hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Responsibility in Federal Contracting Act

Bill: 114-hr-924
Sponsor: Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2015-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Public contracts and procurement
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: 

Responsibility in Federal Contracting Act

 
 Requires that the locally prevailing wage paid to various classes of laborers and mechanics working under federally-financed or federally-assisted contracts for construction, alteration, and repair of public buildings or public works (Davis-Bacon Act) be determined by the Secretary of Labor (as under current law), but acting through the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), using surveys carried out by BLS that use proper random statistical sampling techniques.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the provision of guide dogs to veterans blinded by a service-connected injury.

Bill: 114-hr-926
Sponsor: Rep. Amodei, Mark E. [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Service animals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: 
 Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide trained guide dogs to veterans who are blind by reason of a service-connected disability, are enrolled for VA hospital care and medical services, and elect to receive such a dog.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Bill: 114-hr-928
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2015-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Insurance industry and regulation
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: 
This bill repeals a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that imposes an annual fee on a health insurance provider based on its net premium income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-12
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: 2015-02-12
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: 2015-02-12
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: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit former Members of Congress from engaging in lobbying contacts.

Bill: 114-hr-929
Sponsor: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2015-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional officers and employees
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Members of Congress
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: 
Amends the federal criminal code to replace the current two-year ban on lobbying contacts by former Senators and one-year ban on lobbying contacts by former Members of the House of Representatives with any Member, officer, or employee of either chamber with an outright ban at any time on such contacts, subject to fines and/or imprisonment.
 
Specifies a one-year ban on lobbying contacts by former elected officers of the House with any House Member, officer, or employee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
School Principal Recruitment and Training Act

Bill: 114-hr-930
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2015-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Performance measurement
Rural conditions and development
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: 

School Principal Recruitment and Training Act

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


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
HEAL Act

Bill: 114-hr-931
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2015-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Consumer affairs
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Licensing and registrations
Medical research
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: 

Helping Effective Antibiotics Last Act of 2015 or the HEAL Act

 
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to allow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve an antibacterial drug or biological product that is intended to treat a serious or life-threatening condition only for treating a well-defined population of patients. To be approved, the antibacterial product must produce superior outcomes over available therapies in the well-defined patient population.
 
A product approved by this pathway must include in its prescribing information the population of patients expected to benefit from using the product and the method for identifying members of that population. The FDA must require each product to have a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy.
 
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must monitor changes to bacterial drug resistance and changes to patient outcomes caused by bacterial drug resistance.
 
Upon approval of antibacterial products, the FDA must identify susceptibility test interpretive criteria (the drug concentrations where a type of bacteria is categorized as susceptible, intermediate, or resistant) and update the criteria as needed based upon evidence of changes in patient outcomes. 
 
To be eligible for an exclusivity period extension, a qualified infectious disease product must be demonstrated to produce superior outcomes over available therapies.
 The FDA must issue guidance on the development of target product profiles for antibacterial drugs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Head Start on Vaccinations Act

Bill: 114-hr-933
Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-18]
Introduced: 2015-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Immunology and vaccination
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Preschool education

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: 

Head Start on Vaccinations Act

 
Amends the Head Start Act to prohibit the enrollment of a child in a Head Start or Early Head Start program unless the child's parent or guardian: (1) provides the program with information establishing that the child is vaccinated in accordance with the pediatric vaccine list; or (2) submits a signed agreement to provide such information and consents to the provision, by a program employee or other health care provider, of any vaccines on the pediatric vaccine list that the child has not yet received. Requires that information to be provided on an annual basis in order for a child to maintain enrollment in such program.
 
Requires any child who is not in compliance with such requirements to be removed from such program, but provides for the exemption of children for whom the administration of such vaccines is medically contraindicated.
 
