hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Tribal Transportation Self-Governance Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1068
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2015-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian social and development programs
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: 

Tribal Transportation Self-Governance Act of 2015

 
The Department of Transporttion (DOT) shall establish a tribal transportation self-governance program via a compact with an Indian tribe, subject to negotiated annual written funding arrangements with the tribe.
 
A funding agreement shall authorize the Indian tribe to plan, conduct, consolidate, administer, and receive full tribal share funding and funding to tribes from DOT-administered discretionary and competitive grants for all programs, services, functions, and activities to carry out tribal transportation programs and DOT-administered programs, services, functions, and activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Student Bill of Rights

Bill: 114-hr-1070
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Preschool education
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: 

Student Bill of Rights

 
Directs the Secretary of Education to make annual determinations as to whether each state's public school system provides all its students with the educational resources to succeed academically and in life. Requires such education to enable students to: (1) acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for responsible citizenship, (2) meet challenging academic achievement standards, and (3) compete and succeed in a global economy.
 
Requires each system to do so by: (1) satisfying certain opportunity to learn indicators for all its schools, including highly effective teachers and equitable instructional resources; (2) providing educational services in local educational agencies (LEAs) that receive funds for disadvantaged students that are, taken as a whole, at least comparable to educational services provided in LEAs not receiving such funds; and (3) complying with any final federal or state court order in any matter concerning the adequacy or equitableness of the system. 
Requires withholding of specified portions of its federal funding for administrative expenses if a system: (1) fails to meet a yearly interim goal; (2) does not remedy, after two school years, a failure to provide comparable educational services to schools that receive funds for disadvantaged children; or (3) does not comply with a court order. 
Allows students or parents aggrieved by violations of this Act to bring civil actions for enforcement in federal district courts. 
Directs the Commissioner of Education Statistics to study the effects of educational disparities on economic growth and on national defense.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Fiscal Fairness Act

Bill: 114-hr-1071
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: 
 
Fiscal Fairness Act

 
Amends part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to condition local educational agency (LEA) receipt of school improvement funds on: (1) an average state and local spending per pupil in each school receiving school improvement funds of at least 97% of such spending per pupil across all of the LEA's schools that are not receiving such funds; and (2) an average state and local spending per pupil in each higher poverty school of at least 97% of such spending per pupil across all lower poverty schools, if the LEA is serving all of its schools under part A.
 
Allows LEAs to meet such requirement across all schools or among schools serving a particular grade span if they compare schools within no more than three grade spans.
 
Directs the Inspector General of the Department of Education, in the fourth and fifth years after this Act's enactment, to audit 5 states and 10 LEAs to determine their progress in meeting these requirements.
 
Requires annual LEA report cards to include certain information on state and local spending per pupil in schools.
 
Requires states to provide the public with annual up-to-date school-by-school listings of per-pupil state and local spending.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Passenger Fee Restructuring Exemptions Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1074
Sponsor: Rep. Gabbard, Tulsi [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Alaska
Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
Hawaii
Transportation safety and security
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: 

Passenger Fee Restructuring Exemptions Act of 2015

 
 Revises aviation security service fee requirements. 
 
Makes an exception to the $5.60 per one-way trip fee for certain passengers for domestic flights that originate at a U.S. airport.
 
Limits such fees to $2.50 per enplanement, with the total not to exceed $5.00 per one-way trip, for any passengers: (1) boarding to an eligible small community for which essential air service compensation is paid; or (2) on flights, including flight segments, between two or more points in Hawaii or two or more points in Alaska.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1076
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Civil actions and liability
Firearms and explosives
Judicial review and appeals
Licensing and registrations
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: 

Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2015

 
 Amends the federal criminal code to grant the Attorney General the authority to deny the transfer of firearms or the issuance of a federal firearms and explosives license to any individual if the Attorney General: (1) determines that such individual has been engaged in or has provided material support or resources for terrorist activities, and (2) has a reasonable belief that such individual may use a firearm or explosive in connection with terrorism. Allows any individual whose firearm or explosives license application has been denied to bring legal action challenging the denial.
 
