hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Ensure Responsible Borrowing Act

Bill: 114-hr-5481
Sponsor: Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2016-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Financial literacy
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-14
text: 

Ensure Responsible Borrowing Act

 
This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to modify loan counseling requirements for an institution of higher education (IHE) that participates in federal student aid programs.
 
Currently, an IHE must provide one-time entrance counseling to a student who is a first-time Direct Loan (DL) program borrower. This bill allows an IHE to require any student DL program borrower to complete additional counseling on the terms, conditions, and responsibilities of a loan at or prior to its disbursement.
 
Additionally, it requires an IHE to ensure that student and parent DL program borrowers annually accept a loan affirmatively prior to the first disbursement of such loan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2016-06-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2016-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-14
text: Introduced in House
CRIB Act

Bill: 114-hr-5482
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-10]
Introduced: 2016-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health facilities and institutions
Home and outpatient care
Medicaid
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-14
text: 

Caring Recovery for Infants and Babies Act or the CRIB Act

 
This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to allow a state Medicaid program to cover inpatient or outpatient services at a residential pediatric recovery center for infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome (a postnatal drug withdrawal syndrome) and their families.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2016-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-14
text: Introduced in House
To extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project.

Bill: 114-hr-5483
Sponsor: Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4]
Introduced: 2016-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Alternative and renewable resources
Dams and canals
Electric power generation and transmission
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Licensing and registrations
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: 
This bill authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)to extend by six yearsthe time period during which Okanogan CountyPublic Utility District No. 1is required to commence construction on the Enloe Hydroelectric Project located on the Similkameen River in Okanogan County, Washington.
 
In addition, FERC is authorized to reinstate the construction license if it is expired.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E925)
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Poarch Band of Creek Indians Land Reaffirmation Act

Bill: 114-hr-5486
Sponsor: Rep. Byrne, Bradley [R-AL-1]
Introduced: 2016-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alabama
Florida
Indian lands and resources rights

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: 

Poarch Band of Creek Indians Land Reaffirmation Act

 This bill reaffirms as trust land specified land taken into trust by the United States for the benefit of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, including land in Escambia County, Florida, and Monroe, Escambia, and Montgomery Counties in Alabama.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Voting Access Act

Bill: 114-hr-5488
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2016-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Election Assistance Commission
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government studies and investigations
Political parties and affiliation

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: 

Voting Access Act

 
This bill amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require each state to comply with national standards established by the Election Assistance Commission for the location and operation of polling places used in elections for federal office.
 
The Commission shall establish such standards and study instances of the misidentification by election officials of the political party registration of individuals attempting to vote in primary elections for federal office.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Agriculture Environmental Stewardship Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5489
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2016-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural equipment and machinery
Alternative and renewable resources
Business investment and capital
Congressional oversight
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy research
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Government studies and investigations
Income tax credits
Livestock
Oil and gas
Pipelines
Securities
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: 

Agriculture Environmental Stewardship Act of 2016 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow energy tax credits through 2020 for investments in: (1) qualified biogas property, or (2) qualified manure resource recovery property. The bill also permits new clean renewable energy bonds to be used for such properties.
 
&quot;Qualified biogas property&quot; comprises a system that: (1) uses anaerobic digesters or other specified processes to convert biomass into a gas which is at least 52% methane; and (2) captures the gas for use as a fuel. The term includes property that cleans and conditions the gas for use as a fuel. 
 
&quot;Qualified manure resource recovery property&quot; comprises a system that uses specified processes to recover the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus from a non-treated digestate or animal manure by reducing or separating at least 50% of the nutrients, excluding any reductions during the incineration, storage, composting, or field application of the non-treated digestate or animal manure. The term also includes certain processing equipment. 
 
The Department of the Treasury must enter into an agreement with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for a study of biogas and report to Congress on the study. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2016-06-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2016-06-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2016-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to require that no deference be given to the interpretation of consumer financial law by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, to define the scope of judicial review of Bureau actions, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-5490
Sponsor: Rep. Love, Mia B. [R-UT-4]
Introduced: 2016-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer credit
Financial services and investments
Judicial review and appeals

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: 
This bill amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to repeal the declaration that the deference that a court affords to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) regarding its determination of the meaning or interpretation of any provision of a federal consumer financial law shall be applied as if the CFPB were the only agency authorized to apply, enforce, interpret, or administer the provisions of that law.
 
In any judicial review of a CFPB agency action, the reviewing court shall determine the meaning or applicability of the terms of a CFPB agency action and decide 
de novo 
all relevant questions of law, including the interpretation of constitutional and statutory provisions, as well as CFPB rules. No law may exempt any civil action for judicial review from the application of this bill except by specific reference to it.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-07-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2016-06-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2016-06-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2016-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Introduced in House
To require the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection to verify the accuracy of consumer complaint information before making such information available to the public.

