hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Pregnant Women Health and Safety Act

Bill: 114-s-78
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Licensing and registrations
Medicare
State and local government operations
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Pregnant Women Health and Safety Act

 
Requires a person who performs an abortion to have admitting privileges at a local hospital and notify the patient of the location of the hospital where the patient can receive follow-up care by the person if complications arise. Exempts from these requirements a person who performs an abortion that is necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical condition. Subjects to fines and/or imprisonment any person who knowingly performs an abortion but fails to comply with this Act. 
 
Prohibits a woman upon whom an abortion is performed from being prosecuted for conspiracy to violate this Act.
 
Requires each abortion clinic that receives federal funds or assistance to be licensed by the state and be in compliance with the requirements for ambulatory surgery centers under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, except for requirements related to a certificate of public need. Allows a state board of health to waive the application of certain structural requirements for licensing purposes in order to comply with this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Remittance Status Verification Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-79
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Currency
Financial services and investments
Government studies and investigations
Immigration status and procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Remittance Status Verification Act of 2015

 
Amends the Electronic Fund Transfer Act to require a remittance transfer provider, before initiating a transfer, to request from the sender of a remittance whose recipient is located in a country other than the United States proof of the sender's status under U.S. immigration laws. 
 
Cites admissible documentation attesting to the sender's status, including a state-issued driver's license or federal passport.
 
Directs a remittance transfer provider to impose, upon any sender unable to provide such proof of status, a fine equal to 7% of the U.S. dollar amount to be transferred.
 
Requires submission to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of all fines imposed and collected by a remittance transfer provider in order to pay the administrative and enforcement costs of implementing this Act.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to study the effects of the enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit appropriated funds from being used in contravention of section 642(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.

Bill: 114-s-80
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Appropriations
Border security and unlawful immigration
Citizenship and naturalization
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 
Prohibits the use of community oriented policing services funds in contravention of provisions of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 that restrict a government entity or official from preventing any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the responsible federal immigration agency information regarding an individual's citizenship or immigration status.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Nepal Trade Preferences Act

Bill: 114-s-81
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Asia
Congressional oversight
Nepal
Tariffs
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Nepal Trade Preferences Act
 
 
 Authorizes the President to give preferential treatment to certain articles imported directly from Nepal into the U.S. customs territory if that country meets certain requirements under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, including a market-based economy and the rule of law, the protection of human rights and internationally-recognized worker rights, elimination of trade barriers to the United States, and non-engagement in activities that undermine U.S. national security or foreign policy interests or support acts of international terrorism. Requires Nepal also to meet certain eligibility criteria for designation as a beneficiary developing country under the Trade Act of 1974.
 
Authorizes certain import-sensitive articles (watches, electronic articles, steel articles, footwear and certain other apparel, and glass products) imported directly from Nepal to enter the U.S. customs territory duty-free if: (1) the article is the growth, product, or manufacture of Nepal; (2) the President determines, after receiving advice from the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), that the article is not import-sensitive; and (3) the sum of the cost or value of the materials produced in, and the manufacturing costs performed in, Nepal or the U.S. customs territory is at least 35% of the appraised value of the article at the time it is entered. Limits to 15% of the appraised value of the article at the time it is entered the cost or value of the materials produced in, and the manufacturing costs performed in, the U.S. customs territory, and attributed to the 35% requirement.
 
Grants duty-free treatment to certain textile or apparel articles: (1) wholly assembled in Nepal, without regard to the country of origin of the yarn or fabric used to make them; and (2) imported directly from Nepal into the U.S. customs territory. 
 
Prescribes requirements for handloomed, handmade, folklore articles or ethnic printed fabrics.
 