Prohibits the sale or distribution of firearms or explosives to any individual whom the Attorney General has determined to be engaged in terrorist activities. 
 
Permits the Attorney General to withhold information in firearms and explosives license denial revocation suits if the Attorney General determines that the disclosure of such information would likely compromise national security.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to revoke firearms and explosives licenses and permits held by individuals determined to be engaged in terrorism. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-12-07
text: Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mr. Thompson (CA). Petition No: 114-3. (<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/114/lrc/pd/petitions/DisPet0003.xml">Discharge petition</a> text with signatures.)
action_date: 2015-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument Boundary Modification Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1077
Sponsor: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2015-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Historical and cultural resources
Intergovernmental relations
Land transfers
Monuments and memorials
State and local government operations
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: 

Casa Grande Ruins National Monument Boundary Modification Act of 2015 

 
 This bill authorizes the Department of the Interior to acquire specified private or state lands or interests from willing sellers in order to expand the boundaries of the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. 
 
Two additional parcels of land are also to be included in the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. One parcel of 3.8 acres is currently being administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The other parcel of 7.41 acres currently being administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is exchanged for 3.5 acres of land currently being administered by the National Park Service (NPS). That land is to be used by BIA for the San Carlos Irrigation Project. 
 
 
As consideration for the acquisition of state and private lands under this Act, unless such lands are donated, Interior must: (1) pay fair market value; or (2) convey to the state of Arizona and private land owners federal lands, interest in federal land, or any other federal asset of equal value located in Arizona. 
 
Interior may enter into an agreement with the state of Arizona to provide for cooperative management of approximately 200 acres of specified state trust lands. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Food and Drug Administration Safety Over Sequestration Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1078
Sponsor: Rep. Lance, Leonard [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2015-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: 

Food and Drug Administration Safety Over Sequestration Act of 2015 

 
This bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to exempt certain Food and Drug Administration user fees from sequestration. Sequestration is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Counseling for Career Choice Act

Bill: 114-hr-1079
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Educational guidance
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: 

Counseling for Career Choice Act

 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive establishment grants to states to develop and implement comprehensive school career counseling programs that provide students with effective postsecondary education planning and career guidance services. 
 
Requires each program to be aligned with a statewide counseling framework that: (1) encompasses grades 6 through 12 and postsecondary education; and (2) is developed in consultation with, or exists with the support of, at least five stakeholders that include at least one business or industry and at least one local educational agency (LEA) or secondary school.
 
Requires establishment grant funds to be used to:
 
 
train and hire school counselors;
 
identify regional workforce trends and postsecondary options available in the state;
 
establish, improve, or coordinate postsecondary opportunities;
 
recommend curricular improvements to better align curricula with workforce trends and available postsecondary opportunities;
 
establish partnerships with American Job Centers; and
 
leverage the resources and emerging technologies being developed by stakeholders to support the counseling framework.
 
 
Allows states to carry out program activities directly or through competitive subgrants to LEAs, or consortia consisting of an LEA, and one or more LEAs, educational service agencies, tribal organizations, postsecondary institutions, or nonprofit organizations with expertise in counseling or career and technical education.
 
Directs the Secretary to reserve at least 10%, but no more than 20%, of the amount appropriated for this Act's counseling program to award competitive capacity-building grants to states that do not receive an establishment grant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
IDEA MOE Adjustment Act

Bill: 114-hr-1080
Sponsor: Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2015-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Intergovernmental relations
Special education
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: 

IDEA MOE Adjustment Act

 
Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to alter the formula for reallocating the federal special education funding that is denied to states that reduce their level of special education funding from one fiscal year to the next. 
 
Reallocates:
 
 
85% of those funds on the basis of each nonpenalized state's share of children aged 3 through 21 who are of the same age as children with disabilities for whom the state provides a free appropriate public education, and
 
15% of those funds on the basis of each nonpenalized state's share of those children who are impoverished.
 
 
Prohibits the Secretary of Education from considering those penalties or redistributions when calculating the amount of special education funds a state received in a preceding fiscal year for purposes of determining the state's current share of federal special education funds.
 
Limits the application of the penalty imposed on a state that reduces its special education funding from one fiscal year to the next to a reduction of federal special education funds (equal to the amount of the state shortfall) that is imposed: (1) the following fiscal year, or (2) over a multi-year period that is no more than five consecutive fiscal years. (Currently, that penalty may be imposed on a state for any fiscal year after the fiscal year the state reduces its special education funding.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
STEM 2 Act

Bill: 114-hr-1081
Sponsor: Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2015-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Advisory bodies
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Minority education
Performance measurement
Rural conditions and development
School administration
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: 

STEM Support for Teachers in Education and Mentoring (STEM) Act or the STEM 2 Act

 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive planning grants to states, Indian tribes or tribal organizations, nonprofit organizations, or institutions of higher education (IHEs) to develop effective state or tribal science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) networks that coordinate STEM education efforts by: (1) facilitating communication and collaboration among public and private STEM stakeholders, and (2) identifying STEM occupational skills needed in the future.
 
Directs the Secretary to award competitive grants to states, Indian tribes or tribal organizations, local educational agencies (LEAs), IHEs, or nonprofit organizations to develop, implement, and evaluate STEM education training programs for teachers and administrators in elementary, middle, and secondary schools and for preservice teachers in postsecondary schools.
 
Requires the Secretary to award competitive grants to states, Indian tribes or tribal organizations, LEAs, public charter schools, IHEs, or nonprofit organizations to support curriculum development, assessments, or related activities that enable states to adopt new mathematics and science academic standards. 
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a national panel to identify and recommend the most effective STEM curricula models for kindergarten through grade 12.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Physician Self-Referral Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1083
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2015-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Health personnel
Medicaid
Medical ethics
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: 

Medicaid Physician Self-Referral Act of 2015

 
 Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSAct) with respect to physician self-referral limitations to repeal the prohibition against payment of federal funds to a state for medical assistance expenditures for a designated health service furnished to an individual on the basis of a referral (self-referral) that would result in denial of payment under SSAct title XVIII (Medicare).
 
Requires a state plan for medical assistance to prohibit payment for a Medicaid designated health service furnished to an individual on the basis of a physician's referral if the physician (or an immediate family member) has an ownership or investment interest or a compensation arrangement with the entity furnishing the service that would not comply with Medicare requirements.
 
Requires application of certain reporting requirements and sanctions to a provider of a Medicaid designated health service the same way they apply under Medicare.
 
Amends SSAct title XVIII to: (1) apply the False Claims Act to violations of the self-referral prohibition, and (2) declare the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue regulations under Medicaid limited to the application of self-referral limitations to state plan requirements. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a protocol consistent with the Medicare self-referral disclosure protocol required under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that enables health care providers to disclose an actual or potential violation of Medicare self-referral limitations as applied to Medicaid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E251)
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
21st Century SCASDP Act

Bill: 114-hr-1084
Sponsor: Rep. O'Rourke, Beto [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2015-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Small towns
Transportation programs funding
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: 

21st Century SCASDP Act

 
 Revises certain criteria the Secretary of Transportation must apply in selecting communities, or consortia of communities, with an underserved airport for participation in the Small Community Air Service Development Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the Prevention and Public Health Fund.

Bill: 114-hr-1085
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2015-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Government trust funds
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: 
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal the establishment of, and appropriation of funds to, the Prevention and Public Health Fund (a fund to provide for expanded and sustained national investment in prevention and public health programs to improve health and help restrain the rate of growth in private and public sector health care costs). Rescinds any unobligated balances appropriated to the Fund.
 
Directs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to post a notice of the rescission and the amounts of funds rescinded on the public HHS website within 10 days of enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Introduced in House