hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-836
Sponsor: Rep. Dent, Charles W. [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2015-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: 

Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2015

 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to deem a hospital or an emergency department and a physician or physician group of a hospital or emergency department to be an employee of the Public Health Service with liability protection provided by the United States for purposes of any civil action that may arise due to providing emergency and post-stabilization services on or after January 1, 2016.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Residential Care Coordination Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-837
Sponsor: Rep. Fitzpatrick, Michael G. [R-PA-8]
Introduced: 2015-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Department of Health and Human Services
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: 

Medicare Residential Care Coordination Act of 2015 

 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish and implement a demonstration project under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to evaluate the use of capitated payments made to eligible continuing care retirement communities for residential care coordination programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-10
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: 2015-02-10
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: 2015-02-10
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: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Lena Horne Recognition Act

Bill: 114-hr-839
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20]
Introduced: 2015-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
Congressional tributes
Music
Performing arts
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: 

Lena Horne Recognition Act

 
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the posthumous presentation of a Congressional Gold Medal in commemoration of Lena Horne in recognition of her achievements and contributions to American culture and the civil rights movement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E185-186)
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E177)
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E173-174)
STEM Gateways Act

Bill: 114-hr-840
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Joseph P., III [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2015-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Minority education
Minority employment
Public-private cooperation
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Women's education
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: 

STEM Gateways Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Education to award competitive grants for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) elementary and secondary school programs that:
 
 
encourage interest in the STEM fields;
 
motivate engagement in the STEM fields by providing relevant hands-on learning opportunities;
 
support classroom success in the STEM disciplines;
 
support STEM workforce training and career preparation for secondary school students; or
 
improve the access of secondary school students to STEM career and continuing education opportunities.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H872)
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Huntington's Disease Parity Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-842
Sponsor: Rep. Kinzinger, Adam [R-IL-16]
Introduced: 2015-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Hereditary and development disorders
Medicare
Neurological disorders
Poverty and welfare assistance
Social Security Administration
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: 

Huntington's Disease Parity Act of 2015 

 
 Directs the Commissioner of Social Security, for purposes of determining cognitive, behavioral, and physical disability under titles II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act (SSAct), to amend specified Listings of Impairments by providing medical and evaluation criteria for Huntington's Disease. 
 
Amends SSAct title II to waive the 24-month waiting period for coverage under the program under SSAct title XVIII (Medicare) for individuals diagnosed with Huntington's Disease.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Western Great Lakes Wolf Management Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-843
Sponsor: Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Endangered and threatened species
Intergovernmental relations
Mammals
Michigan
Minnesota
State and local government operations
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: 

Western Great Lakes Wolf Management Act of 2015 

 
This bill prohibits any wolf of the species 
Canis lupus
 in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan from being treated under any status of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, including as an endangered species, a threatened species, an essential experimental population, or a nonessential experimental population.
 
Each of those states are given exclusive jurisdiction over the management of those wolves within its borders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
To require a plan approved by the Surface Transportation Board for the long-term storage of rail cars on certain railroad tracks.

Bill: 114-hr-844
Sponsor: Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Railroads
Surface Transportation Board
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: 
Requires a rail carrier to have a storage plan, meeting specified requirements and approved by the Surface Transportation Board, for any of its rail cars that it stores for three or more years, and continues to store, on tracks (except rail yard or storage yard tracks) that pass through a commercial- or residential-zoned area that were designed or previously used for through transportation of trains.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-846
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Civil actions and liability
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government liability
Legal fees and court costs
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: 

Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2015

 
Prohibits public school students from being excluded from participating in, or subject to discrimination under, any federally-assisted educational program on the basis of their actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity or that of their associates.
 
Considers harassment to be a form of discrimination.
 
Prohibits retaliation against anyone for opposing conduct they reasonably believe to be unlawful under this Act.
 
Authorizes federal departments and agencies to enforce these prohibitions by cutting off the educational assistance of recipients found to be violating them.
 
Allows an aggrieved individual to assert a violation of this Act in a judicial proceeding and recover reasonable attorney's fees should they prevail.
 
Deems a state's receipt of federal educational assistance for a program to constitute a waiver of sovereign immunity for conduct prohibited under this Act regarding such program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Investing in Innovation for Education Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-847
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Minority education
Performance measurement
Rural conditions and development
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: 

Investing in Innovation for Education Act of 2015

 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to local educational agencies (LEAs), educational service agencies, and nonprofit organizations that partner with an LEA or consortium of schools to support school innovations. 
 
Requires at least 25% of the grant funds to be awarded for projects in rural areas. 
 
Requires each grant applicant to demonstrate that it has partnered with at least one private entity that will provide matching funds. Allows the Secretary to waive the matching funds requirement upon a showing of exceptional circumstances.
 
