hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Protecting Life and Taxpayers Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3197
Sponsor: Rep. Black, Diane [R-TN-6]
Introduced: 2015-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: 

Protecting Life and Taxpayers Act of 2015

 
This bill prohibits federal funding of an entity unless the entity certifies that, during the period of funding, the entity will not perform, and will not provide funds to any other entity that performs, an abortion, except in cases of rape or incest or where a physical condition endangers the woman's life unless an abortion is performed. This applies to a hospital only if the hospital funds a non-hospital entity that performs abortions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Jobs Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3198
Sponsor: Rep. Aguilar, Pete [D-CA-31]
Introduced: 2015-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee hiring
Income tax credits
Small business
Tax-exempt organizations
Unemployment
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: 

Small Business Jobs Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a qualified small employer a business-related tax credit for the cost of hiring up to 5 new employees who work for such employer, on average, at least 30 hours per week. The bill defines &quot;qualified small employer&quot; as an employer who: (1) has a place of business in a county with an annual unemployment rate that is at least 1% greater than the national rate for the preceding calendar year; and (2) did not employ fewer than 2, or more than 100, employees in the preceding calendar year. The bill allows an employer who is a tax-exempt organization to claim such credit. The credit is not available for wages paid after December 31, 2017. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit statutory sanctions relief by the United States with respect to Iran unless the Senate provides its advice and consent to ratification of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Bill: 114-hr-3199
Sponsor: Rep. Brat, Dave [R-VA-7]
Introduced: 2015-07-23 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Congressional oversight
International law and treaties
Iran
Middle East
Nuclear weapons
Sanctions
Senate
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: 
This bill prohibits action involving any measure of statutory sanctions relief by the United States unless the Senate provides its advice and consent to ratification of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPA) under article II, section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. 
 
(The JCPA is the agreement signed at Vienna July 14, 2015, by Iran, China, France, Germany, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States, with the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and all related implementing materials and agreements.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transfer unobligated amounts previously made available to the Department of Veterans Affairs to the medical accounts of the Department to improve the furnishing of health care to veterans.

Bill: 114-hr-3200
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-5]
Introduced: 2015-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Executive agency funding and structure
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: 
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to transfer to any covered medical account any amounts made available to it before enactment of this Act that remain available for obligation. 
 
Amounts so transferred shall be merged with and be available for the same purposes as the covered medical account to which transferred and shall be available for obligation or expenditure without fiscal year limitation. 
 
Covered medical accounts are the following VA accounts: (1) Veterans Health Administration, Medical Services; (2) Veterans Health Administration, Medical Support and Compliance; and (3) Veterans Health Administration, Medical Facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
New American Success Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3201
Sponsor: Rep. Cárdenas, Tony [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2015-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aging
Citizenship and naturalization
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Immigration status and procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: 

New American Success Act of 2015 

 
 This bill states that it is U.S. policy to promote the civic, linguistic, and economic integration of immigrants and their young children into the United States. 
 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shall award Initial Entry, Adjustment, and Citizenship Assistance grants to units of local government, community-based organizations, or public or private nonprofit organizations that provide direct assistance to immigrants to the United States.
 
Such grants shall be available for 10 fiscal years beginning with FY2018.
 
Assistance shall be available to a non-citizen who is seeking: (1) permanent residency or naturalization, or (2) relief from removal in order to remain lawfully in the United States. 
 
 DHS may make grants on a competitive basis to state or local governments to improve the economic, linguistic, and civic integration of immigrants and their children. Such grants shall be available for 10 fiscal years beginning with FY2018.
 
The bill establishes in the Treasury the Integration Success Fund. 
 
The Immigration and Nationality Act is amended to revise the waiver of the English language naturalization requirement for senior individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
LEAP Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3202
Sponsor: Rep. Clawson, Curt [R-FL-19]
Introduced: 2015-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Crimes against animals and natural resources
Fishes
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: 

Lionfish Elimination and Prevention Act of 2015 or the LEAP Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Lacey Act to prohibit the importation or interstate shipment of the:
 
 
 red lionfish of the species Pterois volitans,
 
 devil lionfish of the species Pterois miles, 
 
 Hawaiian turkeyfish of the species Pterois sphex, 
 
 soldier lionfish of the species Pterois russelii,
 
clearfin lionfish of the species Pterois radiata, 
 
lionfish species Pterois paucispinula,
 
 frillfin turkeyfish of the species Pterois mombasae, 
 
 luna lionfish of the species Pterois lunalata,
 
mandritsa of the species Pterois brevipectoralis, 
 
 spotfin lionfish of the species Pterois antennata, and 
 
scorpionfish of the species Pterois andover. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
Vacant Homes Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3203
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-26]
Introduced: 2015-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: 

Vacant Homes Act of 2015

 
This bill provides the mortgage owner of a home in foreclosure who receives notice from the homeowner (or from the homeowner's designee) of a qualified offer to buy the home in a short sale 90 days after receiving the notice to respond to the homeowner and the person who made the offer. The same response time requirement shall apply to the owner of a foreclosed home (or a servicer acting on the owner's behalf) who receives a qualified offer to buy it.
 
A response rejecting an offer shall be sufficient only if, among other things, it makes a counteroffer meeting specified criteria.
 
Aggrieved homeowners or offerors may bring private civil actions for failure to receive a timely and adequate mandatory response.
 
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may apply to the U.S. district court for the district in which a home in foreclosure or a foreclosed home is located for an order requiring either the mortgage owner of the home in foreclosure or the owner of the foreclosed home (or a servicer acting on the owner's behalf) to comply with the timely and adequate response requirements of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
TEST Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3204
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3]
Introduced: 2015-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Language arts
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: 

Tackling Excessive Standardized Testing Act of 2015 or the TEST Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to lower the frequency with which students must take the tests used to determine whether they are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic achievement standards in mathematics and reading or language arts. Under current law, students must take such tests in both subjects in each of grades 3 through 8. The bill maintains testing in grades 3 through 8 but authorizes a public school to limit testing: (1) in mathematics, to even-numbered grades or, if the school is at the 15th percentile or above for mathematics in the state or its students are making appropriate progress toward state mathematics achievement standards, to grades 4 and 8 only; and (2) in reading or language arts, to odd-numbered grades or, if the school is at the 15th percentile or above for reading or language arts or its students are making appropriate progress toward state reading or language arts achievement standards, to grades 3 and 7 only.
 
Limited English proficient students who are in their first 12 months of enrollment in a public school are excluded from the determination as to whether students are making AYP toward state academic achievement standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
History Is Learned from the Living Act

Bill: 114-hr-3205
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2015-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Social Sciences and History
Subjects: Education programs funding
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: 

History Is Learned from the Living Act

 
 This bill establishes the History Is Learned from the Living grant program. 
 
The Department of the Interior shall make one-year grants to community groups, organizations, or institutions to carry out projects through which the community may learn about historical movements in the United States in the past century through the oral histories of community members who participated in those movements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
Student Tax Relief Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3206
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2015-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax exclusion
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: 

Student Tax Relief Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of a student, for income tax purposes, imputed income due to a discharge of student loan indebtedness under provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 or in connection with the closure of an educational institution. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1122-1123)
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
LIFE Act

Bill: 114-hr-3207
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health promotion and preventive care
Medical education
Nutrition and diet
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: 

Promoting Healthier Lifelong Improvements in Food and Exercise Act of 2015 or the LIFE Act

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to carry out a national program to conduct and support activities regarding individuals who are overweight or obese in order to make progress toward the goal of significantly reducing obesity. The activities must include training health professionals, educating the public, and developing and demonstrating intervention strategies for use at worksites and in community settings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1117-1118)
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
Retired Civil Servant Military Service Restoration Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3208
Sponsor: Rep. O'Rourke, Beto [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2015-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: 

Retired Civil Servant Military Service Restoration Act of 2015

 
Allows an employee or Member of Congress who has performed military service and who retires on or after September 8, 1982, to make the deposit required for crediting such service under the Civil Service Retirement System at any time before or after the date of separation on which the entitlement to an annuity under such System is based.
 
Requires such a deposit made after separation, and the annuity or lump-sum payable after such deposit, to include computed interest.
 
Requires the retirement counselor training program to ensure that employees and Members who served in the Armed Forces are made aware of the provisions governing crediting military service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit United States voluntary contributions to the United Nations Democracy Fund.

Bill: 114-hr-3210
Sponsor: Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2015-07-23 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Appropriations
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign aid and international relief
Human rights
International organizations and cooperation
Political movements and philosophies
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: 
Prohibits funds made available to any federal department or agency from being used to make U.S. voluntary contributions to the United Nations Democracy Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the addition of certain real property to the reservation of the Siletz Tribe in the State of Oregon.

Bill: 114-hr-3211
Sponsor: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2015-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Interior
Gambling
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Oregon

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: 
Amends the Siletz Tribe Indian Restoration Act to authorize the Department of the Interior to take into trust for the Siletz Tribe additional lands that lie within the original 1855 Siletz Coast Reservation and are located in Benton, Douglas, Lane, Lincoln, Tillamook, or Yamhill County in Oregon. 
 
Requires such land to be considered and evaluated as an on-reservation acquisition and become part of the Tribe's reservation. (Off-reservation land acquisition requests require Interior to give greater scrutiny to the tribe's justification of the anticipated benefits from the acquisition.)
 
Prohibits gaming on lands taken into trust pursuant to this Act. 

action_date: 2016-05-11
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
 
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Siletz Tribe Indian Restoration Act to authorize the Department of the Interior to take into trust for the Siletz Tribe additional lands that lie within the original 1855 Siletz Coast Reservation and are located in Benton, Douglas, Lane, Lincoln, Tillamook, or Yamhill County in Oregon. 
 
Such land must be considered and evaluated as an on-reservation acquisition and become part of the tribe's reservation. (Off-reservation land acquisition requests require Interior to give greater scrutiny to the tribe's justification of the anticipated benefits from the acquisition.)
 
Gaming is prohibited on lands taken into trust pursuant to this bill. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-11
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 437.
action_date: 2016-05-11
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 114-563.
action_date: 2016-05-11
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 114-563.
action_date: 2016-03-16
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2016-03-16
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2016-03-15
text: Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs Discharged.
action_date: 2016-03-15
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-08-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Introduced in House