Terminates the extension of preferential treatment to Nepal after December 31, 2025. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S61)
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Strategic Petroleum Supplies Act

Bill: 114-s-82
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Canada
Licensing and registrations
Oil and gas
Pipelines
Strategic materials and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Strategic Petroleum Supplies Act

 
Prohibits the Administration from authorizing sales of petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve until the date all requisite permits under Executive Order 13337 for the Keystone XL pipeline project application filed on September 19, 2008, have been issued.
 
Excepts from such prohibition U.S. obligations under the international energy program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
End Pay Discrimination Through Information Act

Bill: 114-s-83
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
Labor standards
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

End Pay Discrimination Through Information Act

 
 This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit an employer from discriminating against an employee who inquires about, discusses, or discloses the wages of the employee or another employee. This protection does not apply to an employee who has access to wage information as part of the employee's essential job functions, unless the disclosure is in response to a sex discrimination complaint or charge, or in furtherance of a sex discrimination investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Gestational Diabetes Act

Bill: 114-s-84
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Gestational Diabetes Act or the GEDI Act

 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop a multisite gestational diabetes research project within the diabetes program of the CDC to expand and enhance surveillance data and public health research on gestational diabetes. 
 
Requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to expand and intensify public health research on gestational diabetes, including; (1) developing and testing novel approaches for improving postpartum testing or screening and for preventing type 2 diabetes in women with a history of gestational diabetes, and (2) conducting research to further understanding of the factors and health systems that influence the risk of gestational diabetes and the development of type 2 diabetes in women with a history of gestational diabetes. 
 
Requires the CDC to: (1) award grants for demonstration projects to reduce the incidence of gestational diabetes, the recurrence of such disease in subsequent pregnancies, and the development of type 2 diabetes in women with a history of gestational diabetes; and (2) work with state and Indian tribal-based diabetes prevention and control programs assisted by the CDC to encourage postpartum follow-up after gestational diabetes to reduce the incidence of gestational diabetes and its recurrence, the development of type 2 diabetes in at-risk women, and related complications.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-86
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Debt collection
Government information and archives
Small business
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2015

 
Amends the Paperwork Reduction Act to direct agency heads not to impose civil fines for first-time paperwork violations by small businesses unless there is potential for serious harm to the public interest, the detection of criminal activity would be impaired, the violation is not corrected within six months, the violation is a violation of internal revenue law or a law concerning the assessment or collection of any tax, debt, revenue, or receipt, or the violation presents a danger to the public health or safety. Permits an agency to determine that a fine should not be imposed for a violation that presents a danger to public health or safety if the violation is corrected within 24 hours after receipt by the small business owner of notification of the violation. 
 
Makes this Act inapplicable to any violation by a small business of a requirement regarding the collection of information by an agency if the small business previously violated any requirement concerning the collection of information by that agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Show Your Exemption Act

Bill: 114-s-87
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Congressional leadership
Congressional officers and employees
Congressional operations and organization
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Show Your Exemption Act

 
Requires the House of Representatives and the Senate to make publicly available the determinations of each Member of the House of Representatives and each Senator regarding the designation of their employees (including leadership and committee staff) as congressional staff for purposes of requiring those employees to enroll in health insurance coverage offered through a health benefit exchange as required under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
 
Requires the absence of designation of an employee as congressional staff to be noted in the determination along with a statement that the absence of that designation permits the employee to remain in the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
General Duty Clarification Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-88
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Accidents
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

General Duty Clarification Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Clean Air Act to revise the general duty clause, which addresses the prevention of accidental releases of hazardous air substances. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must: (1) promulgate regulations defining the terms "extremely hazardous substance," "appropriate hazard assessment techniques," and "design and maintain a safe facility"; and (2) issue guidelines to ensure enforcement of those provisions by EPA's regional offices in a uniform and appropriate manner across all regions of the United States. (The general duty clause requires owners and operators of stationary sources that produce, process, handle, or store hazardous substances to identify those substances at their facilities and take the necessary steps to prevent and minimize accidental releases of those substances.)
 