Requires each grant to be used to address at least one of the following areas of school innovation: 
 
 
 improving the effectiveness and distribution of teachers or principals,
 
 strengthening the use of data to improve teaching and learning, 
 
 providing high-quality instruction that is based on rigorous standards and measuring students' proficiency using high-quality assessments that are aligned to those standards, 
 
 turning around the lowest-performing schools, 
 
 supporting the effective use of technology to improve teaching or principals and learning, and 
 
 any other area of school innovation the Secretary chooses.
 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish performance measures for tracking each grantee's progress in: (1) improving the academic performance of public elementary and secondary school students, and specified subgroups of those students; and (2) implementing its project in rural schools, as applicable. Requires grantees to use grant funds to develop or expand strategies to improve high-need students' showing on those performance measures. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
To grant a Federal charter to the National Academy of Inventors.

Bill: 114-hr-849
Sponsor: Rep. Ross, Dennis A. [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2015-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Federally chartered organizations
Intellectual property

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: 
Grants a federal charter to the National Academy of Inventors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-850
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2015-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Mental health
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: 

Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning Act of 2015

 
Amends title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to include teacher and principal training in practices that address the social and emotional development needs of students among the activities funded under the Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting Fund program.
 
Allows funded training to include training in classroom instruction and schoolwide initiatives that enable students to acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and skills most conducive to social and emotional competency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to adjust funding levels for certain outlying areas.

Bill: 114-hr-851
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: American Samoa
Caribbean area
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Guam
Indian social and development programs
Minority education
Northern Mariana Islands
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: 
Amends part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to eliminate the current reservation of 1% of the school improvement funds for outlying areas and Indian education. Reserves .67% of the school improvement funds for Indian education, but raises that reservation to .75% beginning with the fiscal year the allocations to states equal or surpass FY2015 levels after subtracting .75% of those allocations for Indian education.
 
Establishes formulae for determining the minimum allotment to American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands of school improvement funds for: (1) basic grants to local educational agencies (LEAs), (2) concentration grants to LEAs, (3) targeted grants to LEAs, and (4) grants under the education finance incentive grant program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E191)
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
TIPS Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-852
Sponsor: Rep. Schweikert, David [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2015-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Marketing and advertising
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: 

Transparency in Phone Solicitation Act of 2015 or the TIPS Act of 2015

 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit businesses, entities, or individuals from making live telephone solicitations unless the solicitor: (1) states the solicitor's identity, telephone number, and address; (2) states the address of a website that the called party may use to indicate that such party does not wish to receive calls from that solicitor; (3) transmits caller identification information, including a telephone number that the called party may use to return the call directly to such solicitor; and (4) releases the called party's line within five seconds after being notified that the called party has hung up to allow the called party to make or receive other calls. 
 
Revises standards applicable to telephone transmissions of artificial or prerecorded voice messages to add comparable procedures requiring any such messages to: (1) state the telephone number and address (currently, telephone number or address) of the calling entity, (2) state the address of a website that the called party may use to indicate that such party does not wish to receive calls from that entity, and (3) transmit caller identification information. Retains the current law requirement that artificial or prerecorded messages must release the line within five seconds after the called party has hung up.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Small Airport Regulation Relief Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-853
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adrian [R-NE-3]
Introduced: 2015-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Noise pollution
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: 

Small Airport Regulation Relief Act of 2015 

 
 Prescribes a special rule to require the Secretary of Transportation for FY2015 and FY2016 to apportion amounts for airport planning and development and noise compatibility planning and programs to sponsors of primary airports based on the number of passenger boardings at the airport during calendar year 2012 if it had: (1) fewer than 10,000 passenger boardings during the calendar year used to calculate the apportionment for FY2015 or FY2016, and (2) 10,000 or more passenger boardings during calendar year 2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Compact-Impact Aid Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-854
Sponsor: Rep. Takai, Mark [D-HI-1]
Introduced: 2015-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: American Samoa
Appropriations
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Guam
Hawaii
Health programs administration and funding
Immigrant health and welfare
Intergovernmental relations
International law and treaties
Law enforcement administration and funding
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Northern Mariana Islands
Oceania
Palau
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local finance
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: 

Compact-Impact Reimbursement Act of 2015 

 
Amends the Compact of Free Association Act of 1985 to authorize and appropriate FY2015 funds to the Secretary of the Interior for: (1) grants to any local government of the United States that demonstrates financial strain due to demands on public services by significant immigration from the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau; and (2) aid in defraying costs incurred as a result of increased demands placed on health, educational, social, or public safety services, or infrastructure related to such services due to the residence of qualified nonimmigrants. 
 
Directs the Secretary to provide for periodic enumerations of qualified nonimmigrants in the states and territories of the United States.
 
Defines &quot;qualified nonimmigrant&quot; as a person admitted to the United States pursuant to: (1) section 141 of the Compact of Free Association set forth in title II, or (2) section 141 of the Compact of Free Association between the United States and the government of Palau.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House