Bill: 114-hr-5491
Sponsor: Rep. Mulvaney, Mick [R-SC-5]
Introduced: 2016-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: 
This bill amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to require the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to verify the accuracy of information in its consumer complaint database before making it available to the public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Introduced in House
SMASH Act

Bill: 114-hr-5492
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick [D-FL-18]
Introduced: 2016-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Emergency planning and evacuation
Government studies and investigations
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Insects
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Pest management

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: 

Strengthening Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health Act or the SMASH Act

 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend through FY2021 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grants for mosquito control programs. The grant program is expanded so that grants may be used to address emerging, infectious mosquito-borne diseases and to improve existing control programs. The CDC must give preference to applicants that have: (1) a public health emergency due to a mosquito-borne disease, or (2) a control program that is consistent with existing state preparedness plans. The requirement for matching funds may be waived if the area covered by a grant applicant has an extreme need due to the size or density of the human population, the size or density of the mosquito population, or the severity of the mosquito-borne disease.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Introduced in House
EDIT Act

Bill: 114-hr-5493
Sponsor: Rep. Stefanik, Elise M. [R-NY-21]
Introduced: 2016-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional agencies
Government information and archives
Legislative rules and procedure
Library of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: 

Establishing Digital Interactive Transparency Act or the EDIT Act

 
This bill instructs the Library of Congress, in the operation of the Congress.gov website, to ensure that each version of a bill or resolution which is made available for viewing permits the viewer to follow and track, within the same document, any changes made from the previous versions of that bill or resolution. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Introduced in House
To require that certain information relating to terrorism investigations be included in the NICS database, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-5495
Sponsor: Rep. Keating, William R. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2016-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Firearms and explosives
Retail and wholesale trades
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: 
This bill requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to include in the national instant criminal background check system (i.e., the NICS database) information about an individual who is or has been under a federal terrorism investigation.
 
A federal department or agency must submit to DOJ information about such individual. 
 
Additionally, if a licensed gun dealer requests a background check on a prospective gun buyer who is or has been under a federal terrorism investigation, then the NICS database must notify the appropriate division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the request and the pending firearm transfer. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Family and Medical Leave Act Protections for Part-time Workers Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5496
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2016-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee leave

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: 

Family and Medical Leave Act Protections for Part-time Workers Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to make an employee eligible for coverage if that employee has been employed for at least 12 months by a covered employer from whom the leave is requested.
 
The bill repeals the current requirement that the employee have served at least 1,250 hours during the 12-month period before the leave request.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2016-06-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2016-06-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2016-06-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2016-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Hospital Price Transparency and Disclosure Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5497
Sponsor: Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3]
Introduced: 2016-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Department of Health and Human Services
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: 

 Hospital Price Transparency and Disclosure Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to report to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): (1) the frequency of certain treatment episodes for the most frequently treated conditions in each setting, (2) the total number of such treatment episodes, and (3) the average charge for the insured and uninsured for such a treatment episode. 
 
HHS must publish on its website: (1) such information in a manner that promotes charge comparisons among hospitals and among ambulatory surgical centers, and (2) a link to other consumer quality information maintained on an HHS or Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services website. Hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers must post prominently at each admission site a notice of the availability of such data.
 
Civil penalties are authorized for violations of this bill. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Revitalize Our Cities Act

Bill: 114-hr-5498
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2016-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Economic performance and conditions
Employee hiring
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Securities
Unemployment
Urban and suburban affairs and development
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: 

Revitalize Our Cities Act

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2019 the period for designating an empowerment zone (an area in which tax incentives are allowed to increase investment and employment). 
 
The Department of Housing and Urban Development may designate, prior to January 1, 2018, 20 additional empowerment zones in urban areas in which the average unemployment rate and the average rate of residential and commercial foreclosures are each higher than that of the state within which the area is located for the period beginning January 1, 2012, and ending with the date of enactment of this bill. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Coal Cleanup Taxpayer Protection Act

Bill: 114-hr-5500
Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2016-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Coal
Corporate finance and management
Environmental regulatory procedures
Government liability
Land use and conservation
Mining
Pollution liability
Solid waste and recycling
State and local government operations
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: 

Coal Cleanup Taxpayer Protection Act

 
This bill amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act to prohibit the Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation Enforcement (OSMRE)and state regulatory authoritiesfrom accepting new self-bonds for coal reclamation.Additionally, any existing self-bonds or corporate bondsutilized for coal reclamationmust be converted to surety or collateral bonds.
 
The OSMRE may approve state or federal alternative coal miningbond programs thatresult in no greater risk of financial liability to the federalgovernment than a surety or collateral bond program.
 
The bill also requires the OSMRE to issue rules establishing limitations on surety bondsto minimize the financial liability to the federal or stategovernment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Get Veterans a Doctor Now Act

Bill: 114-hr-5501
Sponsor: Rep. O'Rourke, Beto [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2016-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Employee hiring
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Medical education
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: 

Get Veterans a Doctor Now Act

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to offer a contingent physician's appointment to a person who, upon completion of a post-graduate training program, completes a residency program within two years after the VA offer.
 
Eligibility requirements for a VA physician's appointment, including a contingency appointment, are revised to require completion of a residency program rather than an internship.
 
 The VA shall ensure that a recruiter or other similar official of each Veterans Integrated Service Network visits, at least annually, each allopathic and osteopathic teaching institution with a graduate medical education program within the Network to recruit individuals for the Veterans Health Administration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Introduced in House