Authorizes the director of a Head Start or Early Head Start agency to use program funds to: (1) administer the required vaccines to children, at the request of the parent or guardian; or (2) assist the parent or guardian in gaining access to the required vaccines.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Redistricting and Voter Protection Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-934
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2015-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Congressional districts and representation
Intergovernmental relations
Judicial procedure and administration
Racial and ethnic relations
State and local government operations
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: 

Redistricting and Voter Protection Act of 2015 

 
 Requires a state that enacts a congressional redistricting plan prior to the next decennial census and apportionment of Representatives to obtain a declaratory judgment or preclearance from the Attorney General that such plan does not have the purpose or effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color or in contravention of the guarantees of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
National Freight Network Trust Fund Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-935
Sponsor: Rep. Hahn, Janice [D-CA-44]
Introduced: 2015-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Government trust funds
Motor carriers
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Railroads
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: 

National Freight Network Trust Fund Act of 2015

 
 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish the National Freight Network Trust Fund, from which expenditures shall be made to fund awards under the National Freight Network Grant Program. Appropriates to the Fund amounts equivalent to 5% of the import duties imposed under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States.
 
Establishes such Program in the Department of Transportation, under which the Secretary of Transportation shall make grants to states, regional or local transportation organizations, or port authorities to assist projects that improve the performance of the national freight network. Directs the Secretary to evaluate and select projects on a competitive basis by considering their potential to:
 
 
 generate national economic benefits,
 
 improve the performance of key corridors and gateways,
 
 reduce congestion,
 
 improve transportation safety, and
 
 enhance the network. 
 
 
Requires the Secretary to update the national freight network every five years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2015-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2015-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2015-02-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E207)
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Fast Track to College Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-937
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2015-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: 

Fast Track to College Act of 2015

 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award matching six-year grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) that partner with institutions of higher education (IHEs) to establish or support dual enrollment programs, such as early college high schools, that allow secondary school students to earn credit simultaneously toward a secondary school diploma and a postsecondary degree or certificate.
 
Gives grant priority to applicants: (1) that propose to establish or support a dual enrollment program for a student body at least 40% of which is impoverished; and (2) from states that provide assistance to dual enrollment programs, such as assistance defraying the costs of higher education.
 
Requires applicants to make assurances that: (1) students will not be required to pay tuition or fees for postsecondary courses, and (2) those courses will be taught by faculty that meet their partner IHE's normal standards.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award matching five-year grants to states to: (1) plan and implement statewide strategies to make dual enrollment programs more accessible to students who are underrepresented in postsecondary education; (2) provide technical assistance to dual enrollment programs; and (3) engage in outreach, assessment, and teacher training activities designed to strengthen such programs.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) contract for an independent evaluation of this Act's programs, and (2) provide technical assistance to LEAs and their partners and disseminate information concerning best practices in dual enrollment programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act Reauthorization of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-938
Sponsor: Rep. Jolly, David W. [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2015-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Elementary and secondary education
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Higher education
Mental health
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: 

Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act Reauthorization of 2015

 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize and revise a research, training, and technical assistance resource center to prevent suicides (the Suicide Prevention Resource Center). Expands the program's focus from youth suicides to suicides among all ages, particularly among groups that are at high risk for suicide. Repeals authority for grants to establish research, training, and technical assistance centers related to mental health, substance abuse and the justice system. 
 
Reauthorizes a program of grants for the development of state or tribal youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies.
 
Reauthorizes and revises a grant program to enhance services for students with mental health or substance use disorders at institutions of higher education. Requires the Center for Mental Health Services to award grants to enhance such services and to develop best practices for the delivery of such services. Permits grant funds to be used for the provision of such services to students and to employ appropriately trained staff. Requires special consideration be given to applications for grants that describe programs that demonstrate the greatest need for new or additional mental and substance use disorder services and the greatest potential for replication.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Pell Grant Funding Act

Bill: 114-hr-939
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2015-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: 

Pell Grant Funding Act

 
Directs the Secretary of Education to use any excess revenue generated by the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan program during a fiscal year to carry out the Federal Pell Grant program in the next fiscal year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to extend the requirement of the Secretary to furnish hospital care and medical services through non-Department of Veterans Affairs entities to veterans residing in certain locations.

Bill: 114-hr-941
Sponsor: Rep. Kuster, Ann M. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Hospital care
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: 
Amends the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to extend indefinitely the requirement that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) furnish hospital care and medical services through non-VA facilities to veterans who reside: (1) in a state without a VA medical facility that provides hospital care, emergency medical services, and surgical care; and (2) more than 20 miles from such a facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House