hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Care for Life Act

Bill: 114-hr-6503
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2016-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: 

Care for Life Act 

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and maintain the Pregnant and Parenting Women's Care Information Service database. This database must provide pregnant women and new parents with information on public and private service providers that help such women and parents in alleviating the physical, financial, social, and emotional difficulties encountered during or after pregnancy. 
 
HHS may award grants to: (1) providers to develop best practices for communities to identify optimal ways to provide pregnancy and parenting support services, and (2) academic medical centers to provide specialized training in pregnancy and parenting support services. 
 
The Department of Labor must recognize and publicize the practices of employers who successfully meet the needs of their pregnant or parenting employees. 
 
The grant program of the Department of Education to improve postsecondary education opportunities is expanded to include funding for the development of an online information toolkit about agencies that are working within institutions of higher education to provide pregnancy and child care services for students. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Andrew Joseph III Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6505
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2016-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: 

Andrew Joseph III Act of 2016

This bill requires a jurisdiction to have in place, as a condition of eligibility for funds under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program, an independent civilian review board to review allegations of brutality and civil rights violations against law enforcement officers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To provide that the President shall be financially responsible for any additional security measures imposed on property in which the President holds an ownership interest, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-6506
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2016-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: 
This bill makes the President personally responsible for paying for any additional security measures, including protection from the U.S. Secret Service, with respect to property in which the President holds an ownership interest. 
 
&quot;Property&quot; is defined to include any property from which the President receives revenue. 
 
 No amounts may be appropriated to pay for such measures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the Freedom of Information Act), to require an agency to release the Federal income tax returns of the President upon request, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-6507
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2016-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: 
This bill amends: (1) the Freedom of Information Act to require the Department of the Treasury to make available each federal income tax return filed by an individual serving as President upon request, and (2) the Internal Revenue Code to authorize Treasury to disclose such returns.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Preventing Preventable Earthquakes Act

Bill: 114-hr-6508
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2016-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: 

Preventing Preventable Earthquakes Act

 
This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act by requiring regulations for state underground injection programs to include provisions designed to prevent the occurrence of seismicity induced by underground injection activities.
 
The bill redefines &quot;underground injection&quot; to include the subsurface emplacement of fluids or propping agents pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations. Hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) is a process to extract underground resources such as oil or gas from a geologic formation by injecting water, a propping agent (e.g., sand), and chemical additives into a well under enough pressure to fracture the geological formation.
 
The Environmental Protection Agency must review approved state underground injection programs at least once every five years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Solider's HONR Act

Bill: 114-hr-6509
Sponsor: Rep. Heck, Denny [D-WA-10]
Introduced: 2016-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: 

Soldier's Help Obtaining Negotiated Rates Act or the Solider's HONR Act

 
This bill amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to permit an individual to provide to a creditor as proof of military service, in order to qualify for the active service interest rate limitation, a certified letter from a commanding officer or any other appropriate indicator of military service. A creditor may use information from the Defense Manpower Database Center indicating that the individual is on active duty. 
 
A creditor that uses center information has not failed to treat the individual's debt as required if: (1) such information indicates that such individual is not on active duty; and (2) the creditor has not received the other proof required.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Save the Children Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6510
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2016-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Conflicts and wars
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Immigration status and procedures
Middle East
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Syria
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: 

Save the Children Act of 2016

 
This bill directs the Departments of State, Justice, Homeland Security (DHS), and Health and Human Services to establish the Save the Children program to grant nonimmigrant visas to certain young minor children from Syria between the ages of 3 and 10 to enter and remain in the United States until there is a sustained reduction of civil war violence in Syria and a substantial reduction in the numbers of newly displaced Syria inhabitants.
 
The bill establishes in the DHS Office of Refugee Resettlement a Coordinator of the Save the Children program. 
 
The program shall terminate six months after the State Department certifies that there is a sustained reduction of civil war violence in Syria and a substantial reduction in the numbers of newly displaced Syria inhabitants. 
 
The program provides for the admission of not more than 5,000 children in the first year and 10,000 children for each of the second and third years. 
 
The bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a nonimmigrant W-visa for an alien who: (1) is resident in or was born in Syria but is currently a displaced person or refugee living in another country, (2) is between 3 and 10 years old, and (3) has been approved by the State Department to temporarily reside in the United States. 
 
Program aliens may remain in the United States until the State Department certifies that there is a sustained reduction of civil war violence in Syria and a substantial reduction in the numbers of newly displaced Syria inhabitants, with a six-month grace period for reunification efforts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
One President at a Time Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6511
Sponsor: Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2]
Introduced: 2016-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: 

One President at a Time Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to specify that the President-elect, or a person acting on behalf of the President-elect, is subject to the prohibition against unauthorized correspondence with a foreign government about a dispute or controversy with the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Accessibility Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6512
Sponsor: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2016-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government trust funds
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: 

Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Accessibility Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to permit the Department of Health and Human Services to make loans and loan guarantees for construction or renovation of psychiatric or substance abuse treatment facilities. The bill establishes terms and conditions for these loans and loan guarantees.
 
The bill establishes the Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment Trust Fund. Revenues from the loans and loan guarantees that exceed the cost of carrying out the program may be appropriated to the fund. Amounts in the fund are available for block grants for community mental health services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
American Future Healthcare Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6513
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2016-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Inflation and prices
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: 

American Future Healthcare Act of 2016 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to health savings accounts (HSAs), to: 
 
 
 repeal the requirement that an individual making a tax deductible contribution to an HSA be covered by a high deductible health care plan; 
 
 increase the maximum HSA contribution level; 
 
 allow Medicare eligible individuals to contribute to an HSA; 
 
 allow HSAs to be used to purchase health insurance; 
 
 provide a cost-of-living adjustment for the limits on additional contributions for individuals 55 or older (catch-up contributions); 
 
 require the cost-of-living adjustments to be indexed to the CPI medical care component (the medical care component for the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers published by the Department of Labor); and 
 
 allow a rollover of HSA amounts to a Medicare Advantage Medical Savings Account (MSA). 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to redirect user fees assessed of health insurance issuers on Federal Exchanges, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-6514
Sponsor: Rep. Lance, Leonard [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2016-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: 
This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services to deposit monthly in the Treasury $1.50 for each individual enrolled in health insurance coverage though a federally operated health insurance exchange.
 The user fee charged to health insurers by federally operated health insurance exchanges may not exceed a specified percentage of a plan's premiums.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Fairness to Teaching Hospitals Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6515
Sponsor: Rep. Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK-2]
Introduced: 2016-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: 

Fairness to Teaching Hospitals Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to specify that a certain Medicare rule for counting resident time in nonprovider settings shall not be applied in a manner that requires the reopening of any settled hospital cost reports except where there was a jurisdictionally proper appeal pending as of March 23, 2010. The bill applies retroactively.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to expand eligibility for the Veterans Choice Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to establish a minimum period of care or services under such program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-6516
Sponsor: Rep. O'Rourke, Beto [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2016-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: 
This bill amends the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to expand eligibility for the Veterans Choice Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to: (1) cover a veteran who is unable to schedule an appointment with his or her primary care physician at the same VA medical facility at which the veteran had the most recent appointment with the physician because the physician is no longer employed at such facility, and (2) establish a minimum one-year period of care or services under such program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
INFORM Act

Bill: 114-hr-6517
Sponsor: Rep. O'Rourke, Beto [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2016-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disability and paralysis
Government information and archives
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health promotion and preventive care
Mental health
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: 

Increasing New recruit Focus On Receiving Mental healthcare Act or the INFORM Act

 
This bill urges the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that preventing veteran suicide and providing veterans access to mental health care is its top reform priority. 
 
The VA shall, every 30 days, determine and provide to the Department of Defense, with respect to the previous year:
 
 
the average national wait times (in days) for veterans enrolled in the VA health care system to receive appointments for mental health care and primary health care at VA medical facilities, 
 
the average time for the VA to process a claim for disability compensation, and 
 
the average time for the VA to decide an appeal of such a claim. 

 
The VA shall place a sign displaying the most current such times in a conspicuous location at each military entrance processing station.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
MACPAC Improvement Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6518
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2016-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Child health
Congressional oversight
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health programs administration and funding
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: 

MACPAC Improvement Act of 2016

 
This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to modify provisions related to the duties, membership, and conflict-of-interest policies of the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) Payment and Access Commission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Safeguarding Sanctuary Cities Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6519
Sponsor: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2016-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Detention of persons
Immigration status and procedures
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
State and local finance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: 

Safeguarding Sanctuary Cities Act of 2016

 
This bill prohibits reducing or withholding federal financial assistance that a state or local government would otherwise receive because such state or local government has in place any policy that limits or restricts compliance with a detainer.
 
A &quot;detainer&quot; is defined as any order or request by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for a state or local official to:
 
 
 temporarily hold a person until such person may be taken into federal custody, 
 
 transport such a person for transfer to federal custody, or
 
 notify DHS prior to releasing such person.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2016-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Introduced in House