This bill excludes an emission resulting from an act intended to cause harm from the definition of &quot;accidental release.&quot; Under the revised definition, the EPA may not use the general duty clause to regulate accidental release due to terrorist attacks.
 
In exercising its authority under the clause, the EPA is prohibited from requiring a stationary source to consider or implement particular designs, approaches, or technologies relating to manufacturing, processing, handling, or storage of hazardous substances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Financial Takeover Repeal Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-89
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Bankruptcy
Business records
Commodities markets
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Corporate finance and management
Financial crises and stabilization
Financial services and investments
Foreign and international banking
Government information and archives
Securities
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Financial Takeover Repeal Act of 2015

 
Repeals the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
 
Revives or restores the provisions of law amended by such Act as if it had not been enacted.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Migratory Bird Treaty Amendment Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-90
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Birds
Disaster relief and insurance
Farmland
Hunting and fishing
Outdoor recreation
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Migratory Bird Treaty Amendment Act of 2013

 
This bill amends the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to allow an agricultural producer, or a hunter with the producer's permission, to take migratory game birds by the aid of baiting, if: (1) the manipulation occurs on the producer's land on which a crop was not harvestable during the current or immediately preceding crop year due to a natural disaster, and (2) a local representative of the Department of Agriculture confirms that the crop has been destroyed and that it would not be economically practicable to harvest the crop.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Mobile Mammography Promotion Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-91
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cancer
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Motor fuels
Motor vehicles
Sales and excise taxes
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Mobile Mammography Promotion Act of 2015

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the motor fuel excise tax fuel used in any highway vehicle designed exclusively to provide mobile mammography services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Bank Preservation Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-92
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Reserve System
Federal officials
Monetary policy

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Community Bank Preservation Act of 2015

 
Amends the Federal Reserve Act to require that membership on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve include at least one person with demonstrated experience working in or supervising community banks having less than $10 billion total assets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to withhold United States contributions to the United Nations until the United Nations formally retracts the final report of the "United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict".

Bill: 114-s-93
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arab-Israeli relations
Budget deficits and national debt
Conflicts and wars
Gaza Strip
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
International organizations and cooperation
Israel
Middle East
Military operations and strategy
Palestinians
United Nations
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 
Expresses the sense of Congress that, now that evidence is available that nullifies the most controversial aspects of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (the Goldstone Report), the United Nations (U.N.) should formally retract the Report.
 
Directs the Secretary of State to withhold U.S. contributions to the regularly assessed U.N. biennial budget until the U.N. formally retracts the Report. 
 
Defines &quot;formally retracts&quot; as a U.N.-adopted resolution stating that insufficient information relating to the Report's subject matter was available before its release and that the Report is annulled.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the provision of Federal funds to State and local governments for payment of obligations, to prohibit the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from financially assisting State and local governments, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-s-94
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Federal Reserve System
Government lending and loan guarantees
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 
Prohibits the use of federal funds to purchase or guarantee obligations of, issue lines of credit to, or provide direct or indirect grants-and-aid to any state, municipal, local, or county government which, on or after January 26, 2011, has defaulted on its obligations, is at risk of defaulting, or is likely to default, without such federal assistance.
 
Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from using, directly or indirectly, general fund revenues or borrowed funds to purchase or guarantee any asset or obligation of any such state, municipal, local, or county government.
 
Prohibits the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from: (1) providing or extending to, or authorizing with respect to, such a state, municipal, local, or county government, or other entity with taxing authority or bonding authority, any funds, loan guarantees, credits, or any other financial instrument or other authority, including bond purchases; or (2) otherwise assisting such a government entity under any Board authority.
 
Waives the application of this Act for federal assistance provided in response to a natural disaster.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to terminate the $1 presidential coin program.

Bill: 114-s-95
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Currency
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 
Terminates the program for redesign and issuance of circulating $1 coins honoring each of the Presidents of the United States (Presidential $1 Coin Program).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2183)
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S2183)
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate