (2) matters not yet submitted for decision must be transferred to the court to which they would have been submitted under this Act, and (3) proceedings on petitions for rehearing or rehearing en banc in matters submitted or decided shall continue without regard to this Act. 
 
Authorizes the temporary assignment of circuit and district judges of the former Ninth Circuit between the new circuits. Authorizes administrative coordination between any two contiguous circuits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Introduced in House