hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
American Indian Empowerment Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-328
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: 

American Indian Empowerment Act of 2015

 
 Requires the Secretary of the Interior to transfer land the federal government holds in trust for a federally recognized Indian tribe to such tribe as restricted fee tribal land, subject to a restriction against alienation and taxation, after receiving the Indian tribe's request for such transfer. (Restricted fee tribal land is land to which a tribe holds legal title, but which carries legal restrictions against alienation or encumbrance.)
 
Allows Indian tribes to lease, or grant an easement or right-of-way on, restricted fee tribal land for any period of time without the Secretary's review and approval.
 
Gives the laws of a federally recognized Indian tribe that establish a system of land tenure governing the use of the land the tribe holds precedence over any federal law or regulation governing the use of such land, excepting a federal restriction against its alienation and taxation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Introduced in House
MAST Act

Bill: 114-hr-330
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Intergovernmental relations
Land use and conservation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Monuments and memorials
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: 

Marine Access and State Transparency or the MAST Act

 
 Amends the Antiquities Act of 1906 to bar the President from declaring any area of the exclusive economic zone to be a national monument unless: 
 
 
such a declaration is specifically authorized by an Act of Congress;
 
the President has submitted a proposal to make the declaration to the governor of each state or territory located within 100 nautical miles of that area;
 
each governor submits to the President a notice that the legislature of that state or territory has approved the proposal; and
 
the declaration is substantially the same as the proposal.
 
 
Prohibits the Department of the Interior or the Department of Commerce, with respect to any area of the exclusive economic zone that is designated as a national monument, from implementing any restrictions on the public use of such a national monument until the expiration of an appropriate review period providing for public input and congressional approval. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce from authorizing commercial finfish aquaculture operations in the Exclusive Economic Zone except in accordance with a law authorizing such action.

Bill: 114-hr-331
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Aquaculture
Licensing and registrations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: 
This bill prohibits the Department of the Interior and the Department of Commerce from issuing a permit or in any other way authorizing commercial finfish aquaculture operations in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, except in accordance with a law enacted after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the National Marine Sanctuaries Act to prescribe an additional requirement for the designation of marine sanctuaries off the coast of Alaska.

Bill: 114-hr-332
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Alaska
Congressional oversight
Department of Commerce
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: 
This bill amends the National Marine Sanctuaries Act to prohibit the Department of Commerce from designating as a national marine sanctuary an area of the marine environment off the coast of Alaska seaward of the high tide line unless an Act of Congress requires Commerce to make the designation and prescribes the boundaries of the designated area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Veterans Tax Termination Act

Bill: 114-hr-333
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. [D-GA-2]
Introduced: 2015-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: 

Disabled Veterans Tax Termination Act

 
Amends federal military retired pay provisions to: (1) permit veterans with a service-connected disability of less than 50% to concurrently receive both retired pay and disability compensation; (2) eliminate provisions requiring a phase-in between January 1, 2004, and December 31, 2013, of concurrent receipt of retired pay and disability compensation; (3) eliminate a phase-in of concurrent receipt of retired pay and disability compensation for disabled veterans determined to be individually unemployable; and (4) require a limited reduction in retired pay for qualified disability retirees with less than 20 years of retirement-creditable service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2015-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2015-01-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2015-01-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2015-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to require the Bureau of Land Management to provide a claimant of a small miner waiver from claim maintenance fees with a period of 60 days after written receipt of 1 or more defects is provided to the claimant by registered mail to cure the 1 or more defects or pay the claim maintenance fee, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-334
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of the Interior
Mining
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: 
This bill amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to give small miners 60 days to remedy their failure to timely file either a small miner's maintenance fee waiver application or an affidavit of annual labor associated with the application and the required application fees.
 
Specified claimholders are considered to: (1) have received a first half final certificate for the application associated with their claims before September 30, 1994, and (2) qualify for the opportunity to cure the defects or pay the fee under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Multinational Species Conservation Funds Reauthorization Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-335
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Africa
American Samoa
Asia
Caribbean area
Department of the Interior
Endangered and threatened species
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign aid and international relief
Guam
International organizations and cooperation
Mammals
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Reptiles
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: 

Multinational Species Conservation Funds Reauthorization Act of 2015

 
This bill reauthorizes the African Elephant Conservation Act, the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994, the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997, the Great Ape Conservation Fund, and the Marine Turtle Conservation Fund through FY2020.
 
This bill amends the Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000 to authorize Department of the Interior to award a multi-year grant to carry out a project that is an effective, long-term conservation strategy for great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, orangutans, or gibbons) and their habitats.
 
Interior is required to convene a panel of experts to identify the greatest needs and priorities for the conservation of great apes within a year of this Act's enactment and every five years thereafter. Current law authorizes Interior to convene a panel to consider the greatest conservation needs every two years. The panel is required to consider relevant great ape conservation plans or strategies. 
 
This bill amends the Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004 to make a wildlife management authority of a U.S. territory eligible for financial assistance for marine turtle conservation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Maritime Lien Reform Act

Bill: 114-hr-337
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Licensing and registrations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: 

Maritime Lien Reform Act

 
This bill revises federal shipping laws governing maritime liability to prohibit: (1) maritime liens (liens on vessels) from being imposed on state or federal fishing permits, or (2) civil actions to enforce maritime liens on the permits. A fishing permit is not considered to be part of a vessel, so it does not pass with a vessel upon the vessel's sale or transfer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage charitable contributions of real property for conservation purposes by Native Corporations.

Bill: 114-hr-338
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Income tax deductions
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Land use and conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow Alaska Native Corporations an increased tax deduction for donations of conservation easements related to lands conveyed under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Permits a 15-year carryover of contribution amounts that exceed annual limitations on the amount of such tax deduction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-13
text: Introduced in House
REDUCE Act

Bill: 114-hr-340
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-42]
Introduced: 2015-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: 

Rebalance for an Effective Defense Uniformed and Civilian Employees Act or the REDUCE Act

 
Limits full-time positions in the Department of Defense (DOD), in each of FY2022-FY2026, subject to specified adjustments to be made by the DOD Secretary, to a number not greater than 85% of the number of such positions at DOD as of September 30, 2016. Permits not more than 1,000 of such positions to be career appointees within the Senior Executive Service. Authorizes the DOD Secretary to offer voluntary separation incentive payments and voluntary early retirement payments to achieve the reductions required by this Act, but requires the Secretary to use involuntary measures, including reductions in force, beginning on October 1, 2016, to achieve required reductions in personnel levels if voluntary measures are inadequate. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to require States to recognize the military experience of veterans when issuing licenses and credentials to veterans, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-341
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-42]
Introduced: 2015-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Licensing and registrations
State and local government operations
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: 
Requires a state, as a condition for receipt of a grant or contract from the Department of Labor for support of disabled veterans' outreach specialists and local veterans' employment representatives, to:
 
 
establish a program that issues a license or credential to a veteran without requiring any training or apprenticeship if such veteran receives a satisfactory score on completion of an examination administered by that state and has at least 10 years of experience in a military occupational specialty that is similar to the civilian occupation for which such license or credential is required; and
 
submit a report each year on the exams administered that includes the number of veterans who completed such exams and a description of the results of such exams, disaggregated by occupational field.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to extend military commissary and exchange store privileges, without time-period limitation, to members of the Armed Forces who are involuntarily separated with a service-connected disability and also to extend such privileges to their dependents.

Bill: 114-hr-342
Sponsor: Rep. Denham, Jeff [R-CA-10]
Introduced: 2015-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability assistance
Military facilities and property
Military personnel and dependents
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: 
 Permits a member of the Armed Forces who is involuntarily separated from active duty or the Selected Reserve and who has a service-connected disability (and the member's dependents) to use commissary and exchange stores on the same basis as a member entitled to retired or retainer pay.
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to ensure that such authority is fully implemented within 90 days after the enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Volunteer Emergency Responders Tax Deduction Act

Bill: 114-hr-343
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2015-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
First responders and emergency personnel
Income tax deductions
Inflation and prices
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: 

Volunteer Emergency Responders Tax Deduction Act

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat firefighting and prevention services, emergency medical services, ambulance services, civil air patrol, and search and rescue services rendered by a bona fide volunteer as a charitable contribution to the organization for which such services are rendered for purposes of the tax deduction for charitable contributions. Limits to 300 the amount of hours of services which a volunteer may render to an organization in a taxable year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Manufacturing Jobs for Veterans Act

Bill: 114-hr-344
Sponsor: Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2015-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Manufacturing
Public-private cooperation
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: 

Manufacturing Jobs for Veterans Act

 
Directs the Secretary of Labor, as part of the Veteran's Workforce Investment Program, to carry out a five-year pilot program (to be known as the Veterans Manufacturing Employment Program) to award competitive grants to three states for the establishment and administration of a State Manufacturing Employment Program to make grants to manufacturing employers and labor-management organizations that provide training, on-job training, apprenticeships, and certification classes to eligible veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Introduced in House
To make persons who conspire to commit, commit, or benefit from an act of human trafficking ineligible for admission to the United States of America.

Bill: 114-hr-345
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Family relationships
Human trafficking
Immigration status and procedures
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: 
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make an alien who commits or conspires to commit a single human trafficking offense (under current law, more than one offense), or assists a trafficker, ineligible for U.S. admission.
 
Makes the spouse, son, or daughter of such an inadmissible alien also permanently inadmissible if he or she has obtained a financial or other benefit from that alien's illicit activity, regardless of when the benefit was obtained, and knew that the benefit was the product of such illicit activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Financial Literacy for Students Act

Bill: 114-hr-346
Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2015-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Economic theory
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Financial literacy
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: 

Financial Literacy for Students Act

 
 Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education of 1965 (ESEA) to authorize the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to states to: (1) integrate financial literacy education into each of their public elementary and secondary schools that are eligible for school improvement funds under title I of the ESEA, and (2) train their secondary school financial literacy or entrepreneurship teachers to teach financial literacy in core academic subjects.
 
Prohibits states from using over 20% of their grant funds to train those teachers, develop curricula, and evaluate the impact of financial literacy or personal finance education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-14
text: Introduced in House