hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
FFOCUS Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1154
Sponsor: Rep. Stutzman, Marlin A. [R-IN-3]
Introduced: 2015-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Inflation and prices
Monetary policy
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: 

Focusing the Fed on the Currency of the United States Act of 2015 or the FFOCUS Act of 2015

 
 Amends the Federal Reserve Act to repeal the joint mandate on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Open Market Committee to make maximum employment one of the goals of their duty to maintain long run growth of the monetary and credit aggregates commensurate with the U.S. economy's long run potential to increase production.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians Land Transfer Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-1157
Sponsor: Rep. LaMalfa, Doug [R-CA-1]
Introduced: 2015-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: California
Federal-Indian relations
Gambling
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: 

Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians Land Transfer Act of 2015

 
 Directs the Department of the Interior to take specified lands in Santa Barbara County, California, into trust for the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians if the Tribe transfers title to that land to the United States. (Placing that land into trust removes certain restrictions on the property under California law.)
 
Makes that land part of the Santa Ynez Indian Reservation.
 
Prohibits gaming on the land.

action_date: 2016-09-06
text: 

Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians Land Transfer Act of 2016

 (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of the Interior to take specified lands in Santa Barbara County, California, into trust for the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians, subject to valid existing rights and to the terms in a certain stipulated judgment relating to a specified easement, if the Tribe transfers title to that land to the United States. (Placing that land into trust removes certain restrictions on the property under California law.) 
 The transferred land shall become part of the Santa Ynez Indian Reservation.
 
 No gaming may be conducted on the land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-06
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 554.
action_date: 2016-09-06
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 114-715.
action_date: 2016-09-06
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 114-715.
action_date: 2016-07-13
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 29 - 1.
action_date: 2016-07-13
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2016-07-12
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2016-07-12
text: Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs Discharged.
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act

Bill: 114-hr-1159
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2015-02-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
China
Congressional oversight
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Europe
Hong Kong
Human rights
International exchange and broadcasting
International law and treaties
News media and reporting
Political movements and philosophies
Protest and dissent
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
United Kingdom

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: 

Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act

 
Amends the United States-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992 to direct the Secretary of State to report to Congress on conditions in Hong Kong that are of U.S. interest by March 31, 2015, and annually thereafter for 10 years or until the Secretary certifies that Hong Kong has held free and fair elections for 2 consecutive Chief Executive and 2 consecutive Legislative Council periods. 
 
 Directs the Secretary to certify to Congress annually whether Hong Kong is sufficiently autonomous to justify separate treatment different from that accorded to China in any new laws, agreements, treaties, or arrangements entered into between the United States and Hong Kong. 
 
Authorizes the President to waive this certification requirement if: (1) waiver is in the U.S. national interest, and (2) Congress is given a justification of the waiver on or before the date it takes effect.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.
action_date: 2015-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Savings Act

Bill: 114-hr-1160
Sponsor: Rep. Stutzman, Marlin A. [R-IN-3]
Introduced: 2015-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Government information and archives
Hydrology and hydrography
Rural conditions and development
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: 

Water Supply Cost Savings Act or the Savings Act 

 
This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture to: (1) update their programs that provide drinking water technical assistance to include information on cost-effective, innovative, and alternative drinking water delivery systems; and (2) disseminate information on the cost effectiveness of alternative drinking water delivery systems, including wells and well systems, to communities and nonprofit organizations seeking federal funding for drinking water systems serving 500 or fewer persons.
 
Applicants for funding for drinking water systems serving 500 or fewer persons must consider drinking water delivery systems sourced by publicly owned individual, shared, and community wells.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
action_date: 2015-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
American Civil Rights Cities Act

Bill: 114-hr-1161
Sponsor: Rep. Adams, Alma S. [D-NC-12]
Introduced: 2015-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Alabama
Commemorative events and holidays
Disability and health-based discrimination
Historic sites and heritage areas
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
North Carolina
Racial and ethnic relations
Religion
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: 

American Civil Rights Cities Act

 
Requires the National Park Service to designate at least one city in the United States each year as an &quot;American Civil Rights City&quot; based on the city's: (1) contributions to protect civil rights by preventing discrimination; and (2) efforts to highlight the struggle of the United States to secure civil rights and liberties through preservation and celebration, including the establishment of historical organizations or museums and recognition of civil rights leaders.
 
Designates Greensboro, North Carolina, and Selma, Alabama, as the first cities to have that designation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Science Prize Competitions Act

Bill: 114-hr-1162
Sponsor: Rep. Beyer, Donald S., Jr. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2015-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Government information and archives
Life, casualty, property insurance
Research administration and funding
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: 

Science Prize Competitions Act 

 
Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 regarding prize competitions, including to allow an agency to waive insurance requirements. 
 
Requires each prize competition to be published on a publicly accessible government website rather than in the Federal Register. 

action_date: 2015-05-19
text: 

Science Prize Competitions Act 

 
Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 regarding prize competitions, allowing an agency to waive liability insurance requirements for participants.
 
Allows an agency to enter into a grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or other agreement with a private sector for-profit as well as a nonprofit entity (as under current law) to administer a prize competition. 
 
Permits the use of funds from private sector for-profit entities to support a prize competition. 
 
Prohibits an agency from giving special consideration to any private sector for-profit entity in return for a donation. 
 
Limits the use of federal funds to those made available by appropriations Acts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2015-05-19
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2015-05-19
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3363)
action_date: 2015-05-19
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H3363)
action_date: 2015-05-19
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1162.
action_date: 2015-05-19
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3363-3365)
action_date: 2015-05-19
text: Mr. Smith (TX) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2015-05-19
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 90.
action_date: 2015-05-19
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. H. Rept. 114-125.
action_date: 2015-05-19
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. H. Rept. 114-125.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Futures Investor Protection Act

Bill: 114-hr-1163
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2015-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Commodities markets
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Financial services and investments
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government studies and investigations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: 
 
Futures Investor Protection Act

 
 Establishes the Futures Investor Protection Corporation (FIPC) as a nonprofit corporation, which shall be neither an agency nor establishment of the federal government.
 
Declares FIPC to be a membership corporation whose members comprise all persons registered as a futures commission merchant with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
 
Grants FIPC all powers conferred upon the Security Investors Protection Corporation (SIPC). Sets forth FIPC corporate structure.
 
Requires FIPC to: (1) establish, and make deposits into and payments from a FIPC fund in the same manner in which SIPC has established and is authorized to make deposits into and payments from the SIPC fund; and (2) impose upon its membership assessments subject to the same rules that apply to imposition of assessments upon SIPC members.
 
Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to prescribe suitability rules governing a futures commission merchant's recommendations for a customer. 
 
Grants the CFTC enforcement powers. 
 
Directs the CFTC to review specified guidelines governing establishing account classes and determining the basis for pro rata shares (proof of claims guidelines).
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
We Are Watching You Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1164
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2015-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: 

We Are Watching You Act of 2015

 
Prohibits an operator of a video service from collecting visual or auditory information from the vicinity of the device used to display the video programming stream to the consumer unless the operator: (1) displays, as part of the stream, a message that reads, &quot;We are watching you&quot;; and (2) describes to the consumer the types of information that will be collected and how such information will be used. 
 
Requires the description of information collection to be provided: (1) as part of the terms and conditions to which the consumer must agree before using the video service; and (2) in the case of a video service accessed through a device sold or provided to the consumer by the operator, as part of the written instructions and other materials accompanying such device.
 
Directs operators to offer an alternative video service that does not involve the collection of such information but is otherwise identical. Requires any devices provided in connection with such alternative service to be incapable of collecting such information. 
 
Allows operators to disclose such information only with the express consent of the consumer or as required by a court order in connection with a law enforcement investigation. 
 
Requires violations of this Act to be treated as unfair or deceptive acts or practices under the Federal Trade Commission Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Keep Repos to Maturity on Balance Sheet Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1165
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2015-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Financial services and investments
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: 

Keep Repos to Maturity on Balance Sheet Act of 2015

 
 Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission, in establishing accounting principles or standards for purposes of the securities laws, to require that a repurchase-to-maturity transaction be treated as a secured borrowing in which the transferred asset serves as collateral.
 
 Defines &quot;repurchase-to-maturity transaction&quot; as one in which: (1) a financial asset is transferred in exchange for cash, other financial assets, or letters of credit; and (2) the transferor and the transferee agree, concurrently that, at the asset's maturity, the transferee may either return the transferred asset (or a substantially similar asset) to the transferor, or redeem the transferred asset from the issuer of the transferred asset.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Nothing Off Balance Sheet Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1166
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2015-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Corporate finance and management
Financial services and investments
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: 

Nothing Off Balance Sheet Act of 2015

 
 Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission, in establishing accounting principles or standards under the securities laws, to require any person subject to those principles or standards to show all transactions on that person's balance sheet.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Markets and Trading Reorganization Act

Bill: 114-hr-1167
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2015-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Commodities markets
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial services and investments
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: 

Markets and Trading Reorganization Act 

 
 Establishes the Securities and Derivatives Commission as an independent regulatory body. 
 
Directs the Commission to establish the following principal divisions: (1) a Markets and Trading Division with oversight of market conduct and utilities, the conduct of market professionals, and self-regulatory organizations with regard to such market professionals (including related examination functions); (2) an Issuers and Financial Disclosures Division exercising oversight of the issuance of securities (including investment companies and related rules and examinations); and (3) an Enforcement Division to enforce all Commission rules.
 
Transfers to such Commission all functions of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and of the Securities and Exchange Commission, including their respective officers and components. 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Health Savings Account Act

Bill: 114-hr-1169
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2015-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: 

Health Savings Account Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the maximum amount that an individual participating in a health savings account may contribute to such an account to match the amount of the deductible and out-of-pocket expenses that such individual pays under a high deductible health plan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act

Bill: 114-hr-1170
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: 

Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act

 
Amends the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001 to require a program under which the Secretary of Veterans Affairs provides chiropractic care and services to veterans through Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers and clinics to be carried out at: (1) no fewer than 75 medical centers by December 31, 2014, and (2) all medical centers by December 31, 2016.
 
Includes chiropractic examinations and services within required VA medical, rehabilitative, and preventive health care services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Introduced in House